3CX Live Chat vs GoToConnect comparison

3CX and GoTo are both solutions in the Hosted and Cloud Based VoIP category. 3CX is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.0, while GoTo is ranked #6. 3CX holds a 5.9% mindshare in CBV, compared to GoTo’s 4.8% mindshare. Additionally, 91% of 3CX users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of GoTo users who would recommend it.

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 29, 2025

3CX Live Chat and GoToConnect are products competing in the digital communication space. GoToConnect has the upper hand due to its comprehensive feature set, appealing to those seeking advanced capabilities.

Features: 3CX Live Chat provides real-time communication with web visitors, seamless website integration, and robust chat features. GoToConnect offers video conferencing, advanced call management, and a more extensive suite of tools.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: GoToConnect provides a straightforward deployment process and ample support resources, making it a good fit for organizations prioritizing easy implementation. 3CX Live Chat offers simple deployment but has limited customer service options, which could be a downside for setups requiring more support.

Pricing and ROI: 3CX Live Chat has a cost-effective pricing model, delivering favorable ROI due to low setup costs, suitable for businesses focusing on text-based communication. GoToConnect's pricing is higher, but its broad feature set justifies the investment, appealing to businesses needing a multifunctional platform.

To learn more, read our detailed 3CX Live Chat vs. GoToConnect Report (Updated: June 2025).

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

3CX Live Chat

Ranking in Hosted and Cloud Based VoIP

4th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Virtual Meetings (12th), IP PBX (1st), Unified Communications (2nd), Live Chat (5th)

GoToConnect

Ranking in Hosted and Cloud Based VoIP

6th

Average Rating

10.0

Reviews Sentiment

8.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Hosted and Cloud Based VoIP category, the mindshare of 3CX Live Chat is 5.9%, up from 1.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of GoToConnect is 4.8%, up from 4.6% 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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Jon Le Roi

Director of IT at Mendocino Forest Products Company, LLC

Puts everyone in the company onto a common platform, making support very easy and provided quick gains

There are probably two things that get used the most: * We now eFax pretty much everything. I no longer have fax machines and have to deal with paper. We had a situation where one person, specifically, would come onto a floor for a fax machine. After restocking the fax machine with paper, so that it could finish all the faxes that they got over the weekend, They would then convert all those things into PDF documents. By going to eFax, they're getting them as emails and it's already a PDF document. This saves a step, a lot of time, and effort. We are also able to provide fax machines to individuals at their desktop by having eFax. In my case, I have my phone set up to be both a phone and a fax line, so it just shows up in my email. * We use the hot desk feature a lot. We have so many locations. I actually have an office in three different cities. So, when I go to another city, I just punch in my code and the entire phone becomes my phone. All my buttons are the same. My voicemail is there. It rings at that desk, just like it does at my main desk. I like this feature better than FindMe, where it forwards to my cell phone or something else. There are just a lot of little things that go on when you are forwarding calls to an outside system. GoToConnect’s Dial Plan Editor enables us to visually set up and organize call routing configurations quite easily. This works out well for us because each site has different requirements. No site has an attendance; they are all automated attendance. For some sites, it is strictly that the call comes in and goes to a hunt group. Other calls and other sites have everything mapped out, where it is press "one" to get to HR, press "two" to get to sales, press "three", etc. Once you get to that, then you can drill down through individuals or functions. So, it's very nice to be able to go in, look at these things, see how they are done, and provide flexibility to it as well as being able to adjust scheduling. We are all in the United States, so we all have the same holiday schedule, but some of the hours are different. Depending on the location, they may work weekends or not. They may work from 5:00 AM until 11:00 PM or 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM. So, we are able to uniquely configure all those things at each site. It has to be very flexible to do these things. It is easy to see. Like anything else, they walked us through how to create one of the more complex ones. After that, we were able to do our own and kind of manipulate it to do what we wanted from there. The Dial Plan Editor enables us to organize call routing configurations per site. We don't have the ability to see globally. However, from a single desktop, I can look at all our sites, one at a time, which is all I need.

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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 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."

"It is SIP compliant to multiple SIP phone vendors, though it is not locked into a proprietary vendor."

"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."

"We have not had any bugs or glitches, the solution is stable."

"Mobility features and remote extensions work well."

"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."

"3CX has strong reporting and management features. You can manage the capabilities of a call center with queues and timers. It's a complete solution."

"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."

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"The automated system allows for control, including adding in MP3s for sound clips. This keeps businesses looking professional when customers call in."

"We now eFax pretty much everything. I no longer have fax machines and have to deal with paper. We had a situation where one person, specifically, would come onto a floor for a fax machine. After restocking the fax machine with paper, so that it could finish all the faxes that they got over the weekend, They would then convert all those things into PDF documents. By going to eFax, they're getting them as emails and it's already a PDF document. This saves a step, a lot of time, and effort. We are also able to provide fax machines to individuals at their desktop by having eFax. In my case, I have my phone set up to be both a phone and a fax line, so it just shows up in my email."

"It allows us to serve our clients from home exactly as though we were in the office."

Cons

"You cannot make a group call on 3CX. That feature would make my life easier because I could talk to two suppliers or a supplier and management together. I wouldn't need to end the call and call another person."

"I need a robust provider who can help me use Live Chat. Unfortunately, I have to move from one provider to another because they don't have enough capabilities to maintain good service."

"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."

"Having a video call would be a nice idea."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

More 3CX Live Chat cons

"We just had one service interruption, which was due to an upstream carrier. They sent us hourly updates, letting us know what was going on and that it was being worked on. It was down for about half a day."

"The ring delay could be improved. Our cell phones often continue to ring after we have answered the phone."

"We'd like pre-set computers with GoToConnect and all features embedded in laptops or other devices."

Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"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."

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

"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."

"The price of the solution is reasonable. There are a few license options and we are using an enterprise license."

"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."

"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."

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"The way that we use the system, it does everything that we need it to do. It also does it at a very affordable price with good quality."

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Questions from the Community

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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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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

GoToConnect is the easy to manage unified collaboration platform. It comes with everything a business needs to take advantage of the cloud for video meetings, business telephony, and instant messaging; all available through one application, and accessible from anywhere. Increase productivity with reduced downtime and improve IT visibility by easily monitoring the health of your communication platform with our GoTo Admin system health dashboard.

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Dartmouth College, National Holistic Institute (NHI), Larry H. Miller Dealerships, Farmers Insurance, EMA Consulting, KAD Dental Staffing, Alberts, EMS Copiers, Dragon 2000, Kiernan Trebach, Saint Mary's College of California, Vallejo City Unified School District, Go Insurance

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