Futy.io Leadbots vs LobbyChat

Get more customers from your website by easily converting your visitors into Leads, including via WhatsApp, E-mail and Telephone. Futy’s Leadbots give your visitors a pleasant customer experience. Visitors can easily ask a question, schedule an appointment or request a quote. All Futy bots and widgets are installed on any website within 5 minutes. On average, the number of contact requests via your website increases by 300%. Register for free | View website | Documentation | Pricing WhatsApp chat widget With the WhatsApp chat widget, your visitors can easily send messages via WhatsApp from your website. It is easy to connect with the free WhatsApp Business app. For the visitor it is a pleasant customer experience, being able to ask a question easily via WhatsApp. As a company, it is a great way to receive more contact requests via the website. The advantage of WhatsApp is that you do not have to react as quickly as with a Live chat. This makes it easier to combine with daily activities. Link a landline number to WhatsApp. Leadbot The Futy Leadbot helps visitors interactively make the right call to action on your website. Mainly based on answer buttons. You could also call it a digital account manager. He helps with requesting a quote, making an appointment or referring to the correct page or information. The low-threshold contact also offers possibilities to speak to an employee, e.g. via WhatsApp, E-mail or Telephone. What do you prefer that a visitor does on your website? Let a Leadbot help! Contact options in the Leadbot These are popular contact options for the Leadbot on your website: Contact via WhatsApp, E-mail and Telephone Leave a callback request Contact forms Plan an appointment Request quote Link to conversion pages Schedule a video call Dynamic forms FAQ’s Why do you need a WhatsApp chat widget on your website? With a Free WhatsApp chat widget on your website, visitors can easily send you a message via WhatsApp. This is a very accessible way to get more value from your website. It is a great customer experience for the visitors. Because they can easily ask a question via WhatsApp. As a company, it is a great way to receive more contact requests via the website. Benefits Accessible way of contact You don’t need to react in such a hurry as with a Live Chat Free WhatsApp Business with a (landline) telephone number Welcome your visitors personally to your website 24/7 More leads through the website Plug & play Design your own WhatsApp chat widget With the perfect design, you welcome visitors to your website professionally 24/7. The Leadbot and widget can be fully customized with your own colors, logo and other details. Use different variants on your website Use a different Leadbot variant for each scenario on the website. E.g. per page, per device, per campaign, outside opening hours, etc. Variants with different buttons and contact persons. This is easy to set in the dashboard. Features Set your own photo and colors See which page your visitor is on Set triggers Set variants per page, device and time Automatic greeting: good morning / good afternoon Design emails in your own corporate identity Pricing We have a forever free account that you can use unlimited. We also have a paid plan starting from 12,50 euros per month. View our pricing page for all plans and features. Integrations Integrate with Calendly Integrate with Google Analytics Integrate with Google Tag Manager Integrate with WhatsApp Business Integrate with your Inbox Integrate with your CRM How does it work? There is a forever free version that you can make unlimited use of. You can try all paid plans for free for 14 days. No payment details are required and we give support for the installation. We guarantee more Leads through your website. The unique design of the Futy WhatsApp chat widget The Futy WhatsApp chat widget is the most used WhatsApp chat on websites in the Netherlands. We are often praised for its professional and modern design. For many companies this is an important reason to place our WhatsApp chat on their website. In addition to allowing visitors to chat via WhatsApp, we have also built in an email functionality in the chat widget. This makes our free WhatsApp chat widget unique. For example, our WhatsApp widget can also be used by website visitors who do not (want to) use WhatsApp. Make the WhatsApp chat on your website as personal as possible In addition to the e-mail functionality, the Futy WhatsApp chat widget has a number of unique features. For example, the greeting in the WhatsApp chat on your website automatically changes from good morning to good afternoon and good evening. How great is that !? You can also upload your own photo or logo and set the name of the company or contact person. This makes customer contact even more personal via the free WhatsApp chat widget WordPresst on your website. In addition, it is also possible to set a trigger. This allows you to open the WhatsApp chat window automatically after x number of seconds. Connect the WhatsApp chat widget with Google Analytics What is the true value of a WhatsApp chat on your website? We would like to make this completely transparent for you! That is why we have developed an automatic Google Analytics integration. This allows you to keep track of exactly how many visitors contact us via the WhatsApp chat on your website. Just like how often the chat widget is opened, and on which pages. Chat via the free WhatsApp Business app The free WhatsApp chat widget on your website is easy to connect with the free WhatsApp Business app. This makes it possible to activate WhatsApp with a landline phone number. You can also send auto replies or set an out-of-office message. You can even save frequently used answers under a shortcut as a WhatsApp answer template. It is also possible to activate a virtual phone number for WhatsApp. WhatsApp chatbot The WhatsApp chatbot helps visitors interactively make the right call to action on your website. Mainly based on answer buttons. This allows WhatsApp forms to be formatted and transferred to WhatsApp. In addition, a WhatsApp chatbot can also help visitors with requesting a quote, making an appointment or referring to the correct page or information. It also offers low-threshold contact options to speak to an employee, e.g. via WhatsApp, E-mail or Telephone. What do you prefer that a visitor does on your website? Let a WhatsApp chat bot help! What is the advantage of a WhatsApp chat bot on your website? The power of a WhatsApp chat bot on your website is that it is continuously displayed on your website. This means that a CTA button (Call-to-Action) is always shown to the visitor. By always leaving the button on screen, you increase the chance that he will press the button. This makes it easy to increase sales via your website! A WhatsApp chat bot is also available 24/7. He also speaks to your visitors outside opening hours. With a WhatsApp chat bot you can speak to several visitors at the same time. Ultimately, you can always have WhatsApp contact taken over by an employee. Get page information about where the visitor is, via WhatsApp When the WhatsApp chat bot or widget is taken over by an employee, page information can be sent within the WhatsApp message. So you can immediately see from which page the WhatsApp message is sent, and therefore about which product or service the question is about. This is an advanced functionality that only Futy’s WhatsApp chat widget offers! Find out how to activate WhatsApp Business on Desktop. Dashboard Watch a short introduction video to see the user-friendly dashboard from Futy: Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions We respect your privacy and only process your personal data for the purpose for which you have provided them. To read more on this subject please check out our Privacy Policy. Our global Terms and Conditions apply on this plugin.

LobbyChat is a lightweight live-chat shoutbox you can drop into any WordPress page or sidebar with a single shortcode. Built for communities — fan sites, forums, fandoms, classrooms, internal teams — where you want a casual, always-on group chat without bolting on Slack or Discord. What you get Live chat feed with auto-refresh (configurable polling interval — no WebSocket server required) Guest posting — visitors can chat with just a display name, no signup wall Emoji reactions on every message — 👍 ❤️ 😂 🔥 🎉 Link previews for YouTube and any URL with Open Graph tags @mention highlighting — @username gets visually picked out Pinned messages — moderators can pin one important message above the feed Online presence — live count of members, guests, and search-engine bots in the room Moderator role — add a “LobbyChat Moderator” role to any user for pin/delete powers Reporting + auto-hide — 5 reports on a message and it’s hidden automatically Word blocklist for basic profanity filtering Rate limiting built in — separate cooldowns for guests vs members Fullscreen mode + collapse toggle Sound notification for new messages (toggleable per-visitor) Mobile responsive Optional: AI Chat Companion LobbyChat ships with an optional AI bot you can drop into your chat. The bot uses your own API keys — you bring your own Google Gemini key (the free tier works) or OpenAI key. The plugin does not route requests through any third-party server. Bring-your-own-key — Gemini (free tier) or OpenAI (paid) Configurable persona — name, system prompt, custom personality Smart triggers — replies to @mentions always; questions usually; random messages occasionally (all configurable) Hard rate limits — daily and hourly caps protect against runaway API costs Active-hours window — bot only chats during the hours you specify One-click test in the admin to verify the bot can post Privacy & data LobbyChat does not call any third-party server by default. The only network calls are: Fetching link previews when a user shares a URL (request goes from your server to that URL) Calling Google Gemini or OpenAI only if you explicitly enable the AI bot and provide an API key No telemetry, no analytics, no “phone home.” All data lives in your own wp_lobbychat* tables. Try it live See LobbyChat running in production at bejaunty.com/plugins/lobbychat. Roadmap LobbyChat is the free, standalone version. Premium add-ons with gaming-community features — looking-for-group buttons, platform tags, profile-card integration, and richer moderation tools — are in development. Updates and announcements at bejaunty.com. Support development LobbyChat is free and developed in spare time. If it helps your community, you can support development at wise.com/pay/me/asadk372. Every bit is appreciated. ♥ Usage After activating, drop this shortcode into any page, post, or text widget: [lobbychat] Then visit Settings → LobbyChat to configure rate limits, blocklist, and other options. For the AI bot, see Settings → LobbyChat AI Bot. Developer hooks LobbyChat exposes several filters and actions for theme/plugin developers: lobbychat_after_send — action, fires after a message is saved. do_action('lobbychat_after_send', $user_id, $message_id, $row) — the third arg is the database row object. lobbychat_profile_url — filter, override the URL linked from a username (default: WP author archive) lobbychat_allowed_reactions — filter, override the array of allowed reaction emoji lobbychat_report_threshold — filter, change the auto-hide report threshold (default: 5) lobbychat_emoji_set — filter, customize the array of emoji shown in the picker External services This plugin does not connect to any external service by default. Two optional features may, only when explicitly enabled by the site administrator, contact third-party services: 1. Link previews When the link-sharing feature is enabled (Settings → LobbyChat → “Allow link sharing”, which is on by default), and a logged-in user shares a URL in chat, the plugin’s server fetches that URL once to extract Open Graph / Twitter / metadata for a preview card. What is sent: The HTTP request from your server to the URL the user pasted. The request user-agent identifies as LobbyChatBot/1.0 and includes a link back to your site. When: Only at the moment a user posts a message containing a URL. What is received and stored: Title, description, and image URL extracted from the page’s metadata. Stored in the chat message row in your database. Special handling for YouTube URLs: YouTube URLs are first sent to YouTube’s public oEmbed endpoint (https://www.youtube.com/oembed) to retrieve title and author info. YouTube’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policy apply. This feature can be fully disabled by un-checking “Allow link sharing” in plugin settings. 2. Optional AI chat companion When the AI bot is explicitly enabled by the administrator (Settings → LobbyChat AI Bot → “Enable bot”, which is off by default) and the administrator has provided their own API key for one or both of the providers below, chat messages are sent to that provider for the bot to generate replies. Google Gemini API (https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/) * What it is: Google’s generative AI service, used here to produce conversational chat replies. * What is sent: Up to 6 most recent chat messages (sender display name + message text), the bot’s system prompt, and the administrator’s Gemini API key. * When: Only when the administrator has enabled the bot AND a chat message satisfies the bot’s reply-trigger rules (mention, question, or random chance — all configurable). * Terms and privacy: Google APIs Terms of Service, Gemini API Additional Terms, Google Privacy Policy. OpenAI API (https://api.openai.com/) * What it is: OpenAI’s chat completions API, used here as a fallback when Gemini fails or as the primary if only an OpenAI key is configured. * What is sent: Same as Gemini above (recent messages + system prompt + administrator’s OpenAI API key). * When: Same conditions as Gemini above. * Terms and privacy: OpenAI Terms of Use, OpenAI API Data Usage Policies, OpenAI Privacy Policy. The AI bot is disabled by default and will not contact any external service unless the administrator explicitly enables it and provides an API key. 3. Optional Cloudflare Turnstile spam protection When Turnstile is explicitly enabled by the administrator (Settings → LobbyChat → Spam protection, off by default) and a site key and secret key are provided, the plugin uses Cloudflare’s Turnstile service to verify that the person posting is not a bot. Cloudflare Turnstile (https://challenges.cloudflare.com/) * What it is: Cloudflare’s privacy-focused CAPTCHA alternative, used here to block automated spam before a message is posted. * What is sent: When a user submits a message, the Turnstile token generated in their browser plus the user’s IP address are sent from your server to Cloudflare’s siteverify endpoint, along with your secret key, to confirm the token is valid. The browser-side widget also loads Cloudflare’s api.js script from challenges.cloudflare.com. * When: Only when Turnstile is enabled and a user attempts to post a message (optionally limited to guests only). * Terms and privacy: Cloudflare Website Terms of Use, Cloudflare Privacy Policy. Turnstile is disabled by default and will not contact any external service unless the administrator explicitly enables it and provides their own keys.