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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    CallFire

    Score9.7 out of 10
    N/ACallFire is a VoIP and messaging solution designed for both external B2C interactions and internal company use. It includes features such as text messaging, call tracking, voice broadcasting, and an interactive voice response (IVR) system. Subscription pricing starts at $99 per month.

    $99

    per month

    Lifesize CxEngage

    Score7.8 out of 10
    N/ACxEngage is a cloud contact center solution designed to meet users' needs and work in their environment. Unlike monolithic architectures and on-premises solutions, CxEngage is a ‘born-in-the-cloud’ platform to deliver unified visibility across voice, video, and digital channels. CxEngage is designed to just work anywhere, and to be implemented in a few days or weeks.

    $85

    per month per user

    Pricing
    CallFireLifesize CxEngage
    Editions & Modules
    Lite
    $99.00
    per month
    Startup
    $199.00
    per month
    Grow
    $299.00
    per month
    Pro
    $599.00
    per month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    CallFireLifesize CxEngage
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Features
    CallFireLifesize CxEngage
    Cloud PBX
    Comparison of Cloud PBX features of CallFire and Lifesize CxEngage
    Feature
    CallFire
    7.6
    11 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Lifesize CxEngage
    -
    Ratings
    Hosted PBX6.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)9.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    User templates7.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call reports7.210 Ratings00 Ratings
    Directory of employee names9.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call Management
    Comparison of Call Management features of CallFire and Lifesize CxEngage
    Feature
    CallFire
    9.3
    10 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Lifesize CxEngage
    -
    Ratings
    Answering rules8.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call recording10.010 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call park8.53 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call screening10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Message alerts10.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    VoIP system collaboration
    Comparison of VoIP system collaboration features of CallFire and Lifesize CxEngage
    Feature
    CallFire
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    23% above category average
    Lifesize CxEngage
    -
    Ratings
    Video conferencing10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Audio conferencing10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile apps
    Comparison of Mobile apps features of CallFire and Lifesize CxEngage
    Feature
    CallFire
    8.3
    2 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Lifesize CxEngage
    -
    Ratings
    Mobile app for iOS8.52 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile app for Android8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of CallFire and Lifesize CxEngage
    Feature
    CallFire
    -
    Ratings
    Lifesize CxEngage
    6.9
    2 Ratings
    20% below category average
    Agent dashboard00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
    Outbound response00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
    Call forwarding00 Ratings6.41 Ratings
    Interactive voice response00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
    REST APIs00 Ratings6.41 Ratings
    Call tracking00 Ratings7.72 Ratings
    Multichannel integration00 Ratings6.32 Ratings
    CRM software integration00 Ratings6.41 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of CallFire and Lifesize CxEngage
    Feature
    CallFire
    -
    Ratings
    Lifesize CxEngage
    7.0
    2 Ratings
    17% below category average
    Inbound call routing00 Ratings7.32 Ratings
    Recording00 Ratings8.62 Ratings
    Call analytics00 Ratings6.82 Ratings
    Historical reporting00 Ratings5.92 Ratings
    Live reporting00 Ratings6.42 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
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    CallFireLifesize CxEngage
    Small Businesses
    Aircall
    Score8 out of 10
    Zendesk Talk
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Fuze
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Call Manager)
    Score8.3 out of 10
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Score8.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    CallFireLifesize CxEngage
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.4
    (15 ratings)
    7.7
    (2 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    CallFireLifesize CxEngage
    Likelihood to Recommend
    CallFire
    If you need to find a test candidate for your client quickly, this is one of the best ways. Pull yourself a hot list of a couple hundred potential candidates and load them in to CallFire. Then get ready to hit about 50-60 calls per hour. You should have a great test candidate for your client in about 24 hours! It's amazing how quickly you can show your clients the true speed of your company.
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    Lifesize
    CxEngage can handle some more complex flow options that other vendors don't seem to be able to do. The integration for voice calls with Salesforce is a huge plus. The integration of email support with Salesforce is a BIG miss. After fighting with it for a year, we finally just turned it off and use Salesforce Omnichannel for email support. Chat using Salesforce Live Agent worked fine enough.
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    Pros
    CallFire
    • CallFire provides detailed analytics that show what/when callers select within the phone system
    • The text message broadcast feature is a game changer. This allows a company to dispatch text campaigns with specific calls-to-action, with tracking analytics.
    • The voice broadcast feature allows a mass automated message to be sent to client phones. This saves a lot of time when the same notification needs to go out to multiple clients.
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    Lifesize
    • Great flexibility working with flow creation and editing
    • Great support staff
    • Good overall package for workforce management and quality monitoring
    • Integrates well with our tools.
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    Cons
    CallFire
    • The services are easy to use and robust, but there is room for improvement. Unfortunately, not much has changed over the last 2 years of use. There haven't been any new features or innovations in that time.
    • API integration and automation is not easy for most folks to jump into and there is very little technical support or documentation to take advantage of such features.
    • The standard reports are generally sufficient, but there isn't any customization or intelligence available.
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    Lifesize
    • Stronger support and more reliable system for users not on a commercial network
    • Consumer friendly and intuitive reporting and dashboard tools. build canned reports
    • Reporting: Ability to get a combined SVL for all queues included on a report (now we manually calculate after exporting the report into excel). Same for all major data points (ASA, AHT, etc.)
    • Ability to include abandoned calls and an abandonment percentage which excludes short abandons on the Queue summary report. Now the report just shows total abandons and abandonment percentage so if we want to exclude short abandons we have to pull a separate report to find out how many calls abandoned in less than 10 seconds then calculate the "true abandoned number" (calls abandoned minus short abandons)
    • Ability to change what is considered a "short abandon" and then report on it. Right now the only option is the built in tracking of calls that abandoned in equal to or less than 10 seconds.
    • Ability to "save" an agents "default" skill profile so that any changes we make can be returned to "BAU" with a click of a button
    • quicker data/historical report retrieval
    • way to separate what we have listed as a queue name for reporting vs. what is used for the queue name in the "whisper" (the issue we had with WT queue naming conventions because we had to have the whisper be super precise)
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    Likelihood to Renew
    CallFire
    There is no reason not to, it has proven effective in the usage
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    Lifesize
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    Implementation Rating
    CallFire
    No answers on this topic
    Lifesize
    We implemented in 2018 and were only given 8 weeks to do it...as per the direction of our parent company at the time. Serenova at the time responded well and we were able to go Live within 8-weeks...albeit the product overall was a big change and had gaps in features over our previous contact management solution.
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    Alternatives Considered
    CallFire
    CallFire has a pricing structure that is attractive to us as a small business. The "pay as you use" options helps us keep our overhead low, especially with so many softwares already in our tech stack. It's a tremendous value for the cost!
    Incentivized
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    Lifesize
    It's been too many years...I don't remember. Except in 2021 we looked briefly at Amazon and Salesforce call center offerings. Both were too basic at the time that even if we got a great deal on licensing (we are a Salesforce house for other things), we couldn't easily (or at all) do things like Callbacks and some of the more robust flow buildouts that we have in place today with Lifesize.
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    Return on Investment
    CallFire
    • I sent out a broadcast message pretty deep in our data base, well three years out. I had one customer come in and buy thanking me for contacting her.
    • Our holiday season was up 35% over last year, this year we used CallFire more than we did in the past.
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    Lifesize
    • lower operational costs
    • improved agent productivity
    • improved flexibility in design and admin work
    Incentivized
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