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Cloud PBX for contact centers

A contact center needs three things from a PBX: queues with clear rules, a supervisor with a live view of the line, and reporting that reflects the shift. sipbox provides them on your own carrier’s trunk — and at high call volumes the per-seat model is exactly where the saving comes from.

Where a contact center hits the limits of a carrier’s PBX

Minutes eat the budget

At tens of thousands of minutes a month, the carrier’s markup on traffic becomes the main line of spend — and grows in lockstep with your calling targets.

The supervisor cannot see the line

Who is talking, who stepped away, how many are waiting — only a summary shows that. Stepping into a call that is going badly is impossible.

Adding an agent takes days

Every new seat means hardware, configuration and a ticket to the provider. Scaling a shift for the season turns into a project.

How sipbox handles it

The platform assumes call volume is high and the shift roster keeps changing.

Queues with dialling rules

The order agents are tried in, how long to ring, what happens when nobody answers. A callback from the queue takes the edge off the peak: the caller does not wait, and is not lost either.

Three supervisor modes

From the manager’s handset: listen silently, coach the agent so the customer hears nothing, or join as a third party. Plus agent statuses in real time.

A seat in minutes

A new agent is an account and a browser. No handset, no software, no provider ticket. A shift can be scaled up for a season and scaled back afterwards.

Outbound rules by destination

Routing across 245 countries with separate rules: where calling is allowed, where it is not, which trunk carries which destination. A backup carrier takes over if the primary is unavailable.

What the contact center gets

What it costs for a contact center

Priced per agent seat. The higher the call volume, the sharper the contrast with a model where the invoice grows with the minutes.

Team sizePlanPer month
20 agentsTeam$180
50 agentsTeam$450
100 agentsBusiness$1,400

Monthly billing; paying annually is 20% lower. Above 50 seats the terms are worth discussing individually.

Questions about a PBX for contact centers

How many simultaneous calls can it handle?

The limit comes from your trunk: as many channels as the carrier allocated, that many conversations run. sipbox imposes no artificial cap on concurrent calls — when load grows you add channels at the carrier rather than buying a more expensive plan from us.

Can a supervisor listen and coach during a call?

Yes, and those are three distinct modes from the supervisor’s handset: listen silently, whisper so only the agent hears, and join the call as a full participant. You can switch between them during the same call.

Is there an auto-dialer or predictive dialling?

There is no auto-dialer in the platform today, and we will not promise a date for one. Outbound campaigns are run by agents manually, including from CRM lists. If a dialer is critical for you, say so in the request — that is worth settling before onboarding, not after.

What happens during a carrier outage?

A backup trunk can be configured: if the primary stops responding, calls go out through a second carrier. That is an advantage of the bring-your-own-carrier model — with a carrier’s own PBX, redundancy across carriers is impossible by definition.

Where are recordings kept at high volume?

In the region chosen at onboarding, with retention per plan. At high volume it makes sense to export to your own S3 storage — then retention and its cost are yours to decide.

Related solutions

Connect your own trunk

Tell us about your setup — we’ll estimate the savings at your volume and help configure your carrier’s trunk.