Chatra review
Bottom line
Chatra is a website live chat tool that also pulls email, Instagram, and Facebook messages into one inbox. Its clearest strength is a free plan for one agent that never expires, plus a store-friendly feature set with real-time visitor tracking and chatbots. The main cost to watch is per-agent pricing on paid plans, and the real-time visitor list is capped at paid agent seats multiplied by ten. Small teams and online stores that want to start free and grow seat by seat should consider it first.
What is Chatra?
Chatra is a live chat and messaging tool that lets businesses talk with visitors on their websites while those visitors are still browsing. It also brings email and social messages into the same inbox, so support and sales teams don't have to switch between browser tabs. The product targets the gap between a visitor arriving with a question and a reply that arrives too late to matter. Chatra is now a Brevo company, and the homepage describes the two products as joining forces.
Day to day, agents work from a browser dashboard, with iOS and Android apps for replying away from the desk. Visitors see a chat widget on the site, and agents can open conversations in real time or use a messenger mode to reply at their own pace. A real-time list shows who is on the site, along with browsing history and location, so agents can greet visitors with a relevant message. Chatbots answer frequently asked questions with quick options, collect visitor contact details with consent, and route conversations to people. Agents can also use saved replies, chat notes, agent groups, operating hours, and chat transfers.
Chatra is built for freelancers, small businesses, mid-size companies, and enterprises, and the homepage highlights online stores in particular. The Free plan covers one agent and is free forever. The Essential and Pro plans are priced per agent per month, with monthly and yearly billing options. Essential is listed at $31 per agent per month billed monthly or $25 billed yearly, and Pro at $41 monthly or $33 yearly. Essential includes a 10-day free trial that requires no credit card.
What sets Chatra apart is the combination of live chat with visitor intelligence and channel coverage in one product. Many chat tools cover only the website widget. Chatra also connects Instagram, Facebook Messenger, and email, and it offers a JavaScript API, a REST API, and outgoing webhooks for developers. Its integrations with WordPress, Shopify, WooCommerce, Ecwid, BigCommerce, Slack, Help Scout, and Zapier cover common store and support setups.
Who it's for
- Solo operators starting with live chat
- Small online stores
- Support teams handling email and social messages
Who should look elsewhere
- Large teams that want unlimited agent seats at a flat price
- Businesses that need live chat without a per-seat model
Typical uses
- Answering pre-purchase questions on an online store
- Greeting visitors on a site based on their browsing history
- Routing chats between agents in different groups
- Replying to Instagram and Facebook messages from the same inbox as website chat
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