Free support chat

Free live chat support for your website

Add a real support chat to any page with one line of code. Visitors message you from their browser, you answer from your phone, and every conversation stays in one inbox. No plugin, no bot, no monthly bill.

Free. You answer from your phone or any browser.

✓ One line of code

✓ Visitors chat right on your page

✓ Replies reach them by email

✓ Free

A conversation, not a contact form

A contact form is a message into the dark, and the visitor never knows it arrived. A chat is a conversation they can see, come back to, and pick up days later, right where it stopped.

Why it works

Support your visitors will actually use

Real people, not a chatbot

Every message goes to you. The panel tells visitors so, which is increasingly the thing they want to hear before they type.

Talking in about twenty seconds

Visitors sign in with a six digit email code and pick a username. No photo, no bio, no phone number, unless you choose to ask for more.

Nobody falls through the cracks

Each visitor gets their own private thread. Reply after they have closed the tab and your answer is emailed to them, with the conversation waiting when they come back.

Setup

One line of code

Paste the snippet into your page, or into your theme's footer to put it on every page. A chat button appears in the corner and the panel opens when somebody taps it.

Works anywhere you can paste a script tag, from a hand-built site to a website builder.

Light on your page. The loader fetches nothing else until somebody opens the chat. Keep defer on the tag.

Phone friendly. On small screens the panel goes full screen and the page behind it stays put.

Full setup guide

<script src="https://embed.brane.chat/embed.js"
        data-user="your-username"
        defer></script>

Swap your-username for your own Brane username. That is the whole install.

Create a Brane Crowd directly in app!

Your side

Answer from anywhere

Every visitor's question lands in one Brane inbox, so you can see who is waiting and work through them from anywhere. There is no dashboard to keep open.

On your phone with the Brane app for iPhone and Android, with push notifications when a visitor writes.

On your laptop in any browser at brane.chat.

Stay in control with block and report on any conversation that is not genuine.

Make it yours

Your colours, your words, your button

data-primary

Your brand colour

Tints the button and the panel in your colour, in light or dark, without ever making the chat hard to read.

data-welcome

Your welcome line

Set the words above the email field, like "Questions about your order? Ask us here."

data-launcher="none"

Your own button

Hide the floating button and open the chat from a "Contact us" link of your own with window.Brane.open().

Beyond your website

The same inbox from every social profile

Your Brane profile has its own web address too. Put it in your Instagram, TikTok and LinkedIn bios and on your Google listing, and customers can message you from any of them, straight from their browser. Every enquiry, one inbox.

brane.im/u/your-username

Getting started

Live in five minutes

01

Create your account

Set up your support account on your phone or at brane.chat, and pick a username.

02

Paste the snippet

Put the script tag on your site with your username in it.

03

Make it yours

Add your colour and welcome line, or open it from your own button.

04

Answer from your phone

Turn on notifications and reply whenever a visitor writes.

Common questions

Is the support chat really free?

Yes. The chat, the embed and every conversation are free, with no per-seat or per-message pricing.

What do visitors need to start a chat?

Just your page. They type their email, enter the six digit code and start talking, without ever leaving your site.

Is it a chatbot?

No. Every message reaches a real person, you, and the panel tells visitors that before they start.

What if I reply after the visitor has left?

Your reply is emailed to them, and the conversation is waiting on your site when they come back.

Will it slow down my website?

The loader is tiny and fetches nothing else until somebody opens the chat. Keep defer on the script tag.

Can I put a group chat on my site instead?

Yes. Use data-crowd="your-crowd-name" to show a public Crowd, so your customers can talk to each other as well as to you.

Read the full FAQ

Put a real person on your website today

Free. Your visitors chat on your site, and you answer from your phone or any browser.