VirtualPBX vs. Zoom Phone

VirtualPBX

Zoom Phone

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
VirtualPBX	Score 10.0 out of 10	N/A	VirtualPBX is a VoIP solution that in addition to VoIP offers analog, smartphone, WebRTC, SIP Trunking & native calling options. It can also be used as a virtual contact center or virtual office solution.	$18 per month per user
Zoom Phone	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	Built on Zoom's platform, Zoom's cloud phone consolidates business communication and collaboration into a single system. Available in 40+ countries, with expandable coverage through a bring-your-own-carrier offering, Zoom Phone supports inbound and outbound calling through the public switched telephone network (PSTN). Features: Post call summary & next steps A post-call summary from Zoom’s AI Companion keeps the focus on the conversation instead of…	$10 per month per user

Pricing

VirtualPBX

Zoom Phone

Editions & Modules

Flex: $18
per month per user
Pro: $27
per month per user
Ultra: $36
per month per user

US & Canada Metered: $10
per month per user
US & Canada Unlimited: $15
per month per user
Global Select: $20
per month per user

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
VirtualPBX	Zoom Phone
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

Optional

No setup fee

Additional Details

Discount available for annual pricing.

No fees for emergency 911 Service No fees for compliance and administrative cost recovery Fee No 10DLC SMS fees

More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	VirtualPBX	Zoom Phone
Considered Both Products	VirtualPBX SY Stan York VP of Development Chose VirtualPBX We did our search over a decade ago - probably 15 years. I no longer recall the competitors we evaluated. Sorry. I can say that the "would you recommend to a collogue" is not a theoretical question for me in this case. I have recommended VirtualPBX multiple times - and know … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose VirtualPBX We started with the irugubak VirtualPBX around the year 2000. We were extremely satisfied with that and now can't say more about the newly updated version. As for other system,I did not feel it was at all necessary to investigate given our extreme satisfaction with this vendor Incentivized Helpful? JT Jody Thomas President Chose VirtualPBX Auto attendant and voice conference capabilities are a good value for SOHO users that need to make a positive impression upon their customers. Incentivized Helpful?	Zoom Phone Verified User Anonymous Chose Zoom Phone User management is easier with Zoom Workplace and for larger meetings and calls offers a larger feature set and better recording options when appropriate. Interactive chat for group meetings is easy to use and encourages participation and attentiveness. The cloud features for … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Zoom Phone we use teams for internal meetings and internal collaboration. It fits oue environment better. However the phone system from Zoom Workplace is much easier to setup and use than Zoom Workplace calling is. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Zoom Phone Zoom Workplace checks WAY more boxes than any of these, except I believe that BlueJeans had more permissions (facilitator, moderator, etc.) Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Zoom Phone zoom is better for mobile working. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Zoom Phone Zoom Workplace does well with both phone communications, meeting communications, and conference room capabilities. It's chat capabilities are inferior to Microsoft Teams as Teams has a higher integration with other utilized tools. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Zoom Phone Zoom Workplace beat all competitors on price. Interface was easy to learn and use and we had already tried Zoom Workplace for meetings before adding phone services so we liked the idea of having that integrated in a single service. SMS messaging and interoffice chat became … Incentivized Helpful? Kayla Jane McLaughlin DIRECTOR Chose Zoom Phone I joined this company after they had already chosen Zoom Workplace is very functional but too confusing for the ties to our e mail addresses, document sharing, etc...I don't feel great about using it and who sees what. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Zoom Phone The main reason why we switched to Zoom Phone is because our VOIP system inexplicably went down for almost a month and no one could figure out what was wrong. Lumen was charging way more than Zoom Workplace, but could not get the system to work. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Zoom Phone I only have experience using Teams as an attendee. I believe the Zoom Workplace platform for meetings is easier to navigate. Incentivized Helpful? Trey Topper Systems Support Generalist Chose Zoom Phone We use Teams still for most things, but for video conferencing and phones we use Zoom Workplace because it is much better and more cost effective, hardware wise. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Zoom Phone Cheaper, faster, easier for the team to adapt to and use. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Zoom Phone Nextiva Business Phone Service and Mitel MiCollab Incentivized Helpful? TM Tom McAnally Telecommunications Manager Chose Zoom Phone Ease of use, pricing was much better, we had Zoom conferencing already so it made using the phone solution easy as we can use the same Zoom Client. The features were more robust than anything else we had seen for a cloud based telephone system. The troubleshooting tools are … Incentivized Helpful? BC Bryce Catten IT Systems Architect Chose Zoom Phone Zoom Phone was much easier to manage and use than Cisco. It also allowed us to get off premises and into the cloud. We chose Zoom to move into the future of phone systems. Zoom Phone/contact center was much easier to setup and use than TalkDesk. It was also quite a bit less … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Zoom Phone Cloudcall had worse call quality, more dropped calls, and no texting function. All three things improved when switching to Zoom Phone. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Zoom Phone Compared to Mitel, Zoom is a next-generation phone system that is significantly easier to use than Mitel or Teams. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Zoom Phone They are very comparable. Incentivized Helpful? AM Ahmed Metwally Director Chose Zoom Phone Zoom Phone was the best value and had the richest features. Also, the implementation of Zoom Phone was much easier than the competing products. Incentivized Helpful? DL DAVE LYONS IT DIrector Chose Zoom Phone Has all the features plus Zoom Meeting integration. Pricing is very competitive. Zoom Webinar is a cut above similar products, so having them all in the same family makes it easier for our staff, most of whom are not technical. Incentivized Helpful? Wenceslao Unzueta Product Manager Chose Zoom Phone As I mentioned before, the interoperability between Zoom Phone communication channels with Chat and Meeting makes this a good user and customer experience. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Zoom Phone Zoom outpaces most of the other companies by miles. Teams is a 2nd but it's not even close. Cost of Zoom for longer meetings, more features might turn people off - but it shouldn't because of the actual features and integration (neat bar, Zoom rooms in 365, etc) - others may … Incentivized Helpful? Becky Bobrink Telecom Engineer Chose Zoom Phone Users did not like the Jabber chat...found it hard to use and un reliable on mobile. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Zoom Phone Zoom Phones is simply user-friendly. You don't have to be a computer engineer to use the software. It does exactly what Zoom Phones promises. It saves money from business and personal landline. Which then in hard times is a huge benefit for me. Less bills more work time. Incentivized Helpful? LH Lonnie Hansen Director of Business Development Chose Zoom Phone This provided similar features and was a better price structure. Incentivized Helpful? Jim Schuman Regional Sales Manager Chose Zoom Phone Zoom Phone is my primary choice Incentivized Helpful?

Features

VirtualPBX

Zoom Phone

Cloud PBX

Comparison of Cloud PBX features of Product A and Product B
	VirtualPBX 9.4 Ratings 16% above category average	Zoom Phone 9.5 Ratings 17% above category average
Hosted PBX	9.00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)	9.00 Ratings	9.60 Ratings
User templates	10.00 Ratings	9.30 Ratings
Call reports	9.00 Ratings	9.40 Ratings
Directory of employee names	10.00 Ratings	9.30 Ratings

Call Management

Comparison of Call Management features of Product A and Product B
	VirtualPBX 9.4 Ratings 11% above category average	Zoom Phone 9.2 Ratings 9% above category average
Answering rules	10.00 Ratings	9.80 Ratings
Call recording	10.00 Ratings	9.90 Ratings
Call park	9.00 Ratings	9.90 Ratings
Call screening	9.00 Ratings	9.90 Ratings
Message alerts	9.00 Ratings	9.70 Ratings

VoIP system collaboration

Comparison of VoIP system collaboration features of Product A and Product B
	VirtualPBX 9.8 Ratings 20% above category average	Zoom Phone 9.6 Ratings 18% above category average
Video conferencing	10.00 Ratings	9.50 Ratings
Audio conferencing	10.00 Ratings	9.50 Ratings
Video screen sharing	9.00 Ratings	9.70 Ratings
Instant messaging	10.00 Ratings	9.70 Ratings

Mobile apps

Comparison of Mobile apps features of Product A and Product B
	VirtualPBX 9.0 Ratings 12% above category average	Zoom Phone 9.9 Ratings 22% above category average
Mobile app for iOS	9.00 Ratings	9.90 Ratings
Mobile app for Android	9.00 Ratings	9.90 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	VirtualPBX	Zoom Phone
Small Businesses	CloudTalk Score 7.2 out of 10	CloudTalk Score 7.2 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	CloudTalk Score 7.2 out of 10	CloudTalk Score 7.2 out of 10
Enterprises	Cisco Business Edition 7000 (discontinued) Score 9.0 out of 10	Cisco Business Edition 7000 (discontinued) Score 9.0 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	VirtualPBX	Zoom Phone
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (0 ratings)	9.5 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	6.6 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	VirtualPBX	Zoom Phone
Likelihood to Recommend	We consider that it is a very complete internet call software that is worth having in all companies that want to increase their sales through customer service agents because, with all its tools, agents improve their workday by day. Incentivized Richard Jassel Maintenance Team Manager Read full review	I think it works well for offices that have multiple locations. Being able to give each person and office their own extension makes it easier for colleagues to connect with each other, plus it's a costs savings for each of the offices Incentivized AB Abigail Blosser Information Technology Specialist Read full review
Pros	Provides real-time analytics and reports that show agent performance during a call, email, or chat, analyzing conversations and indicating where to improve. All call recording features are very easy to access and configure such as regular call recordings and scheduled recordings for specific customers. As it is a cloud-based software with mobile access, we can use it outside the office without any problems, just with the phone and internet connection. Incentivized Richard Jassel Maintenance Team Manager Read full review	Transcribes voicemails. Great for those verbose folks that leave long voicemails. Loud and clear volume quality! Great in a busy office with lots of people talking. Easy to keep track of who has called me. Has Caller ID which is helpful. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Possibly a better way of covering the one zillion features and functions in classes Possibly a better way of covering the one zillion features and functions in classes Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	We needed to link each of our team members' personal emails to the Zoom account so we have to filter VM notifications out of our personal accounts. It'd be nice if you could set business hours through the webpage to include a lunch break so that you don't have to manually go in to edit. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Once it works and has retain ROI.....keep it going Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Integrated into our network. System wide access. Staff are comfortable with the product Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	So much easier than our old PBX or any on-prem PBX I have ever used. We were up and running in an hour. Tweaking the caller menus is so easy. Incentivized Stan York VP of Development Read full review	Zoom Phone has a very sleek design which makes it very easy to operate and use both in the setting up of and interacting in a meeting space. That being said, certain features can seem a bit crowded while trying to screen share or display video which somewhat defeats the purpose of the application as compared to a standard conference call. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	Support have been great during the time for implementing Zoom Phones to our team of 50 people. There were times where they kept supporting us through links but more and more we had actual people getting back to us via emails so we are very happy overall. The product is so great, too. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	We started with the irugubak VirtualPBX around the year 2000. We were extremely satisfied with that and now can't say more about the newly updated version. As for other system,I did not feel it was at all necessary to investigate given our extreme satisfaction with this vendor Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Price point was about the same but Zoom included more features for the price. Also the ISO mobile app was better. We were also about to drop Calendly and save some money using the native Zoom app. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Professional appearance to customers Simple solution for voice conferencing Incentivized Jody Thomas President Read full review	Zoom Workplace has had a positive effect on out business by combining meetings and phones in one place. The collaboration has been better with our staff being hybrid. The Zoom Workplace platform has been more that I expected to pay, but the customer service is outstanding. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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