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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    3CX

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/ACyprus based company 3CX offers an IP PBX phone system.

    $1.08

    per user/per month

    RingCentral Contact Center

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/ARingCentral Contact Center is an AI-first contact center offers a set of cloud-based software plans with basic features including support for inbound and outbound call centers and IVR and ACD capabilities. Advanced features include analytics, real-time call reporting, workforce optimization analytics, and omni-channel integration with SMS, email, and social media platforms.N/A
    Pricing
    3CXRingCentral Contact Center
    Editions & Modules
    Pro
    $1.08
    per user/per month
    Enterprise
    $1.31
    per user/per month
    Standard
    Free
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    3CXRingCentral Contact Center
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsPrice 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.—
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    Community Pulse
    3CXRingCentral Contact Center
    Considered Both Products
    3CX
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    RingCentral
    Chose RingCentral Contact Center
    Ring Central is far superior to 3CX. It is just much more robust. Ring Central is the industry standard in VoIP.
    Incentivized
    Chose RingCentral Contact Center
    The user interface of the Ring Central Contact Center is much better than others. Also, the price and cost of implementing, using, and maintaining the product are comparatively lower than others. So, a maximum set of features according to the cost and price. Other than that, …
    Incentivized
    Chose RingCentral Contact Center
    Based on the other products we have used ring central is by far the most comfortable for nontechnical users to use.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    90%
    Would buy again
    9 Answers
    94%
    Would buy again
    34 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    88%
    Delivers good value for the price
    7 Answers
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    31 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    10 Answers
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    34 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    83%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    20 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    9 Answers
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    22 Answers
    Features
    3CXRingCentral Contact Center
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of 3CX and RingCentral Contact Center
    Feature
    3CX
    -
    Ratings
    RingCentral Contact Center
    8.5
    37 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Agent dashboard00 Ratings9.432 Ratings
    Validate callers00 Ratings7.010 Ratings
    Outbound response00 Ratings8.633 Ratings
    Call forwarding00 Ratings8.233 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)00 Ratings9.422 Ratings
    Warm transfer00 Ratings8.010 Ratings
    Predictive dialing00 Ratings8.717 Ratings
    Interactive voice response00 Ratings9.123 Ratings
    REST APIs00 Ratings9.911 Ratings
    Call scripts00 Ratings7.621 Ratings
    Call tracking00 Ratings9.010 Ratings
    Multichannel integration00 Ratings8.621 Ratings
    CRM software integration00 Ratings7.619 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of 3CX and RingCentral Contact Center
    Feature
    3CX
    -
    Ratings
    RingCentral Contact Center
    9.0
    35 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Inbound call routing00 Ratings9.431 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing00 Ratings9.020 Ratings
    Recording00 Ratings9.633 Ratings
    Quality management00 Ratings9.230 Ratings
    Call analytics00 Ratings8.932 Ratings
    Historical reporting00 Ratings9.031 Ratings
    Live reporting00 Ratings8.928 Ratings
    Customer surveys00 Ratings9.614 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics00 Ratings7.316 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    3CXRingCentral Contact Center
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.4
    (14 ratings)
    9.3
    (37 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.6
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.7
    (6 ratings)
    Support Rating
    5.4
    (2 ratings)
    8.9
    (4 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    3CXRingCentral Contact Center
    Likelihood to Recommend
    3CX
    In many scenarios decision is driven by budget and compared to other solutions at the time of purchase [3CX] was simply the cheapest solution for what it has to offer. If you are looking for integrations, extensibility, and advanced functionalities, this might not be a solution for you. At the time of use (and this may have changed by now), there was a lack of APIs, CLI commands, and similar so nothing could be automated with the system. There are ways of importing data through CSV but automation would solve us so much time and support calls if we were able to connect with other systems.
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    RingCentral
    RingCentral Contact Center is extremely useful for tracking employee availability and working hours, particularly for remote employees. It is also helpful to be able to share certain skills between various employees so that customers dialing in have the best chance to get in touch with the correct contact immediately. RingCentral Contact Center is not ideal for lots of outbound outreach, particularly due to the phone number not coming in with the user's extension (and in our case, the number is an 800 number and looks more like spam), but for incoming calls it is very useful. The difference between a cold transfer and trying to conference someone on before you transfer is not always clear. Many people in the company often make mistakes, such as not being able to conference on the contact before transferring or accidentally hanging up on the conference, also affecting the others on the line.
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    Pros
    3CX
    • 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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    RingCentral
    • Reliability: Our previous service was prone to outages, RingCentral Contact Center has been rock solid as long as we've used it.
    • Integration: Our IT team was able to build a custom RingCentral Contact Center dashboard on our website for our salespeople to manage inbound/ outbound calling. From there we were able to send call data directly into activities in our ERP (Acumatica).
    • Ease of use: It works well whether in the office or WFH (which many employees do regularly.
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    Cons
    3CX
    • I would like to be able to see direct-dial numbers on the handsets. Currently that is not possible but that would be a nice feature.
    • You need an SBC per location, which can be a point of failure.
    • You also need a server that might get disconnected, which is another point of failure.
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    RingCentral
    • I have not experienced it firsthand, but I have heard that their customer service is hard to reach and to resolve issues.
    • Verification to login can be annoying with the number of steps required.
    • I do receive spam calls through the number, which i wish were filtered out.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    3CX
    No answers on this topic
    RingCentral
    If we haven't used the contact center for support is because the service is so good that make us not need to use it very often. However, I guess our IT team has found some useful features on it for system implementation, automation, and updates that have helped them to keep providing us with the right support as needed.
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    Usability
    3CX
    No answers on this topic
    RingCentral
    It's a really intuitive platform. All the buttons and sections are almost exactly where you would expect them to be. Navigating the platform is fairly easy, even for folks who have not used it before. I can usually just tell my colleagues to "go to the settings tab and you'll see the audio settings" and they are able to take it from there.
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    Support Rating
    3CX
    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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    RingCentral
    We honestly did not need much support but whatever we wanted was resolved via email and that experience was nice but took a bit of time
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    Implementation Rating
    3CX
    No answers on this topic
    RingCentral
    It was really straightforward to get our phone number ported over and start using the platform. The agent walked us through the steps and we were able to configure everything ourselves. Much easier to setup than some of the other platforms
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    Alternatives Considered
    3CX
    The main differences between 8x8, Inc. and 3CX is pricing and ease of use in my opinion. The 3CX system uses annual based pricing plans based on of simultaneous calls your company needs, not the number of extensions/users and offers a free plan. 8x8, Inc. charges per extension with different plans. We currently have 19 extensions so the 3CX system makes more sense for us, however, if your company only has a few extensions you may want to throughly consider both options. In my experience, it was difficult to add new extensions and phones with 8x8 because at least at that time we had 8x8 I could not add anything on the web admin. I had to call a sales rep which took a lot more time. Also, if you didn't purchase a phone and/or headset directly from 8x8 at a usually higher price than Amazon for example then you would have to spend anywhere from 30 minutes to hours on the phone with 8x8 tech support to program the phone to work with the 8x8 system so adding a new extension could turn into a long ordeal. I can easily add new extensions on 3CX directly in the web cpanel. Granted, if you are actually adding a new phone number you would need to purchase that number from a company like ATT first before adding it to 3CX. The difference between a phone number and an extension would be a phone number allows a customer to call in directly using that number. The extension would require the customer to call the main business number then be transferred to the extension. 3CX provides a list of supported phone models on their website
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    RingCentral
    All of them are good choices, but if you're looking for something where all of these are included, it must needs be RingCentral Contact Center, All in one communication tool, don't worry about communication outages, RingCentral Contact Center updates in out of office schedules, if you're looking for "The Experience" RingCentral is the best choice.
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    Return on Investment
    3CX
    • 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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    RingCentral
    • With RingCentral Contact Center we were able to connect with our customers. The feature that allows the call to be sent to the first available rep ensured that this happened.
    • Also, my favorite feature is the call recording and transcription feature. This allowed me to get the customer's emails without asking them to repeat if I missed them the first time. Hence, happier customers and more meetings.
    • RingCentral Contact Center also made it very easy to set up a mailbox for customers to leave messages and reassure them that they've connected with the right person.
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