8x8 Contact Center vs. RingCentral Contact Center

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
8x8 Contact Center
Score 7.5 out of 10
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8x8 Contact Center is a solution that helps businesses boost engagement, collaboration, and operational effectiveness for customer success. Built on the 8x8 XCaaS platform, 8x8 Contact Center helps businesses to connect and collaborate with individuals working inside and outside of the organization.N/A
RingCentral Contact Center
Score 7.9 out of 10
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RingCentral Contact Center is an AI-first contact center offers a set of cloud-based software plans with basic features including support for inbound and outbound call centers and IVR and ACD capabilities. Advanced features include analytics, real-time call reporting, workforce optimization analytics, and omni-channel integration with SMS, email, and social media platforms.N/A
Pricing
8x8 Contact CenterRingCentral Contact Center
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
8x8 Contact CenterRingCentral Contact Center
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
8x8 Contact CenterRingCentral Contact Center
Considered Both Products
8x8 Contact Center
Chose 8x8 Contact Center
8x8 had better pricing for our needs. 8x8 offered the features we needed without extras we did not. The overall onboarding process as demoed was smoother and provided more confidence in the product.
Chose 8x8 Contact Center
We selected 8x8 Contact Center because they gave us the best value. They had the best features for the price
Chose 8x8 Contact Center
8x8 is much more inexpensive and is more scalable for a small call center.
RingCentral Contact Center
Chose RingCentral Contact Center
The cost was much lower than Cisco, but functionality and usability were the same. The cost was the deciding factor for our business.
8x8 is cheaper and has much more fucntionality
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
8x8 Contact CenterRingCentral Contact Center
Contact Center Software
Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Product A and Product B
8x8 Contact Center
6.9
131 Ratings
19% below category average
RingCentral Contact Center
7.7
19 Ratings
8% below category average
Agent dashboard7.8116 Ratings7.615 Ratings
Validate callers6.9105 Ratings7.210 Ratings
Outbound response8.0102 Ratings8.316 Ratings
Call forwarding8.0119 Ratings8.817 Ratings
Click-to-call (CTC)5.577 Ratings8.29 Ratings
Warm transfer8.0115 Ratings8.010 Ratings
Predictive dialing7.953 Ratings6.95 Ratings
Interactive voice response7.169 Ratings8.59 Ratings
REST APIs7.541 Ratings8.07 Ratings
Call scripts7.469 Ratings6.710 Ratings
Call tracking6.9115 Ratings8.710 Ratings
Multichannel integration4.567 Ratings6.610 Ratings
CRM software integration4.459 Ratings6.310 Ratings
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Product A and Product B
8x8 Contact Center
7.8
122 Ratings
6% below category average
RingCentral Contact Center
6.8
18 Ratings
19% below category average
Inbound call routing7.8111 Ratings8.316 Ratings
Omnichannel inbound routing8.161 Ratings7.710 Ratings
Recording8.0108 Ratings8.316 Ratings
Quality management7.7108 Ratings7.114 Ratings
Call analytics7.5108 Ratings7.115 Ratings
Historical reporting7.3100 Ratings6.015 Ratings
Live reporting9.01 Ratings7.113 Ratings
Customer surveys7.157 Ratings5.17 Ratings
Customer interaction analytics00 Ratings4.26 Ratings
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8x8 Contact CenterRingCentral Contact Center
Small Businesses
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Score 9.5 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
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Bright Pattern Contact Center
Score 10.0 out of 10
Bright Pattern Contact Center
Bright Pattern Contact Center
Score 10.0 out of 10
Enterprises
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Google Cloud Contact Center AI
Score 8.9 out of 10
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Google Cloud Contact Center AI
Score 8.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
8x8 Contact CenterRingCentral Contact Center
Likelihood to Recommend
7.7
(135 ratings)
8.3
(19 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.6
(6 ratings)
7.0
(4 ratings)
Usability
8.3
(21 ratings)
8.7
(3 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
9.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
3.4
(52 ratings)
6.3
(3 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.4
(4 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Configurability
9.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
7.3
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.6
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.1
(2 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
8x8 Contact CenterRingCentral Contact Center
Likelihood to Recommend
8x8, Inc.
8x8 Contact Center has made my Care Center run much more efficiently. It is a move that I wish we had made many years ago. There have not been any days that we have had a disruption in service and the quality of the calls are always perfect.
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RingCentral
The ease of use and file retention/retrieval is key. The adjustment from an e-mail-focused workflow to the RingCentral Contact Center was easier with the organization. Recall and search features mimic Outlook and allow me to quickly find what I’m looking for. RingCentral Contact Center is not ideal for communication with external partners, so we still have to rely on Outlook e-mails for that.
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Pros
8x8, Inc.
  • Tracks all inbound and outbound calls from our organization.
  • Gives us the ability to record and review calls.
  • Gives the user the ability to receive phone call either via computer, cell phone, or polycom phone when in-house - all received from the same static number/extension.
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RingCentral
  • Reliability: Our previous service was prone to outages, RingCentral Contact Center has been rock solid as long as we've used it.
  • Integration: Our IT team was able to build a custom RingCentral Contact Center dashboard on our website for our salespeople to manage inbound/ outbound calling. From there we were able to send call data directly into activities in our ERP (Acumatica).
  • Ease of use: It works well whether in the office or WFH (which many employees do regularly.
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Cons
8x8, Inc.
  • Post-sale support through the online ticket system is painfully slow.
  • It's hard to get in contact with people for license help and understanding why phone numbers are not properly distributed in your account. i.e. Our account has 48 free local numbers and we had to purchase 120 additional numbers. But for some reason only 25 of the 48 free numbers are being utilized, and there's no good way in the Admin UI to see which numbers are which, or reallocate paid numbers into those 'free' slots.
  • The system has bugs which pop up from time to time such as when a user uses the 'Do Not Disturb' option in their app or on their phone - it does not always turn off on the back-end of the system, even though the phone or app shows the user as available. This causes inbound phone calls to be routed directly to Voicemail, and the only notice the user has is when someone reaches out by other means to say "Why is your phone going directly to voicemail?" - which initiates a service ticket for IT who cannot see this in the admin center. And unless 'flipping' DND on then off again fixes it, it requires a ticket with 8x8 which is, as mentioned before, slow.
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RingCentral
  • I would like to be able to text from our main office line rather than only my office direct line, so I can keep my direct line private
  • I wish it was easier for all users to be able to toggle between calls ringing at their desk phone and cell phone
  • It would be nice if the process to add other team member's numbers to our desk phone screen was easier
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Likelihood to Renew
8x8, Inc.
I really love using this product it has made my job easier to preform my daily tasks. As a customer service agent and claims support agent its awesome
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RingCentral
We have no intention of renewing our contract with Ring Central. We have had multiple outages in the past 2 years. We have been without an account manager for the past 4 months and the resolution of open issues takes 2-3 months. We were being misbilled for cancelled services for almost 12 months. We are not satisfied with the quality, support, or price of the service
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Usability
8x8, Inc.
The system is flexible, adaptable and easy to use and research. Once again the reporting is fantastic and gives up the information we need to be successful and even make changes or tweaks. The 8x8 Contact Center team is there to assist with questions when needed or to help get through an issue. Charlie Knutson is the best!!
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RingCentral
RingCentral Contact Center is not just only an app or platform which allows the company to manage the telephone calls, messaging functions, social media and emails, but also allows advanced features like the possibility of easy integration with other industrial systems, and customer/call analysis functions as well. It also supports and included with AI technology as well into some extent.
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Reliability and Availability
8x8, Inc.
The only issue I have ran across was on getting the updated new version
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RingCentral
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Performance
8x8, Inc.
Yes everything loads quickly and its ready for use
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RingCentral
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Support Rating
8x8, Inc.
The initial live support person seems to be just collecting information and is outsourced. Sometimes it is difficult to communicate with them, but going through this process gets me to the right person and having my support ticket opened in order. It's usually very smooth thereafter.
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RingCentral
We honestly did not need much support but whatever we wanted was resolved via email and that experience was nice but took a bit of time
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In-Person Training
8x8, Inc.
Detailed training and good quality to provide our customers to achieve their needs and to give the best we can as far as information and technology and the best service we can to have the customers be satisfied with the technology and the best quality to get the best answers to their doubts.
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RingCentral
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Online Training
8x8, Inc.
its was with the best quality and the best performance we could have as far as detailed information for us to get the best training on how to get used of 8*8 and provide the best quality and technology to provide to our customers when they need and made us fell comforatble in how to use it
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RingCentral
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Implementation Rating
8x8, Inc.
It was extremely easy
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RingCentral
As I recall it was not a very cumbersome implementation and we were up and running as promised
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Alternatives Considered
8x8, Inc.
Vonage was priced right on the install but escalated as the year went on and by the end of the second year, they had lost the edge they had over many other companies and forced a change by me. We had to work with a single account manager and that was hard when things went wrong on the system. The downtime was minimal with them also.
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RingCentral
RingCentral Contact Center's application is much more intuitive than Nextiva's application. It's also easier to configure. It also has a lot of functionality that Nextiva does not. For example, RingCentral will transcribe Voice mail messages for us, whereas Nextiva does not. RingCentral also sends us notifications when a customer sends us a text message, whereas Nextiva does not.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
8x8, Inc.
It is pretty much "Par for the course" with the options out there with other vendors.
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RingCentral
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Scalability
8x8, Inc.
It was implemented across the board in the company and has worked perfectly
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RingCentral
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Return on Investment
8x8, Inc.
  • The ROI for us is measured more within the CSAT and NPS score increase we have seen thus far, both scores have gone up significantly since we have streamlined our process with 8X8.
  • We are now focusing our attention on retention with the hopes of seeing a second wave of ROI with 8X8.
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RingCentral
  • With RingCentral Contact Center we were able to connect with our customers. The feature that allows the call to be sent to the first available rep ensured that this happened.
  • Also, my favorite feature is the call recording and transcription feature. This allowed me to get the customer's emails without asking them to repeat if I missed them the first time. Hence, happier customers and more meetings.
  • RingCentral Contact Center also made it very easy to set up a mailbox for customers to leave messages and reassure them that they've connected with the right person.
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