3CX vs Nextiva VoIP Call Center

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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Their system is suited when the nature of your business requires to make outbound calls to a lot of businesses or offices or even consumers. If you are looking to start a homebased project especially in our situation right now (pandemic), I strongly suggest using Nextiva as your service provider. Again, I don't think there's a perfect CRM solution that will match exactly how you operate your business but this is close to perfection and also good to your budget.

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Arnie Francisco

CRM Administrator

Change3 EnterprisesMarketing & Advertising, 11-50 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

3CX

Nextiva VoIP Call Center

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

Nextiva VoIP Call Center

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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Call recordings are crystal clear
Voice messages with transcriptions have increased our response rate and the time it takes to clear out messages
User tracking helps us accurately measure availability and overall weekly performance.

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Account Manager in Other

Construction 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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Whenever you log in to their recording portal, it always takes a while before it loads up to their default page. I'm not quite sure if this is because of the volume of recorded calls or something else.
In their recording portal, sometimes you thought the call was not recorded but only to find out that you would sometimes need to add a plus sign and 1 in the beginning of the 10 digit phone number where normally you wouldn't need it.
When you download a recording, I would've wanted to see the recording file downloaded and not a zip folder that I have to still extract the recording file from. I know it is possible to just download the file because that's what I appreciate in downloading a recording to a competitor CMV.

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Arnie Francisco

CRM Administrator

Change3 EnterprisesMarketing & Advertising, 11-50 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 5.7

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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Nextiva VoIP Call Center 10.0

Based on 1 answer

They are very nice, friendly and you can really feel their willingness to help. They are proactive in finding out potential issue and they sometimes extend their service by calling me and making sure I'm still happy with the service. They have Live Chat support, email, and hotline that you can use to connect to them.

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Arnie Francisco

CRM Administrator

Change3 EnterprisesMarketing & Advertising, 11-50 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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Nextiva is pretty much evenly matched against RingCentral and their phone system; the call quality and voice mail transcription are on par. However, Nextiva's admin portal is more cumbersome to use by comparison and the lack of an SMS feature is a definite drawback considering the communication habits of most people in 2018.

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Account Manager in Other

Construction 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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Nextiva has increased our employee phone coverage and availability by 27%

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Construction 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

—

Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Nextiva VoIP Call Center Editions & Modules

Edition

Pro	$50¹
Enterprise	$100¹

per user per month

Additional Pricing Details

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Rating Summary

3CX

Nextiva VoIP Call Center

3CX

Nextiva VoIP Call Center

3CX

Nextiva VoIP Call Center

3CX

Nextiva VoIP Call Center

Likelihood to Recommend

3CX

Nextiva VoIP Call Center

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

Nextiva VoIP Call Center

Cons

3CX

Nextiva VoIP Call Center

Usability

3CX

Nextiva VoIP Call Center

Support Rating

3CX

Nextiva VoIP Call Center

Alternatives Considered

3CX

Nextiva VoIP Call Center

Return on Investment

3CX

Nextiva VoIP Call Center

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3CX

Nextiva VoIP Call Center

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?

Nextiva VoIP Call Center Editions & Modules

Edition

Additional Pricing Details

Rating Summary

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