CallFire vs. RingCentral MVP

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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Remote Work and Collaboration: RingCentral MVP is well-suited for organizations with remote or distributed teams. Its messaging, video, and phone capabilities facilitate seamless communication and collaboration regardless of geographical locations. Unified Communication: For businesses looking for a unified communication solution, RingCentral MVP is ideal. It integrates messaging, video conferencing, and voice calls into a single platform, providing a cohesive communication experience.

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• 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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• Implementation for new clients.
• Support
• The software and app are very intuitive and user-friendly, so it's easy to get started and get going on their system.
• They made it very easy for me to import all our client contact information and team members as users.
• Their online help menu is very good.

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• 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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• Pricing for SMB space is high compared to other solutions
• Still lagging behind 8x8 with desk phone support and integrations
• UI for managing Limited Extensions is significantly more cumbersome than user extensions
• Video meeting software still lags behind industry leaders (such as Zoom and MS Teams)
• No licensing option for Common Area Phones with routing features

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There is no reason not to, it has proven effective in the usage

We are grandfathered into our unlimited toll-free minutes plan. We are very unlikely to switch because of that. It has been the major factor saving us a lot of money compared to switching to other solutions. I don't know any other company that still offers these unlimited plans.

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They were working on updating a few of the modules while we were going live, so this made usability difficult to train on once they did go live with those changes. Now that the changes are in place, we have really enjoyed the usability of the platform

Rarely is there an issue with calls dropping. An issue we sometimes have is how the transcripts mishear the caller's message and enter funny words. Customer service call-ins have been few and far between, but issues are always resolved in a professional but quick manner.

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Occasional bandwith issues. In addition to this, I have one individual whose calls are blocked. We were not able to determine whether this was a RingCentral or a carrier issue.

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I have called RingCentral MVP a few times for assistance in setting up call handling or implementing changes in our call handling structure. The wait time to speak with an agent is usually minimal and the ones I have spoken to are excellent at walking me thru what changes I am trying to make as well as ensuring I understand what is being done so I can handle it myself next time if the need arises.

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I really didn't know all the capabilities

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If someone has an existing system I tell them to keep that running initially and keep RingCentral separate initially until the system is configured and tested to one's satisfaction. After testing and configuration is completed, then roll over the main phone numbers to the new RingCentral system. I've seen one person who immediately flipped over to RingCentral without properly configuring/testing the software and had many issues with missed customer calls until I helped him sort out his configuration

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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!

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Ring Central is very user friendly, training and support are easily accessible from the desktop application. It's easier to customize your user experience. Mitel is discontinuing cloud-based systems and partnered with RingCentral, we had actually looked at RingCentral before we chose Mitel

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not to sign up for it or give them any money for a product that does not work

There is a browser version which allows the product to be used by almost anyone.

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• 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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• We were able to save money by canceling our BVOIP circuits, which was a cost of 12k monthly.
• The ability for our employees to give out one number for communication.
• We were also able to cancel our contract with a call recording software we had.

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