# Set up your customer's chat experience in Amazon Connect
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You can provide a chat experience to your customers by using one of the following methods: 
+ [Add a chat user interface to your website hosted by Amazon Connect](add-chat-to-website.md). 
+ [Customize chat with the Amazon Connect open source example](download-chat-example.md). 
+ [Customize your solution using Amazon Connect APIs](integrate-with-startchatcontact-api.md). We recommend starting with the Amazon Connect ChatJS open source library when customizing your own chat experiences. For more information, see the [Amazon Connect ChatJS](https://github.com/amazon-connect/amazon-connect-chatjs) repo on Github. 

## More resources to customize the chat experience
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+ Interactive messages provide customers with a prompt and pre-configured display options that they can select from. These messages are powered by Amazon Lex and configured through Amazon Lex using a Lambda. For instructions about how to add interactive messages through Amazon Lex, see this blog: [Set up interactive messages for your Amazon Connect chatbot](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/contact-center/easily-set-up-interactive-messages-for-your-amazon-connect-chatbot/).

  Amazon Connect supports the following templates: a list picker and a time picker. For more information, see [Add Amazon Lex interactive messages for customers in chat](interactive-messages.md). 
+  [Enable Apple Messages for Business with Amazon Connect](apple-messages-for-business.md) 
+  [Amazon Connect Service API Documentation](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/connect/latest/APIReference), especially the [StartChatContact](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/connect/latest/APIReference/API_StartChatContact.html) API.
+  [Amazon Connect Participant Service API](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/connect-participant/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html). 
+  [ Amazon Connect Chat SDK and Sample Implementations](https://github.com/amazon-connect/amazon-connect-chat-ui-examples/) 
+  [Amazon Connect Streams](https://github.com/aws/amazon-connect-streams). Use to integrate your existing apps with Amazon Connect. You can embed the Contact Control Panel (CCP) components into your app. 
+  [Enable message streaming for AI-powered chat](message-streaming-ai-chat.md)