Zorachat – AI Chatbot, Live Chat & WooCommerce Assistant

Description

Let AI handles customer engagement. Bring in a real person when human judgment matters.

Zorachat turns your WordPress content into an AI customer-support assistant that can answer visitor questions, recommend WooCommerce products, capture leads, and keep conversations moving around the clock.

When a conversation needs a personal touch, your team can reply, take over from the AI, and return the chat to AI afterward—without making the visitor start again. Takeover is available from the WordPress Inbox or through the Zorachat Live Agent app for iOS and Android.

It is more than a chatbot. It is a practical AI-and-human support workflow built directly into WordPress.

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Why Choose Zorachat?

  • Answers grounded in your business – Use WordPress pages, posts, PDFs, FAQs, custom knowledge, and WooCommerce product information to guide replies.
  • AI and human support in one conversation – Review chats in the local WordPress Inbox, reply, take over when needed, and return the conversation to AI afterward.
  • Local support tools included – The Inbox, agent replies, takeover controls, Leads, and Analytics.
  • Built to generate opportunities – Capture visitor details naturally during conversations and manage them from a dedicated Leads page.
  • WooCommerce product recommendation – Your assistant understands shopper intent—not just product-name searches—and recommends relevant products based on each customer’s needs and your store’s product information.
  • Conversational Cart Management – Shoppers can add products to their cart directly from the conversation. For variable products, the assistant prompts them to choose required options such as size or colour before adding the item.
  • Your choice of AI setup – Bring an OpenAI, Google Gemini, or Anthropic Claude API key, or use Zorachat Cloud with no provider API key required.
  • Useful insights without leaving WordPress – Review conversation activity and lead information from dedicated Inbox, Leads, and Analytics pages.
  • Multilingual support – The assistant understands and responds in the customer’s language, helping businesses support a wider audience without creating separate chat experiences.
  • Local conversation records – Conversation and lead records are stored in your site’s WordPress database.
  • Designed for your brand – Customize the assistant and chat widget to fit your website.
  • Lightweight Widget Engineering – The responsive chat widget is engineered for fast, efficient loading with minimal impact on website performance across desktop and mobile devices.

From Instant Answers to Human Help

Most visitor questions do not need a support agent. Some absolutely do.

Zorachat gives you both:

  1. The AI responds instantly using the knowledge you have provided.
  2. The conversation is captured in your WordPress Inbox so you can review what visitors are asking.
  3. Lead details are collected conversationally when a visitor shows interest or needs follow-up.
  4. A human can reply or take over from the wordpress Inbox when the question requires empathy, judgment, negotiation, or hands-on support.
  5. The conversation can return to AI once the human has finished.

Visitors get speed without losing access to a real person. Your team spends less time repeating routine answers and more time on conversations where people make the difference.

Train the Assistant on What Your Business Knows

Zorachat can use knowledge made available from:

  • WordPress pages
  • WordPress posts
  • WooCommerce products
  • PDF documents
  • Frequently asked questions
  • Custom knowledge entries

This helps the assistant give responses that are relevant to your products, services, policies, and website instead of relying only on general AI knowledge.

WooCommerce AI Shopping Assistance

When WooCommerce is active, Zorachat can use product information provided by your store to answer product questions and help visitors find suitable items.

Use it to support conversations such as:

  • “Which product is best for my needs?”
  • “What is the difference between these options?”
  • “Do you have something within my budget?”
  • “Where can I learn more about this product?”

WooCommerce is optional. Zorachat also works for service businesses, SaaS websites, agencies, schools, membership sites, publishers, and other WordPress websites.

Conversational Lead Capture

Turn helpful conversations into real business opportunities.

Zorachat can collect and qualifies leads naturally within the chat, while conversation and lead records remain available in your WordPress dashboard. The dedicated Leads page gives your team useful context for follow-up instead of a name or email with no understanding of what the visitor wanted.

The Analytics page helps you understand activity and performance without moving your core conversation data out of WordPress.

Local Inbox and Human Takeover

AI is fast, but it should not trap a customer in automation.

Authorized WordPress users can review conversations, reply to visitors, take over from the AI, and use one action to end the takeover and return the chat to AI—all from the local WordPress Inbox. The Inbox uses manual refresh and does not require a Zorachat Cloud connection.

For teams that need remote access, Zorachat Cloud Services adds real-time mobile live-agent monitoring, push notifications, and centralized access to the same conversations.

This creates a smooth support experience: the assistant handles repetitive questions, while your team remains available for sensitive, complex, or high-value conversations.

Image-Aware Conversations

When enabled and supported by the selected service, visitors can share images as part of a conversation. This can provide useful visual context for product questions, support requests, or issue reporting.

Choose How You Power the AI

Zorachat supports two setup paths:

Bring your own API key

Connect a supported provider using your own API key:

  • OpenAI
  • Google Gemini
  • Anthropic Claude

Use Zorachat Cloud Services

Connect to Zorachat Cloud and use managed AI replies with Zorachat Cloud Credits. No separate provider API key is required for this option. Zorachat Cloud also adds real-time mobile live-agent monitoring, push notifications, and centralized remote conversation access.

You choose the setup that best fits your business.

Key Features

  • AI-assisted answers based on knowledge from your WordPress website
  • WordPress page and post knowledge
  • PDF knowledge ingestion
  • Custom knowledge entries and FAQs
  • WooCommerce product-aware responses
  • Conversational lead capture
  • Local WordPress conversation Inbox with manual refresh
  • Local agent replies, human takeover, and return-to-AI controls
  • Dedicated local Leads and Analytics pages
  • Conversation and lead records stored in WordPress
  • Configurable assistant and chat widget
  • OpenAI, Google Gemini, and Anthropic Claude support
  • Optional managed AI through Zorachat Cloud Services
  • Optional real-time mobile live-agent monitoring, push notifications, and centralized remote access
  • Optional image-aware conversations

Get Started in Minutes

  1. Install and activate Zorachat.
  2. Open Zorachat in your WordPress dashboard.
  3. Choose your AI provider or connect to Zorachat Cloud Services.
  4. Add or review the knowledge your assistant can use.
  5. Customize and preview the chat widget.
  6. Launch your assistant and start helping visitors.
  7. Review conversations, leads, and analytics from your WordPress dashboard.

Data Storage and Processing

Conversation and lead records created by the plugin are stored in your WordPress database.

Local storage does not mean local-only processing. To generate a response, the plugin sends the visitor’s message and relevant instructions or knowledge context to the AI service selected by the administrator. See External Services below for full details.

External Services

Zorachat uses external services only for features an administrator enables. All AI requests, including requests made with an administrator-supplied OpenAI, Gemini, or Anthropic API key, are sent first to api.zorachat.ai and relayed to the selected provider. Both Zorachat and that provider therefore process the request data. Conversation and lead records remain stored in the site’s WordPress database.

Zorachat API relay

This relay is used whenever OpenAI, Gemini, or Anthropic is selected. The plugin sends the selected provider, the provider API credential required to authenticate the request, the visitor’s message, assistant instructions, relevant website, knowledge-base, FAQ, or WooCommerce context, and request metadata to api.zorachat.ai. Zorachat forwards the credential and request data to the selected provider and returns the generated reply to the site.

Purpose: to route the request to the selected provider and return its response.

API endpoint: https://api.zorachat.ai/
Terms: https://wordpress.zorachat.ai/terms-and-conditions
Privacy Policy: https://wordpress.zorachat.ai/privacy-policy

Zorachat Cloud Services

Zorachat Cloud Services is Zorachat’s optional hosted service for managed AI replies, real-time mobile live-agent monitoring, push notifications, centralized remote access, account management, and plan management. Local Inbox, replies, takeover, Leads, and Analytics functionality remains available in WordPress without a Cloud connection.

This service is used only when an administrator chooses to connect to Zorachat Cloud.

Service: https://api.zorachat.ai/
Terms: https://wordpress.zorachat.ai/terms-and-conditions
Privacy Policy: https://wordpress.zorachat.ai/privacy-policy

OpenAI API

Used only when an administrator selects OpenAI and provides an OpenAI API key.

Service: https://openai.com/api/
Terms: https://openai.com/policies/services-agreement/
Privacy Policy: https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy/

Google Gemini API

Used only when an administrator selects Gemini and provides a Gemini API key.

Service: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api
Terms: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms
Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Anthropic Claude API

Used only when an administrator selects Anthropic and provides an Anthropic API key.

Service: https://www.anthropic.com/api
Terms: https://www.anthropic.com/legal/commercial-terms
Privacy Policy: https://www.anthropic.com/legal/privacy

Privacy

Zorachat stores plugin settings, conversation records, and captured lead records in the WordPress database. Depending on the configuration, chat content and related context are transmitted to the selected external service for processing as described above.

Site administrators are responsible for:

  • Providing an appropriate privacy notice to visitors
  • Responding to requests to access, correct, export, or erase personal data
  • Reviewing the terms and privacy practices of every enabled external service

Credits

This plugin includes the following third-party library:

  • Smalot PDF Parser – Used to extract text from PDF documents for knowledge indexing. Developed by Smalot and licensed under the MIT License. Learn more at the Smalot PDF Parser GitHub repository: https://github.com/smalot/pdfparser

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Installation

  1. From your WordPress dashboard, go to Plugins > Add New and search for Zorachat, or upload the plugin files to /wp-content/plugins/zorachat.
  2. Install and activate the plugin.
  3. Open Zorachat in the WordPress administrator dashboard.
  4. Review the external-service information and choose a provider.
  5. Enter your supported provider API key, or explicitly connect to Zorachat Cloud Services.
  6. Add or review the knowledge content the assistant may use.
  7. Configure and preview the chat widget.

FAQ

What does Zorachat do?

Zorachat adds an AI customer-support and live-chat assistant to WordPress. It can answer questions using your business knowledge, assist WooCommerce shoppers, capture leads, store conversation records, and let a human agent step in from the local WordPress Inbox when needed.

How is Zorachat different from a basic AI chatbot?

Zorachat combines automated answers with a local human-support workflow. The AI handles routine conversations, while authorized WordPress users can review chats, reply, take over when human judgment is needed, and return conversations to AI afterward.

Can Zorachat answer using my website content?

Yes. Zorachat can use knowledge made available from WordPress pages, posts, WooCommerce products, PDFs, FAQs, and custom knowledge entries.

Is an external AI service required?

Yes. AI-generated responses require a supported provider API key or a connection to Zorachat Cloud Services.

Do I need my own OpenAI, Gemini, or Claude API key?

Not necessarily. You can connect your own supported provider API key, or connect to Zorachat Cloud Services and use managed AI replies with Zorachat Cloud Credits.

Where are conversations and leads stored?

Conversation and lead records are stored in your WordPress database. Selected message content and relevant context are still transmitted to the configured external service for processing.

What data is sent to an AI provider?

The plugin sends the visitor’s message, assistant instructions, and relevant website, knowledge-base, FAQ, or WooCommerce product context needed for the request. See External Services below for details about each service.

Does Zorachat work with WooCommerce?

Yes. When WooCommerce is active, Zorachat can use product information made available by the plugin to answer questions and help visitors discover suitable products. WooCommerce is not required to use Zorachat.

Can Zorachat capture leads?

Yes. Zorachat supports conversational lead capture and stores captured lead records in your WordPress database.

Can a human take over a conversation?

Yes. Authorized WordPress users can review conversations, reply, take over from the AI, and end the takeover to return the chat to AI directly from the local Inbox. These local tools do not require Zorachat Cloud.

Can the conversation return to AI after a human takeover?

Yes. Conversations can be returned to the AI after the human agent has finished assisting the visitor.

Does Zorachat support mobile live-agent monitoring?

Yes. Optional real-time mobile live-agent monitoring, push notifications, and centralized remote access are available with Zorachat Cloud Services.

Does Zorachat include Leads and Analytics pages?

Yes. Zorachat includes dedicated local Leads and Analytics pages in WordPress. They remain available without a Zorachat Cloud connection.

Can visitors send images in the chat?

Optional image-aware conversations are supported when enabled and available through the selected service.

Can I customize the chat widget?

Yes. Zorachat includes configurable chat-widget appearance and behavior options so the assistant can better fit your website and brand.

Is the plugin free?

The plugin code is licensed under GPLv2 or later. External AI providers may charge for their services. Zorachat Cloud Services may offer free or paid credits and plans.

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