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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Exotel Contact Center

    Score8.3 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Exotel is a Contact Center platform for managing customer interactions across voice, video, email, SMS, WhatsApp, and social media from a unified agent desktop. The platform combines routing, agent-assistance, self-service, analytics, quality management, and deployment options for customer-service operations.

    $200

    5 months Validity

    Zendesk Talk

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AZendesk Talk is call center software built on the Twilio cloud communication platform that integrates with the Zendesk Support ticketing system. This allows customer service teams to provide phone support from the same platform they use to manage all other channels.N/A
    Pricing
    Exotel Contact CenterZendesk Talk
    Editions & Modules
    Dabbler
    $200
    5 months Validity
    Believer
    $500
    11 months Validity
    Influencer
    $1000
    11 months Validity
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    Pricing Offerings
    Exotel Contact CenterZendesk Talk
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Exotel Contact CenterZendesk Talk
    Considered Both Products
    Exotel Techcom
    No answer on this topic
    Zendesk
    Chose Zendesk Talk
    Exotel has a fair advantage when it comes to telephony as it offers a wide range of products at a fraction of the price of Zendesk. But when it comes to premium content and ease of access. Zendesk takes away the trophy. We have been using this for a while now and clearly, it …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    83%
    Would buy again
    5 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    14 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    12 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    67%
    Happy with the feature set
    4 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    14 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    90%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    9 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    83%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    14 Answers
    Features
    Exotel Contact CenterZendesk Talk
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Exotel Contact Center and Zendesk Talk
    Feature
    Exotel Contact Center
    8.7
    2 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Zendesk Talk
    7.8
    16 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Agent dashboard9.02 Ratings9.916 Ratings
    Validate callers9.02 Ratings6.012 Ratings
    Outbound response9.02 Ratings10.014 Ratings
    Call forwarding9.02 Ratings8.915 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)9.02 Ratings10.013 Ratings
    Warm transfer9.02 Ratings9.912 Ratings
    Predictive dialing9.02 Ratings5.08 Ratings
    Interactive voice response9.02 Ratings10.010 Ratings
    REST APIs8.02 Ratings5.07 Ratings
    Call scripts8.02 Ratings7.06 Ratings
    Call tracking8.02 Ratings9.914 Ratings
    Multichannel integration8.02 Ratings5.110 Ratings
    CRM software integration9.02 Ratings5.09 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Exotel Contact Center and Zendesk Talk
    Feature
    Exotel Contact Center
    7.8
    2 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Zendesk Talk
    7.8
    16 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Inbound call routing7.02 Ratings9.912 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing7.02 Ratings5.110 Ratings
    Recording8.02 Ratings9.915 Ratings
    Quality management8.02 Ratings9.913 Ratings
    Call analytics8.02 Ratings8.913 Ratings
    Historical reporting7.02 Ratings8.913 Ratings
    Live reporting8.02 Ratings4.914 Ratings
    Customer surveys8.02 Ratings5.08 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics9.02 Ratings8.19 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Exotel Contact CenterZendesk Talk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.1
    (6 ratings)
    9.9
    (16 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    7.1
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.0
    (2 ratings)
    5.0
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    Exotel Contact CenterZendesk Talk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Exotel Techcom
    Exotel is well suited for: - Small and mid-sized Internet based businesses where it is necessary for them to have a very strong customer support team working round the clock and in different shifts. - Company making large number of calls and sending mass SMS's. They can do that on a single cloud based platform. Exotel might not be a good fit if: -it is not a call intensive business that you want to cater to. Though the setup cost is very low but it follows economies of scale i.e. more the number of calls, less will be per call cost.
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    Zendesk
    Zendesk Talk is a great partner that helps us in the customer care area by managing every type of contact with customers (both phone calls and emails). I know there is also the possibility to have integration with instant messaging apps (like messenger and WhatsApp but I have never used them in my experience). In my opinion, the best scenario for Zendesk Talk is represented by a context with a high amount of contacts/requests where a unique platform could be a help both on the external side (customers) and on the internal side (a lot of colleagues who are working in the same area and have to work in a coordinate way). For customers, they could benefit from tailor-made answers, also based on past contacts for the same topic, and avoid waiting times during phone calls, with an immediate follow-up. For internal work management, operators don't overlap in a single request, and even if the same operator is not available the one who manages the request later has complete visibility of the entire topic from the historical point of view. Last but not least, I think that Zendesk Talk helps a lot in the context in which the request's speed is a KPI to manage constantly.
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    Pros
    Exotel Techcom
    • To quickly and effectively route customer inquiries to the appropriate agents our customer support team uses it's omnichannel routing feature , a member with technical knowledge may be contracted by customer who has a technical questions.
    • Its automated ticket routing features allows customer service team to distribute tickets to customer team member in accordance with their availability and skill sets. by ensuring that tickets are handled by most knowledgeable agents this can result in quicker and more precise resolutions.
    • Its AI powered knowledge base search feature helps us to quickly find the details required to respond to inquiries from customer , this time it take to respond to customer inquires is shortened as a result.
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    Zendesk
    • Call recording is a nice feature! It is great for training purposes and for quality assurance.
    • The metrics you get from Explore are a great insight into how the team is handling the call volumes.
    • Zendesk Talk has met most of our needs. It can be a bit unreliable at times.
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    Cons
    Exotel Techcom
    • Inter campaigns call transfer feature which currently is not possible
    • Interface in Agent login to monitor and keep track of their own break and login times.
    • Ameyo’s wide feature set can make onboarding challenging. Offering enhanced training materials, interactive tutorials, and a more structured onboarding process could make adoption easier for new users.
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    Zendesk
    • The lag on the phone is by far the most annoying thing with Zendesk talk due to the voice over IP.
    • Using the Reporting feature in Zendesk has never been a walk in the park. We have to customize a lot of fields and when something doesn't seem to add up, it at times feels like pulling teeth to get to the final answer of what went wrong.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Exotel Techcom
    As a company our goals have slightly surpassed the current Exotel features and would want some other software which has better capabilities
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    Zendesk
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Exotel Techcom
    As I said previously, Ameyo is a good tool however it has a long way to go compared to Avaya. The user interface can be improved a lot as they can use it as an app instead of completely web-based. Also, the reporting can be improved substantially and make the experience much better.
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    Zendesk
    Everything about it works, as I have previously detailed. Coming from different companies and using other tools like Twilio or Aircall, those are VOIP tools that are built to be plugged into other tools, Zendesk Talk is natively built into Zendesk and feels correct in the user experience of Zendesk
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    Support Rating
    Exotel Techcom
    Initially they had chat support which was available faster. But now the chat support gets routed to a virtual agent and unable to get in touch with an actual agent. They also have no support with respect to the API's and other integrations.
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    Zendesk
    In our experience, we have had to go through many support people then ultimately getting frustrated enough to go directly to our point of contact who then doesn't always seem to be able to assist. We tend to get the support we need when it is escalated up to me and I reach out to our point of a contact person to express our frustration.
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    Implementation Rating
    Exotel Techcom
    It was pretty straight forward
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    Zendesk
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    Alternatives Considered
    Exotel Techcom
    Exotel was selected by us because of the following reasons: -Low set-up and maintenance cost as compared to its peers. -Prompt customer service: You want to upgrade your plan or facing any issues around the platform, Exotel team is just a call away. -Call recording Quality was also better than the peers.
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    Zendesk
    Slack and Zoom phones cannot compare because they have no ticketing systems. Zendesk Talk was the only option we considered because we were already using Zendesk for our email ticketing with customer concerns. We then expanded to using Zendesk's chatbot and then the Zendesk Talk system to keep it all integrated and streamlined.
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    Return on Investment
    Exotel Techcom
    • This increased onboarding efficiency to save money on startup.
    • This saved us money by getting both services from one company.
    • Con was price was higher than we would have liked but efficiency made up for that.
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    Zendesk
    • We were able to reduce global headcount by 20% in our call centers.
    • Allowing customers to leave voicemails creates the personal touch needed and really increases our customer connectivity score. We saw increases in our CSAT scores after the implementation of this solution.
    • Call handling time and case reopen rates both decreased. Y/y it decreased 18% and 60%.
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