Chatra — Live Chat & Chatbot

Thank you for sharing your feedback. We’re genuinely sorry to hear that Chatra did not fully meet your expectations.

We’ve already discussed this with you directly, and we appreciate the opportunity to clarify it publicly for anyone considering Chatra. Chatra does not generate website traffic on its own, it simply interacts with visitors who are already arriving on your website. Bots, crawlers, and automated traffic reach a site independently of Chatra, just as they would with contact forms, analytics tools, or page views.

Chatra includes a simple and fully reversible ban option, which many of our users successfully use to manage unwanted conversations. In addition, we automatically filter out obvious bot activity whenever clear bot signals are detected. However, many modern bots, including AI crawlers and advanced scripts, are specifically designed to closely mimic real human behavior. From a chat widget’s perspective, such traffic is indistinguishable from real visitors.

Because of this, aggressively blocking at the chat level would inevitably risk blocking real users as well. For that reason, managing bot traffic is handled at the website or infrastructure level using tools such as firewalls, bot protection, rate limiting, or CDN services (for example, Cloudflare, Akamai, or AWS WAF). This is the standard approach across the industry and applies to all chat solutions, not just Chatra.

That said, we truly appreciate you taking the time to share your experience. Your feedback has been shared with our entire team and will be carefully reviewed as we continue to evaluate and improve Chatra in future updates.

We wish you all the best moving forward.

Thank you for your feedback and sorry to hear that you did not have a good experience with Chatra!

Chatra was never advertised as fully free solution. We do offer a free plan, which includes core features for communication and is designed for small businesses that are just getting started, and we also have a free trial period that allows you to test all features of the Pro plan.

The information about our paid plans is available on the app page and also on our website. We follow the per-agent-seat model which is common for other messenger tools on the market. Our system also allows paying for less agents than you have registered in your account. For example, if you have 3 users in total but only 2 of them are chatting with customers, you can pay for 2 agents instead of all 3.

Chatra is intentionally lightweight and simple to use. At the same time, we provide a wide range of customization options, from simple settings in the dashboard to APIs that allow more advanced users to build their own integrations, behaviour logic and widget style.

We also maintain a comprehensive help center with step-by-step guides, screenshots, and detailed explanations, which can be found in the Help section on our website. While Chatra is designed as a self-service product, our support team is available via chat on our website or by email on workdays.

Regarding your comment about contacting us: we did receive your message, but it came in outside of our working hours. We have a small team based in Europe working in the CET timezone, mainly from 9am till 22pm CET. We responded the next day as soon as we were back online, apologized for the delay, and continued the conversation with you during our support hours. We do actively use Chatra ourselves and communicate with customers through it every day.

We’re sorry to hear that Chatra didn’t meet your expectations. If you ever decide to give it another try or explore it in more depth, we’ll be happy to assist.