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3CX Free Live Chat, Calls & Messaging

Chat with your website visitors in real-time for free! Engage with your customers and increase sales.

By WP-LiveChat·Live Chat·Free
4.6(821 reviews)
·100K+ active installs·Updated 7 months ago
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As of April 2026, 3CX Free Live Chat, Calls & Messaging is a WordPress live chat plugin with 100K+ active installations and a 4.6/5 rating from 821 reviews. It has been downloaded 3.9M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.3+ and PHP 5.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2013. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: HubSpot All-In-One Marketing – Forms….

4.6/5821 reviews
100K+active installs
3.9M+total downloads
13 yearssince 2013

Overview

Increase your online conversions with the free 3CX Live Chat plugin. Chat and call with your website visitors in real-time, and not only!

The plugin includes a complete communications system for your business – for free. Call, chat, conference and collaborate with your teams and customers from your office, home or smartphone.

Zero cost business communications from one central hub. Receive WhatsApp, Facebook and SMS messages on the same dashboard as your live chats and calls.

Tried and tested with more than 100,000 active installations, 3CX Live Chat is a reliable free live chat solution for WordPress.

NO HIDDEN COSTS

The plugin is free, forever. It’s not a free trial and we don’t ask you for your credit card details.
Simply create an account on the 3CX.com website, receive your acco…

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Ratings & Reviews

4.6821 reviews
5 ★
707
4 ★
34
3 ★
6
2 ★
15
1 ★
59

Recent Reviews

Average review
by KC·2 months ago

I was told to uninstall this plugin for optimal of web management.

Almost perfect
by musherenko·4 months ago

This is an excellent and stylish free plugin, created by a great company. My only criticism is how the chat bubble displays on mobile. If they fix this I’ll change my review from 4 to 5 stars. The chat bubble hugs the browser corner instead of having padding. Or at least letting us change the padding. On iPhones, specifically using Chrome browser, the bubble is cut partially off the screen when scrolling down..because of the rounded shape of the iPhone screen. I looked at a few other users sites using chat, same result. Add some padding to mobile.

Using their other option, the embed code, you can add padding, but it breaks the full screen chat window..pushes the chat up and left off the page by however much padding was added.

Works flawlessly
by shnalla·5 months ago

As said in the title, it works beautifully. You can tweak its appearance on the admin panel and choose if you want chat only or chat and call. Great. The only downside in my opinion is the button position on mobile. You can’t adjust margins and on my website it is too close to the screen border. I am pretty sure I will be able to do that with custom CSS, but it would be nice to be able to do that through the plugin settings.

Unified / Yet Disconnected Experience
by Chad·11 months ago

While the concept is ideal, settings and experience are disconnected. Plugin does not follow any tailoring of the experience within 3CX admin panel. Desktop opens chat by default and mobile remains with icon only(desired on both).

Have tried this multiple times over a couple years, would like this to be unified with our phones. However without a predictable end user experience, it’s not an option – would appreciate a dedicated focus on making this a beautiful experience.

Very great !
by ulocateme·2 years ago

“You have an amazing plugin for beginners like me! I hope you continue to develop it, as next time, we will gladly recommend your brand to other users interested in purchasing.

Download Trends

Today: 985Yesterday: 1KThis week: 7KPeriod total: 566K

Compatibility

WordPress5.3+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5
PHP5.4+ required

Version Adoption

v10.0
98.0%
Other
2.0%

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

10.0.17 – 2025-08-25

  • Chat engine update
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

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Plugin Info
Version
10.0.17
Last Updated
Aug 25, 2025
WP Requires
5.3+
Tested Up To
6.8.5
PHP Requires
5.4+
Active Installs
100K+
Downloads
3.9M+
Added
Jan 6, 2013
Business
Free

Tags

live chatlive helplive supportfree live chatwordpress live chat

Developer

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WP-LiveChat
1 plugins0.1M+ total installs
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