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V16 U8 Beta: New Schedule Conference, FB, SMS

Our latest Beta includes a small but useful update to the “Schedule Conference” feature to ensure inviting participants to your meetings is even easier and more professional. We’ve also added two popular SMS providers, made a change to improve the performance of Live Chat, among other things. The new, best way to schedule a conference Selecting the correct calendar will ensure [...]

By |February 9th, 2021|47 Comments
New Partner Forum Now Open to All Partners

To kickstart 2021 we’ve made some changes to the Partner forum to enable more direct communication with all our partners. From today, the Partner forum is open to ALL partner levels from Trainee and above. The partner forum is also open to Distributors. Read our blog post for new forum group labels. This new forum will replace the “Titanium, Platinum Partners and Premier Custom [...]

Forum Now Requires Partner/Customer Account

We’ve made an important change to the way partners and customers can contribute to our forums. In order to post, you must login using your partner / customer account. It is no longer possible to use a separate forum account with a different email address and to post “anonymously”. The reasons are threefold: To give priority to paying customers and partners. To allow partners to [...]

Identifying (Potentially) Difficult Customers

People who have spent a certain amount of time selling to and servicing customers are very quickly able to identify certain patterns in customer behavior, indicating the ones more likely to be difficult to work with than others. Below I’ve listed the most common warning signs that you’ve got a problematic customer on your hands. Customers Who Emit a Bad Vibe This sign is probab [...]

By |February 1st, 2021|Comments Off on Identifying (Potentially) Difficult Customers
New Video Conferencing Apps for Android and iOS (Beta)

Need to conference in a hurry? We’ve got you covered. In our latest Android and iOS beta release, we’ve made it even easier to attend and participate in conferences from your mobile device. By re-developing our mobile video conferencing capabilities from scratch, we’ve been able to add functionalities previously only available via the Webclient. Plus, users will benefit from in [...]

3CX Gets Gold at the Comms Business Awards

Hot Off the Press! 3CX has been named UC Platform Supplier of the Year at the 2020 Comms Business Awards, which were held virtually from London this week. Fighting off fierce competition from leading vendors like 8x8, Wildix, and Telcoswitch, the judges awarded the top spot to 3CX’s communications system. Entrants were judged on their commitment to the channel, innovation pipel [...]

Leaders: Track These Six KPIs to Reach Your Goals in 2021

As a sales manager, keeping tabs on your business operations and your team members can be a challenge. After all, no sales manager can be everywhere at once! Instead, your sales representatives need to give you the information required to keep everything running smoothly. It is only by measuring performance through relevant KPIs that you can begin to understand the day to day m [...]

By |January 20th, 2021|Comments Off on Leaders: Track These Six KPIs to Reach Your Goals in 2021
Here they are, the Top Forum Contributors of Q4 2020!

Happy new year everyone! For most of us, this holiday season was a little different from what we're used to. We hope that, despite the circumstances, you all managed to have a relaxing and joyful time. Even after everything 2020 threw at us, the 3CX community continued to grow and our members never stopped asking, advising and supporting its users. Thank you for your contributi [...]

By |January 15th, 2021|Comments Off on Here they are, the Top Forum Contributors of Q4 2020!
Your Greatest Fear: Does 3CX Sell Direct?

You probably don’t know this, but I was a partner at an MSP for many years. I led the charge to find and close new customers and my greatest fear was the vendor taking those customers directly. So I understand why partners always ask if 3CX is taking the end-users directly. 3CX Develops. You Deliver. 3CX does not sell directly to end-users and we don’t plan to in the future. I [...]

SIP Trunk Changes of 2020

2020 was a challenging year for everyone, but here at 3CX, we didn’t let it slow us down. A whole host of interesting features and improvements were introduced that our customers are already enjoying, but there were also changes that were equally important, yet not so obvious. Let’s take a look at what happened behind the scenes: A Fresh Start for Our SIP Trunk Engine One of th [...]

By |January 12th, 2021|Comments Off on SIP Trunk Changes of 2020