In this blog post, we’ll learn about the Rocket.Chat and How to install it on your website
Live Chat Support helps you greet your customers pro-actively while they are going through your website. Or, in case they need some help and clarification to make their purchase decisions. Live Chat Support increases your chance of converting a visitor into a customer. There are lots of open-source live chat support software available. But, Rocket.Chat has gained a lot of attraction because of its features. And it’s being treated as an alternative to industry-leading chat software like Slack, and Microsoft Team.
In this article, we’ll learn how to install Rocket.Chat on a server and then how to configure it on your website. So, Let’s get started!
- Introduction to Rocket.Chat
- Installation
- Enable Live Chat Feature
- Install Live Chat Widget on Your Website
- Conclusion
Introduction to Rocket.Chat
Rocket.Chat is amongst the popular live chat software. It has a free live chat version as a community edition as well as a paid hosted live chat version for large companies with private internal chat features. Rocket.Chat supports live chat customer support along with the team chat feature. It has desktop apps for Windows, Mac, and Linux and mobile apps as well. For more details, you can read about Rocket.Chat here.
Installation
You can install Rocket.Chat from a variety of marketplaces, like Ubuntu Snaps, DockerHub, or install it on your own server. In this article, we’ll focus on Rocket.Chat’s installation via Snaps on Ubuntu. Which is the fastest method of Installation.
Snaps are secure. Rocket.Chat and all of its dependencies are isolated from the rest of your system. Snaps also auto-update when there is a new release.
On Ubuntu first install Snap with following command
sudo apt-get install snapdThen install Rocket.Chat Server via snap command.
sudo snap install rocketchat-serverSnap is already up and running. Browse to http://localhost:3000 and set up Rocket.Chat. You can configure Nginx proxy to map Rocket.Chat instance with your domain.
Enable Live Chat Feature
To enable the Livechat feature on your Rocket.Chat instance:
1. Go to Administration
2. Search ‘Omnichannel‘ in Settings and enable it.
Once enabled, an admin will have access to Omnichannel Panel Settings via a new menu called Omnichannel at the top left corner dropdown menu.
And then configure Live Chat Widget’s Look and Feel
Install Live Chat Widget on Your Website
To access Livechat Installation settings:
Go to Livechat Installation in the omnichannel panel settings, as shown below, and copy the given piece of code.
And, paste this code above the last tag on your site; the live chat widget will appear on the bottom right corner of your webpage. As shown below as per your Live Chat configurations.
Conclusion
In this article, we have shown you how to install Rocket.Chat on your own server via Ubuntu Snaps. We also learned how to enable the live chat feature and install the widget on your website.
