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About Virola Messenger

 

Virola corporate messenger development started in 2019 by the software company Provide Support, LLC. Designed for security-focused teams and organizations, Virola offers safe, self-hosted messaging, giving organizations full control over their data, which is stored entirely on their own servers.You can read more about Virola security and architecture here.

 

Deployment

 

•Self-hosted — we recommend deploying Virola on your own server for a fully self-managed setup, ensuring all your data stays entirely in-house.

•Cloud — we offer a cloud server option for testing purposes. At present it’s not designed to support a large number of users or high data transfer volumes.

 

License

 

Virola offers a free license for up to 10 online users and includes a handy calculator to estimate the per-user cost for monthly and yearly subscription plans for bigger teams. To select a plan, simply register an account on the Virola website and manage your license directly from there.
 

How to Setup

 

1.First, install Virola server based on your operating system

2.Next, install Virola Client and log in using your server host, port and your admin login credentials

3.Create new user accounts and share login details with your team members

4.Ask your team members to install Virola client and login

5.Set up your communication environment and get started.

 

Virola Messenger Interface

 

Virola corporate messenger has the following look:

 

 

1.Virola mobile interface

2.App menu, where you can access configuration settings, activate camera shots and open burger menu with basic functionality

3.Chats menu where you can change mode, open task board, run search in chats, open recent chats history and schedule a meeting

4.Avatar which can be uploaded either by an account admin or by a user in a user profile

5.User status

6.Live avatar icon, which indicates whether live avatar mode is enabled or disabled

7.Options menu which you can use to tune your Virola client settings

8.Burger menu which gives access to basic functionality

9.Chat-rooms list

10.Chat-room participants list

11.Chat history

12.Text input area

13.Conversation toolbar, which allows enabling / disabling headphones (listening) and microphone (talking), sharing files, enabling / disabling video stream and video watching, audio recording of the meeting

14.Icons indicating what a user is doing: listening, talking, streaming video or watching

15.Sound quality indicators available for headphones and microphone, indicating whether they work or now

 

Available features

 

•Group chats

•Private chat-rooms

•User permissions

•Timeless files storage

•Timeless chat history

•Screen sharing

•Voice chats

•Meetings scheduling

•Meetings recording

•Video and live avatars

•Issues tracking

•Assigning tasks

•Task board

•High level of security

•User statuses

•Chat rooms grouping

•Text formatting

•Creating tasks from messages

•Synchronization with mobile devices

•AD/LDAP integration

•Deep links

•Users import from JSON

•Users self-registration

•Chat history clearing

•LaTeX messages format

 

System Requirements

 

RAM: 32 MB for installation + 1 МБ additionally for each Virola user

Disk space: 2 MB for each Virola user + the total volume of all attachments