EzBizi

Your phone number is probably written into your website in a dozen places — the

header, the footer, three service pages, a contact form, an old landing page

somebody forgot. Changing it means finding all twelve.

This plugin lets EzBizi hold the answer instead. You set your details once in

EzBizi, put a shortcode where the value belongs, and the page shows whatever

EzBizi currently says.

Each website gets its own answers. A subdomain is a separate site in EzBizi

com can publish a different phone number

com without a second theme, a second plugin, or a second copy of

your pages.

What you can publish

Every field you fill in inside EzBizi becomes a shortcode here:

• [ezbizi_company_name]

• [ezbizi_phone]

• [ezbizi_email]

• [ezbizi_address]

• [ezbizi_hours]

• [ezbizi_license]

• [ezbizi_service_area]

• [ezbizi_booking_url]

There is also a general form, [ezbizi key="phone"], which accepts a fallback

for a value you have not filled in yet: [ezbizi key="phone" default="Call us"].

The list is not hardcoded. It comes from your EzBizi account, so a field added

there starts working here without updating this plugin.

Your site keeps working when ours does not

The values are cached, and the last successful read is kept indefinitely. If

EzBizi is slow or unreachable, your pages carry on showing the details they last

received rather than going blank. Refreshing happens in the background, so a

visitor never waits on a request to us.

You need an EzBizi account

This plugin is a client for the EzBizi platform and does nothing on its own. You

will need an account, and a website registered under Web Management, to get the

token it asks for.

External Services

This plugin relies on a third-party service to retrieve the business details

(company name, phone, address, licence, hours) that you configure in your

EzBizi account. It does not work without that connection — retrieving those

values is the plugin’s entire purpose.

EzBizi API

What it is: EzBizi is a business management platform. It holds a company’s

business details centrally so the same phone number or address can be published

across every website that company owns, with each site — including each

subdomain — able to publish its own answers.

What data is sent: Your site token, which identifies which registered

website is asking; your site’s hostname, taken from your WordPress address, so

EzBizi returns the values for this site rather than another one you own; and

this plugin’s version number.

When data is sent:

– At most once every five minutes while your site is being visited, refreshed in

the background rather than while a visitor waits

– When an administrator saves the settings page or presses “Refresh now”

What data is NOT sent by the shortcodes: No information about your

visitors — no IP addresses, no page views, no analytics, no personal data of any

kind. The page a visitor is on is never sent either: per-page values are

selected on your own server from data already received.

The chat and contact form widgets are different, and this is the important

paragraph on this page. Both are OFF unless you switch them on in EzBizi, and

neither sends anything until a visitor uses one. When a visitor does:

• Their browser sends what they typed — which may include their name, email

address, telephone number, and the text of their message or their answers to

your form’s questions — directly to EzBizi, where it becomes an enquiry you

can reply to.

• The address of the page they were on is sent with it, so you can see where

they were when they got in touch.

• Because their browser makes that request itself, EzBizi receives their IP

address the way any website they visit would. It is not stored as part of the

enquiry.

• Live chat stores a token in that browser’s sessionStorage so the visitor can

read replies to their own conversation and nobody else’s. It is cleared when

they close the tab.

If you switch both widgets off, none of the above happens and this plugin sends

nothing about your visitors at all.

What data is received: Only the business details you entered in EzBizi for

this site — company name, phone number, email, address, opening hours, licence

number, service area and booking link. These are values you have chosen to

publish on your own public website.

0): Once your

token has been accepted — on the next content refresh, or the next time an

administrator opens wp-admin — the plugin creates a WordPress user named

“ezbizi-service” on a restricted role, generates an application password for it,

and sends that application password to EzBizi so EzBizi can publish and edit

content on this site on your behalf. The role can publish and edit posts and

pages and upload files; it cannot change settings, manage users, install

plugins, edit themes, post unfiltered HTML, or delete anything. The application

password is sent once, over HTTPS only, and is stored encrypted by EzBizi. If

the handover fails the application password is deleted immediately rather than

left active.

0): the list of your

pages and posts — their titles, web addresses, url slugs, status (published,

draft, and so on) and when each was last changed — so that you can see them in

EzBizi under Web Management. It is read on demand when somebody opens that

screen, nothing is copied or stored, and the text of a page is never requested.

You can revoke it at any time: delete the “EzBizi” application password under

Users, delete the ezbizi-service user, or deactivate this plugin — deactivation

revokes it for you. Changing your site token revokes it too. If EzBizi drops the

pairing at its end, this plugin deletes its own application password at the next

refresh.

Service Provider: EzBizi

API Endpoints:

com/api/v1/web/plugin/values (retrieving your details)

com/api/v1/web/plugin/service-account (handing over the

publishing credential described above)

com/terms/

com/privacy/