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Chat and Chatbot Modules for PrestaShop

Your options on PrestaShop 8 and 9, and what separates a chat box from an assistant that knows your catalogue

PrestaShop store owners have three kinds of option: a plain live-chat module that puts a chat box on the storefront, a universal widget pasted into the theme, or a native module that reads your catalogue and answers on its own. The third is the one that changes your workload, because product, delivery and order questions get answered without a person. Vatdi is that third kind on PrestaShop 8.x and 9.x, free for 15 conversations a month.

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How Vatdi closes it

What the assistant does for you

  • PrestaShop product inquiries

  • Multi-language customer support

  • Shipping and delivery questions

  • Post-purchase assistance

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The three kinds of option, honestly

Live chat modules. A chat box tied to your staff. Useful while someone is at a desk, silent otherwise. Cheap or free, and the right answer if you have people and want nothing automated.

Universal widgets. A script tag from a general chat vendor. Works on any site, but it sees your storefront the way a visitor does — it can read published text, not your product table, and it usually cannot look up an order at all.

Native modules. Installed in your back office, connected to your data. Products, categories, prices and policy pages sync, so answers are about your actual catalogue, and order-status questions can be answered live.

The PrestaShop Addons marketplace and the wider module ecosystem carry all three kinds, and the listing rarely makes clear which one you are buying. The checklist below is how to tell.

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What to check before you install anything

What to check before you install anything

  • Does it read your catalogue, or just your website? A crawler sees your product pages as text. A native module reads products, categories, prices and sale prices as data, which is what makes "is the blue one in stock" answerable.
  • Can it answer order-status questions? It is the most common post-purchase message. If the extension cannot look an order up, every one of those becomes a ticket.
  • How does it verify the customer? An order lookup that accepts an order number alone leaks data. It should require the email or phone on the order too.
  • What happens when the AI does not know? The honest behaviour is to say so and offer a person, with your real availability hours.
  • What triggers the bill? Seats, conversations, AI resolutions and message credits are four different meters. Pick the one that matches how your store actually gets busy.
  • Which languages? If you ship internationally, the reply has to come back in the language of the question.
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How Vatdi works on PrestaShop

The module covers PrestaShop 8.x and 9.x. You upload it in the back office under Modules, then Module Manager, then Upload a module, and connect it to your Vatdi account. From that point the catalogue, categories, prices and policy content sync automatically and stay in step as you edit them.

Order-status lookup runs through the module's own front controller: the customer gives the order number plus the email or phone recorded on that order, the email must match exactly or the phone by its last eight digits, attempts are rate-limited, and only then does the reply carry status, items and tracking. That is the difference between a self-service answer and a data leak.

Human handover is included on every plan: your team is alerted by email and sound, replies in the same widget the customer is looking at, and agent hours mean the widget only offers a person when someone is genuinely there.

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What it does not do on PrestaShop yet

Best-seller ranking from real sales figures ships on the OpenCart, WooCommerce, Magento and Shopware plugins but not yet on PrestaShop, so on a PrestaShop store the AI will not call something a best seller — it suggests products from your catalogue based on the question instead, which is the honest fallback rather than a guess dressed up as data.

There is also no writing back to your store: the assistant never edits an order, issues a refund or changes stock. It answers, suggests, offers coupons you configured, and hands over.

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Getting it live in an afternoon

  1. Create a free Vatdi account and add your shop domain.
  2. Upload the module in Modules, then Module Manager, then Upload a module.
  3. Connect the store from the module's configuration page; the catalogue sync starts immediately.
  4. Upload the shipping and returns pages if they are PDFs or live off-site.
  5. Turn on order-status lookup and test it against a real order from a staff account.
  6. Set agent hours and the handover message so out-of-hours customers get an honest answer.

The widget's colours and logo can be pulled from your storefront in one click, and every visible label can be translated per store. Full install detail lives on the PrestaShop integration page.

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What it costs

Free covers 15 conversations a month with every feature switched on, including order lookup, product suggestions, coupons and handover, with no card required. Starter is $4.49 a month for 150 conversations and removes the "Powered by Vatdi" badge. Grow is $7.49 a month for unlimited conversations and unlimited knowledge items. Teammates are unlimited on every plan, so there is no per-seat cost as your team grows, and there is no per-resolution AI charge.

Where it runs

Native plugin on your platform, widget on everything else

Install on your store in one click, or paste the one-line widget on any other site.

Frequently Asked Questions

The module covers PrestaShop 8.x and 9.x.

Yes. The customer supplies the order number plus the email or phone on the order; the email must match exactly or the phone by its last eight digits, and the answer comes live from your store with status, items and tracking.

Yes. The visitor writes in their language and the reply comes back in it, across 95+ languages, and every widget label can be translated per store.

No. The free plan includes every feature and 15 conversations a month, with no card and no trial expiry.

The widget loads asynchronously and the catalogue sync runs server to server, so page rendering is not blocked by it.

Put it on your store today

Free plan: 15 conversations a month with every feature on, no card. Paid plans are $4.49 and $7.49.