8x8 Contact Center vs. HappyFox Help Desk

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
8x8 Contact Center
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
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
HappyFox Help Desk
Score 7.5 out of 10
N/A
HappyFox is a web-based customer support ticketing system hosted in the cloud. It helps track and manage all customer support requests across multiple channels like email, chats, social media and phone in a centralized ticket support system.
$29
per month per user
Pricing
8x8 Contact CenterHappyFox Help Desk
Editions & Modules
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Basic
$29
per month per agent
Team
$69
per month per agent
Enterprise Plus
$89
per user/per month
Pro
$119
per month per agent
Growth - Unlimited Agents
$23988
per year 20,000 Tickets / year
Scale- Unlimited Agents
$47988
per year 150,000 Tickets / year
Scale Plus - Unlimited Agents
$71988
per year 1,000,000 Tickets / year
Enterprise Pro
Contact Sales
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
8x8 Contact CenterHappyFox Help Desk
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsDiscounts are offered for annual and biannuall billing on per agent plans.
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Community Pulse
8x8 Contact CenterHappyFox Help Desk
Features
8x8 Contact CenterHappyFox Help Desk
Contact Center Software
Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Product A and Product B
8x8 Contact Center
8.3
153 Ratings
0% above category average
HappyFox Help Desk
-
Ratings
Agent dashboard8.4137 Ratings00 Ratings
Validate callers8.4120 Ratings00 Ratings
Outbound response8.3120 Ratings00 Ratings
Call forwarding8.6139 Ratings00 Ratings
Click-to-call (CTC)8.693 Ratings00 Ratings
Warm transfer8.4134 Ratings00 Ratings
Predictive dialing7.558 Ratings00 Ratings
Interactive voice response8.886 Ratings00 Ratings
REST APIs7.555 Ratings00 Ratings
Call scripts8.583 Ratings00 Ratings
Call tracking8.6135 Ratings00 Ratings
Multichannel integration8.379 Ratings00 Ratings
CRM software integration8.473 Ratings00 Ratings
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Product A and Product B
8x8 Contact Center
8.5
141 Ratings
4% above category average
HappyFox Help Desk
-
Ratings
Inbound call routing8.9126 Ratings00 Ratings
Omnichannel inbound routing8.374 Ratings00 Ratings
Recording8.5126 Ratings00 Ratings
Quality management8.6125 Ratings00 Ratings
Call analytics8.1127 Ratings00 Ratings
Historical reporting8.2118 Ratings00 Ratings
Live reporting8.420 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer surveys8.568 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer interaction analytics8.814 Ratings00 Ratings
Incident and problem management
Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
8x8 Contact Center
-
Ratings
HappyFox Help Desk
9.6
5 Ratings
15% above category average
Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
Expert directory00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings9.14 Ratings
Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
Ticket response00 Ratings9.55 Ratings
Self Help Community
Comparison of Self Help Community features of Product A and Product B
8x8 Contact Center
-
Ratings
HappyFox Help Desk
9.1
5 Ratings
13% above category average
External knowledge base00 Ratings9.24 Ratings
Internal knowledge base00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
Multi-Channel Help
Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Product A and Product B
8x8 Contact Center
-
Ratings
HappyFox Help Desk
9.1
3 Ratings
13% above category average
Customer portal00 Ratings9.43 Ratings
IVR00 Ratings8.42 Ratings
Social integration00 Ratings9.43 Ratings
Email support00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings9.43 Ratings
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Small Businesses
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CloudTalk
Score 8.3 out of 10
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Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)
Score 9.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
CloudTalk
CloudTalk
Score 8.3 out of 10
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Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)
Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises
Bright Pattern Contact Center
Bright Pattern Contact Center
Score 9.0 out of 10
SysAid
SysAid
Score 9.1 out of 10
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User Ratings
8x8 Contact CenterHappyFox Help Desk
Likelihood to Recommend
8.2
(154 ratings)
9.4
(6 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
6.4
(8 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
8.3
(40 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
9.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.6
(53 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.0
(5 ratings)
-
(0 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)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
8x8 Contact CenterHappyFox Help Desk
Likelihood to Recommend
8x8, Inc.
IMO, 8x8 is great in the mid-market space. Contact Centers with 25-1000 seats. Is it perfect? No, but none of them are (Ring, Nice, Five9, Talk) they're all going to have their defects. If you're a small or micro business, I don't know if If 8x8 is the place to be. Functionally, it will work fine, but the ROI isn't good for that sized org. And, you want get the support the same way the Mid and Enterprise customers will. Another things to consider is integrations - of which, 8x8 has many. Integrations and APIs is an areas where I have really seen 8x8 making a big push in the last few years. They have a powerful CPaaS product too, but I've not used it enough to be qualified to comment on it (yet).
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Tenmiles Corporation
Happy Fox works well in companies that want a full look at all of their tickets in one place. It may be better suited to smaller companies who can check or double check their tickets and have the time to spare. For bigger companies, I think there are better, more robust solutions.
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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.
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Tenmiles Corporation
  • Smart Rules - Easily create triggers that run based on a variety of criteria. This allows for easily moving tickets through our process. An awesome example is our manager's ability to assign tickets to technicians right from their email simply by responding to the ticket in a certain way. This prevents the opening of a web browser or the mobile app to complete basic functions. Removing one step from the process has already saved us countless hours.
  • Easy to use and clean interfaces all around. Whether it's the web interface, mobile web interface, or one of the mobile apps, HappyFox is all around intuitive. Plenty of things can be made to be updated in two or fewer clicks (Assigned to, due date, priority).
  • HappyFox allows our users to easily create tickets on behalf of customers. Any person who has previously contacted the Help Desk is stored as a contact and can be referenced again quickly.
  • While the portal they provide is basic, it can be quite heavily customized with color schemes and logos. Ours ended up looking better than almost anything else we host both internally and externally. It's clean, simple and provides an easy way for users to input a ticket.
  • Between the Smart Rules and SLAs it's easy to make sure every ticket gets the attention it deserves. Automatic reminders can be sent to technicians based on criteria. Reports can be run to ensure that service levels are being met. These two things alone have greatly increased the quality of service.
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Cons
8x8, Inc.
  • Overall support, being able to get ahold of someone faster/someone that is able to communicate with us easier in terms of language barriers. As well as following what is requested in the support ticket, for example, I submit tickets asking to communicate via email yet 9/10 times I get called to discuss my ticket or to get told to submit information that is already in the ticket... this has improved recently but still plenty of room for improvement.
  • Callback queues. Being able to view the overall queue & not allow duplicates of a callback. For example, someone calls in, requests a callback, then calls back in again & requests for another one or two or three, limiting them to just one callback in that queue.
  • Being able to see overall queues & the numbers in both the regular queues & callback queues would be helpful as well.
  • Being able to do away with 8x8 Contact Center work entirely. Integrating it into Teams is a good thing I saw 8x8 do fairly recently, but being able to use 8x8 Contact Center as the just web version would be a huge plus.
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Tenmiles Corporation
  • There are a few features that I would hope to be standard that are not yet accessible. For instance, having different time zones isn't a choice, and clients aren't able to create their own reports, only staff can. So, my staff is required to run those reports for our clients.
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Likelihood to Renew
8x8, Inc.
8 x 8 is not an ordinary system, it works well for everyday business and assists in working efficiencies. So much is required for credentialing and re-credentialing. 8 x 8 takes out a lot of the extra steps by providing smarter working features that saves time and money. Also, when faxing, once the fax is complete, you receive an actual confirmation! Absolutely love this feature.
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Tenmiles Corporation
The way we have our implementation customized has allowed us to tailor the application to exactly how we would like to use it. We didn't have to change our procedures and fear the potential of poor adoption. Instead we customized the application to be used the way we already ran our help desk. From there on out we reaped the benefits of quicker resolutions, increased transparency, and much happier end users. After setting up Smart Rules, HappyFox does a lot of thinking for us. Tickets go where they need to go, close when they are supposed to close and even remind techs of inactivity. This removes the necessity for micromanagement, which is appreciated by our employees and managers alike
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Usability
8x8, Inc.
8x8's contact center provides us with the functionality and capabilities we desire. Leaders have the ability to measure, guide, and improve the performance of our service representatives. They also have the ability to make necessary changes based on call volumes and workloads. Our service representatives have the tools required to resolve callers' needs more effectively. The administration tools available help us self-service our needs and resolve issues.
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Tenmiles Corporation
No answers on this topic
Reliability and Availability
8x8, Inc.
The only issue I have ran across was on getting the updated new version
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Tenmiles Corporation
No answers on this topic
Performance
8x8, Inc.
Yes everything loads quickly and its ready for use
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Tenmiles Corporation
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
8x8, Inc.
Charlie Knutson is fantastic, however when you call the support number it is almost impossible to get through and when you do they cannot fix your issue. That is the biggest challenge. It is a difference between that and reaching our contact directly. The email support number that our company was given is very responsive and good.
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Tenmiles Corporation
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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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Tenmiles Corporation
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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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Tenmiles Corporation
No answers on this topic
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,
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Tenmiles Corporation
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Alternatives Considered
8x8, Inc.
I would say they are all very comparable. The one advantage to the Spectrum Enterprise OnDemand would be that it has it own internet bandwidth, so it doesn't eat into our overall internet usage bandwidth. It is however more expensive than 8x8. Poly Series just didn't have the flexibility and extensive features offered by 8x8, and therefore was not an acceptable replacement.
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Tenmiles Corporation
HappyFox delivered a more cost effective solution and asset management had no limit. The main problem I saw with the various other services I demoed, was the up charges. The pricing seems manageable until you see that they charge for every 100 or so of this and 100 of that. HappyFox is truly a one-stop shop for us.
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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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Tenmiles Corporation
No answers on this topic
Scalability
8x8, Inc.
It was implemented across the board in the company and has worked perfectly
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Tenmiles Corporation
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Return on Investment
8x8, Inc.
  • It has eased the administrative burden on our IT department.
  • It has eased the overall user adoption process with the multi-platform availability and easy user interfaces.
  • It has enabled our remote customer service workforce to remain working through the COVID pandemic.
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Tenmiles Corporation
  • Through Email support, the company conducts a marketing plan, through sharing of catalogs.
  • Survey and feedback are conducted and attained from HappyFox.
  • HappyFox supports live chat, an easy way to perfect the satisfaction of clients.
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