TrustRadius: an HG Insights company

Save this comparison

Save this comparison

Contact about 8x8 Contact Center

Please fill out the form below to get in touch.

8x8 Inc.

Connect with 8x8 Inc.

What are you interested in?

Already have an account?

You hereby consent to have TrustRadius share the information supplied on this form with 8x8 Inc. so that 8x8 Inc. and TrustRadius may contact you in regard to the information requested.

Add Product

Recommended Comparisons

    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    8x8 Contact Center

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/A8x8 Contact Center is a cloud-based platform that unifies customer interactions across voice, chat, email, video, SMS, and social. It offers intelligent self-service automation, real-time analytics, and CRM integrations. With omnichannel engagement, agents deliver consistent, personalized service from one interface.N/A

    Five9

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AFive9 is cloud contact center software for inbound, outbound, blended, or multi-channel operations. This solution includes management capabilities such as campaign management, quality monitoring, real-time and historical reporting, and call recording.

    $119

    per month

    Pricing
    8x8 Contact CenterFive9
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Core
    $119
    per month
    Digital
    $119
    per month
    Premium
    Contact sales team
    Contact sales team
    Optimum
    Contact sales team
    Contact sales team
    Ultimate
    Contact sales team
    Contact sales team
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    8x8 Contact CenterFive9
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsFive9 offers pricing options to suit your business needs: Monthly On-Demand —Companies looking to quickly scale their operations with minimum costs Per-Minute Fees — Products such as voice message broadcasting or IVR with Speech recognition Annual Contracts — Reduced fee compared to monthly on-demand pricing
    More Pricing Information
    Features
    8x8 Contact CenterFive9
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of 8x8 Contact Center and Five9
    Feature
    8x8 Contact Center
    8.5
    182 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Five9
    7.9
    20 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Agent dashboard8.4164 Ratings6.819 Ratings
    Validate callers7.8145 Ratings8.017 Ratings
    Outbound response8.6145 Ratings7.717 Ratings
    Call forwarding9.1167 Ratings7.715 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)8.5115 Ratings8.515 Ratings
    Warm transfer8.5157 Ratings8.218 Ratings
    Predictive dialing7.374 Ratings8.415 Ratings
    Interactive voice response9.3109 Ratings7.815 Ratings
    REST APIs8.271 Ratings8.514 Ratings
    Call scripts8.8106 Ratings7.615 Ratings
    Call tracking8.8161 Ratings8.919 Ratings
    Multichannel integration8.4101 Ratings7.218 Ratings
    CRM software integration8.393 Ratings7.618 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of 8x8 Contact Center and Five9
    Feature
    8x8 Contact Center
    8.5
    169 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Five9
    8.1
    28 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Inbound call routing8.8153 Ratings9.017 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing7.893 Ratings8.315 Ratings
    Recording9.0150 Ratings9.018 Ratings
    Quality management8.7150 Ratings7.927 Ratings
    Call analytics8.6152 Ratings7.417 Ratings
    Historical reporting8.6143 Ratings7.719 Ratings
    Live reporting8.242 Ratings7.918 Ratings
    Customer surveys8.386 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics8.133 Ratings7.315 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    8x8 Contact CenterFive9
    Small Businesses
    Zendesk Talk
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Zendesk Talk
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Score8 out of 10
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Score8.4 out of 10
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Score8.4 out of 10
    All AlternativesView all alternativesView all alternatives
    User Ratings
    8x8 Contact CenterFive9
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (186 ratings)
    8.6
    (44 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.2
    (10 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.4
    (73 ratings)
    7.7
    (8 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.6
    (56 ratings)
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.9
    (6 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    8x8 Contact CenterFive9
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8x8 Inc.
    We spend a lot of time calling insurance companies to check claim status, verify benefits, or fix denials. 8x8 is great for handling high call volume days when our team is making and receiving a ton of those calls. The call routing makes sure insurance calls go to our billing reps and patient calls go to the right team, so things don’t get mixed up. If we’re doing a compliance review or responding to an insurance dispute and need a specific recorded call from months ago, it can take some digging to find it unless we have exact details. It’s not impossible, just not super quick
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Five9
    We use Five9 as a tool to make and receive calls from various departments such as Customer Service, Underwriting, Claims, and others. It's a tool that has helped us complete various tasks to contact our customers. It has also allowed us to replace Zoom Phone, as it makes it easier to assign new contact numbers to agents, while Zoom Phone only allows reusing numbers. It's a good tool with an easy-to-use interface for new users.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Pros
    8x8 Inc.
    • The out of the box chat feature is outstanding for your website. My team was able to adopt chat easily.
    • Setting up the system with the help of an integrator was especially easy and did not require any IT training on my part.
    • The visibility of being able to manage my team and all media channels in one panel is awesome.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Five9
    • Inbound and outbound calls it process is so well.
    • The service is so good and they give very efficient support in customer need.
    • The calls we can do in Five9 include incoming, outgoing, voicemails and we can also send a note to a specific person. It's a very reliable mode of communication.
    Read full review
    Cons
    8x8 Inc.
    • Campaigns is a big one. That has been our main pain point with the 8x8 VCC.
    • AMD+Auto Voicemail is a feature not available today.
    • Customizations like changing a campaign's caller ID based on a CRM field do not allow teams to create more efficient flows.
    • Time zone dialing is limited to the phone area code, not the physical location (address), which is undesirable.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Five9
    • Text. Texting is incredibly difficult on Five9. We've had issues with only some texts logging to Salesforce, issues with threading of text conversations, and issues with having Salesforce contact information appear on the text widget (knowing who you are texting, not just their phone number).
    • The interface to "pause" is challenging. There are not good reminders to our reps to remember to pause or log out of Five9. If you forget to log out, this can affect stats about who worked the longest hours that day - and it's hard to know who actually was active on the phones.
    • Inbound voicemails are too-easily hidden. It's challenging for a lot of our reps to remember to check their inbound voicemails because it is hard to access them in the Five9 widget.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Likelihood to Renew
    8x8 Inc.
    8x8 contact center is meeting our needs as a call center communication solution. We use 8x8 across the entire organization and have been able to work with our account management team to ensure our configuration and integrations meet our business, legal & compliance needs across the organization. The greatest benefit has been the 8x8 account management team who consistently works with us to ensure our needs are being met.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Five9
    Robust product, great reliability and support.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Usability
    8x8 Inc.
    Overall, the 8x8 contact center's functionality is great! As the administrator for our practice, I find the platform extremely easy to navigate and customize for our business needs, which are constantly changing and evolving. I find the analytics very easy to use overall. It is fairly quick and easy to find call recordings when needed, and the reporting can transition between a 30,000-foot view and an extremely granular view.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Five9
    overall usability is very great. User friendly interface for agents within the Salesforce with the engage button. Easy to go offline and online. Very good Integrations with Salesforce helps lot of clients that implemented Salesforce. As it is cloud based, agents can access it from anywhere. While the agent experience is goof, as a technical person it is hard to manage with the Five9 VCC and also the reporting User Interface is bad and slow when there are large amount of records.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Reliability and Availability
    8x8 Inc.
    The only issue I have ran across was on getting the updated new version
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Five9
    We have had minimal downtime due to system outages since it was implemented.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Performance
    8x8 Inc.
    Yes everything loads quickly and its ready for use
    Read full review
    Five9
    The system's performance is great. Page loads quickly. Reports are generated quickly and sent to our email or FTP. The integration did not impact the performance of our other applications. We have not seen any drop in the performance of either applications since we performed the integration.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Support Rating
    8x8 Inc.
    Support is subpar, any time there was an issue they would ignore the preferred means of communication & would not respond to the ticket aside from that they called instead of emailed. They also are not based out of the US so hours are vastly different than typical working hours. They were able to help in some cases but a lot of them were "that's how it is" responses & just overall not a great experience
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Five9
    Five9's Customer Support team is also based in Manila Philippines, thus turnaround email response times for our reported issues are great for our requirements. Their CS agents also facilitate mobile calls to followup on outstanding issues and operate on a 24/7 schedule. We've also had experience working with the senior tech agents to investigate recurring issues to completion.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    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.
    Read full review
    Five9
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    8x8 Inc.
    The training was easy but would probably be much easier in person. Easier to ask questions and show someone your computer when you are in person. Easier to differentiate between network issues and 8x8 issues. Online works too but for how technical 8x8 can be, I would recommend you try and do in person if possible. Would make it much easier to get help when needed. This is a personal preference and not something that is required by any means. The online training is still great and still did the trick. The good thing is that help is always available months or years after if there is something new you want to do
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Five9
    I took the certification course for administrator and also received some tips while working with the developer during implementation. The UI was very intuitive, so I was able to figure out how things worked when I configured the users, skills, campaigns, IVR scripts. I worked with the Five9 AI team to beta test Agent Assist.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Implementation Rating
    8x8 Inc.
    The transition from Mitel to 8 x 8 was smooth and no "hiccups". The support was one of the best that we had received. No surprises except what 8 x 8 is actually capable of doing! Support remained available throughout the transition! Co-workers were amazed at what they were able to do with having 8 x 8,
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Five9
    The implementation team that was assigned to us was great. The project manager was very helpful and managed the timeline very efficiently. The developer was very helpful and provided insights while helping us configure the system.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Alternatives Considered
    8x8 Inc.
    Fuze is somewhat dated and clunky when it comes to configuring settings. 8x8 Contact Center design and settings is more clean and easier to amend. Fuze includes an all in one softphone system, which is an additional component for 8x8. RingCentral seems somewhat pricier when comparing the different offerings, although they may have more features.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Five9
    Initially selected Five9 but have since switched to RingCentral which has given us what we needed. Better CRM integration, simpler and in my opinion more robust reporting capabilities and the same omnichannel solution at a fraction of the cost
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8x8 Inc.
    It is pretty much "Par for the course" with the options out there with other vendors.
    Read full review
    Five9
    We do annual renewals and it's concurrent licensing which is great.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Scalability
    8x8 Inc.
    It was implemented across the board in the company and has worked perfectly
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Five9
    It was very easy to add additional licenses. Once we placed the order, it was activated the following day. Since it's web-based, it's very quick to deploy across multiple sites.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Professional Services
    8x8 Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Five9
    Five9 Professional Services team is very knowledgeable and efficient. I worked with them during implementation and during beta testing for Five9 Agent Assist and Ai Insights.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Return on Investment
    8x8 Inc.
    • Not having to worry about maintaining CCaaS infrastructure is a big ROI
    • For small business, the ROI may not be there - might still be better off with a local PBX (KSU) and a few POTS trunks from the cable company.
    • Never having to worry about upgrading software.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Five9
    • Cost savings: Five9 replaced a premise-based outbound dialer and a different virtual call center solution for inbound.
    • Cost savings: Five9's voice over IP is less expensive than the land lines we were using.
    • Cost savings: Five9 requires significantly less management than our previous solutions.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    ScreenShots

    8x8 Contact Center Screenshots

    Screenshot of inbound SMS with contact center agent response in 8x8 Agent Workspace. Agents are able to see incoming interactions and respond with consistently across channels like voice, SMS, RCS, webchat, email, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, one-way video, Viber, and social media channels via our Meltwater integration.Screenshot of real-time suggestions via 8x8 Smart Assist and full customer history and overall sentiment in 8x8 Agent Workspace.Screenshot of the completely customizable 8x8 Supervisor Workspace for real-time and historical reporting plus features to make quick changes on the fly. Available on desktop and mobile.Screenshot of 8x8 Analytics for Contact Center, which provides out-of-the-box reports, dashboards, and visualizations like the Interaction Journey visual that shows the complete customer journey across channels.Screenshot of 8x8 Quality Management, used to drill into specific interactions, playback, and leave comments with timestamps.Screenshot of 8x8 Voice/Text/Sentiment Analytics, used to create Topics to track common phrases and keywords within customer interactions happening in the contact center.

    Five9 Screenshots

    Product screenshotProduct screenshotProduct screenshotProduct screenshot