Best way to add chat to a members only app?

Has anyone built out an internal members chat in Softr? – Where members can chat 1 on 1 with eachother? I thought Crisp might be the way to go … but got lost. Any thoughts?

You could build that using Softr and your db backend alone, there’s even a walkthrough in Softr docs. No need for third party systems for a basic chat.

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Hi Bartosz- Thank you so much !! Unfortunately things have changed in Softr and I cannot get any of the forms to reflect the options in this Peer to Peer Chat shown in the doc. I know this is not that complex but I am not a programmer… any other advice you can give / or direction is greatly appreciated. This is the last part to get my app usable… so hoping there is a solution. Best- Linda

Hi Linda, I think this is still possible. In the article, it shows to start with an inbox block. From there, you can use that to bring you to a detail page which is where the conversation between two people happens, using our comment block. Not the best experience, and something we’re working to improve, but still possible with native softr elements at the moment.

Hi Linda, I’ll see what I can do :smiley: .
What type of backend are you using?

Hi Bartosz and JJ-
Thanks for reaching out you guys are terrific.

I am using airtable-
The tutorial tells me to use inbox and then the conditions.
However my condition options are different.

see attached. - these are different than the tutorial.
Not sure what I am doing wrong.
Thanks!!!
Linda