Most complaints about widgets are about conduct rather than looks. Opening itself three seconds after arrival interrupts somebody reading, and it is the single most common grievance.
Be available and visible without demanding attention. Proactive opening earns its place on a page where somebody is plainly stuck, and almost nowhere else.
Install is a snippet. Customisation covers colour, position, copy and the greeting, so it reads as part of the site rather than as a bolted-on product.
And it says what it is. Pretending to be a person produces a worse reaction the moment the pretence fails, which it always does.
It will not fit every design without work — a widget is a component on your page and benefits from being treated as one.
And it will not rescue a page that fails to answer the obvious question. A widget is not a substitute for content.
A visible route to a person at every point, honoured immediately. A widget that answers "speak to a human" with another question has confirmed the visitor's worst assumption.
And context carries across the handover, so nobody repeats what they just typed.
Usually not. It interrupts reading and is the commonest complaint.
Colour, position, copy and greeting are all configurable.
There should be, visible at every point and honoured immediately.
We will run it end to end on your own numbers in half an hour, and tell you honestly which parts Treepie does not improve.