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The five widget tabs explained

The widget is a five-tab hub. Each tab serves a different visitor need.

A website with the chat widget open, showing the five-tab hub and launcher.
A website with the chat widget open, showing the five-tab hub and launcher.

The five tabs

  • Home — the landing view with a greeting and quick actions.
  • Messages — live chat that turns each conversation into a ticket on your desk.
  • Help — a searchable view of your published knowledge base, with optional Ask-AI that answers from those same docs.
  • Updates — your changelog feed.
  • Feedback — lets visitors submit and upvote requests, and links out to your public board.

Which tabs appear

Which tabs are active is decided server-side by /api/widget/config, which returns capability flags:

  • Help appears once you have published KB articles.
  • Updates appears once you have changelog entries.
  • Ask-AI appears when you enable it.
  • Feedback is always on.

Tip: The visitor's last-used tab is remembered between visits.

The five widget tabs explained · DeskCrew