{"id":272573,"date":"2018-08-07T11:06:41","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T15:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/?p=272573"},"modified":"2018-08-07T13:52:24","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T17:52:24","slug":"upgrade-free-version-3cx-phone-system-commercial-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/upgrade-free-version-3cx-phone-system-commercial-version\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Upgrade the Free Version of 3CX Phone System to a Commercial Version?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2018\/08\/3cx-upgrade.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-272623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2018\/08\/3cx-upgrade.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2018\/08\/3cx-upgrade-150x75.png 150w, https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2018\/08\/3cx-upgrade-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2018\/08\/3cx-upgrade-768x384.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3CX provides call switching, routing, and queueing. The web-based interface makes the configuration and management as easy as a breeze! With 3CX <a href=\"\/phone-systems\">phone systems<\/a>, you are able to monitor phone status simply from a web browser. While the free version of 3CX is popular, many people are looking to upgrade to one of the commercial versions for more advanced capabilities. How? It\u2019s fairly easy. Let\u2019s take a look!<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>3CX Free version vs paid version: What are the differences?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-75173 alignright\" src=\"\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2013\/08\/3cx-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" \/>3CX is priced as an annual license\/subscription based on the number of simultaneous calls you need. The free version gives you the capability to handle up to 16 simultaneous calls for free for one year, including hosting. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All editions provide basic functionalities such as web-based configuration and status indication, auto attendant, unified communications. However, <\/span><a href=\"\/3cx-psproedition\" onclick=\"ga('send', 'event', 'voip-insider-blog-post', 'click', '3cx');\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the paid versions of 3CX<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> give you more advanced features such as advanced real time queue statistics, advanced agent statistics, call back feature, <\/span><a href=\"\/3cx-psproedition\" onclick=\"ga('send', 'event', 'voip-insider-blog-post', 'click', '3cx');\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and more<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>How to upgrade from the free version of 3CX to a commercial version<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21942 alignright\" src=\"\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2010\/08\/3cx.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"130\" \/>You can easily upgrade your free version of the 3CX software through a unique activation license key provided to you via email after your purchase. You can then apply it directly from the 3CX admin GUI configuration. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Updates are instantaneous after you apply them. They are based upon the maximum number of concurrent calls you will have on your solution, and can be easily upgraded to a higher amount of simultaneous calls if needed. Once again, changes are done via the web GUI and are instantaneous.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3CX provides call switching, routing, and queueing. The web-based interface makes the configuration and management as easy as a breeze! With 3CX phone systems, you are able to monitor phone status simply from a web browser. While the free version of 3CX is popular, many people are looking to upgrade to one of the commercial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1224,1223],"tags":[1058],"class_list":["post-272573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-voip-phone","category-voip-systems","tag-3cx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272573"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272903,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272573\/revisions\/272903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}