Question
How do I go back to the last version of chat? Can I disable messaging?
Answer
Before you turn off messaging for your entire account, an admin has options to disable the messaging experience for customers through smaller account changes. For example, remove a messaging widget or channel so customers cannot contact you, or disable messaging from the brand or account level entirely.
Note: The only way to use more than one type of widget, like the messaging and Web Widget (Classic), is to have a Multibrand account.
You can remove the messaging experience from:
Entire account
Important: If you remove messaging from the entire account, you need to set back up the Web Widget (Classic) or your customers will not be able to chat with you. You may also need to reconfigure Chat triggers in place of messaging triggers. If you have an newer account with messaging enabled by default you may not be able to revert to live chat.
See the steps to turn off messaging for the entire account:
- Click on the product tray.
- Select Admin Center.
- Click the Channels icon.
- Under Messaging and social, select Messaging.
- Click Manage settings.
- Deselect the checkbox next to Turn on messaging for your account.
- Click Turn off messaging in the pop up window.
- Click Save settings.
Widgets
Important: Removing a widget doesn't turn off messaging entirely. If you added messaging widgets in other locations on your website or mobile apps, those messaging widgets are still available.
See the following steps to remove a widget from the help center:
- Click on the product tray.
- Select Admin Center.
- Click the Channels icon.
- Under Messaging and social, select Messaging.
- Click on the widget you want to remove.
- Click the Installation tab.
- Deselect the checkbox next to Automatically embed Web Widget in your help center.
- Click Save.
You can also remove the widget from your website by deleting the code or from your mobile app by asking your developer to remove the Channel key from the mobile app code.
Bots
Important: Removing a bot does not disable messaging completely. However, if you remove a messaging bot from a channel, your customers cannot chat with you from that specific channel unless you configure and publish another messaging bot.
See the steps to remove a messaging bot from a channel:
- Click on the product tray.
- Select Admin Center.
- Click the Channels icon.
- Under Bots and automations, select Bots.
- Hover over the bot and click Settings.
- Deselect the checkbox next to the currently connected channel.
- Click Save.
Brands
Important: If you remove messaging from a brand in your Multibrand account, you have the unique option to use the Web Widget (Classic) instead of the messaging widget. If you do not want any widget option available, remove the brand from messaging completely.
See the steps to remove messaging from a brand:
- Click on the product tray.
- Select Admin Center.
- Click the Channels icon.
- Under Messaging and social, select Messaging.
- Click Manage settings.
- Remove the brands from the Turn on messaging for these Web Widget (Classic) brands section.
- Click Save settings.
Additional resources
For more information, see these articles:
5 comments
Kathleen Castro
When I switch my account back to the classic web widget, what happens to any unsolved messaging tickets?
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Amanda Hickman
I have never turned this on and don't want to use it. We also do not use chat. But I can't seem to make the “Launch the messaging widget for your brands” alert go away.
How do I disable this? We have not staffed it and we do not plan to offer it. We do not want chat or messaging.
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Ana
My team doesn't use live chat, only tickets and email. How will this affect my team? I suppose we just turn messaging off?
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Audrey Ann Cipriano
Hi Ana that is correct!
You can also ensure that you don't have the Messaging snippet code from your websites and it isn't embedded on your help center. You may find more info here.
Hope this helps! :)
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Jeremy
We're trying to use the old Zendesk chat before the messaging setup was introduced, I've turned off messaging from channels for the entire account, installed the classic widget code but I'm still not seeing my visitors show in the chat dashboard. I've attached a screenshot of where I saw visitors shown when they came on my website. Does anyone know what I can do??
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