This is the working install guide for adding SmartWidget to a UK Carrd site. Everything from signup to first answered visitor, with the exact menu path for Settings > Embed > Body and the verification checklist that confirms the widget is live. From £19/mo.
SmartWidget on Carrd is the difference between a website that passively waits for visitors to email and a website that actively engages every visitor in real time. The widget reads your Carrd site automatically during signup, builds the AI receptionist trained on your services and pricing, and deploys via a single snippet into Settings > Embed > Body. Five-minute install. £19/mo. Multi-site from the Growth tier upwards. UK GDPR compliant by design.
The full install end-to-end. Five steps, about five minutes from signup to the first answered visitor.
The exact panel and field to paste the snippet on every supported platform. Carrd is highlighted first.
The dashboard reviews and refines what the AI learned from your Carrd site. Every Q&A pair the AI generated is shown with a confidence score. High-confidence answers are auto-approved; lower-confidence ones are flagged for review. You can override any answer, add your own Q&A pairs, and define edge-case rules. The dashboard is structured so a non-technical Carrd site owner can confidently approve the AI's understanding of their business in ten to fifteen minutes.
Carrd gives you a beautiful site, but it doesn't give you a way to engage visitors in real time. That's a conversion-rate gap. Visitors arrive interested, can't get an immediate answer, and leave. SmartWidget closes that gap with a single line of JavaScript pasted into Settings > Embed > Body. From that moment on, every visitor gets an answer in under eight seconds and every qualified enquiry gets a contact-card-and-SMS handover to you.
From this dashboard you can supervise every AI conversation on your Carrd site, jump into any one with a single click, and intervene before the AI says something you would not. The Live tab shows in-flight conversations. The Awaiting Human tab shows escalations. The Completed tab shows the archive. The Pinned tab shows the conversations you have flagged for follow-up. The visitor sees one continuous chat thread regardless of whether AI or human is replying.
English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Portuguese are supported on the Growth tier and above. The widget detects the visitor's language from their first message and replies in the same language for the rest of the conversation. Particularly valuable for Carrd sites serving overseas customers or operating in tourism-driven markets.
The dashboard exposes filtering rules. You can block visitors by IP range, exclude conversation triggers on specific URLs of your Carrd site, restrict the widget to certain pages only, and configure honeypot-style anti-spam rules. The defaults are sensible for most Carrd businesses; the controls are there if you need them.
Conversation transcripts and visitor contact data are retained for 30 days after cancellation, then deleted permanently. Within that 30-day window you can export the full transcript archive and the contact database as CSV from the dashboard. The widget snippet on your Carrd site stops loading immediately on cancellation.
No. The widget loads asynchronously after the page has rendered. The bundle is under 30KB. There is no impact on Largest Contentful Paint, Cumulative Layout Shift, or First Input Delay. Lighthouse audit before and after the install on a Carrd site typically shows zero score change.
Yes. The dashboard supports WhatsApp Business API integration for escalations. When the AI flags a high-intent enquiry on your Carrd site, it can send you a WhatsApp message with the visitor's details and the conversation context. The integration runs on top of the standard email and SMS escalation options.
The install on Carrd takes about five minutes end-to-end. You sign up at smartwidget.co.uk, paste your Carrd site URL so the AI can read it, review the auto-generated answers, copy the JavaScript snippet, paste it into Settings > Embed > Body, and save. The widget is live and answering visitors the moment the page saves.
No. The Carrd install is one line of JavaScript pasted into Settings > Embed > Body. If you can navigate your Carrd admin dashboard, you can complete the install. The walkthrough on the SmartWidget dashboard shows the exact menu path for Carrd with screenshots.
No. SmartWidget loads asynchronously and isolates its CSS inside a Shadow DOM, so it cannot affect your Carrd theme's styling, animations, or layout. It also does not block page rendering. Lighthouse and PageSpeed scores are unaffected.
Yes for any Carrd plan that lets you paste a script tag or custom JavaScript into Settings > Embed > Body. On a small number of Carrd entry-level tiers the custom code feature is restricted; in that case upgrading to the next plan unlocks it. Most Carrd Business or Pro tiers and above support SmartWidget directly.
No. There is no plugin for Carrd. SmartWidget installs via a single line of JavaScript pasted directly into Settings > Embed > Body. Avoiding the plugin route means fewer dependencies, zero conflicts with your other Carrd extensions, and no plugin marketplace approval process.
A single script tag with your unique widget key. Around 200 characters total. You copy it from the SmartWidget dashboard after signup, paste it into Settings > Embed > Body, and save. The script tag loads our widget client asynchronously when a visitor lands on your page.
No. The widget loads asynchronously after the page has rendered, so it does not block any of your Carrd site's critical rendering path. PageSpeed and Lighthouse scores are unaffected. The widget bundle is under 30 KB and lazy-loads its UI when the visitor first interacts with the chat bubble.
SmartWidget is UK GDPR compliant by design. Conversation transcripts are encrypted at rest in UK-based data centres. The widget includes a configurable consent notice that integrates with most Carrd cookie banner solutions, and the dashboard exposes the controls needed for data-subject access and deletion requests.
Yes. The widget appearance is fully customisable from the SmartWidget dashboard — primary colour, accent colour, chat bubble position (bottom-left, bottom-right), avatar, welcome message, and trigger behaviour. The customisation is centralised, so changing it once updates the widget on your Carrd site immediately.
4.9 out of 5 from 199 reviews. A selection of install-experience reviews from real UK businesses.
I am the worst kind of non-technical user — I built my Squarespace site myself and was scared of the code injection field. The widget walkthrough showed me exactly which menu to open. I am live and capturing bookings.
My ConvertKit landing page was meant to be a temporary holding page that ended up running for two years. SmartWidget installed via the tracking code field and is now my main lead capture.
We run a Sitecore site for our manufacturing business. The IT team flagged compatibility concerns. SmartWidget installed as a layout-level script tag and passed the internal security review without modification.
My Bubble app site needed chat without breaking the app routing. SmartWidget installed as a body script in the Bubble SEO settings and works across every page of the app without intercepting any of the existing routing logic.
I work mainly in Webflow and I have tested every chat widget on the market for client sites. SmartWidget is the only one that does not introduce CLS issues. Clean install, perfect Lighthouse score.
My Shopify theme is custom and locked down. SmartWidget installs via theme.liquid before the body close — exactly where every other tracking pixel goes. Zero conflicts with my checkout.
SmartWidget installs cleanly on every major platform in this category. Explore install guides for related platforms.
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