Bird vs. Stream Chat

MessageBird seems to me a very useful tool for the times we are living [in] and the paradigm shift in corporate communications in all industries. It is very good at exchanging information and plain text. It works with some difficulty for sending images and other functionalities that the real WhatsApp application has, but the client on the other side does not know about this and sometimes sends information such as location that it is not possible to obtain.

Incentivized

Based on my experience, here are some scenarios where Stream Chat is well suited: 1. If you want to build a real-time chat system then it is a very important use case. 2. Also good if you want to integrate it into gaming applications. However, there are also scenarios where Stream Chat may be less appropriate. For example: 1. stream chat use cases are mostly for real-time messaging use cases only but if you are someone who don't have such use case than you can skip stream chat

Incentivized

• Call reminders and follow up incl reviews
• Easy for the client to access the call without needing to download software
• Customizable branding

Incentivized

• Well, if there's a need for real-time messaging need then stream chat is there for the help.
• Multi-platform support of Stream chat is really good. It supports a range of platforms like web, desktop, mobile.
• Also it is very easy for developer to customise there need with the help of its documentation which make it very easy to implement.

• SMS authentication is pricey (like other players)
• Lack dedicated SMS phone numbers for Brazil

Incentivized

• Better documentation on more subtle use-case scenarios

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Regarding WhatsApp Business, it is a very useful tool because templates can be programmed for the entire organization and clients can also be referred to other users in order to decongest an agent who can become quite busy. Otherwise there would be no way to serve you through two agents and you could have a bad end user or customer experience.

Incentivized

Why we prefer stream chat over Twilio was as follows: 1. User interface customization: Stream Chat provides wide range of user interface customization feature than Twilio. 2. Moderation tools: Stream chat provides a lot of moderation tools to manage chat and content being generate real time on the app. 3. Collaboration features: collaboration feature of stream chat is really good. Very simple collaboration features are provided by Stream Chat

Incentivized

• Easy video calling for scheduled appointments has meant customer retention as they don't need specific software etc to have a call.
• Negative impact whilst our internet has been slow as I've been unable to use the product well as dial in to the call using a phone option.
• Emails reminders has meant more clients turning up for the calls leading to retained income and happier customers.

Incentivized

• stream chat saved a lot of our cost which we may have invested in building our own messaging system
• stream chat saved a lot of our time which we may have invested in building our own messaging system
• overall the ROI for us with stream chat was higher