3CX vs Bright Pattern

Likelihood to Recommend

The 3CX system is a well-thought out phone system with many features and options. The plan pricing is very affordable and flexible depending on your business needs. However, the key to having a solid, well-performing system with 3CX is the quality of your Internet connection. You may want to discuss your Internet connection type and speeds with a 3CX reseller before deciding on a 3CX system.

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Manager in Information Technology

Arts and Crafts Company, 11-50 employees

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Being as Bright Pattern is a hosted and highly scalable platform, it is well suited for most contact centers. I have implemented Bright Pattern for both PCI and non-PCI customers. There aren't many scenarios where I would not recommend it as a platform offering to someone who is looking. Possibly for someone looking for an on-premises solution where certain technologies are not allowed within the scope, I might suggest something different. It has worked well for many mortgage companies, city/government services, technology companies, educational institutions, law firms, recruiting firms, medical facilities/payments, debt collection, and more. Offering secure payment IVR and a secure payment live agent as a PCI solution is a huge benefit.

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Director in Product Management

Telecommunications Company, 51-200 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

3CX

Bright Pattern

Agent dashboard

Validate callers

Outbound response

Call forwarding

Click-to-call (CTC)

Warm transfer

Predictive dialing

Interactive voice response

REST APIs

Call scripts

Call tracking

Multichannel integration

CRM software integration

3CX

Bright Pattern

Inbound call routing

Omnichannel inbound routing

Recording

Quality management

Call analytics

Historical reporting

Live reporting

Customer surveys

Customer interaction analytics

Pros

Simplicity: Using a single 3CX interface we can manage every phone and extension used throughout our company.
Flexibility: There are a wide variety of options to configure each extension and phone. Changing anything after the hardware is deployed is very easy.
Portability: Phones with 3CX can be easily moved or repurposed within an office or at remote locations, including users' homes. The mobile app allows users to use their office extension anywhere without exposing their cell number.

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Manager in Information Technology

Restaurants Company, 501-1000 employees

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Enables contact centers to make changes without complex languages and frameworks.
Omni-channel functionality for all needs.
Integrates well to a number of third party products.
It isn't cumbersome. Easy to learn and manage.

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Director in Product Management

Telecommunications Company, 51-200 employees

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Cons

It can include outgoing fax functionality
Voice quality appears to suffer greatly with weak Internet signal
Setting up conference calls could be made simpler
Can include texting capability

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Engineer in Engineering

Civil Engineering Company, 11-50 employees

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Tenant configuration backups from within admin would be nice for archiving.
Agent screen recording exports to AWS S3.

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Director in Product Management

Telecommunications Company, 51-200 employees

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Usability

3CX 8.0

Based on 1 answer

It's been doing really good job for us. Are there better PBX systems out there? For sure there are, with more features and better support. But those are way more expensive and harder to implement and maintain. This system is almost no brainier, next -> next -> next -> finish and you have installed it. With a few more configs to hook it up to your SIP or PRI lines, you are up and running! Everything is GUI based so it's easy to navigate. It have everything you need to run serious call centre so I would recommend it for anyone unless you are Fortune 500 company with billions of budget for IT, then spend the big money and go with Cisco PBX.

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Manager in Information Technology

Automotive Company, 201-500 employees

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No score

No answers yet

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Support Rating

3CX 5.5

Based on 5 answers

The 3CX Phone System is only a five because while they provide set-up/how-to/Q and A documents to help your district or company get started, they do not offer support for free. The documents provided, though, are good enough for you to get you up and running. We also found a good source of help through a sip trunk provider, which was a 3CX reseller provider.

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Laura Steinbrink

HS Teacher/District Tech Integration Specialist

Plato R-V School DistrictEducation Management, 51-200 employees

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Alternatives Considered

We didn't want Cisco Call Manager anymore. We used a very old version previously, but nonetheless it didn't have a very good name in the company. PureCloud was too call center focused so in the end, we like 3CX best. A small pilot was configured very fast, and after we went full production, there were no big issues.

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Professional in Information Technology

Fund-Raising Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Obviously, customer experience is key but contact center staff enablement is one of the most important factors. What good is a multi-million dollar implementation on a platform if your hands are tied from admin or developer turnover? I have seen with many platforms where the platform remained dormant after the loss of the last experienced staff member. It isn't that way with Bright Pattern. Easy to train and easy to learn. Their support has been great. I will continue to promote and use Bright Pattern as a platform and I am excited to see where it takes us next.

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Director in Product Management

Telecommunications Company, 51-200 employees

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Return on Investment

3CX has a lot to offer for a very low cost as its business model is based on simultaneous calls and not per device. It's very cost effective and very affordable.
As the 3CX server does not require a high-performance server to run, with the Public Cloud option, it might allow even further savings.

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Artur Bittencourt

Information Technology Manager

Corporation of the Township of EsquimaltGovernment Administration, 51-200 employees

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Lowered support costs over time by enabling the contact center to manage itself and the call flow.
Increased customer satisfaction by enabling personalized experiences.

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Director in Product Management

Telecommunications Company, 51-200 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

Optional

3CX Editions & Modules

Edition

Standard	Free
Pro	1.08²
Enterprise	1.31²

per user/per month

Additional Pricing Details

Price displayed is based on 25 users. 3CX pricing is based on the number of simultaneous calls your business requires or in other words, how many calls your system needs to support at once. Unlike other PBX vendors there is no per extension cost.

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Bright Pattern Editions & Modules

Edition

Voice Select	$70¹
Professional	$100¹
Premium	$140¹
Enterprise	Call for Info¹

Monthly

Additional Pricing Details

One-time set-up fee includes 45 hours of services for workflow implementation and training: Discovery and Design Workshop; Configuration and Customization to customer requirements; Testing and Evaluation; Agent and Supervisor Training; Administration Mentoring & Knowledge Transfer

Rating Summary

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Likelihood to Recommend

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Bright Pattern

Feature Rating Comparison

Agent dashboard

Validate callers

Outbound response

Call forwarding

Click-to-call (CTC)

Warm transfer

Predictive dialing

Interactive voice response

REST APIs

Call scripts

Call tracking

Multichannel integration

CRM software integration

Inbound call routing

Omnichannel inbound routing

Recording

Quality management

Call analytics

Historical reporting

Live reporting

Customer surveys

Customer interaction analytics

Pros

3CX

Bright Pattern

Cons

3CX

Bright Pattern

Usability

3CX

Bright Pattern

Support Rating

3CX

Bright Pattern

Alternatives Considered

3CX

Bright Pattern

Return on Investment

3CX

Bright Pattern

Screenshots

3CX

Bright Pattern

Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

3CX Editions & Modules

Edition

Additional Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Bright Pattern Editions & Modules

Edition

Additional Pricing Details

Rating Summary

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