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Vonage Business Communications vs Join.Me: Which is a better fit?

Updated on February 16th, 2025
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What's your intended use case?
Summary
Key features rated by users
Features selected based on 2,712 reviews from VoIP users.
% Fit
Missing features
Feature ratings
Online Voice Transmission
3.8
Mobile Access
4.3
Reporting & Statistics
NA
Call Routing
3.8
Call Recording
4.1
% Fit
Missing features
Feature ratings
Online Voice Transmission
4.9
Mobile Access
4.8
Reporting & Statistics
NA
Call Routing
NA
Call Recording
5.0
User satisfaction
4.0
User reviews314
Ease of use
4.1
Functionality
4.1
Value for money
3.8
Customer support
3.7
4.7
User reviews45
Ease of use
4.9
Functionality
4.7
Value for money
4.7
Customer support
4.7
Price starts from
Monthly subscription
Free version
Free trial
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Monthly subscription
Free version
Free trial
Best for

Vonage Business Communications is a good option for small-, medium-, and enterprise-level businesses that need a scalable, easy-to-use VoIP platform with a wide array of solutions.

join.me is the simplest screen sharing & video conferencing solution for your business. Quick to join, use your personal link to start meetings. Great for 1:1 & team collaboration.

User reviews
pros & cons
1 / 4
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Video reviews
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Shawn B
IT Architect
5.0

Shawn B.: Hi, my name is Shawn, I'm an IT solutions architect, and I give a five for Vonage Business Solutions. For more videos like this and more reviews like this, click on the link below. So before using Vonage, we were using Cable Vision's homegrown system, I forget what the name was, but it would give you three or four lines, phone lines, and they would expect those phone lines to be tied down to phones, so if you ever moved from one location to the other, you'd have to call back and basically reprogram the phones. It wasn't working for us because our team was growing and a lot of the people would move around the office space and we would have to be on the phone somewhere very often, so that was one of the hurdles. One of the many reasons we went ahead with Vonage is because unlike traditional key line systems, where you would have to purchase a lot of the phone equipment and also the phone servers and put them in the back and then have somebody come in and build it and configure it, Vonage was in the cloud. So they will just ship you the phones, pre-programmed with your extension, with your name, and you could plug it anywhere in the network, just like a computer, and your phone would just be part of this internet PBX, so to speak. Initially, we never integrated or communicated with a voice-over IP service before, so the first time it was just a little, I would say, a little learning curve, but by the second or third phone, we just knew what had to be done and it was a breeze. And every time after that, we went up to about 11 phones or 11 extensions, and then after COVID, we scaled down to about six, but it was extremely easy. In fact, not only was it so great for us, we started selling Vonage Business Systems to a lot of our small business clients because we are in the IT space. So, very honestly, Vonage is a no-brainer. There isn't any upfront investment. There isn't a long turnover. I would suggest that anybody who is interested, whether it's a one man shop or a 50 man business, they could just pick up the phone, call Vonage and be they'll able to help them get a big company look, so it's really a no-brainer.

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Grant M
Financial Adviser
3.0

Grant: Hi, my name's Grant. I'm a financial advisor. I'm the only one in my business and I give join.me a three out of five. I actually wasn't using any similar tool to join.me before I started using it. The employer I was working for at the time was doing a lot of video calls, and this is the one that they recommended the entire team use. So I use join.me because it was really, really easy for clients to join. It doesn't have any kind of obscure name or anything like that. You literally just go to a website, join.me. You give them a code and they enter it and they can join a meeting. It's really just easy to think about and integrate in that way. You just say, "Hey, you're going to join me for a meeting, let's go to join.me." It's really easy to get started. Literally, yeah, join.me, you go to the website, it prompts you to enter the code to join the meeting. The only downside is if the person that you are having join the meeting doesn't already have the app, then they have to download it. At least that was the case when I was a user of join.me. I believe that now it can be web-based, but in terms of simplicity, it's really just that simple. When I was a solid user of join.me, they had a free plan, and that was really great because I wasn't having tons of meetings and it didn't really warrant paying a subscription. There is only a subscription option now, so you can't have a free plan if you just need to join meetings every now and again. It does have good security features if that is important to you, but honestly, if you're just looking for regular meetings, it doesn't really have anything that stands out. If you do need those extra features though, it does integrate with third party software and different tools as well. So it really just depends at the end of the day if those things are important to you or not.

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Vonage Business Communications

Top Features
19/44
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Activity Tracking
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • API
  • Auto-Dialer
  • Call Disposition
  • Call List Management
  • Call Queues
  • Call Reporting
  • Call Screening
  • Call Tracking
  • Contact Database
  • CRM
  • Customizable Reports
  • Fax Management
  • Interaction Tracking
  • Live Chat
  • Real-Time Analytics
  • Real-Time Monitoring
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • SMS Messaging
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Video Conferencing
  • Voicemail Transcription
  • Automatic Call Distribution
  • Call Center Management
  • Call Conferencing
  • Caller ID
  • Call Monitoring
  • Call Recording
  • Call Routing
  • Call Transfer
  • Chat/Messaging
  • Computer Telephony Integration
  • Contact Management
  • IVR
  • Mobile Access
  • Multi-Channel Communication
  • Online Voice Transmission
  • Queue Management
  • SIP Trunking
  • Unified Communications
  • Voice Mail
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Join.Me

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Vonage Business Communications
Deployment
  • Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
  • Desktop - Mac
  • Desktop - Windows
  • Desktop - Linux
  • Desktop - Chromebook
  • On-Premise - Windows
  • On-Premise - Linux
  • Mobile - Android
  • Mobile - iPhone
  • Mobile - iPad
Support
  • Email/Help Desk
  • FAQs/Forum
  • Knowledge Base
  • Phone Support
  • 24/7 (Live rep)
  • Chat
Training
  • In Person
  • Live Online
  • Webinars
  • Documentation
  • Videos
Join.Me
Deployment
  • Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
  • Desktop - Mac
  • Desktop - Windows
  • Desktop - Linux
  • Desktop - Chromebook
  • On-Premise - Windows
  • On-Premise - Linux
  • Mobile - Android
  • Mobile - iPhone
  • Mobile - iPad
Support
  • Email/Help Desk
  • FAQs/Forum
  • Knowledge Base
  • Phone Support
  • 24/7 (Live rep)
  • Chat
Training
  • In Person
  • Live Online
  • Webinars
  • Documentation
  • Videos
Vonage Business Communications
  • By Vonage
  • Located in United States
  • Founded in 2001
Join.Me
  • By GoTo
  • Located in United States
  • Founded in 2003
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