LaraContact – Contact Management & WhatsApp AI-assisted CRM v2.0

LaraContact is a production-ready CRM that turns a contact list into a real communication hub. Built with a modern UI, it ships with two-way SMS and WhatsApp via Twilio, an in-browser dialer for voice, a queued bulk-email composer with open tracking, and a Sanctum-powered REST API.

Powered by Anthropic Claude, AI features paste-extract contact details from email signatures, auto-suggest tags from a contact’s notes, fix spelling on messages, and translate replies into nine languages — and every AI feature has a fake-mode fallback so the app works without API keys for demos.

Teams get shared workspaces with role-based invitations, a full audit log, real-time inbound message notifications and a built-in installer for one-click deployment.


What’s Included ?

Contacts & Organization

• Rich contact records with custom fields, lifecycle stages, social handles
• Free-form tags and one-of-many groups with color coding
• Duplicate detection by email or phone with one-click merge
• CSV import with auto-column detection and bulk operations

Communication, unified

• Two-way SMS & WhatsApp via Twilio (with signature-validated inbound webhook)
• Click-to-call browser dialer
• Queued email composer with open-tracking pixel
• Bulk send to any selection of contacts — Email, SMS, or WhatsApp — with mail-merge tokens ({{first_name}}, {{company}}, …), rate-limited job queue, and a live progress page
• Reusable bulk-send templates — save the message you keep typing and click to reload it
• Every conversation, call, email, and bulk send lives on the contact’s timeline

Security & data ownership

• Two-factor authentication
• One-click workspace export — every contact, message, email, reminder, group, and tag as CSVs in a ZIP.
• Full audit log of contact changes with field-level diffs

AI assistance everywhere

• Paste an email signature → extract name, email, phone, company, job title, website, LinkedIn
• “Fix” button on the message composer rewrites spelling and grammar (preserves voice)
• “Translate” button for nine languages including Spanish, French, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic
• “Suggest from context” picks the best-fitting tags for a contact from your tag library
• All features include a fake-mode fallback so the app works without API keys

Reminders & follow-ups

• Schedule per-contact reminders with email + SMS notifications
• Switch between grouped list view (Overdue / Today / This week) and a monthly calendar grid
• Scheduled background command fires notifications every 5 minutes
• Click any day on the calendar to inline-schedule a new follow-up

Multi-user teams

• Workspace-scoped data isolation via team_id on every record
• Email-based team invitations with 7-day expiring tokens, accept flow, role badges
• Workspace switcher in the sidebar — a user can belong to multiple teams
• Public registration can be toggled off for invite-only deployments

Admin & visibility

• Workspace-wide audit log with diffs (who changed what, when)
• Per-user API token management with copy-once display
• Built-in installer wizard (5 steps) for one-click deployment

Premium UI

• ⌘K command palette for global search and quick navigation
• Live-applied primary color from settings (drives the whole app)
• Dark mode with system preference detection
• Logo upload, custom favicon, configurable email signature
• Premium landing page + modernized auth pages

Technical specs

• Backend: Laravel 13.9, PHP 8.3+
• Frontend: Tailwind CSS 3, Alpine.js 3, Vite 8
• Database: SQLite (dev), MySQL 8 / PostgreSQL 15 (production)
• Queue: Database (default) or Redis
• Realtime: Laravel Reverb (self-hosted WebSocket server)
• Integrations: Twilio SDK 8, Anthropic Claude API (Opus 4.7 / Sonnet 4.6 / Haiku 4.5), Resend / Mailgun / Postmark / SES / SMTP
• Tests: 72 Pest feature tests, 188 assertions, runs in under 3 seconds