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3CX Live Chat vs GoToConnect comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

3CX Live Chat
Ranking in Hosted and Cloud Based VoIP
5th
Average Rating
8.8
Number of Reviews
55
Ranking in other categories
Virtual Meetings (15th), IP PBX (1st), Unified Communications (2nd), Live Chat (3rd)
GoToConnect
Ranking in Hosted and Cloud Based VoIP
4th
Average Rating
10.0
Reviews Sentiment
8.0
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Hosted and Cloud Based VoIP category, the mindshare of 3CX Live Chat is 2.0%, up from 1.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of GoToConnect is 3.3%, down from 4.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Hosted and Cloud Based VoIP
 

Featured Reviews

Ahmed ACHOUR - PeerSpot reviewer
Enhanced service desk workflow which streamlines operations and offers strong integration capabilities
The customers use 3CX for IP telephony and call center activities. Additionally, they use 3CX for service desk activities, including integration with other ITSM products to collect data from customers who need technical support on their platforms 3CX has proven to be a good solution, particularly…
JL
Puts everyone in the company onto a common platform, making support very easy and provided quick gains
There are probably two things that get used the most: * We now eFax pretty much everything. I no longer have fax machines and have to deal with paper. We had a situation where one person, specifically, would come onto a floor for a fax machine. After restocking the fax machine with paper, so that it could finish all the faxes that they got over the weekend, They would then convert all those things into PDF documents. By going to eFax, they're getting them as emails and it's already a PDF document. This saves a step, a lot of time, and effort. We are also able to provide fax machines to individuals at their desktop by having eFax. In my case, I have my phone set up to be both a phone and a fax line, so it just shows up in my email. * We use the hot desk feature a lot. We have so many locations. I actually have an office in three different cities. So, when I go to another city, I just punch in my code and the entire phone becomes my phone. All my buttons are the same. My voicemail is there. It rings at that desk, just like it does at my main desk. I like this feature better than FindMe, where it forwards to my cell phone or something else. There are just a lot of little things that go on when you are forwarding calls to an outside system. GoToConnect’s Dial Plan Editor enables us to visually set up and organize call routing configurations quite easily. This works out well for us because each site has different requirements. No site has an attendance; they are all automated attendance. For some sites, it is strictly that the call comes in and goes to a hunt group. Other calls and other sites have everything mapped out, where it is press "one" to get to HR, press "two" to get to sales, press "three", etc. Once you get to that, then you can drill down through individuals or functions. So, it's very nice to be able to go in, look at these things, see how they are done, and provide flexibility to it as well as being able to adjust scheduling. We are all in the United States, so we all have the same holiday schedule, but some of the hours are different. Depending on the location, they may work weekends or not. They may work from 5:00 AM until 11:00 PM or 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM. So, we are able to uniquely configure all those things at each site. It has to be very flexible to do these things. It is easy to see. Like anything else, they walked us through how to create one of the more complex ones. After that, we were able to do our own and kind of manipulate it to do what we wanted from there. The Dial Plan Editor enables us to organize call routing configurations per site. We don't have the ability to see globally. However, from a single desktop, I can look at all our sites, one at a time, which is all I need.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Mobility features and remote extensions work well."
"It’s straightforward to set up."
"We have not had any bugs or glitches, the solution is stable."
"With the reporting feature you can get all the incoming and outgoing call details."
"This solution gives our customers mobility. They can use their phone system everywhere. The other key feature is the security."
"3CX is a reliable solution."
"The integration with SMS has been helpful. That's how a lot of customers prefer to communicate nowadays. It makes it convenient for the customer to reach us."
"The solution is stable."
"The automated system allows for control, including adding in MP3s for sound clips. This keeps businesses looking professional when customers call in."
"We now eFax pretty much everything. I no longer have fax machines and have to deal with paper. We had a situation where one person, specifically, would come onto a floor for a fax machine. After restocking the fax machine with paper, so that it could finish all the faxes that they got over the weekend, They would then convert all those things into PDF documents. By going to eFax, they're getting them as emails and it's already a PDF document. This saves a step, a lot of time, and effort. We are also able to provide fax machines to individuals at their desktop by having eFax. In my case, I have my phone set up to be both a phone and a fax line, so it just shows up in my email."
"It allows us to serve our clients from home exactly as though we were in the office."
 

Cons

"3CX Live Chat could improve by having better integration with other solutions because we had multiple calls in which information was not extracted correctly. We had to modify their names, and some other data needed to be sorted out for a better understanding of the calls."
"Reporting and integration are the main challenges, which are at the mid-level or in the enterprise depending on the system that we choose."
"The support team can appear to be condescending."
"3CX Live Chat could improve by being more customizable. There should be more skinning options for the appearance of the solution when we embed it onto a website. This would allow us to make it look more like part of our solution, rather than a third-party application."
"Its features for scheduling and generating reports need improvement."
"Some customers want to integrate a CRM solution with 3CX, but it's not compatible."
"It needs the option for the CS rep to stop recording when a credit card number is recited by the customer."
"The reporting and dashboards of 3CX could be improved."
"We just had one service interruption, which was due to an upstream carrier. They sent us hourly updates, letting us know what was going on and that it was being worked on. It was down for about half a day."
"We'd like pre-set computers with GoToConnect and all features embedded in laptops or other devices."
"The ring delay could be improved. Our cell phones often continue to ring after we have answered the phone."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"3CX sells an annual subscription, but we usually split it out monthly for clients, so they don't see an annual bill for the 3CX licensing, it's just part of their monthly phone bill. As they're paying us for carrier service anyway, we just roll it all together. Your standard phone service would be an additional cost, you either need to maintain a local carrier with POTS lines or PRI or a SIP, or you have to go with a cloud-based SIP."
"There is no add-on costing on the standard fees."
"The price of the solution is in the middle range compared to other solutions. There are different license options available. For example, there is a professional version and an enterprise version, and with the enterprise version, you have the ability to modify the dashboards. You can purchase a license at many different time frame increments, such as monthly, yearly, or two years."
"The price of the solution is reasonable. There are a few license options and we are using an enterprise license."
"The price of the solution has been reasonable. We have not had any problems or complaints with the licensing model. We have not reached a point where we need to upgrade. We have all the correct channels."
"We used a yearly license depending on the customer's requirements, and the customers did not complain about the pricing."
"Switching from POTS or PRI to SIP Trunk save the customer real costs. ROI is seen in less than a year."
"We have purchased an annual license to use 3CX Live Chat. There are different options available, you can pay monthly or yearly. I am completely satisfied with the pricing of 3CX Live Chat, it is cheaper than competitors and it is a better solution."
"The way that we use the system, it does everything that we need it to do. It also does it at a very affordable price with good quality."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
14%
Computer Software Company
12%
Government
10%
Educational Organization
6%
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for 3CX Live Chat?
The pricing of 3CX is around six out of ten. For some customers, the first year may be free of charge, allowing them to try the solution before deciding to implement it.
What needs improvement with 3CX Live Chat?
The reporting and dashboards of 3CX could be improved.
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Also Known As

3CX PBX
Jive Voice
 

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Sample Customers

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Dartmouth College, National Holistic Institute (NHI), Larry H. Miller Dealerships, Farmers Insurance, EMA Consulting, KAD Dental Staffing, Alberts, EMS Copiers, Dragon 2000, Kiernan Trebach, Saint Mary's College of California, Vallejo City Unified School District, Go Insurance
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