The best Collect.chat alternative
Want a free trial, many interactions and features to create a smart chatbot at an affordable price? Joonbot is the best Collect.chat alternative.
There are many reasons to choose Joonbot over Collect.chat. You’ll find here the main reasons why Joonbot is an excellent Collect.chat alternative.
Why Joonbot is the best Collect.chat alternative?
TLDR
1. 14-day free trial
With Joonbot you can try all premium features for free during 14 days. You don’t need to pay to test a feature.
2. Same number of interactions at a lower price
You have access to 5,000 interactions from $34/month with Joonbot. You pay 3 times less with Joonbot to have 5,000 interactions compared to Collect.chat.
3. All must-have features at a more affordable price
At only $34/month, you get all must-have features with Joonbot, whereas Collect.chat offers at $49/month half of what we propose.
4. Intuitive flow chart builder
Joonbot’s interface is straightforward and its flow chart builder is visual and intuitive whereas Collect.chat’s interface is monotonous and doesn’t have a flow chart builder.
5. More advanced integrations
Joonbot has many coming soon integrations in the Plus plan as Integromat or Airtable. Collect.chat doesn’t suggest them at all.
6. Scoring & calculation
You can create interactive quizzes, tests, surveys, and pre-qualification forms and automatically score users with Joonbot only.
Reason 1 - 14-day free trial
You have all the time you need to try Joonbot premium features for free. You don’t need to pay to test a feature. Also, you don’t need to add a credit card to start your free trial.
Reason 2 - Same number of interactions at a lower price
With Joonbot, you can enjoy 5,000 interactions per month with the Essential plan at $34 per month.
Collect.chat’s first plan allows only 500 interactions per month. To have 5,000 interactions with Collect.chat, you have to pay the $99-plan.
So, Joonbot is a Collect.chat alternative almost 3 times less expensive.
Reason 3 - All must-have features at a more affordable price
Collect.chat offers only some must-have features at a higher price.
Zapier and email notifications are the must-have features Joonbot and Collect.chat have in common but at a different price. Joonbot is clearly cheaper.
Same features, different prices
| JOONBOT Paid plans | COLLECT.CHAT Paid plans | |
|---|---|---|
| Free trial | 14 days | ✘ |
| 5,000 interactions | Available at $34/month | Available at $99/month |
| Zapier integration | Available at $34/month | Available at $99/month |
| Email notifications | Available at $34/month | Available at $99/month |
With Joonbot’s Essential plan, you can have access to many features to create smart chatbots. You only need to pay $34 per month for that.
These features are only available with Joonbot.
There are:
- the ‘Calculation’ block which enables you to make calculations in your chatbot flow
- the ‘A/B test’ block that allows comparing two paths’ performance or randomizing messages
- the ‘JavaScript’ block that allows you to modify your webpage’s front and send events to Google or Facebook
- the ‘Goal’ block with which you can track conversions of your goals
Features that make your chatbot smarter
| JOONBOT | COLLECT.CHAT | |
|---|---|---|
| URL | ✔ | ✔ |
| Logic jump | ✔ | ✔ |
| Set variable | ✔ | ✘ |
| Calculation | ✔ | ✘ |
| A/B test | ✔ | ✘ |
| Javascript | ✔ | ✘ |
| Goal | ✔ | ✘ |
With Joonbot, you can also book meetings with Calendly integration.
But, you can use Google Calendar with Collect.chat if you don’t want to use Calendly.
Even though the first paid plan of Collect.chat is cheaper, the essential features are still missing. If you want to get some of them, you still have to pay more than Joonbot’s first paid plan that includes all the must-have features.
Reason 4 - Intuitive flow chart builder
When you build a chatbot with many logic jumps, having a visual flow builder makes the difference.
You can retrieve and understand your conversational flow instantaneously without effort. Blocks are linked to each other, so you know, at a glance, what the next step is. There is no need to go into a block to know the next step every time you need it, like with Collect.chat.
Look at the difference below.
With Joonbot:
With Collect.chat
Also, the Joonbot’s interface visuals catch the user’s eyes with colors that make it easier to differentiate the blocks.
On the contrary, Collect.chat’s interface is colorless and there are only tiny images to differentiate the blocks.
For example, Joonbot and Collect.chat both have a ‘Logic jump’ feature but you can visualize it better on Joonbot interface.
Joonbot:
Collect.chat:
Reason 5 - More advanced integrations
| JOONBOT | COLLECT.CHAT | |
|---|---|---|
| Calendly | ✔ | ✘ |
| Google Sheets | ✔ | ✔ |
| Webhooks in | ✔ | ✘ |
| Webhooks out | ✔ | ✔ |
| Unbounce tracking | ✔ | ✘ |
| Airtable integration | Coming soon! | ✘ |
| Google Analytics | Coming soon! | ✔ |
| Integromat integration | Coming soon! | ✘ |
| Integrately integration | ✔ | ✘ |
| Mailchimp | Coming soon! | ✔ |
| Slack integration | Coming soon! | ✘ |
| Stripe integration | Coming soon! | ✘ |
Reason 6 - Scoring & calculation
Creating a scoring variable and updating it during the conversation opens a lot of possibilities.
You can create interactive quizzes, tests, surveys, and games and automatically score users with our ‘Calculation’ blocks.
You can also create chatbots to pre-qualify leads or candidates for a job by applying a specific score to expected answers. This way, you can qualify leads as good or bad and evaluate if the applicants are the right candidates for a job.
Switching from Collect.chat to Joonbot is easier than you think
If you choose Joonbot as a Collect.chat alternative, it will take minutes to reproduce your chatbots with our visual builder. Our customers usually make less than 30 minutes to build a chatbot.
They love our intuitive chatbot builder
“Joonbot chatbot builder is so intuitive! I have been building all weekend. 😀 I really love it! I chose it because of the intuitive design / builder UI and the option to include images and gifs and logic :)”
BY ANTONIA BOLLA
FOUNDER AT JAMIE & I
“Joonbot is quite unique in its category and the UX/UI of its workflow builder is so intuitive. Anyone should at least try it out to understand how powerful it is.”
BY QUENTIN VILLARD
HEAD OF GROWTH AT FLITDESK
“The best app is the one you’ll actually be able to use. Relative ease of use for a complex task. There is no comparison between Joonbot and ManyChat. ManyChat has HOURS of tutorials.”
BY CHRIS GALLATIN
REAL ESTATE AGENT AT KELLER WILLIAMS
“Amazing product! I love the interface for building chatbots, easiest I have seen by far! Planning to create many more, very much looking forward to what Joonbot adds in the future!”
BY BEN GIL
CBD AT PROJEK.AI
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