ZipDX Pricing
Shown below is information on our basic pricing and billing. We're happy to discuss any special requirements you might have. Feel free to E-mail us at sales@zipdx.com.
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Basic Service: 10 (US) cents per minute per
participant, which covers:
Toll-Free dial-in to ZipDX from
anywhere in the United States and Canada
International dial-in access via local numbers in numerous International cities
Dial out from ZipDX to anywhere in the United States, Canada, China, and Singapore; plus
landlines in the United Kingdom, Australia, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Germany,
Ireland, France, Netherlands, Poland, Italy, Portugal, Greece, Israel, Norway, Argentina,
Switzerland, Japan
In-bound and Out-bound access via VoIP/SIP
The full complement of ZipDX features, including:
Dashboard
Wideband Audio
Identity-driven Code-free Conferencing
Calendar Integration
Private Sub-conferences
Voting
Hand-Raising
Full & Selective Muting
On-line & E-mail Call Summaries
Customized Conference Templates
There are extra charges for calls from ZipDX TO certain telephones, with varying
rates:
In many countries, calls to mobile phones carry additional ZipDX charges (for
example, 20 (US) cents more to mobile phones in Australia or Japan; 40 cents more to mobiles
in Austria). Calls to landlines in countries not included in our Basic Service carry
addtional charges (examples: 10 cents more to India; Pakistan or Costa Rica; 20 cents more
to Saudia Arabia or the Phillippines)
Billing is done monthly, to a credit card on file. To open a ZipDX account, you must provide us with a valid Visa, MasterCard or American Express cardnumber. At the end of each monthly billing period, we will charge your credit card for that month's accumulated conferencing usage. An E-mail summary of charges will be sent to you. Your up-to-the-minute detail of charges is always available on line at the ZipDX customer portal.
We are so confident in our service, we make the following guarantees:
Your conference starts on time. With calendar integration and the ZipDX dial-out
capability, participants get called just ahead of the start time. You can also manually
dial out to virtually any telephone in the world. You won't waste time waiting for laggards.
Your conference audio will be crystal clear. Because ZipDX supports wideband, any
appropriately-equipped participant will enjoy enhanced audio. Plus, with ZipDX dashboard
controls, the host can instantly squelch noisy participants or "music on hold" that can ruin
a conference.
You can request these credits on our Web site from the call summary page.
Some notes on Pricing & Alternative Services
ZipDX is committed to be the best value for business audio collaboration. That doesn't mean that we have the lowest per-minute rates, but it does mean that for the money you spend, we'll deliver substantial capability and flexibility.
There are plenty of alternative conferencing services out there. Many charge 15 or even 30 cents per minute, so you may already think ZipDX is a bargain. But some of the services charge lower rates, and some even claim to be free. If one of these services meets your requirements, you probably should use it. But be aware of the following things that we've observed in analyzing actual bills from a few of these providers:
Service A advertised a 5.5 cent per minute rate for toll-free calls within the United States. That's a pretty good bargain, especially if it's over a reliable network, even for a service that doesn't offer a suite of features comparable to ZipDX. But it turns out this service charges 70 cents per minute for calls originated in Canada. For this customer, a 30-minute call with two Canadian participants and four in the US, resulted in charges of ((2 X $0.70) + (4 X $0.055)) X 30 = $48.60. The same call via ZipDX would be 6 X $0.10 X 30 = $18.00 -- a savings of over 60%.
Worse, the same service charges $14 per minute (yes, FOURTEEN DOLLARS per minute) for a call to India. A 50-minute call with ten people in the US and one in India resulted in charges of ((10 X $0.055) + (1 X $14.00)) X 50 = $727.50. With ZipDX, the cost would be ((10 X $0.10) + (1 X $0.20)) X 50 = $60.00. -- a savings of over 90%.
Service R charges 8 cents per minute per participant for US-originated calls. But for participants in other parts of the world, the charges vary between 20 and 35 cents per minute. This service also charges premium rates to enable certain host controls that are automatically included in every ZipDX conference. So a 100-minute call on this "8 cents per minute" service can really cost $30, while the ZipDX charges could be only $10.
Please make sure you compare "apples" to "apples" when comparing service charges.

