Guides
Practical answers before you buy.
Each guide answers one question a business owner asks before choosing an AI receptionist, a chatbot, a website or an automation. Sourced, dated and written to be useful whether or not you work with us.
AI chatbots: website and WhatsApp
AI chatbots- Guide
What a WhatsApp chatbot costs to run in South Africa
Meta’s per-message fees, the October 2026 change to service messages, and every other cost line, from primary sources.Read the guide - Guide
Website chatbot or WhatsApp chatbot: which first?
How the two differ in who starts the conversation, what they cost, the rules they follow and when to move a customer from one to the other.Read the guide
How these guides are written.
- Facts about prices and platform rules come from primary sources, linked at the end of each guide with the date they were checked.
- Other companies’ prices are shown as they published them, as context. They are never presented as our prices or as a ranking.
- Scripted examples are labelled as scripted. We do not publish results we have not measured.
- When a fact changes, the guide is updated and its “facts checked” date moves with it.
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