Hey Guys,
Just need some help…. can anyone recommend the cheapest Cloud Based Phone System for my business
My business's are across 8 different locations and require approx 10 handsets per location (so 80 handsets in total)
I had a look at the monthly costs for each handset license and its approx $30 per month X 80handsets = $2,400 per month
Can anyone recommend anyone that is more cost effective?
Thanks heaps for any help :)
I think you'll find a hosted cloud pbx system to just work. You might be able to get the per extention cost down using software phones over hard phones but $2400-3000 a month for Telco seems ok when you have a $3.2m wages bill.
Also check out https://crazytel.com.au/business/hostedpbx/CrazyPhoneOffer/ as they have a nice solution where the phone VPNs to crazy to avoid NAT issues.
Also check out https://www.australianphone.com.au/cloud-hosted-virtual-pbx I use these guys for a small SIP trunk plan and it's pretty good too.
Anyways some other options might be hosting 3cx in Google cloud and have staff use soft phone you just need a few all you can eat sip trunks and some pay per min ones to optimise cost but there's more management over head.
or if you're cheap, set up an amazon aws account (free first 12 month), install freepbx on EC2 instance, subscribe to crazytel/siptalk and you can have pretty much unlimited extension, how many DID number you want, for less than $5 per number per month.
But this one needs a bit of work
I would check out both TPG and Exetel. I find their business products and customer service to be fairly reliable.
Are they all different people? Will they all be making phone calls to external landlines and mobiles?
I set up my work with VoIPLine https://www.voipline.net.au/hosted-pbx/
The callflow is very customise-able but a bit DIY and setup and forget.
per user/per month
$7.95 free incoming including inter/intra company calls
$14.95 free to AU landlines (mobile not included)
$34.95 free to everywhere (50+ countries)
It's cheaper if they can/are willing to use their existing/personal mobile unless a separate handset is a must.
You can transfer the calls to mobiles but mobiles can't transfer back (not common).
That cost is actually very normal for a business with 80 phones.
Must be a big and thriving business, do you have vacancy for one IT guy? 😂
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