- Desktop Pop-Up Alerts: Sends messages directly to employee screens and tracks delivery, readership, and acknowledgements, so teams can confirm important notices were received.
- Desktop Scrolling Headlines: Runs a scrolling message across the screen without stopping normal work, giving employees visible updates with less interruption.
- Screensaver Management: Creates and deploys screensaver messages from one place, turning inactive computers into space for company news and reminders.
- Wallpaper Management: Pushes managed wallpaper backgrounds to employee computers and can prevent users from changing them, giving recurring messages a persistent place on screen.
- Locked Screen Backgrounds: Displays images or slideshow messages on locked computers and supports scheduled deployment, making idle screens useful for internal communication.
- Quizzes and Surveys: Sends interactive quizzes and surveys as on-screen pop-ups with real-time analytics, helping teams collect feedback and check employee understanding.
- Mobile Device Notifications: Extends alerts beyond desktop computers so organizations can reach employees on mobile devices when they are away from their desks.
- Targeting: Sends communications to specific users, Active Directory groups, custom groups, computer names, email addresses, or mobile numbers instead of always messaging everyone.
- Scheduling: Sends communications immediately or schedules them daily, weekly, monthly, on selected days, or for a set number of occurrences, reducing repeated manual sends.
- Analytics: Reports communication activity by tool, user, group, date range, or content manager and tracks delivery and acknowledgements, helping teams see whether messages reached their audience.
XComms Internal Newsletter
Internal employee communications for company news, alerts, and updates
Updated August 28, 2026
XComms Internal Newsletter Overview
XCommsDirect Internal Newsletter is an internal communication tool for sending company messages to employees. Communication, HR, IT, and security teams can send announcements, urgent notices, policy updates, outage messages, and other workplace information.
It is for organizations that need to reach staff beyond the inbox. Messages can appear on desktop computers, mobile devices, and shared screens. It is used in offices, hospitals, government sites, campuses, call centers, and other workplaces.
Key Features
Pricing
| Plan | Price | Billing and scope |
|---|---|---|
| Contact sales | XComms does not publish numeric prices or predefined packages. Pricing depends on the number of targeted users or machines and the XComms tools selected; customers can choose cloud or on-premises hosting. |
A full-access free trial is available, but its length is unpublished.
Pricing source: XComms Pricing Request
Pros
| Competitor | Pros |
|---|---|
| SnapComms | XCommsDirect Internal Newsletter can distribute newsletter links through desktop pop-ups and scrolling ticker headlines, giving teams another way to put a newsletter in front of employees without relying on the inbox as SnapComms does. |
| Staffbase | For teams focused on getting attention outside email, XCommsDirect Internal Newsletter uses desktop communication tools such as pop-up alerts and scrolling headlines. Staffbase Email centers newsletter delivery on email and adds tools for designing, scheduling, targeting, and tracking those sends. |
| ContactMonkey | XCommsDirect Internal Newsletter is part of a wider set of screen-based communication tools, including pop-ups, tickers, screensavers, wallpapers, and lock screens. ContactMonkey centers its newsletter workflow on Outlook and Gmail, so XComms gives teams more ways to display messages outside email. |
Cons
| Competitor | Cons |
|---|---|
| SnapComms | SnapComms has a dedicated newsletter builder with layouts, themes, drag-and-drop content, targeting, scheduling, and readership reporting. Its newsletters run on Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android, which gives teams a defined cross-device newsletter workflow. |
| Staffbase | Personalization is a stronger part of Staffbase Email: newsletters can use employee names, target content blocks by group, send multiple languages, schedule delivery, and follow up with people who did not open the first email. That gives email-led teams more control over who receives each version. |
| ContactMonkey | ContactMonkey builds newsletters directly in Outlook and Gmail and tracks opens, clicks, read time, devices, and audience behavior. It also puts surveys and feedback inside newsletters, which helps teams measure how employees respond without moving to another tool. |
Reviews
- G2 (Rating 4.5/5 from 1 review). The reviewer liked having many tools for keeping team communication working well and reported no drawbacks.
- SourceForge (Rating 5/5 from 1 review). The reviewer liked the desktop alerts, targeting messages by group or person, and tracking who read them. They also found XComms affordable and quick to set up, with no complaints after 6–12 months of daily use.
- SaaSHub. One IT manager said XComms was well designed, fast, inexpensive, easy to use, and had real-time analytics and a responsive support team. The reviewer also valued its multi-channel deployment and reported no drawbacks so far.
