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President & Primary Consultant at Techception Inc
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Their services require a business model change, but their support works well with smaller consulting firms
Pros and Cons
  • "Mobility features and remote extensions work well."
  • "The support team can appear to be condescending."

What is our primary use case?

  • It caters to small offices, real estate, dentists, and SMB in general. It has many enterprise feature sets.
  • Its ability to interconnect offices unknowingly for customers was a big win for small offices with different days of operations.

What is most valuable?

  • The entire product
  • Ease of use
  • Ability to get the product running quickly.
  • Mobility features and remote extensions work well.

What needs improvement?

No issues with the solution, except its services require a business model change. 

The same small consultants they evolved/grew with are no longer a priority. It's now a sales game, and they are strong-arming the small guys to grow and sell their product. If you don't, then you're left in the cold. This is bad thing for them and my customers prefer the total service that I provide to them. Eventually, my customers will move away from 3CX and move to another trusted adviser who provides more than just a phone system administration.

For how long have I used the solution?

More than five years.
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How are customer service and support?

3CX works well with smaller consulting firms. The support team and its technical ability in Cyprus are awesome. However, they can appear to be condescending, but it may just be a cultural difference.

What other advice do I have?

I had a relationship as a partner. However, since sales aren't at the level they define, we are about to lose our status and the ability to support our current user base.

Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Partner.
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Owner at a tech services company
Consultant
Cloud Management is the most valuable feature.

What is most valuable?

Cloud Management is the most valuable feature.

How has it helped my organization?

We use the range of unattended answering options because we are always in and out of the office working with our clients on their IT projects. This unit is perfect for small-medium sized businesses looking for a solid and reliable cloud-based telephony system.

What needs improvement?

It would be really good to have an expanded range of VoIP handset hardware to include more Cisco phones. We would like the ability to be "STUN provisioned".

For how long have I used the solution?

We have used this solution for 24 months.

What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

We've had no issues with deployment.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

We've had no issues with stability.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

We've had no issues with scalability.

How are customer service and technical support?

Customer Service:

I would give customer service a rating of 8/10.

Technical Support:

I would give technical support a rating of 8/10.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

This is our first foray into VoIP telephony.

How was the initial setup?

The setup was very straightforward.

What about the implementation team?

We implemented in-house and now we have a certified consultant to manage the projects.

What was our ROI?

This is hard to quantify.

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Owner at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Consultant
With a super easy web interface, I can easily up-skill IT engineers to provide support to our 3CX customers.

Valuable Features:

It is a highly flexible and easy to use platform which offers many benefits to our customers. We also use it for our own internal communications as we have found it to be superior to all other phone system platforms we have tried. Without a doubt 3CX is our phone system of choice.

Improvements to My Organization:

With 3CX running on Windows and having a super easy web interface I can easily up-skill IT engineers to provide support to our 3CX customers. It's so well documented and offer regular training opportunities which enables us to keep pace with the latest developments.

Room for Improvement:

Bluetooth audio support for 3CX IOS app is needed.

Update!! This is working now! 

Deployment Issues:

There were no issues with the deployment.

Stability Issues:

There have been no stability issues.

Scalability Issues:

There have been no issues with scaling it.

Initial Setup:

If you follow the deployment guides all will work well.

Other Advice:

If your business does not have an internal IT department, find a trustworthy 3CX partner to assist with your installation.

Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: We're a reseller.
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President at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Consultant
The use of a session border controller which can be deployed cheaply on a Raspberry Pi makes port handling easier.

Valuable Features:

Ease of deployment, and the SBC alleviates many of the headaches of remote phones

Improvements to My Organization:

Simplified deployment of hosted voice. The use of a session border controller which can be deployed cheaply on a Raspberry Pi makes port handling easier and more stable.

Room for Improvement:

There are a handful of simple features – BLF to handle parking orbits / etc. Handling of custom SIP headers. The issue with custom SIP headers caused a problem with Twilio and receiving caller ID, but 3CX doesn’t list them as a supported vendor so my bad.

Deployment Issues:

We've had no issues with deployment.

Stability Issues:

We've had no issues with stability.

Scalability Issues:

We've had no issues with scalability.

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Owner at a tech services company
Consultant
It has allowed us to create a natural flow of incoming telephone calls, without the need of having a full time receptionist.

Valuable Features:

I can safely say that their is nothing that beats the ease of deployment, functionality and stability of 3CX. Version 14 has especially leveled the playing fields for us and know allows us to play in the cloud space as well. Top Product!

Improvements to My Organization:

It has allowed us to create a natural flow of incoming telephone calls, without the need of having a full time receptionist. This has saved the company a lot of money in the long term. Also, we can make sure that all inbound calls are always answered by someone, even if there is no one in the office since we have set it up to forward calls to our mobiles so customers will always be able to talk to someone.

Room for Improvement:

The call logs/reporting functions need some improvement and are still very basic. However, they will do fine for most smaller companies that don’t need in depth management reports for a small PBX system. On a much larger scale, more reporting options are required.

Other Advice:

Make sure if you do decide to implement this product, that you use a company that is well versed in this product and that can give you the best possible solution and setup from the product, so that you can maximize the full potential of the product as well as maximising the full potential of the users of the product.

Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Re-seller of this product and also we use it in our own company.
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it_user3264 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Administrator at a media company with 51-200 employees
Vendor
It's a great product to work with.

Valuable Features:

It's a great product to work with. I have been using it in my environment, and if you use it, you have to say that VoIP can't get any simpler then this. It's for the layman use and it also comes with a free version(though this version has a few restriction). Also unlike other types of VoIP software, 3CX connects to public telephone network through independent or hosted SIP gateways.

Room for Improvement:

It is not supported by Linux versions. One using this software has to stick to Windows, Which can be a bit of a thing of concern for a some Administrators. For Linux, one has to switch back to other products. This product is also not open source, which is not much appreciated by the guys like me, who love experimenting with the codes of any product they receive.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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3CX has call conferencing in the PBX. @WissamAyadi - you are talking about the free 3CX softphone client and thats something different from the PBX being discussed above.

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IT Supervisor at a hospitality company with 201-500 employees
Vendor
Enables calling everywhere with the IP public install, but getting support is difficult in Indonesia

What is most valuable?

The use of the IP. We just bought a server and the software 3CX. The application can also be used on a hand phone to call the other.

How has it helped my organization?

We can call everywhere with the IP public install on the application.

For how long have I used the solution?

One year.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Yes, we have had many problems with this product, but step-by-step, they fix them, because this is a new product.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

No.

How are customer service and technical support?

The technical support is difficult in Bali. I have just one technical support representative in Indonesia.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

This is new. If I had known before, maybe I would have used Panasonic, etc.

How was the initial setup?

Easy, because a contractor set it up.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Not applicable.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

No.

What other advice do I have?

Support is difficult.

If the product is already widely used, I would certainly recommend this, because all devices must have IP. If we are still using the old analog system, it does not look good.

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Issa Ibrahim Taiwo - PeerSpot reviewer
Issa Ibrahim TaiwoAvaya Support Engineer at Simba Group
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Pls contact me for support and i will help you out on it. state the possible and occurrence difficulties you have on it. raliatoni@gmail.com, grahamsoni@yahoo.com, +2348027034167

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