3CX Phone System
3CX | 3CX Phone System 20.0.2.715Linux/Unix, Debian 12 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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MSP Network Engineer with 10 Years VOIP Experience
What do you like best about the product?
As an MSP engineer I have used a lot of VIOP systems from Altigen, Cisco, Nextiva, Star2Star, Zultys, and Avaya both on premise and in the cloud and the one thing that 3CX has and that all of them lack is that 3CX is server software that fits into existing IT infrastructure so easily. I can run it on premise or in the cloud on Windows or Linux and all of my existing monitoring, networking, and back up work flows work with it. That makes deployment and troubleshooting easy and really helps to cut the cost. It also allows for flexibility when building redundancy and fail over which is wonderfully easy to do.
What do you dislike about the product?
My only real complaint is that the mobile app does not support the shared park keys. I have gripes about how individual phones work, mostly Fanvil and snom phones, but if you go Yealink you won't have an issue.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Not having to have an outside phone vendor is a big win. Reduced operating costs and reduced implementation costs are also big wins.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Yealink phones make your deployments so much easier and they support just about every feature you could imagine via templating.
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Recommended as a Phone system
What do you like best about the product?
Been using 3CX for over 2 years now, and I've found it be a great program for managing phones and users
What do you dislike about the product?
3CX for mobile is still not fully functional (issues with Wifi/Cellular switching)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Mobile app not fully capable of being consistent, but it's helped our mobile users stay more connected
As an installer I love the flexibility
What do you like best about the product?
Flexibility to be able to provide the many different customers requests for call flow
What do you dislike about the product?
Keep working on the mobile app. While it works for the most part it needs continued development
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
from quick and simple installs to complex and large 3cx covers it
Pretty Good, but has some limitations
What do you like best about the product?
Affordability is great. Works much better than a 10+ year old Call manager system.
What do you dislike about the product?
No "supported" way to create templates. If you want phones to default to 12h instead of 24h time, you have to edit a template then all those phones are flagged as "unsupported" and 3CX support won't help you with anything unsupported.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's modern and works well. It's much easier to customize call routing, phone trees, and the like than our old system. It's easier for users to change their own settings for forwarding or voicemail using the web or app.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's very good for basic needs. I don't feel like it would scale well if you need lots of customization or integrations. We've had trouble with both of those areas, but the basics are good. It doesn't integrate with Active Directory or similar systems for authentication. The only way for users to login is a password that 3CX generates and emails to users, which is not the most secure nor the most convenient.
Good planning up front led to a solid communiction system for normal times and not so normal times.
What do you like best about the product?
3CX has proven flexible in our application. We were able to convert sound files and offer an automated story telling system for our patrons. During the COVID outbreak in the spring of 2020 we were able to easily transition staff to remote work by installing the 3CX app on their smart phones giving them their desk extension wherever they are. The ability to manage individual extensions from any web based computer makes life simpler and more efficient. The relative ease of recording and activating different greetings has proven invaluable during the time of the virus crisis. I like the ability and ease of running the system from a PC based operating system and accessing via browser. It is very accessible for our entire IT dept., not just a designated "phone guy".
What do you dislike about the product?
If I had to pin down a dislike it would be that some of the updates to telephone model templates override custom programming we've written into the current templates.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Before 3CX we had a system for offering dial in stories. It was antiquated but it worked. During the switch over to 3CX we found that with some creativity we were able to use the flexibility of the system offer the same story telling service in an integrated packed freeing us up from old hardware and obsolete methods. Among the other benefits we use is the ability for managers to easily manage and forward phones from a web interface.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Do your homework. Find someone in your industry or a closely business that uses 3CX and talk with them about what they've learned. If time allows map the system out up front. Since it's PC based it was relatively simple to setup a test system, configure all our phones, groups and routing, test most all of it before going live. On the day of going live we swapped phones on desks, booted the server and basically were operational.
A great affordable business phone system.
What do you like best about the product?
As compared to to the Toshiba and Avaya systems that I have used in the past, 3CX is very easy to configure and administer. The interface is intuitive and works with most of the major brands of IP SIP phones. The pricing structure is also unique being based on number of simultaneous calls versus the traditional license per feature cost of typical PBX systems. 3CX also has the same feature set as the Mitel / Avaya systems but at a fraction of the cost.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the reporting could be improved, especially being able to get a report of the number of simultaneous calls in use over a period to understand if you are licensed properly. As this is a SIP system, there are some limitations in button programming over the proprietary such as buttons to forward calls. Some voicemail options could be improved such that you could record multiple greetings though the voice prompt system rather than just the primary greeting. All other greetings have to be recorded through the webclient.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
My goal was to replace all the Toshiba, Nortel, and Avaya systems that we had in our offices so that we would have a single phone system for the entire practice. As we have a fiber connected infrastructure between our offices I am able to run the entire practice off a single on premise virtual machine with just phones in each location. This has allowed us to combine our separate Trunks/PRIs into a single SIP trunk which saved a tremendous amount in telecom costs. This system is also so easy to setup that I was able to reduce the amount of contractor time required for implementation.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If this is your first full SIP / non-proprietary system be sure to know all of your required features no matter how minor, especially in phone button programming and operation. There are a number of things such as forwarding your extension that will be very different from proprietary systems.
Great System
What do you like best about the product?
The flexibility of the system is amazing. Tons of options and routing features.
What do you dislike about the product?
Updates can be a pain. I like to stay up to date and get the best feature, but the updates from version to version (not dot releases) can be time consuming.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Phone call routing is the biggest. Voicemail to email is super helpful.
Good PBX and support
What do you like best about the product?
I like the ability to manage the PBX myself.
What do you dislike about the product?
I dislike that 3cx updates the conference site without providing feedback or a heads up.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Immediate addition of extensions, as needed. Realized cost savings after transitioning to 3cx.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Easy to use and manage. Ease of use is much better than Iwatsu
Easy to setup -- Easy to use.
What do you like best about the product?
The 3CX Administration panel has stayed consistent throughout version 9 all the way to its latest release, 16. With that said, its always been easy to find extensions, customize inbound/outbound rules, setup DID's/trunks and work with ring groups. This is by far my favorite things about the system. If I had to rank a 2nd item, the phone firmware and templates that we use is always updating, which allows for easy to push/provision firmware/config updates to the phones on my LAN. Configuring a new phone is also quite easy to use.
What do you dislike about the product?
For multiple sites where I'm hosting, I wish I had the ability to configure one central panel where I could break the extension into multiple groups, all while administrating under the single pane of glass. Configuring STUN for remote employees, especially while we've been in COVID-19 lockdown, has been been a challenge.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Because how easy 3CX server is to administrate I'm able to setup new phones, configure existing extension and use modern features like web client across my company. The benefits are hosting 3CX in all of my sites, means all I have to pay for is maintenance and no hosting fees. It runs on a 2 core, 8 GB VM, which is pretty lightweight for an office under 30 people. 4 Cores, 16 GB should be suitable for 100 people. In short, its very lightweight for the amount of simultaneous calls that can occur.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If they are struggling with other VOIP software out there, I think others would find 3CX easy to use administration and overall use of phones connected through it to be. Its much more affordable than some of the big boys out there.
More than we asked for!
What do you like best about the product?
The web interface. It allows us to easily setup up phones and administer the phone system.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not much of a dislike, but wish you didn't have to get the Call Center edition to get more than 16 calls.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
3CX replaced our old PBX system that was end of life and end of extensions. No more having the PBX guy come out and configure a phone. It so nice just to pick up the phone and move to a new location.
Having the 3CX app on my cell phone allows me to be out of the office and still "be in the office" as far as callers know.
The web conferencing feature has really improved.
Having the 3CX app on my cell phone allows me to be out of the office and still "be in the office" as far as callers know.
The web conferencing feature has really improved.
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