# Shopping Assistant

> The chat panel grounded in your real catalog — settings, behavior, and placement.

The Shopping Assistant is a chat panel grounded in your real catalog. When you turn it on,
shoppers get a launcher that opens a chat panel; the assistant answers from your real
catalog and shows live product cards, with add-to-cart on supported stores.

## Settings

Greeting, example prompts, logo, theme, placement, and the on/off switch are all dashboard
settings; changes apply on the next page load with no redeploy.

## Install & placement

The widget on/off toggle, the embed snippet, and placement options live under
**Shopping Assistant → Settings → Install & placement**. The same snippet from the
[quick start](./quick-start.md) powers the assistant — there is nothing extra to install.

## Preview before going live

Once your store is ready, opening any page on your site with `?skaii_preview=1` appended
to the URL shows you the widget even while it is still switched off for shoppers. Until
you switch it on, shoppers see your unchanged site.