Avaya UCaaS vs. Nextiva Business Phone Service

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Avaya UCaaS
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
Avaya UCaaS is an all-in-one business communications platform. Avaya UCaaS aims to set employees up for success with unified internal communication, supporting voice, chat, email, video, file sharing, task management and more. Create collaboration in real-time, using any device or system, through one platform.
$19.99
per month per user
Nextiva Business Phone Service
Score 9.2 out of 10
N/A
Nextiva is a business communications platform that includes a VoIP solution, CRM software, BI software, cloud storage, phone and device rentals, email marketing automation software, and a contact center solution. These products can be purchased individually or together.
$18.95
per month
Pricing
Avaya UCaaSNextiva Business Phone Service
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Essential
$23.95
Per User Per Month
Professional
$27.95
Per User Per Month
Enterprise
$37.95
Per User Per Month
Ultimate
$67.95
Per User Per Month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Avaya UCaaSNextiva Business Phone Service
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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Top Pros
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Features
Avaya UCaaSNextiva Business Phone Service
Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software
Comparison of Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software features of Product A and Product B
Avaya UCaaS
6.0
19 Ratings
29% below category average
Nextiva Business Phone Service
-
Ratings
High quality audio8.019 Ratings00 Ratings
High quality video7.015 Ratings00 Ratings
Screen Sharing
Comparison of Screen Sharing features of Product A and Product B
Avaya UCaaS
7.6
11 Ratings
5% below category average
Nextiva Business Phone Service
-
Ratings
Desktop sharing7.611 Ratings00 Ratings
Online Meetings / Events
Comparison of Online Meetings / Events features of Product A and Product B
Avaya UCaaS
7.6
14 Ratings
4% below category average
Nextiva Business Phone Service
-
Ratings
Calendar integration7.314 Ratings00 Ratings
Meeting initiation6.914 Ratings00 Ratings
Record meetings / events7.111 Ratings00 Ratings
Online Events Collaboration
Comparison of Online Events Collaboration features of Product A and Product B
Avaya UCaaS
8.2
13 Ratings
7% above category average
Nextiva Business Phone Service
-
Ratings
Live chat7.313 Ratings00 Ratings
Online Events Security
Comparison of Online Events Security features of Product A and Product B
Avaya UCaaS
7.6
17 Ratings
1% above category average
Nextiva Business Phone Service
-
Ratings
User authentication7.616 Ratings00 Ratings
Participant roles & permissions7.617 Ratings00 Ratings
Cloud PBX
Comparison of Cloud PBX features of Product A and Product B
Avaya UCaaS
7.5
23 Ratings
8% below category average
Nextiva Business Phone Service
9.2
207 Ratings
12% above category average
Hosted PBX8.015 Ratings9.493 Ratings
Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)7.414 Ratings9.4110 Ratings
Directory of employee names6.021 Ratings9.4169 Ratings
User templates00 Ratings8.8127 Ratings
Call reports00 Ratings9.2172 Ratings
Call Management
Comparison of Call Management features of Product A and Product B
Avaya UCaaS
7.7
23 Ratings
6% below category average
Nextiva Business Phone Service
9.2
227 Ratings
9% above category average
Answering rules8.621 Ratings9.4203 Ratings
Call recording8.918 Ratings9.1173 Ratings
Call park8.118 Ratings9.2161 Ratings
Call screening7.417 Ratings9.1164 Ratings
Message alerts8.920 Ratings9.1202 Ratings
Business SMS/External Messaging7.512 Ratings00 Ratings
Online Fax5.59 Ratings00 Ratings
Voicemail Transcription7.018 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile apps
Comparison of Mobile apps features of Product A and Product B
Avaya UCaaS
8.3
20 Ratings
4% below category average
Nextiva Business Phone Service
8.7
194 Ratings
5% above category average
Mobile app for iOS7.915 Ratings8.8165 Ratings
Mobile app for Android8.717 Ratings8.6135 Ratings
Unified Communications Platform and Collaboration
Comparison of Unified Communications Platform and Collaboration features of Product A and Product B
Avaya UCaaS
7.2
15 Ratings
4% below category average
Nextiva Business Phone Service
-
Ratings
Centralized communications management7.414 Ratings00 Ratings
Team messaging6.812 Ratings00 Ratings
Team document sharing7.210 Ratings00 Ratings
Call and meeting analytics7.314 Ratings00 Ratings
VoIP system collaboration
Comparison of VoIP system collaboration features of Product A and Product B
Avaya UCaaS
-
Ratings
Nextiva Business Phone Service
8.7
155 Ratings
5% above category average
Video conferencing00 Ratings8.775 Ratings
Audio conferencing00 Ratings9.2135 Ratings
Video screen sharing00 Ratings8.464 Ratings
Instant messaging00 Ratings8.7105 Ratings
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Small Businesses
Nextiva Business Phone Service
Nextiva Business Phone Service
Score 9.2 out of 10
CloudTalk
CloudTalk
Score 9.5 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Nextiva Business Phone Service
Nextiva Business Phone Service
Score 9.2 out of 10
CloudTalk
CloudTalk
Score 9.5 out of 10
Enterprises
Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Call Manager)
Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Call Manager)
Score 8.6 out of 10
Cisco Business Edition 7000 (discontinued)
Cisco Business Edition 7000 (discontinued)
Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
Avaya UCaaSNextiva Business Phone Service
Likelihood to Recommend
8.4
(99 ratings)
9.3
(243 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.5
(5 ratings)
9.4
(7 ratings)
Usability
6.6
(5 ratings)
9.6
(5 ratings)
Availability
8.7
(4 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
6.2
(4 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
7.3
(82 ratings)
9.1
(8 ratings)
In-Person Training
6.8
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
9.1
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
6.1
(4 ratings)
9.6
(4 ratings)
Configurability
5.5
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
9.5
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
5.9
(2 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Professional Services
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.2
(2 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
7.7
(2 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Avaya UCaaSNextiva Business Phone Service
Likelihood to Recommend
Avaya
Call centers where lots of calls come in per day are better suited for Cloud office. Small businesses or companies that don’t really make outgoing calls or receive a lot of incoming calls other than within the company would not really be suited for Avaya Cloud Office.
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Nextiva
We have had great service with Nextiva Business Phone Service and it is reliable and reasonably priced for the offered features. User Friendly and minimal issues. We are able to control most of the set up for new users and or new phones when needed. Only would like to see the app - Nextiva One be enhanced with more features than it currently has.
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Pros
Avaya
  • User-friendly GUI management interface with the possibility to create different rooms, notebooks, calendars, and chats.
  • The management interface for recordings is made in the rooms with the possibility of downloading them to the location.
  • Link and file sharing with other participants.
  • Chat with all participants and individual.
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Nextiva
  • Up-time, We've never had any sort of extended downtime because of Nextiva Business Phone Service, there services just work
  • Provisioning of supported devices is very easy to do and is almost automatic, this makes new device roll out especially smooth
  • The call flow functionality is especially smooth and intuitive to setup.
  • Their customer service is very effective and I've never waited more than 2 days for a solution, that's for more complicated issues too.
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Cons
Avaya
  • Avaya has very strong contact center offerings and more contact with our salesperson would be helpful, so we can explore the latest offerings
  • Although it's adequate a slightly more intuitive UI would be helpful
  • More integrated reporting at the end-user level.
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Nextiva
  • The use of two apps when you're a supervisor. We have to use Unity and the Nextiva app instead of one app. It can be cumbersome.
  • Better integration with CRM's. We use Zendesk and it works ok as it does pull up customer records if we have their phone number on file. But it would be better if we could have more functionality from one place and have it write to the CRM directly.
  • Accept higher quality audio for greeting recordings. We had to trim the file size down several times losing a lot of audio quality in the process. Mono is fine since callers will only need to hear the one channel. But the Hz limit and file size limit were rough.
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Likelihood to Renew
Avaya
I would like to have better communication with the support teams and do not want to have to port to a new system.
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Nextiva
Its user friendly, easy to use and has been very reliable. We have nothing but good things to say about our service with Nextiva Business Phone Service. When needed their support team has always resolved any and all issues one way or another. They have been helpful, knowledgeable and very friendly. The features vs the cost is wonderful compared to other service providers.
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Usability
Avaya
There are few times that we have not been able to take advantage of the tool, but those moments are related to the bandwidth of each person in [their] home. Those who have low signal cannot access meetings on the platform smoothly.
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Nextiva
Nextiva Business Phone Service system is very usable. We have desk phones, that were included at no cost. The function just as one would expect from an office phone system. I can also answer my calls from my PC and even on my cell phone if I have to leave the office.
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Reliability and Availability
Avaya
Throughout a year and and a half of remote learning, we only experience two minor technology issues that were resolved within an hour
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Nextiva
We have not yet experienced any issues the Nextiva Business Phone Service availability. It has always worked as needed.
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Performance
Avaya
We have not been faced to any performance issue.
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Nextiva
Nextiva Business Phone Service performance is great. The call quality is much better than our old analog land lines at a fraction of the cost.
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Support Rating
Avaya
The Customer Service and Representatives are always kind and willing to go the extra mile to get anything resolved. Yet, we have not really needed them after the initial set up since the product actually works and we have not really experienced any major issues.
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Nextiva
Support is great. We usually get someone on the phone; they answer our questions and help us with our issues. They are responsive when we call, and there is also a wealth of information on their online help center, which will typically answer our question or send us in the right direction.
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In-Person Training
Avaya
whilst on site it was delivered by teams to the desks , not the fault of the trainer
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Nextiva
No answers on this topic
Online Training
Avaya
The online training was clear and effective.
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Nextiva
The training we received from Nextiva Business Phone Service was thorough, and detailed. It also did not take very long.
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Implementation Rating
Avaya
Thank to the help of Avaya implementation team, the migration was done with minimal impact. All activities were well defined and done in time.
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Nextiva
No was done by Agency Owner and was done with the help of Nextiva Support and Sales team. Went very well and has been working great since then. Was originally only two phones and then we continue to add to that. We did not have any reported issues and was a great experience for our Agency and Small Business.
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Alternatives Considered
Avaya
Apart from Cisco Webex Calling/app no other vendor offers their own phones hardware, gateways. We need to add other vendors like yealink, Poly, Audiocodes to complete the solution. This makes things very difficult from management perspective. As you have to hire a person who can manage a multivendor environment. Also, in case of outage, multiple bridge open and every vendor blame others. Cisco is costly so we gave a chance to Avaya UCaaS based on its history and reputation in Calling market.
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Nextiva
We switched for better uptime, ease of use, and better tech support and got all that from Nextiva. We were constantly losing connection with our previous provider, a package service for internet and phone. The web portal is much easier to use, and the call center offers many more features.
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Scalability
Avaya
Scalability was less important for our organization as our needs are quite stable.
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Nextiva
We have not yet needed top scale up our phone system yet, but I can tell that it will be very quick and effortless to do so when the need arises.
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Return on Investment
Avaya
  • This made working from home possible, allowing me to take calls that I wouldn't be able to without having them forwarded by our communications department
  • It works with Teams, realizing when I'm on a conf call and automatically sets a status of away, preventing my phone from ringing, but allowing me to see the voicemail via text so that I can respond
  • If I step out of the office for a little bit, I can have my calls go directly to my cellphone to make sure I'm still available if needed
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Nextiva
  • ROI - we are saving money, a lot of money, and we have a MUCH better phone system
  • Consolidation - we migrated 6 different phone systems in 6 different counties into one, and it's been wonderful!
  • Management - managing this system is so much better than Mitel, Panasonic, and any other system I have used. We are able to assign rights to certain staff to also make changes, and it's user friendly and almost fool proof.
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