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3CX Live Chat pros and cons

Vendor: 3CX
4.3 out of 5
Badge Ranked 1

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PROS

3CX Live Chat is easy to set up and configure, making it ideal for small to medium-sized businesses.
It offers strong cost savings and increases productivity through a reliable and flexible telephony system.
Integration with CRM systems and other platforms enhances communication and workflow efficiency.
Users experience robust collaboration features, allowing seamless communication and improved response times.
3CX Live Chat provides excellent support and regular updates, ensuring high reliability and security.

CONS

3CX Live Chat experiences stability issues, with reports of bugs remaining unresolved over time.
The interfacing process with external devices and VoIP handset hardware is complex, particularly with limited support for Cisco phones.
Conferencing features have been temporarily lost during upgrades, requiring significant time to restore them.
Support could be improved, notably during emergencies or requirements for immediate assistance.
Integration with other systems, particularly CRM solutions, presents compatibility issues for users.
 

3CX Live Chat Pros review quotes

Ram Maruboina - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer – Rust Systems & AI Evaluation at Turing
Jul 7, 2026
Since implementing 3CX Live Chat, we have seen our average response time decline by around 55%, customer satisfaction increase by approximately 45%, and lead conversations on the website chat improve by about 35%.
reviewer2774466 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Engineer at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
Oct 13, 2026
With the secondary engineer, the wake-up time was reduced so that the secondary engineer can start immediately after receiving the call.
Ahmed ACHOUR - PeerSpot reviewer
General Manager at Beyond IT Services
Sep 17, 2024
The most valuable features of 3CX include meetings, IVR, and the workflow personalization of the service desk activity.
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it_user1680063 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head CX at Tecrivuelt
Sep 25, 2021
3CX is easy to use. It's pretty a much regular PBX system. It is quite easy to configure aspects of it, and it has a good soft client.
Harrison Bulley - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Net Consulting
May 25, 2023
The solution is stable.
CW
VoIP Network Engineer at Infinet Solutions
Jun 17, 2022
The call queue and reporting systems are robust compared to what you have to pay to get the same level of functionality with a competing system.
it_user1689147 - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at Cerberus IT Solutions
Oct 12, 2021
The most valuable features of 3CX Live Chat are the ability to go straight to a call or screen-sharing and creating multiple channels from the same chat widget effectively. The ability to raise a call straight out to the cloud is fantastic, it is really useful. Additionally, it integrates very well with WordPress.
SM
Strategic Partner at East Kentucky Telecom Inc.
Oct 2, 2021
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.
GS
IT Consultant at DirectCall
Sep 17, 2021
3CX has a graphical user interface, and this is awesome because I don't have to have an IT person from my company in my customer's environment to set up and configure 3CX for my client. I just train the customer.
Stavros Tsakmakas - PeerSpot reviewer
Junior Middle Office Officer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Jul 18, 2022
It’s straightforward to set up.
 

3CX Live Chat Cons review quotes

Ram Maruboina - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer – Rust Systems & AI Evaluation at Turing
Jul 7, 2026
The reason I chose the number eight is not only about analytics or customization but due to reliability bugs and agent workflow frictions, which affect the overall reporting coherence.
reviewer2774466 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Engineer at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
Oct 13, 2026
In my experience, 3CX Live Chat is not stable, as there are many bugs that have been reported for a long time but remain unresolved.
Ahmed ACHOUR - PeerSpot reviewer
General Manager at Beyond IT Services
Sep 17, 2024
The reporting and dashboards of 3CX could be improved.
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it_user1680063 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head CX at Tecrivuelt
Sep 25, 2021
Reporting and integration are the main challenges, which are at the mid-level or in the enterprise depending on the system that we choose.
Harrison Bulley - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Net Consulting
May 25, 2023
Its features for scheduling and generating reports need improvement.
CW
VoIP Network Engineer at Infinet Solutions
Jun 17, 2022
There are a lot of quality of life things that could be improved. When adding extensions, you need to use the extension import setting, you can't just use an import function to update extensions. You have to delete and recreate the extension, which can have all kinds of unintended consequences.
it_user1689147 - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at Cerberus IT Solutions
Oct 12, 2021
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.
SM
Strategic Partner at East Kentucky Telecom Inc.
Oct 2, 2021
Message management in 3CX Live Chat is a little tricky. You can transfer a conversation to someone else if it comes into a group, but it isn't always easy to return the conversation to the group.
GS
IT Consultant at DirectCall
Sep 17, 2021
In 3CX, customization is not as easy as I would like. With 3CX Call Flow Designer, you can set up the flow of a call, deliver it to the department, and automate the process. I can't do many things with this.
Stavros Tsakmakas - PeerSpot reviewer
Junior Middle Office Officer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Jul 18, 2022
Having a video call would be a nice idea.