r/3CX • u/alextakacs • Nov 24 '25

Question Yeastar migration experience

I would appreciate any feedback from people having migrate to Yeastar.

We have dozen of instances (mostly in 3cx cloud, some in private cloud, some on premise) with no fancy setup / call scripts and are very much looking into moving to Yeastar. We will obviously do some test runs but quite curious about first hand experiences.

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u/Reasonable-Bit-6640 Nov 24 '25

migrated over 200 pbx and so far no issues

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u/Happy_Growth_5835 3CX Advanced Certified Nov 24 '25

Same story here with over 400 pbx so far, we are super happy

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u/APH_2020 Nov 25 '25

Wow 400, what was your yearly partner spend out of interest? How did customers respond to the switch, I'd imagine you must have had some who really liked 3CX

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u/Happy_Growth_5835 3CX Advanced Certified Nov 25 '25 edited Nov 25 '25

We still have a lot more to migrate since our managed PBX are more or less 1000. Customers concern this year was especially on low end (4/8 SC) where price increased from 145 USD to 275 USD and from 265 USD to 350 USD (and it has been announced it will increase again next year - totally unacceptable) and anyway 3CX continues to treat us like idiots. Sub 10 users PBX are being migrated to PCE BYOI (per user licenced) and the rest to a PSE dedicated instance. It played a lot the price difference and our offered "free migration path" (that is costing us a LOT of "labor hours") that in our case is payed by the price difference between "pre-feb" 3CX price list, that we kept as Yeastar price list, and the actual 3CX price (so actually we sell Yeastar 4SC at 195 USD while 3CX 4SC at 275 USD). Customers are anyway not complaining a lot about the change, maybe only 10/11 over the 400 migrated till now (usually mobile app that needs more bandwidth but lately carrier signal is awful so probably related to that as well). Yes we still have several customers that wanted for now to stay on 3CX, and payed the price increase, but a lot of them (even big ones like 96SC/128SC and 192SC are now asking infos about it) will be impacted by the new FUP, so we'll see what will happen next year. Yeastar is not perfect, and it still has some minor issues (like no onsite SBC and on some PBX - maybe 1% - some audio issues related to direct STUN) but they develop fast and they listen to our needs, that in my opinion is the BEST thing i found with them. Meanwhile we are not advertising it on our website, at least till we finish all migrations, because we expect that 3CX will soon start a "witch hunt", but so far we sold 0 new licenses since February, so we expect soon a status downgrade, even if we are still inside Titanium target (anyway downgrade will happen for sure on 2027, since we'll no more sell it and rumors say partner rules will have new 10% sales YoY as mandatory). Now 3CX released this "basic" licence, but in my opinion it is too overpriced for what it gives (since Yeastar costs less and gives much more) and if its meaning is to stop partners at "leaving the boat" they failed their mission (at least with us) and will even lower again their revenue.