Futy versus Rocket.Chat

Futy is a Dutch provider that mostly targets the local market but has options for English or multilingual widgets. Their website is only available in Dutch, though.

With the Futy Dynamic Lead generation chatbots, your website visitors can be converted into Leads in a user-friendly manner, for example via email, WhatsApp, telephone, or video call. The excellent analytics integration will help you keep track.

You can choose from 15+ templates with different buttons and combine specific functionalities to display on pages of choice, however, it suits your needs. The widgets can contain links to multiple channels and contact forms like a call back request, planning a video call with Calendly, or requesting a quotation.

Rocket.Chat is a SaaS and genuine Free Open Source Software platform. They are developing an impressive range of communication and collaboration solutions for a wide variety of organizations, catering to industries like financial services, healthcare, and governments.

Rocket.chat, being Open Source, lets you review the code yourself or contribute to the project in their GitHub Repository. Unlike most providers, Rocket.Chat holds an MIT license, granting you full ownership and control over your code, data, privacy, and security. Detailed documentation for developers is available on the Rocket.Chat website, allowing you to build upon their framework and customize integrations.

One of their core products is Team Collaboration which you can set up as a privately hosted alternative to Slack. Of course, the use case for their software highlighted here is Customer Service and Engagement.

With Rocket.Chat you can manage live chat, email, SMS, and social media channels in a single security oriented hub. The options and features at hand are mostly limited by your imagination.

Setting up, self-hosting, and maintaining your own server is free. However, you will need technical prowess or hire developers to leverage most of the possibilities of their stack. Some Enterprise Edition features are only available with a subscription, which you can try out with a 30 day free trial.

A 30 day free trial is also available for their robust and scalable cloud hosted SaaS Enterprise solutions. If your organization requires more strict control, the entire infrastructure can be hosted on premise.