Using an allowlist to control where the widget appears

Plan requirement

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An allowlist limits which domains may show your widget, which stops it appearing where you did not intend.

Set it up

  1. Open the Web Widget settings in Admin Center.
  2. Add the domains where the widget is allowed.
  3. Save and confirm it still appears on your own site.

Why it matters

The widget script is public. Anyone who copies it onto their own page gets a working widget pointing at your support team, and those conversations arrive looking legitimate.

That is rare and not hypothetical. An allowlist closes it.

The other use: rolling out gradually

More common day to day. Allowlisting one section of your site, or a staging domain, lets you start messaging at a volume you can handle and extend once it works.

Include everything you actually use

Staging domains, a separate help centre domain, any country-specific sites. Forgetting one means the widget silently disappears there, and the first report will come from a colleague rather than a monitor.

Check after any website change

A new domain, a migration or a subdomain change breaks the list. Since the failure is the widget simply not appearing, add this to whatever checklist you use after site changes.

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