CallFire vs. Text-Em-All

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
CallFire
Score 9.7 out of 10
N/A
CallFire 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
Text-Em-All
Score 9.3 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Text-Em-All, headquartered in Frisco, delivers personalized, informational, emergency mass text messages and phone calls, whether they’re going to five people or 50,000.
$0.05
cents
Pricing
CallFireText-Em-All
Editions & Modules
Lite
$99.00
per month
Startup
$199.00
per month
Grow
$299.00
per month
Pro
$599.00
per month
Starter
$0
Credits
$0.05
per credit
Monthly
$19
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CallFireText-Em-All
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsText-Em-All offers a variety of pricing plans to cater to different user needs. The monthly plan starts at $19, with pricing based on group size, making it ideal for consistent senders who reach the same group(s) each month as often as needed. Plans provide access to the full range of Text-Em-All features, to ensure a comprehensive messaging experience. Additionally, the platform offers credits, or pay-as-you-go pricing model, with costs ranging from 5¢ to 9¢ per credit, suitable for users with occasional or high-volume messaging needs. To help potential customers evaluate the service, Text-Em-All offers a free account so users can evaluate and try the service with 25 free credits.
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Community Pulse
CallFireText-Em-All
Features
CallFireText-Em-All
Cloud PBX
Comparison of Cloud PBX features of Product A and Product B
CallFire
7.6
11 Ratings
5% below category average
Text-Em-All
-
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 Product A and Product B
CallFire
9.3
10 Ratings
10% above category average
Text-Em-All
-
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 Product A and Product B
CallFire
10.0
1 Ratings
22% above category average
Text-Em-All
-
Ratings
Video conferencing10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Audio conferencing10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile apps
Comparison of Mobile apps features of Product A and Product B
CallFire
8.3
2 Ratings
4% above category average
Text-Em-All
-
Ratings
Mobile app for iOS8.52 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile app for Android8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Emergency Notification System
Comparison of Emergency Notification System features of Product A and Product B
CallFire
-
Ratings
Text-Em-All
8.0
23 Ratings
6% below category average
Mass Notification00 Ratings9.020 Ratings
Multi-Channel Delivery00 Ratings8.319 Ratings
Customization and Templates00 Ratings7.919 Ratings
Geo-Targeting00 Ratings8.97 Ratings
Multi-Language Support00 Ratings7.39 Ratings
Emergency Contacts Database00 Ratings8.112 Ratings
Two-Way Communication00 Ratings7.820 Ratings
Notification Reporting and Analytics00 Ratings7.522 Ratings
Integration with External Systems00 Ratings7.714 Ratings
Mobile Notifications00 Ratings7.716 Ratings
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CallFireText-Em-All
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Enterprises
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User Ratings
CallFireText-Em-All
Likelihood to Recommend
9.4
(15 ratings)
9.1
(211 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(12 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
9.3
(10 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.8
(112 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.4
(6 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
7.2
(2 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
CallFireText-Em-All
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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Text-Em-All
We have found them to be very good for immediate communication of a brief message to a large number of people at once. Thus, it works perfectly for a neighborhood association. It may not be suitable for longer messages or situations with excessive notifications.
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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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Text-Em-All
  • Scheduled delivery: works as it should every time and is SUPER convenient.
  • Mass contact upload: I was able to pull a report to excel and it loaded PERFECTLY to ‘Contacts’
  • Feedback: if anyone doesn’t get the message, I will know almost immediately.
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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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Text-Em-All
  • My initial concern was regarding the "opt out" feature. I work with the senior population, and many of whom are not that tech-savvy. I have a couple of residents who had unintentionally opted out of messages thinking it was an individual message they were skipping. I would suggest that there be a clarifying question when a user chooses to opt out; it should default to opting out of a single message and survey the user to see if they would like to opt out of receiving additional messages. My residents were wondering why they were missing information and why I hadn't informed them of important dates and events.
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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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Text-Em-All
Text-Em-All is a great way to get messages to our associates versus posting on a memo board and hoping they see it. Very efficient. I would recommend this great tool to companies big or small as a form of business related communications. The only thing I would change is the ability to use more characters in the messages. And it would be a plus if you can translate to different languages in the app.
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Usability
CallFire
No answers on this topic
Text-Em-All
It's fantastic. In general, it's a 10. But I give it a 7 because of the way I know it can improve. I save my workers' names in lists...and I have only the first and last name fields to classify them. I grade my workers based on their experiences and based on their jobs; so I use the last name field to group them. This could be easier by you adding another field.
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Reliability and Availability
CallFire
No answers on this topic
Text-Em-All
The availability of the text em all is amazing specially when we needed the most to spread out the word on an event that was happening.
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Performance
CallFire
No answers on this topic
Text-Em-All
I love the performance it provided us. Also, want to clarify that the time it takes to send out a mass text is amazing
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Support Rating
CallFire
No answers on this topic
Text-Em-All
There have been few times over the last 18 years that I have had to make changes to our billing or deal with particular tech questions and I have never had any issues with their response time or ability to be helpful once the issues were communicated
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Implementation Rating
CallFire
No answers on this topic
Text-Em-All
This was the best way we were able to reach out to everyone we wanted to, being that there were some not tech-sabi elderly people. This was a better way for them to be able to get the information they needed.
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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!
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Text-Em-All
Our last provider was costly for what we needed. We need the ability to text, and that's it. The sense was challenging to navigate; I had to sign a one-year contract and pay thousands upfront. Text-em-all has been the best thing.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
CallFire
No answers on this topic
Text-Em-All
Seems like a fair price for the product
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Scalability
CallFire
No answers on this topic
Text-Em-All
We have never had a problem being able to use Text em all when we needed it
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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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Text-Em-All
  • We definitely have a higher response rate when we contact applicants via text message; it seems to be the thing people check more often than email now.
  • It saves us a lot of time wasted before with "phone tag" when employees are unable to immediately to take a call.
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ScreenShots

Text-Em-All Screenshots

Screenshot of broadcast creation.Screenshot of the interface to add contacts.Screenshot of where to broadcast results.Screenshot of broadcast details.Screenshot of the contact management interface.Screenshot of two-way conversations.