For UK Strikingly sites, this is the AI chat widget that does not require an engineer. Paste your site URL into SmartWidget — the AI reads it. Review the auto-generated answers. Paste the embed snippet into Settings > Advanced > Footer HTML. Live in five minutes. £19/mo.
SmartWidget is the AI chat widget purpose-built to install cleanly on Strikingly. The deployment is a single JavaScript snippet — no plugin, no theme modification, no engineer required. The snippet goes into Settings > Advanced > Footer HTML. From the moment you paste and save, the widget is live, reading your site automatically and answering every visitor in under eight seconds. From £19 a month, 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. Strikingly is highlighted first.
This dashboard is where the AI receptionist on your Strikingly site gets its personality. Beyond the knowledge base, the dashboard exposes tone-of-voice controls (formal, conversational, transactional), language settings, escalation triggers, integration with your Strikingly calendar and email, and the visible widget appearance (colours, position, welcome message). The same dashboard scales from a single Strikingly site to dozens — agencies running multiple client Strikingly sites use it daily.
Strikingly 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 > Advanced > Footer HTML. 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.
Every conversation the SmartWidget AI has on your Strikingly site lands in this unified inbox. Live conversations are shown in real time. Completed conversations are kept indexed and searchable. You can jump into any live conversation with a single click — the AI steps back, you type as a human, the visitor sees the same chat thread continue. The handover is seamless from the visitor's side. The inbox is the operational heart of running the widget on a Strikingly site.
Live chat support inside the SmartWidget dashboard answers within minutes. The dashboard also contains a step-by-step Strikingly-specific install guide with screenshots and the exact menu paths. If the install does not work, support will remote into a screenshare and complete it with you.
The widget includes a configurable consent notice that integrates with the major UK cookie banner solutions including OneTrust, Cookiebot, CookieYes, Iubenda, and the platform-native banners on Strikingly where available. Consent state is respected — the widget does not initialise until consent has been granted on visitors in scope of UK GDPR.
The AI knowledge base is built from publicly accessible pages on your Strikingly site. Content gated behind login is not included automatically. If your Strikingly site has paid-content or member-only sections, the AI's knowledge will reflect only the public pages — which is typically what you want for visitor chat anyway.
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 Strikingly 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 Strikingly site, restrict the widget to certain pages only, and configure honeypot-style anti-spam rules. The defaults are sensible for most Strikingly 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 Strikingly 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 Strikingly 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 Strikingly 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 Strikingly takes about five minutes end-to-end. You sign up at smartwidget.co.uk, paste your Strikingly site URL so the AI can read it, review the auto-generated answers, copy the JavaScript snippet, paste it into Settings > Advanced > Footer HTML, and save. The widget is live and answering visitors the moment the page saves.
No. The Strikingly install is one line of JavaScript pasted into Settings > Advanced > Footer HTML. If you can navigate your Strikingly admin dashboard, you can complete the install. The walkthrough on the SmartWidget dashboard shows the exact menu path for Strikingly with screenshots.
No. SmartWidget loads asynchronously and isolates its CSS inside a Shadow DOM, so it cannot affect your Strikingly theme's styling, animations, or layout. It also does not block page rendering. Lighthouse and PageSpeed scores are unaffected.
Yes for any Strikingly plan that lets you paste a script tag or custom JavaScript into Settings > Advanced > Footer HTML. On a small number of Strikingly entry-level tiers the custom code feature is restricted; in that case upgrading to the next plan unlocks it. Most Strikingly Business or Pro tiers and above support SmartWidget directly.
No. There is no plugin for Strikingly. SmartWidget installs via a single line of JavaScript pasted directly into Settings > Advanced > Footer HTML. Avoiding the plugin route means fewer dependencies, zero conflicts with your other Strikingly 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 > Advanced > Footer HTML, and save. The script tag loads our widget client asynchronously when a visitor lands on your page.
4.9 out of 5 from 199 reviews. A selection of install-experience reviews from real UK businesses.
We migrated to a new accounting firm site last spring. SmartWidget was the only chat tool that installed cleanly without breaking the theme. Five minutes from signup to live.
Our firm uses a Drupal site that an agency built nine years ago. I expected the install to be painful. The agency added the script tag in eleven minutes and the widget went live the same afternoon.
Our firm runs a heavily customised Webflow site. SmartWidget installs into the End of body tag custom code field — exactly where Webflow places all scripts. Zero animation conflicts.
My Framer site is mostly animation and the widget had to coexist with three other custom code blocks. SmartWidget installed cleanly without breaking any of the existing animations or transitions.
My Format portfolio is built around lots of high-resolution images and very minimal text. SmartWidget did not slow the gallery load at all — it loads async and the widget bubble only renders once images are done.
My WordPress site uses a heavily customised theme. I worried the SmartWidget snippet might conflict. The Insert Headers and Footers plugin route kept everything isolated and the theme has not been touched.
SmartWidget installs cleanly on every major platform in this category. Explore install guides for related platforms.
Sign up, paste the snippet, save. From £19 a month. No card to start.
