Yeastar

The Yeastar P-Series Phone System delivers unified communications covering voice, video, messaging and customer experience in one place, marketed under the phrase PBX Plus More.

That phrase describes a real shift in the category rather than a marketing flourish. A traditional PBX connects calls, whereas buyers now expect video meetings, team messaging and contact centre features from the same system, and a vendor selling only telephony is competing against products that include the rest at no extra cost.

Yeastar's stated design principle is easy-first, which is the right emphasis for its market. Small and mid-sized businesses adopting a phone system rarely have telephony expertise in house, so a product that is powerful but difficult ends up either misconfigured or dependent on a consultant for every change.

The free trial requires no credit card, which is unusual in business telephony where evaluation normally means a sales call. Yeastar publishes substantial supporting material including datasheets with full specifications, user manuals, firmware releases covering both beta and official builds, a blog, a podcast on unified communications and a support portal. Publishing beta firmware openly signals confidence in the release process. The company is marking two decades in the market. Pricing is not published, being sold through partners.