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Allo.com is a voip hardware company which offers VoIP PBX and VoIP ATA hardware solutions for home and small businesses who want to set up a voip pbx system.

The Voip PBX system offered by Allo called the Nano/Hybrid PBX is a small but fully featured telephone system with all the pbx features at a very affordable cost. Some of the PBX features of NanoPBX are

• Call Forwarding
• Call Waiting/Holding and retrieval
• Call Transfer – Attended and Blind
• Remote Voice mail Access
• Call Parking and Retrieval
• Recordable IVR
• 50 IP Extentions
• Intercom

Set up is easy and no technical experience is required. If you have ever set up a wireless router at home you can set up Allo’s nano pbx system. You connect the wan port of the Allo Nano Pbx to your internet router. Power it up.  Access the graphical user interface of the nano pbx is by connecting your computer to the LAN port of NANO Pbx. Then from within the interface you set up all the pbx features that you need.

You can attach 6 analogue phones and upto 60 IP phones to the pbx.

Setting up of virtual extensions, uploading voice files for voicemail, IVR(Interactive Voice Response) features, setting up of analogue and ip (virtual) extensions and setting up queues are all done through the graphical interface.

The system costs $425, which is pretty reasonable in our view.

Go to Allo.com for more information about the pbx system.

RingCentral Offers two types of virtual pbx solutions, one called RingCentral Online, the other called RingCentral Office. Though both the plans cater to small businesses and SOHOs, the plans are different both feature wise and price wise.

RingCentral Online is a virtual pbx system which receives calls and directs them to your existing home, bussiness, cellular phone numbers. So for this service you pay a fee RingCentral for the virtual pbx system only. Then the cost for your home, business, cellular phone services are separate.

RingcentralOffice is a virtual pbx system bundled with a voip phone service with unlimited minutes. So obviously RingCentral Office costs more than RingCentral Online.

Both the services offer multiple price plans depending on your need.

Read a detail  review of RingCentral Office and RingCentral Online.

Just wanted to bring it to our readers attention is that gotvmail has undergone a name change recently and Grasshopper is the new name.

Grasshopper’s Virtual Phone System works just like large company phone systems, but is designed specifically for on-the-go entrepreneurs. Any small business can sound more professional and streamline its communications by creating a virtual office that connects callers to employees wherever they are, on any type of phone – home, office, VoIP, or mobile. Customizable for 1 or more employees, Grasshopper requires no equipment to purchase, is easily managed online, and starts at only $9.95 a month.

Read a  detailed Grasshope Review.

Hosted PBX services are IP based pbx services that give small business the professional look and feel of big companies as well as the tools that were available only to big businesses that could afford buy expensive pbx systems and have the staff to maintain it.

A hosted pbx system is mostly set up and managed by companies and small business rent the kind service and features that fit their need. Most hosted pbx system provide a toll free number. Any calls made to this number then is forwarded to the phone numbers of your choice. It can be your cell number, home number or business number. The caller remains oblivious to this forwarding.

Apart from the toll free number, hosted pbx services offer other features like multiple extensions, voicemail, auto-attendant, answering rules, dial-by-number feature, conference calling.

All providers have multiple plans at different price points. Lower priced plans come with limited features and start with mostly 100 free minutes per month. As the price gets higher you get more free minutes and more features.

You may review and compare some of the top Hosted Voip PBX providers here.

RingCentral Online, eVoicereceptionist, Nextiva, gotVmail are some of the top hosted Voip pbx providers.