In today's fast-paced digital world, seamless communication is essential for businesses to thrive. Rocket.Chat provides conference calling capabilities to facilitate productive real-time audio and video meetings, enabling teams to share ideas, brainstorm solutions, and collaborate. Users in your workspace can quickly transition from text-based conversations to audio or video calls with the following call providers, available as apps on the marketplace:
- Jitsi: A popular open-source video conferencing platform.
- BigBlueButton: A web-based conferencing solution with whiteboard and presentation features.
- Pexip: An enterprise-grade video conferencing solution with advanced security features.
- Google Meet: A cloud-based video conferencing platform integrated with Google Workspace.
Here are the various conference call features supported across our various plans and on mobile devices:
| Feature | Community | Starter | Pro | Enterprise | Mobile | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Create calls | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| List in the channel users who joined a call | x | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | |
| Contextual bar containing call history | x | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | |
| Options to start with camera and mic off | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Mark calls as ended after 24 hours | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Ring users before starting a call | x | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | |
| Disable call button in the workspace | x | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x |
Here are the various conference call features supported across the available call providers on the marketplace:
| Feature | Pexip | Jitsi | BBB | Google Meet |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start calls from Rocket.Chat | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Identify moderator automatically | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x |
| Control microphone from Rocket.Chat | x | ✓ | x | x |
| Control camera from Rocket.Chat | x | ✓ | x | x |
| Load user names from Rocket.Chat | x | ✓ | ✓ | x |
| Load user avatars from Rocket.Chat | x | ✓ | ✓ | x |
| End calls automatically | x | x | ✓ | x |
Whether you're collaborating on projects, hosting virtual meetings, or conducting remote workshops, Rocket.Chat's conference call feature provides a robust solution for effective communication. As a workspace administrator, kindly refer to conference-call-admin-guide to configure conference calls on your workspace. Once it's successfully configured, users can visit the conference-call-users-guide.md to start initiating and recieving calls on your workspace.