Changelog

See what's new in Zipchat.

Every feature, improvement, and fix we ship to the Zipchat AI platform, in one timeline.

Features Oct 16, 2025

Introducing WhatsApp follow ups

Engage and retarget your WhatsApp contacts for free with the new follow-up feature on Zipchat.

  • Create unique campaigns based on prompting
  • Reach out to customers who talked to the agent on Zipchat within 24 hours

See the video for more info 🍿

Improvements Oct 15, 2025

Respect nofollow and noindex tags when crawling pages

Zipchat will no longer crawl and index pages that are marked as "noindex" This resolves a problem where Zipchat would sometimes recommend "hidden" products, such as gifts or addons.

Bugfixes Oct 15, 2025

Fix an issue with crawling 404 pages

Resolve a problem where we would have trouble removing old page content from Zipchat's memory when the page suddenly disappears

Features Oct 9, 2025

Zipchat can now create discount codes

The agent can now create unique, one-time discount codes to stimulate customers to buy ( or for any other reasons that are described in the prompt ) For example, you can ask Zipchat to haggle with your customers!

To enable this feature, go to AI Training / Prompt & Tools / Create Discount / This feature is currently only available for Shopify stores /

Features Oct 3, 2025

Introducing: The AI type bar

Most customers perceive the chat bubble as a support-only tool. Not as a way to interact with your website.

Instead of a chat bubble, we're introducing a new floating element: The AI type bar - which can launch the Zipchat agent.

To test it out: Go to Zipchat / Chat Settings / Edit and select Typing bar.

Bugfixes Sep 19, 2025

Add support for iOS 26 Safari floating bar

Fixes an issue where the new "Liquid glass" browser UI on Safari breaks full-screen overlays.

Improvements Sep 19, 2025

New proactive chat designs & chat bubble

  • Proactive chat popovers have a fresh new design
  • Whenever a proactive message shows up, the bubble also receives a notification indicator
  • Chat bubbles now include an "online" dot to clarify to customers that they will receive an instant response ( color can be changed from Bubble chat settings )
  • Tweaks on the different bubble sizes and standardization between channels ( Bubble Chat and WhatsApp now have the same sizes of bubbles )
Improvements Sep 15, 2025

Simpler way to log in

We've simplified the way that you log in inside Zipchat

  • You can now log in with email/password instead of email code
  • You can now log in via Shopify directly

All of our users will receive an email to set their password.

Improvements Sep 15, 2025

Control on which pages to show the Chat Bubble

You can now show or hide the Bubble Chat ( or Whatsapp bubble ) on specific pages of your website. Or hide it a certain page. You can do so from Chat Settings / Channels / Edit look & feel

Features Sep 10, 2025

Introducing the Zipchat WhatsApp bubble

The Zipchat WhatsApp bubble is our way to enhance the customer experience of your website by adding a WhatsApp-based AI helper.

With it you can:

  • Send proactive messages to grow your WhatsApp marketing list
  • Set different UX based on device
  • Get more customers to contact you via WhatsApp

Go to Chat Settings / Channels to add it to your website

Improvements Sep 5, 2025

Pricing update: Change of overcharges cost/amount

We've updated the price of overcharges ( when you exceed your plan limit ) to $49.00 for 250 replies

  • This change allows us to include more pages in all of our plans and introduce bulk reply discounts in our Enterprise plans
Improvements Aug 29, 2025

Whatsapp: Zipchat now identifies the customer when they send a message

  • Zipchat now saves the name of the customer when they send a WA message
  • Zipchat is now context aware of who they're talking to ( name & contact info )
  • Customer name is now displayed in the Conversations UI, when available
Bugfixes Aug 27, 2025

Fix deleting an agent displaying a "content missing" error

Bugfixes Aug 27, 2025

Whatsapp campaigns bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where re-connecting a whatsapp number might make brands unable to make new Whatsapp campaing
  • Fixes a bug where clicking on a whatsapp campaign displays an error "content missing"
Improvements Aug 26, 2025

Pricing updates: 10x more pages for the same price 🚀

We've increased the number of allowed pages on different plans:

  • Starter - 1,000 pages ( No change )
  • Growth - 15,000 pages ( from 5,000 )
  • Pro - 75,000 pages ( from 15,000 )
  • Scale - 300,000 pages ( from 30,000 )
  • Enterprise - Unlimited pages
Improvements Aug 26, 2025

Brands can now set Bubble chat visibility by device

  • Brands can now decide wheter to show the Bubble chat on Mobile, on Desktop & Tablet or on all devices
Features Aug 22, 2025

Added a support for Shopify Segments

  • Shopify segments are not automatically synced with Zipchat
  • This allows Shopify merchants to send out WhatsApp marketing campaigns to segments made in their Shopify Admin
Improvements Aug 20, 2025

Reorganisation of Chat Settings

  • The "channels" tab now only includes settings regarding the channel
  • The Shopify app integration status, and all scripts were moved to
Bugfixes Aug 14, 2025

Fixes double messages on chats with a proactive campaign

  • Fixes an issue on the conversations UI which would display two welcome messages when the customer started talking via a proactive chat
Improvements Aug 11, 2025

Updates on the lead collection window of Chat Bubble

When asking for the customer's email in the chat bubble, you can now:

  • Show a marketing consent checkbox that's NOT checked by default
  • Add html links in the checkbox label
Improvements Jul 25, 2025

New version of the AI

Added a new version of the ai that improves

  • Chat to Sale ratio by 6%+
  • Response quality by 33%+
Features Jul 4, 2025

Add ability for clients to upload Google Merchant Feeds in CSV format

Until now, only XML feeds were supported. Now it's also possible to upload feeds in CSV.

Features Jun 30, 2025

Allow users to change the reporting currency for non-Shopify chats

Users can now change the display/reporting currency for their sales stats on the homepage dashboard via a dropdown, located under the Track Zipchat Purchase integration.

Features Jun 27, 2025

Allow non-Shopify shops to track purchases

We now allow non-Shopify shops to add a pixel on their checkout/thank you page, allowing them to track purchases in Zipchat and thus measure the conversion rate.

Check out the Zipchat Docs for more info.

Bugfixes Jun 26, 2025

Whatsapp fixes

  • Fix sending abandoned cart WA messages to customers who bought in some cases
  • Fix WhatsApp response failing for some abandoned cart messages
  • Fix showing email as a name of the conversation on some Whatsapp chats
Features Jun 18, 2025

Suppport Google Merchant Feeds

  • Merchants can now add Google Merchant Feed to import their products
  • This drastically improves the AI performance for big stores, as there's no noise from the web pages
Improvements Jun 3, 2025

Make Shopify product update/create webhooks more efficient

  • Improves the way we handle updates from Shopify merchants and prevents our system from being overloaded on big updates
Improvements Jun 2, 2025

Allow .php extensions when to be adding a sitemap

Features Jun 2, 2025

Whatsapp - supports images

You can now send images to Whatsapp and Zipchat will understand them!

Improvements May 29, 2025

Implement Google XML Product Feed standard for product feeds

  • We now accept the standard Google XML product feed standard for product feeds
Improvements May 29, 2025

Improve knowledge base efficiency

  • Makes things faster when loading a lot of new pages into our KBs
  • Should make the app faster in general
Improvements May 27, 2025

Whatsapp: Add a guide on rejected display names

Improvements May 26, 2025

Chat bubble: Increase the z-index limit

  • Increase the z-index limit so Zipchat can stay above other apps that are too aggressive with their "z-index" setting
Bugfixes May 26, 2025

Fix Whatsapp Campaign messages not being sent in some cases

Fixes an issue where campaign messages that are saved for the future ( 30/45 days in the future ) might not be sent

Improvements May 23, 2025

Add a warning banner for Shopify customers trying to connect Custom Order Tracking

  • Some customers assume they need to implement our "Custom Order Tracking API" to track orders on Shopify
  • This isn't true because we support order tracking by default
  • Added a warning banner explaining this
Bugfixes May 23, 2025

Fix custom chat icons having a white square background around the icon

Improvements May 21, 2025

Speed-up the loading of the Campaigns page

Features May 20, 2025

Implement Product Feed importing

  • Support importing information from product feeds, instead of crawling each page, which is useful for big stores
  • Limited support for specific shops for now, wider support coming later
Improvements May 19, 2025

Whatsapp Conversation improvements

  • Sending multiple messages will now be handled gracefully
  • Whenever Zipchat is replying, it now displays a typing indicator
Bugfixes May 6, 2025

Fix sending Whatsapp abandoned cart messages to people who ordered

Bugfixes May 2, 2025

Crawling improvements

  • Decreased the speed of initial crawling to avoid overloading websites
  • Fixed an issue where sometimes we would assume sitemap.xml exists when it doesn't
  • Fixed an issue where we wouldn't be able to process a .gzipped sitemap
Improvements Apr 25, 2025

Whatsapp - Improved Cart Recovery

  • Now Whatsapp Cart recovery campaigns will work without the need for a second marketing consent checkbox ( specific for phone numbers )
Improvements Apr 24, 2025

Whatsapp variables in campaigns

  • Merchants can now add variables in their WhatsApp campaigns
  • Available variables are First Name, Last Name, First line item ( of the cart ) and All line items
Bugfixes Apr 21, 2025

Prevent preview chat hitting rate limits

  • Fix an issue where the preview chat will be subject to spam rate limits
Features Apr 11, 2025

Knowledgebase - remembering sitemaps

  • Zipchat will now remember sitemaps and resync them periodically

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