What is Exovo?
Exovo is a modern business phone system (PBX) that you host yourself — on a small server in your office or on a cloud VM you control. It combines a FreeSWITCH telephony core with a clean web console for administration and a full web client for your team: calls, video meetings, chat, SMS and voicemail in one browser tab.
What you get
| Area | Highlights |
|---|---|
| Calling | Extensions, ring groups, call queues with callbacks, digital receptionists (IVR), parking, BLF, Find Me / Follow Me |
| Meetings | Video meetings with browser guest links, screen share, recording and phone dial-in |
| Messaging | Team chat, business SMS/MMS on your own trunks, and a live-chat widget for your website — one inbox |
| Microsoft 365 | Entra ID user sync, "Sign in with Microsoft", and contact sync |
| Integrations | 17 CRM templates with caller-ID lookup and journaling, fax, a REST API, and BI views in your own PostgreSQL |
| Devices | Zero-touch provisioning for desk phones, DECT bases and analog gateways — on the LAN, over VPN, or through the Exovo SBC |
| Operations | Recording with on-box transcription, encrypted backups, one-click updates, and a hypervisor-HA reference architecture |
| Security | TLS/SRTP, SIP scanner auto-banning, toll-fraud detection, 2FA, SSO |
| Hosting | Multi-tenant mode for MSPs — many isolated customers on one machine |
Everything above is included with every license — there are no editions and no per-feature add-ons.
Why self-hosted?
Your call recordings, contact data and message history stay on hardware you control — even meeting video and AI transcription run on your own server, not a vendor's cloud. Exovo ships as containers, so the whole system — telephony core, web console and database — deploys and updates as one unit.
A rolling release
That container-first design changes how Exovo ships. There is no "version 20 → version 21" migration event: improvements are delivered continuously as updated container images, and updating is one click (or one command) that swaps the whole stack to the newest tested set — the same rolling release model Arch Linux made famous, minus the risk profile, because every release is an immutable, tested image set and the previous one is always a rollback away. Features on the roadmap tend to arrive in weeks, not annual versions — the release notes record what each stable release changed, and updating Exovo covers how updates work in practice.