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
Live demo
Feature highlights
- ✅ Two-way SMS & WhatsApp via Twilio
- ✅ Click-to-call in-browser dialer
- ✅ Queued email + open tracking
- ✅ Bulk send to selected contacts (Email / SMS / WhatsApp) with mail-merge tokens
- ✅ Reusable bulk-send templates — save and one-click reload past compositions
- ✅ Two-factor authentication (TOTP + recovery codes)
- ✅ One-click workspace export (ZIP of every CSV)
- ✅ AI contact enrichment (Claude Opus 4.7)
- ✅ AI spell-check & translation (9 languages)
- ✅ AI tag suggestions
- ✅ Multi-user team workspaces with invitations
- ✅ Real-time inbound notifications (Reverb)
- ✅ Audit log with field-level diffs
- ✅ Sanctum-protected JSON API
- ✅ CSV import with auto-column mapping
- ✅ Duplicate detection & merge
- ✅ Reminders with list + calendar views
- ✅ Custom fields, tags, groups
- ✅ Command palette (⌘K)
- ✅ Dark mode + live-applied primary color
- ✅ Premium 5-step web installer (gradient hero, animated stepper, card-style driver picker)
- ✅ 100 Pest feature tests passing (282 assertions)
- ✅ Premium landing page + modernized auth
- ✅ Comprehensive HTML documentation included
Change Log
## v2.0 — 2026-05-19
- Bulk sends* — Email, SMS, and WhatsApp campaigns to selected contacts with mail-merge tokens, throttled job queue, and live progress tracking
- Bulk-send templates** — save any composition and reload it with one click
- Two-factor authentication** —
- Workspace data export** — one-click ZIP of every contact, message, email, reminder, group, and tag as CSV
- Premium web installer** — Redesigned 5-step wizard with gradient hero, animated stepper, card-style driver picker, optional demo-data seeding
- Demo data on install** — 12 sample contacts, groups, tags, and reminders so buyers can click around immediately
- AI tag suggestions from contact context
- Reminders calendar grid view
- Custom fields per contact (key/value)
- CSV template download
- Onboarding checklist on dashboard
- Mail / Branding / AI settings sections
- Public registration toggle
- Twilio send failures now show a human-readable error inline instead of crashing as a 500
- Echo/Reverb init now gated so dropdowns and command palette work without broadcasting configured
- Primary color now applies in dark mode
- Logout button now actually logs out
## v1.0 — Breaking change release
- Built on Laravel 13 + Tailwind + Alpine
- Multi-user team workspaces
- Two-way SMS, WhatsApp, calls, email
- AI contact enrichment, spell-check, translation
- Reminders, audit log, Sanctum API, command palette
- 72 Pest feature tests
## [ 2020.3.1] - 01 Dec 2020
- Add Browser to Phone Call Module
- Add SMS Notification Module
- Add Email Notification Module
- Improve UI
- Improve Documentation
## [2020.3] - 07 July 2020
- Minor bug fix
- Upgrade to laravel 7
- User Management with Roles Feature
- Add Localization features
- Add Global System Configuration Section Feature
- Improve Documentation
## [2017.2] - 18 December 2017
- Minor bug fix
- Add Tags features
- Add Custom Fields features
- Add Export / Import Contacts features
## [2017.1] - 20 April 2017
- Fix styling issues
