There really is not alternative to… There really is not alternative to Drift. If you want to work with playbooks to create chatbots, Drift is the only way to go. A couple of observations: - In order to really utilize their "playbook" option, you need to pay for a plan. The free one simply won't suffice (the functionality isn't even extended to free users). If you're just looking for a free chat widget, then there are better options. - There is a huge learning curve. I think the UI for the admins could use some work.

I love Drift I love Drift! It is an intuitive and easy to use platform that helps to ensure only the most qualified prospects get to chat with our sales team. We have seen tremendous success created qualified leads and revenue for our organization!

Excellent addition to the sales org I genuinely like Drift and the functionality it brings to my team. We are fairly new in taking on the project and are just starting to really see positive results. We get a large amount of traffic on our website and the chat feature is a must have to be competitive. We have seen millions in pipeline that we can attribute as coming from Drift. We are going to start utilizing the live view function soon to proactively chat with site visitors and help enhance their experience on our website.

it's a bit too soon to give an opinion… it's a bit too soon to give an opinion as we've only been working with Drift a short time! The service reps have been very helpful. Would like to see weekly meetings/updates with Drift reps. I do find we too many on site visitors with generic yahoo, gmail, etc emails and not business related inquiries. Not much inquires during EST hours at all.

They're plugin is great but I noticed a… They're plugin is great but I noticed a slow down in page loading times. My setup was Genesis framework with Gutenberg, I wanted a clean setup with no bloat, prior utilizing Drift my page loaded in under 2 seconds. This went on to 8 seconds with the plugin set up in the back end. Since then I've switched to Astra, will give it a try again with this theme and then try on Genesis again. Overall, its a great service, the options and look of it looks great on my page. Will recommend Drift to others, they're bound to have better performance than I (switching to cloud and CDN should help I suppose)