If you only ever run restaurants and want the narrowest possible tool, Slang.ai is a reasonable choice. Receptly is the better fit if you want reservations and orders plus messaging, staff management, and automation — or if you operate more than one kind of venue.
Receptly vs Slang.ai
Slang.ai is a restaurant specialist and owns that vertical for good reason. Receptly covers reservations, orders, and menu questions too — and puts them next to your messaging, staff, and workflows.
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One of these is the right answer
Stay with Slang.ai
You are a restaurant group that wants a single-purpose specialist, and per-location pricing lines up with how you buy.
Switch to Receptly
You want reservations and orders handled alongside SMS, WhatsApp, and email, with staff, locations, and automation in the same account.
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Head to head
Receptly and Slang.ai, side by side
Pricing model
Flat monthly plan; Teams at $150 per seat for multiple locations
Per-location pricing — published figures vary by source
Restaurant specialism
Reservations, waitlist, orders, menu, and inventory
Purpose-built for restaurants only
Reservations and orders
Both, plus availability slots, waitlist, and inventory levels
Both, as the core product
Channels in one thread
Calls, SMS, WhatsApp, Telegram, and email against one customer record
Phone-focused
Automation
Workflows on reservation and order events, with an activity log
Limited
Beyond one vertical
Restaurants plus every other business type you might open
Restaurants only
Hear it answer a call like yours
We'll set up a working agent on a test number with your services and hours, so you can judge the voice and the booking before anything moves.
Product screenshot: one customer thread across call, SMS, WhatsApp, Telegram and email
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One thread
Every channel, against the same customer
Someone who calls you on Tuesday and messages you on WhatsApp on Thursday is one person with one history. Receptly keeps the call, the text, the WhatsApp, the Telegram, and the email in a single thread instead of five.
- Calls, SMS, WhatsApp, Telegram, and email in one inbox
- Notes and history stay attached to the customer record
- Nothing answered twice, nothing dropped between tools
Product screenshot: the calendar with an appointment the agent just booked
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The booking
It books into the calendar you already run
The agent reads your real availability, offers only slots that are genuinely free, writes the appointment, and sends the confirmation — while the caller is still on the line.
- Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook
- Buffer times, rescheduling, and waitlists
- Confirmations and reminders sent automatically
Product screenshot: a workflow with triggers, conditions and an activity log
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After the call
The follow-up fires without anyone remembering
Trigger on the events that actually matter — call completed, appointment booked, cancelled, or no-show — with delays and conditions between steps, and a log of exactly what ran.
- Email, SMS, Telegram, and voice steps in one flow
- Conditions and delays between steps
- An activity log showing what ran and what was skipped
Why people move
The three things that come up every time
01
Reservations and the follow-up
The booking is the easy part. Receptly also confirms it, reminds the guest, and handles the cancellation when plans change — automatically.
02
One system for a group, not per location
Teams pricing covers multiple locations with staff and per-location configuration in one account.
03
The messaging your guests actually use
WhatsApp and SMS questions land in the same thread as the booking, so your host isn't reconciling three screens at the door.
Switching
Your number doesn’t change
You can hear Receptly answer real calls before anything moves. Nothing is cancelled on Slang.ai’s side until you say so.
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Build the agent
Guided onboarding: your business type, services, hours, and voice. No code and no integration project.
- 02
Test on a separate number
Call it yourself with real scenarios — the after-hours booking, the price question, the reschedule — and adjust until it sounds right.
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Port when you’re ready
Number porting typically takes a few business days. Run Receptly alongside your current setup while it completes so nothing is missed.
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Turn on what comes after the call
Confirmations, reminders, and follow-up workflows switch on once calls are flowing — that’s where most of the recovered time is.
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