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Slack or SoloBase? It depends on who you talk to all day.
Slack is a chat app for the people inside a company, billed for each of them. SoloBase is a Studio under your own name: a Community Hub for your crew and your members, a private Client Hub for each client, and support from your own app. Here is how to tell which one you need.
Which one are you?
Most people land here at one of three stages.
Your clients are in your workspace
You invited clients into a company chat app as guests, one channel each. It works, but it is your company’s space, not theirs, and every new client is another person to add.
Your community outgrew a group chat
Members want announcements, a place to ask, and answers they can find later. You want it on your own name, and to charge for it when you are ready.
Your company already runs on it
Dozens of colleagues coordinate there all day, with your tools wired in. You are not looking to move, and you should not.
What SoloBase does
Your crew, your clients and your community, under your own name.
Built for one person who is accountable, a small crew beside them, and the clients and members they serve.
A Community Hub with channels you own
Announcements, questions answered once for everyone, pins and decisions, search, and direct messages between your team, on your own domain.
A private Client Hub for each client
The brief, the notes, the files and the proposal they sign, in one place only you and that client can open. Your clients join free.
Support from your own site or app
One line puts a Help button on any site. Each customer gets their own conversation, and your team answers from one inbox.
Money into your own Stripe, at 0%
A paid Community Hub, paid channels, proposals and invoices are paid straight to your own Stripe account. SoloBase never holds the money.
Honestly
When Slack fits you better.
This is about the shape of your work, not about which tool is better.
Many colleagues coordinate all day
A company where people work with each other in channels from morning to night is the shape a workplace chat app is built for.
Your tools all report into chat
If your week depends on a long list of connected apps and bots posting into channels, keep the tool built around them.
Your partners share your chat app
When the companies you work with are on the same workplace chat app, a channel you share across them is one step away.
Slack or SoloBase, answered.
Can I keep Slack for my team?
Yes. Some people keep a company chat app for colleagues and use their Studio for what clients and members see: the Client Hub, the Community Hub and support under their own name.
Do my clients need an account and a seat?
Your clients sign in with an email code or Google, free. There is no seat to buy for them; your plan sets how many people your Studio holds.
Does SoloBase take a cut of what my clients pay?
No. 0% on every plan. Money goes straight to your own Stripe account; Stripe’s standard processing fees apply.
What is live today?
Live: the card and Studio Site, the Content Hub, Client Hubs, proposals with e-signature and a deposit, numbered invoices, Community Hubs with channels and support, payments to your own Stripe, calls for up to 25 people, and booking at your open times.
Are you affiliated with Slack?
No. Product names are trademarks of their owners.
Start with your own name on the door. Decide the rest later.
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