What is a Webflow chatbot?+
A Webflow chatbot is a chat widget on your Webflow site that answers visitor questions automatically. Webflow does not ship one, so it is always added either as custom code — a snippet in your site or page settings — or through an app from the Webflow Apps marketplace. If you arrived looking for chatbot interface *templates* to design from, that is a different thing entirely and Webflow’s own showcase is where to go.
Where exactly does the code go?+
For a site-wide widget, Site settings → Custom code → Footer code, then republish. For one page only, Page settings → Custom code → Before </body>. Custom code requires a paid Webflow site plan and only takes effect on the published site, so check your live domain rather than the Designer preview.
Do I need a Webflow app instead?+
No. A script tag needs no install, no permissions and no marketplace listing to keep working, and removing it is deleting a line. An app makes sense if you want the chat configured from inside the Designer or hooked into Webflow data directly; for answering questions from your published content, custom code is simpler and there is less of it to go wrong.
Do I need a paid Webflow plan?+
To publish custom code on a Webflow site, yes — custom code in Project Settings and Page Settings requires a paid Site plan. That is a Webflow constraint rather than a CustomerBot one. On a free staging site you can still build and test the assistant; you just cannot publish the tag.
Will the widget appear in the Designer?+
No. Custom code runs on published pages and in preview of the published site, not on the Designer canvas. Publish to your webflow.io staging domain to see it.
Can it read my CMS collections?+
It reads the pages your CMS renders. Point the crawler at your collection list pages and it will pick up the item pages linked from them, exactly as a visitor would. When you publish a new item, re-train that URL.
Does it interfere with Webflow interactions?+
No. The widget mounts its own container at the end of the body and does not touch your DOM, so IX2 interactions, sliders and scroll animations are unaffected.
Can I brand it fully?+
Colours, light or dark, position, size, launch animation, avatar, header title and subtitle, placeholder and welcome copy are all configurable on every plan. The CustomerBot watermark is removed on the Pro plan.
What about localisation?+
The assistant detects the language of each message and answers in it across 95+ languages, whether or not you run Webflow Localization. Your source content can stay in one language.