Office Hours #5 · Open Mic Q&A31 lines open.

Sam does not know of it being on the agenda. However, you can implement this yourself by disabling the default auth methods and building a custom auth flow using a phone verification service provider. Sam recommended checking feedback.base44.com to see if it has already been requested, and if not, creating a post and getting it upvoted.

No. Base44 builds web apps that require internet connectivity. The app store porting process is a wrapper around the web app, not a native conversion. Making it offline-compatible would require manually converting every component and the entire SDK to work locally. This is not likely to be on the horizon given that Base44 produces web apps by default.

Base44 is ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type 2, and GDPR compliant. You can check the security certifications in your billing section on the dashboard. For more detail, check the docs section on data storage and security. A full security session is scheduled for Thursday.

Buy your domain, then instead of typing the root domain into the connect field, just type the subdomain. It works exactly the same way. You may just need to update the CNAME record with your domain provider.

Sam is not sure this exists currently. The use case makes sense for apps that are finished and just need to run in production. Sam recommended posting it on feedback.base44.com and getting upvotes to gauge demand, as billing plan changes require the product team to assess user interest.

Yes, you will have issues. The data you and your users upload is your storage and your responsibility. If copyrighted content is uploaded, you are liable. Base44 does not prevent this.

Yes, whatever you want to do with Discord is viable. Sam has already built a full Discord bot hooked up to a Super Agent on Base44. The process: Google "Discord bot" to access the developer API, set up a bot in your server through Discord's side, then connect it to a Super Agent and do whatever you want. You can also implement Discord SSO login for Elite plan users — Google "Discord SSO" for documentation.

No. Integration credits cannot even be couponed. They are only available through paid plans.

Sam does not have the details to hand. John has answered this before in the Discord. Sam recommended searching "HIPAA" in the chitchat channel search to find previous official responses.

There is no QuickBooks connector currently and Sam does not know if one is planned. QuickBooks integration is notoriously difficult. However, it is possible to integrate manually. Tom (moderator) confirmed in chat that he has successfully integrated QuickBooks and can help with questions.

Sam shared his approach from his own production app (a trading card scanner with AI analysis). He mapped out the total integration credit cost per user workflow, then calculated pricing at a 70-80% profit margin, arriving at a $3/month subscription. You can tie function calls to a visible or invisible currency system to gate usage without users knowing. Another approach: build a Super Agent that uses your app as a test user, runs all workflows, then generates a report of credit consumption. Multiply by expected user count to calculate costs. For integration usage breakdowns, support can pull detailed reports via a support ticket.

Sam believes so — Base44 has WhatsApp integrations and connectors. However, he was unsure whether per-user WhatsApp delivery (where users provide their phone number and receive personalised messages) is currently supported natively. It may require an external service. Sam took the user's name to follow up with a confirmed answer.

Not currently possible within the builder's parameters. The current workaround is Git sync. In the future, when Super Agents gain builder access, you could build an agent working from a templated set of instructions that pushes updates to all client apps via API keys simultaneously. This is one of the most requested Super Agents features.

Sam was hesitant to answer because a major workspaces overhaul is coming that will change how this works. On the current infrastructure it may be possible, but Sam recommended waiting for the new workspace system to avoid reworking everything.

Currently the feedback app (feedback.base44.com) has a roadmap section but it is not always kept up to date. Sam is pushing internally for a more visible, regularly updated roadmap or pending changelog. This is on the radar but not yet implemented.

Yes. Base44 apps come with some out-of-the-box SEO, but you need to initiate it yourself. Prompt your chat: "We've built the app, I've got a custom domain on it, please build in some SEO so everything is discoverable." Charles (moderator) also shared an SEO prompt optimizer in the chat. Check the Discord for additional SEO resources.

For managing credits when running low: switch to cheaper models like Gemini. For maximising value: cram as much as possible into single prompts when your app is small (credit cost caps at roughly 5.8-6 per prompt). When your app is complex, prompt cleaner with fewer requests per prompt. For credit transparency: Sam agreed that a per-app breakdown of integration and prompt credit spend should be visible from the dashboard. He recommended posting this on feedback.base44.com. Currently, support can pull integration usage breakdowns via a ticket.

Two main solutions. First: use screenshots with arrows drawn on them (using Paint or any tool). Point at exactly what you want changed. Combine the annotated screenshot with a simple prompt. This is dramatically more effective than text-only prompts. Second: use AI Controls. In the bottom left of your chat window, click the cog icon next to "discuss." There is a feature to freeze files entirely — you can lock specific pages so the AI can never touch them again. This is a hard override.

This is very specific and difficult to solve without seeing it. Sam recommended posting a screenshot or Loom video in the Discord chitchat channel or the get-help channel. In chitchat, someone will either give you a prompt that works, offer to jump on as an admin and help for free, or a partner will offer to take a look.

Yes but it is not native and it is tricky. A user wrote a guide on push notifications that exists somewhere in the Discord. Will (moderator) has also had recent success with it. Sam has push notifications on his own app on both app stores, but implemented at the Flutter wrapper level, not at Base44 level. It is possible within Base44's parameters but not easy.

Yes. If you click Publish in the top right and go to the second tab, you can publish to both the Play Store and iOS App Store from there.

For most emails, you can customise them. Go to Dashboard → Domains → under your custom domains there will be an "Email Domain" section. Click "Use your custom domain" and connect it to your domain provider. Then design your emails as HTML: prompt something like "I want to create a nice HTML email that reps our branding using our custom email domain integration." Note: some transactional emails like password resets may still show Base44 branding and cannot currently be changed.

Yes, from a data perspective. You can build several apps that handle individual tasks and funnel all data into one central management app. The key requirement: give each app the other's API key (found in Dashboard → API → line 6). They can then freely read and write each other's entity data. For sharing functionality (not just data) between apps, Super Agents may enable this in the future once they gain builder access.

Not currently possible natively. Two workarounds: (1) Build the feature in an app, expose it as an API, then call that API from other apps. (2) In the future, when Super Agents can build, you could teach an agent how to build a specific feature and have it deploy it across apps from a template.

Your app remains usable but all functions requiring integration credits stop working. There is no way to buy just integration credits separately, no preloading system, and no post-usage billing. The solution is to have a plan with more credits than you need. Sam does not believe there is an ad-hoc top-up system. Workspaces are about to change so the specifics may shift. For detailed billing questions, open a support ticket.