3CX Live Chat vs ConnectWise ScreenConnect comparison

3CX and ConnectWise are both solutions in the Virtual Meetings category. 3CX is ranked #17 with an average rating of 7.0, while ConnectWise is ranked #10 with an average rating of 9.3. 3CX holds a 1.8% mindshare in VM, compared to ConnectWise’s 1.5% mindshare. Additionally, 91% of 3CX users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of ConnectWise users who would recommend it.

3CX Live Chat

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91% willing to recommend

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92% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 3, 2025

3CX Live Chat and ConnectWise ScreenConnect both compete in the communication and remote access software category. Based on the feature set and capabilities comparison, 3CX Live Chat offers superior VoIP functionalities, while ConnectWise ScreenConnect has an edge in remote access and management capabilities.

Features: 3CX Live Chat includes robust communication features such as VoIP integrations, WebRTC, and call queuing. It offers a scalable solution with flexible deployment options from on-premises to cloud, and integrated web meetings. ConnectWise ScreenConnect provides persistent remote access, ease of file transfer, session continuity during reboots, and detailed session control, crucial for IT support and troubleshooting.

Room for Improvement: 3CX Live Chat could enhance Linux support, call recording management, and CRM tool integration. It would benefit from improving mobile app performance and expanding reporting capabilities. ConnectWise ScreenConnect would improve by enhancing user login customization, the ability to run without client-side installation, and offering better reporting capabilities and configuration simplification.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: 3CX Live Chat supports diverse deployment options and offers efficient technical support, though customer service experiences vary by region. ConnectWise ScreenConnect supports hybrid and on-premises environments and is praised for responsive customer service and technical expertise.

Pricing and ROI: 3CX Live Chat is recognized for cost-effectiveness, with pricing based on concurrent calls, offering quick ROI via savings on traditional telephony costs. ConnectWise ScreenConnect boasts straightforward pricing based on concurrent user licenses, ensuring affordability and providing solid ROI through effective remote access solutions.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

3CX Live Chat

Ranking in Virtual Meetings

17th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

IP PBX (1st), Unified Communications (2nd), Live Chat (4th), Hosted and Cloud Based VoIP (4th)

ConnectWise ScreenConnect

Ranking in Virtual Meetings

10th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Remote Access (17th)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Virtual Meetings category, the mindshare of 3CX Live Chat is 1.8%, down from 2.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ConnectWise ScreenConnect is 1.5%, down from 1.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

Ahmed ACHOUR

General Manager at Beyond IT Services

Enhanced service desk workflow which streamlines operations and offers strong integration capabilities

The customers use 3CX for IP telephony and call center activities. Additionally, they use 3CX for service desk activities, including integration with other ITSM products to collect data from customers who need technical support on their platforms 3CX has proven to be a good solution, particularly…

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Todd Blake

Senior IT Specialist at COMMUNITY HEALTH CONNECTIONS INC

Simple to set up, reasonable pricing, and useful remote control capabilities

I'm on the latest version of the solution. I just updated it yesterday. While we have the solution on-premises at this time, we'll likely move to the cloud later this year. They have a trial version that you can try. They have a free version that you can try as well. I use it myself to support my family. I would try the free version or the trial version depending on your business. They can set you up and you can get to see all the features. I would also advocate going to the cloud version. Don't bother with the on-prem. It's just easier to jump to the cloud. I'd rate the solution nine out of ten.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The most valuable features of 3CX Live Chat are the integration with our existing CRM allowing us to get all of the numbers synced together. The communication aspect of the solution was always working very well, the sound quality was perfect. We were able to log into the application to check which users were using the solution and if they were in a call or not. Additionally, the solution integrates well with other CRMs."

"3CX is useful and easy to use. I can talk to my colleagues from anywhere."

"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."

"With the reporting feature you can get all the incoming and outgoing call details."

"Mobility features and remote extensions work well."

"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."

"This solution gives our customers mobility. They can use their phone system everywhere. The other key feature is the security."

"The most valuable features of 3CX include meetings, IVR, and the workflow personalization of the service desk activity."

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"Offers more security than TeamViewer, Google Remote Desktop, and Zoom. It's a stable, feature-rich solution that's easy to set up and easy to scale."

"Remote support is efficient and easy for our end users to receive support."

"The unattended access functionality is a valuable feature, because I can go in at any time that I want, deploy fixes, or do maintenance."

"I've noted an ROI while using the solution."

"Control lets us do remote management of machines without having to be on the VPN. It's super simple and super easy."

"Unattended access is the most important feature."

"Being able to flip quickly between however many monitors that I have running, detune the video for black and white, or with fewer colors to make it faster, is amazing."

"The flexibility to manage bandwidth and organize connections, and the price, make ConnectWise a really good choice."

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Cons

"It needs the option for the CS rep to stop recording when a credit card number is recited by the customer."

"Its features for scheduling and generating reports need improvement."

"Reporting and integration are the main challenges, which are at the mid-level or in the enterprise depending on the system that we choose."

"The analytics need to have a granular depth on how the customer details and the data sends information through this medium."

"The reporting and dashboards of 3CX could be improved."

"It could be better in terms of providing more options for call recording."

"Once we establish the system and do the initial configuration, some configurations will be fixed. However, if we need to change those configurations, the option is to do a reinstallation. Otherwise, we cannot do anything."

"The solution was simple to install, but the configuration was not as simple. The full installation process took a few days."

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"There is an issue which is pretty rare, but I find it at least when connecting from my mobile device. I am forced to refresh the screen by changing the screen quality to get screen updates. This only happens sometimes."

"Something that I would like to see in the future is mobile video streaming. They do provide audio conferencing, but seeing the problem makes it easier to solve the problem. If they had video streaming, if a client had a physical problem with something and I couldn't get remote access, the client could use his mobile phone to show me the problem. In these cases, even if a client's systems were down, I could help, so long as I had a mobile phone environment."

"There is one back-end issue that I am running into at some of locations where I login to provide support, and sometimes port 443 is blocked. That is what it uses to connect. So, I am having to do workarounds to get a session started."

"On a Linux machine, there are different limitations that are not there on a Windows Server. Much more limitations exist on Linux deployments."

"I really didn't care for the onboarding process and it is something that should be improved."

"Reporting could definitely use improvement. With LogMeIn Rescue, I used to be able to, for instance, at the end of the month, pull off a report of every session. It was very simple... I could see the name that was typed in, the IP address to the computer that it was connected to, if it was running Windows... It just doesn't seem - there might be but I haven't found it - to be a way of pulling that information out of ConnectWise."

"They could provide a toolbox for the plan I'm on."

"What we need this product to do is to be able to control Windows Updates. LogMeIn Central allowed us remote access but also allowed to push and install Windows Updates, and third-party updates... When we made the switch to ConnectWise we lost the ability to do patching. That forced us, for our larger clients, to move to WSUS. We had to set up a VM on those larger clients to push Windows Updates and patches into the network."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of the solution has been reasonable. We have not had any problems or complaints with the licensing model. We have not reached a point where we need to upgrade. We have all the correct channels."

"We used a yearly license depending on the customer's requirements, and the customers did not complain about the pricing."

"The price of the solution is in the middle range compared to other solutions. There are different license options available. For example, there is a professional version and an enterprise version, and with the enterprise version, you have the ability to modify the dashboards. You can purchase a license at many different time frame increments, such as monthly, yearly, or two years."

"There is no add-on costing on the standard fees."

"There aren't any additional costs. With the license I purchased, I have all features that I need. I don't have to buy an add-on or another license."

"Switching from POTS or PRI to SIP Trunk save the customer real costs. ROI is seen in less than a year."

"We have purchased an annual license to use 3CX Live Chat. There are different options available, you can pay monthly or yearly. I am completely satisfied with the pricing of 3CX Live Chat, it is cheaper than competitors and it is a better solution."

"3CX sells an annual subscription, but we usually split it out monthly for clients, so they don't see an annual bill for the 3CX licensing, it's just part of their monthly phone bill. As they're paying us for carrier service anyway, we just roll it all together. Your standard phone service would be an additional cost, you either need to maintain a local carrier with POTS lines or PRI or a SIP, or you have to go with a cloud-based SIP."

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"For the price we pay, we definitely feel it's worth it, but there are some contenders in the market that are coming out now, whose products are as good; they are offering more features and the price is actually less than ConnectWise. All things considered, the biggest thing is the lack of patching in ConnectWise. If they could integrate that into the product, that would be a game changer, if offered at the same price point."

"We pay $85 per month for each user for a ConnectWise package with multiple solutions."

"It is priced fairly."

"Their licensing model is good, their pricing model is good, their service is good; bandwidth is excellent. They're consistent."

"It is priced well and it is still a great value. Although I have been reading a lot about Splashtop. They are getting pretty competitive on their pricing, including a fairly easy to use remote support for mobile applications, like iOS and Android."

"The cloud version is relatively inexpensive, but the on-premise version is expensive if you do not need three technicians, only one or two for concurrent sessions."

"Good price and works well."

"We pay an annual licensing fee."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Government

Real Estate/Law Firm

Computer Software Company

20%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about 3CX Live Chat?

The solution is stable.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for 3CX Live Chat?

The pricing of 3CX is around six out of ten. For some customers, the first year may be free of charge, allowing them to try the solution before deciding to implement it.

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What needs improvement with 3CX Live Chat?

The reporting and dashboards of 3CX could be improved.

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What do you like most about ConnectWise Control?

The product is really easy to deploy.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ConnectWise Control?

I download the product for free with ConnectWise RMM's license.

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What needs improvement with ConnectWise Control?

All the features provided by the product in terms of screen connectors have been good. There can be some complexities when running patches or when building up all the profiles, making them areas wh...

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Also Known As

3CX PBX

ConnectWise Control, ScreenConnect

Overview

Connect with your website visitors for free with the 3CX Live Chat plugin. With more than 1,900,000 downloads, 3CX Live Chat is the most popular, effective and reliable live chat plugin for WordPress. Increase conversions and boost customer satisfaction by communicating directly with your website visitors in real-time.

Integrate with 3CX for a multichannel communications suite including voice and video (requires 3CX V16). Get 3CX for free for one year for unlimited users hosted by 3CX, in your own cloud account or on-premise on Windows or Linux.

Easy and convenient for visitors
Build rapport with potential customers via live chat
Increase sales
Reduce customer support line costs by using live chat
Learn to understand the pain points of your customers

FEATURES

Simple and clean UI for all users
Option to elevate a live chat to a call or video call
Free iOS or Android apps to respond to messages through a smartphone
Ability to transfer chats to other agents
Agent’s picture is shown in the live chatbox
Customizable chatbox. Add a company logo, change the colors of the chatbox
All chats are saved in chat history
Dedicated storage system for all offline messages
Create unlimited agents to handle live chats and calls
Customizable offline message form
Supports animations in the chatbox
Ability to choose whether you want to accept or decline a chat

3CX

With ConnectWise ScreenConnect, you can seamlessly connect to desktops, mobile devices, and more, ensuring that customer downtime is a thing of the past. With world-class security features, including AES-256 encryption and two-factor authentication, ConnectWise ScreenConnect is ready to safeguard your interactions right out of the box. What sets ConnectWise ScreenConnect apart is the power of customization – white-label your software with hundreds of appearance options to showcase your unique brand in every support interaction. In the ScreenConnect Support Premium edition, experience ConnectWise View, enabling live stream sessions for real-time hardware troubleshooting via the user's mobile device camera. Plus, with our robust configurability and granular permissions, you can tailor the experience to your exact needs, equipping your team with the precise access they require.

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