this one is for you if your squarespace site is set up and you've decided you want a chat on it.
adding the chat to squarespace is one paste. the part that takes thought is the look. a chat widget comes in its own colors, and on a site where you picked every font, it can look borrowed.
so there's a theme tab for the retune widget. you set the colors, the font and the corners, check the preview and save.
the bakery in the video is sunrise bakery. i made it up to show the feature. it isn't on squarespace, but the steps on your side are the same. the before and after is at the start, and the theme tab opens at 0:35.
the theme tab was built in a copy of retune, so it isn't switched on for new accounts by itself. sign up, then email me at olive@reframe.so and say you want the theme tab on your bot. once it's on, these are the steps.
the footer box puts the chat on every page of your site. if you change the theme later, you don't touch squarespace again. it's the same script, and the widget on your site picks up the new look when you save.
there's more on the first step in the letter on training a bot on your whole site.
presets change everything at once. after that, every color has its own picker, and the tab warns you if text gets hard to read on its background.
there are five fonts: inter (a plain sans serif), your visitor's own system font, a serif, a rounded one and a typewriter style mono.
the header can carry your name, a short line under it and your logo. the chat button can sit on the left or the right, with a size slider from small to large, your color and a short label. there's also a line at the bottom for a disclaimer, like "call us to check allergens".
nothing is saved until you hit save, and reset to default puts the original look back.
it doesn't load your squarespace font, so pick the one closest to it. a serif site gets a serif chat, not your exact serif.
the bot's name label and the "powered by" line stay grey. everything else follows your theme. the theme tab can't remove the "powered by" line.
the preview shows the widget on a sample page, not on your site. after you save, reload your squarespace site to see it for real.
squarespace doesn't offer code injection on every plan. if you can't find it in your site settings, check your plan before you start.
the theme stores the look, including your logo if you upload one. it doesn't touch what the bot knows or anything your visitors type.
a widget that fits your site still has to answer right. questions the bot couldn't answer land in an inbox where you write the answer once. you can also list the questions it has to get right and run them before you publish.
if something your site needs is missing, email me and tell me what it is.
olive