Chanty vs Fuze | TrustRadius

What users are saying about

Score 7 out of 10

Based on 2 reviews and ratings

Score 7.5 out of 10

Based on 196 reviews and ratings

Feature Set Ratings

Project Management

4.0

Chanty

40%

Fuze

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

Chanty ranks higher in 2/2 features

Task Management

3.0

30%

1 Rating

N/A

0 Ratings

Search

5.0

50%

1 Rating

N/A

0 Ratings

Communication

8.0

Chanty

80%

Fuze

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

Chanty ranks higher in 3/3 features

Chat

8.0

80%

1 Rating

N/A

0 Ratings

Notifications

9.0

90%

1 Rating

N/A

0 Ratings

Discussions

7.0

70%

1 Rating

N/A

0 Ratings

Cloud PBX

Chanty

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

7.3

Fuze

73%

Fuze ranks higher in 5/5 features

Hosted PBX

N/A

0 Ratings

7.2

72%

77 Ratings

Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)

N/A

0 Ratings

7.1

71%

72 Ratings

User templates

N/A

0 Ratings

6.9

69%

59 Ratings

Call reports

N/A

0 Ratings

7.5

75%

91 Ratings

Directory of employee names

N/A

0 Ratings

8.1

81%

106 Ratings

Call Management

Chanty

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

7.5

Fuze

75%

Fuze ranks higher in 4/4 features

Answering rules

N/A

0 Ratings

7.4

74%

98 Ratings

Call recording

N/A

0 Ratings

7.0

70%

88 Ratings

Call park

N/A

0 Ratings

7.7

77%

72 Ratings

Message alerts

N/A

0 Ratings

7.9

79%

92 Ratings

VoIP system collaboration

Chanty

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

8.2

Fuze

82%

Fuze ranks higher in 2/2 features

Video conferencing

N/A

0 Ratings

7.8

78%

76 Ratings

Audio conferencing

N/A

0 Ratings

8.6

86%

89 Ratings

Mobile apps

Chanty

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

8.3

Fuze

83%

Fuze ranks higher in 2/2 features

Mobile app for iOS

N/A

0 Ratings

8.2

82%

93 Ratings

Mobile app for Android

N/A

0 Ratings

8.4

84%

76 Ratings

Attribute Ratings

Fuze is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend
Chanty and Fuze are tied in 1 area: Support Rating

Chanty

70%

1 Rating

7.4

Fuze

74%

115 Ratings

Chanty

N/A

0 Ratings

7.1

Fuze

71%

20 Ratings

Chanty

N/A

0 Ratings

7.4

Fuze

74%

12 Ratings

Chanty

N/A

0 Ratings

8.8

Fuze

88%

4 Ratings

Chanty

N/A

0 Ratings

8.0

Fuze

80%

4 Ratings

Chanty

70%

2 Ratings

7.0

Fuze

70%

161 Ratings

Chanty

N/A

0 Ratings

8.0

Fuze

80%

2 Ratings

Chanty

N/A

0 Ratings

9.0

Fuze

90%

2 Ratings

Chanty

N/A

0 Ratings

7.9

Fuze

79%

186 Ratings

Chanty

N/A

0 Ratings

7.5

Fuze

75%

3 Ratings

Pros

Notifications
App loading speed

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Marc Duke

Marketing Consultant

Marc Duke ConsultingMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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Support Team - the best I have ever worked with. They help 24/7 on any issue I could come across. Usually it is an item I could fix myself and they fix it and show me how to fix the same issue if I have it in the future.
Contact Center - We do Commercial Collections involving Sales and Collections. We have 50 people on the phone at one time. Contact Center lets a Manager listen live and gives help if the rep needs help selling or collecting.
Pandemic 2020 - without Fuze we would have been unable to work for 3 months. They saved our "rears" since we already had all their services up and running for years.

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Wendy Wilcox

IT Support

BARR Credit ServicesAccounting, 11-50 employees

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Cons

Ability to call group members
Ability to video members

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Marc Duke

Marketing Consultant

Marc Duke ConsultingMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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Desktop application stability and compatibility with certain hardware.
Better installation - Per-user and per-computer installs sometimes compete with one another and/or upgrades fail to install.
[The] desktop app is not best for touchscreen-enabled devices due to lack of ability to scroll through messages using a finger or stylus.

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Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology

Wholesale Company, 201-500 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

—

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

Optional

Starting Price

—

Chanty Editions & Modules

—

Additional Pricing Details

Chanty Free plan is for teams with up to 10 members. Chanty Business plan, starts at $3 per user, per month and delivers additional features and unlimited members.

General

Free Trial

—

Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

Required

Starting Price

$15 per month

Fuze Editions & Modules

Edition

US Outbound	$0.02¹
Fuze Meetings	$15²

Per Minute
Per User/Per Month

Additional Pricing Details

https://www.fuze.com/fuze-plans

Likelihood to Renew

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

Fuze 7.1

Based on 20 answers

Fuze is a solid application that is a great asset to the business for our sales staff to make daily calls to clients and candidates. Managers can monitor call data and times to keep up to date with team performance, as well as monitor calls for users on their team. The Fuze/MS Teams integration is an exciting prospect that would be very beneficial to us as a business, for seamless integration between the 2 platforms.

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Verified User

Technician in Information Technology

Staffing & Recruiting Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Usability

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

Fuze 7.4

Based on 12 answers

Fuze was built with the end-user in mind. It was built to have a common interface on mobile and desktop. Fuze Web is new, and it also has the exact same interface as the desktop and mobile, and they are still working on the ability to make phone calls from the browser itself, currently it can do meetings just fine. Everything about Fuze was built with the end-user in mind.

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D. SKye Hodges

IT Technician

Micro FocusComputer Software, 5001-10,000 employees

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Reliability and Availability

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

Fuze 8.8

Based on 4 answers

We've had a few outages over the past year. More than other vendors I've used. They usually have outages fixed within an hour. The downside is they do not provide root cause of outages. If they do at takes them at least a month to get it to you

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Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology

Computer Software Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Performance

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

Fuze 8.0

Based on 4 answers

Since Fuze runs across multiple devices and platforms they really strived to make a lightweight interface that is optimized for phone calls, chat, and collaboration. The web client loads fast, the chat is always up-to-date, phone calls arrive on-time. The desktop client is the most feature rich and basically it just adds desktop sharing functionality as well as VoIP for calling, and the mobile client doesn't consume a lot of battery, and it stays running to get phone calls, chats, and can do meetings over Wifi, Cellular Data, or Cellular voice.

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D. SKye Hodges

IT Technician

Micro FocusComputer Software, 5001-10,000 employees

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Support Rating

Chanty 7.0

Based on 2 answers

I have been sent quite a few emails about functionality and support on a pretty regular basis, which is great. I have not had any need to contact support as the platform is pretty simple to use, it was easy to download and install and I have not encountered any bugs or other issues so far.

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Marc Duke

Marketing Consultant

Marc Duke ConsultingMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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Fuze 7.0

Based on 161 answers

Our experience with Fuze support has been overall very positive. Their technicians seem to be well trained and able to handle a variety of requests and issues without unnecessary delays or extensive troubleshooting. Fuze allows enough customer access to avoid the need to call support for every little issue but is ready to assist when issues are beyond our capabilities to resolve.

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John Dennis

Network Administrator

UNICOM Engineering, Inc.Information Technology & Services, 201-500 employees

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In-Person Training

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

Fuze 8.0

Based on 2 answers

At many of our sites with more than 50 users, Fuze sent someone onsite to train. This worked surprisingly well, as the trainer allowed the users to set the pace and answered TONS of questions. Fuze has a very streamlined training process, their staff is very professional, very knowledgeable and very engaging.

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D. SKye Hodges

IT Technician

Micro FocusComputer Software, 5001-10,000 employees

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Online Training

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

Fuze 9.0

Based on 2 answers

Fuze has vast amounts of training videos and guides on how to use its products and services. There are literally endless-hours of training and I often point end-users to a particular video which addresses the specific needs of the user, for example: how to check voicemail. Or, how to share your desktop, etc.

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D. SKye Hodges

IT Technician

Micro FocusComputer Software, 5001-10,000 employees

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Implementation Rating

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

Fuze 7.9

Based on 186 answers

Personally, I didn't have any trouble getting started with Fuze. It was installed on my computer on my first day and I was good to go! Little to no hiccups. I was not with the company when they first adapted Fuze so I can not speak to the implementation as a whole.

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Danielle Bulla

Accounts Payable and Financial Services Coordinator

Rollins CollegeHigher Education, 501-1000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

In terms of file sharing and speed of collaboration, I find that Slack is quicker and integration into Google Drive is very handy when it comes to working on documents, I have not seen Chanty do this. As for video Google Hangouts is as simple as it gets; again, I have not seen anything from Chanty in this area. I have also looked at and use https://guild.co/ which is much easier messaging and collaboration wise. The app and notification for Chanty is pretty good but it's loading time is slower compared to Slack and WhatsApp.

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Marc Duke

Marketing Consultant

Marc Duke ConsultingMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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Fuze was far more expensive and more complicated to set up. Our current platform took a few days to set up with SSO. Our contact center took a bit longer but works amazingly.

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Justin Lacroix

Manager, IT Support

SoCleanHealth, Wellness and Fitness, 51-200 employees

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Scalability

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

Fuze 7.5

Based on 3 answers

Fuze does have scalability limits but most of that is how many end-points they can put on a virtual PBX, or VCX as they call them, I THINK its limit is somewhere between 2,000 and 5,000, but we've not had issues with that because we have put users into various VCXs some by location, some by department or function. Either way, we have 7,000 currently deployed, and are going to end up with over 15,000 when we are done, Fuze is VERY scalable.

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D. SKye Hodges

IT Technician

Micro FocusComputer Software, 5001-10,000 employees

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Return on Investment

Increased visibility
Increased opportunities

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Marc Duke

Marketing Consultant

Marc Duke ConsultingMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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We receive constant negative feedback from mangers about the system not functioning correctly. (This is mainly due to lack of support from Fuze)
This has had a positive impact in that the system is cheaper and we are missing less calls due to the functionality of the system.

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Mikey Romero

Helpdesk Manager

Mesilla Valley TransportationTransportation/Trucking/Railroad, 1001-5000 employees

Chanty

Fuze

Chanty

Fuze

Task Management

Search

Chanty

Fuze

Chat

Notifications

Discussions

Chanty

Fuze

Hosted PBX

Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)

User templates

Call reports

Directory of employee names

Chanty

Fuze

Answering rules

Call recording

Call park

Message alerts

Chanty

Fuze

Video conferencing

Audio conferencing

Chanty

Fuze

Mobile app for iOS

Mobile app for Android

Chanty

Fuze

Chanty

Fuze

Chanty

Fuze

Chanty

Fuze

Chanty

Fuze

Chanty

Fuze

Chanty

Fuze

Chanty

Fuze

Chanty

Fuze

Chanty

Fuze

Likelihood to Recommend

Chanty

Fuze

Pros

Chanty

Fuze

Cons

Chanty

Fuze

Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Starting Price

Chanty Editions & Modules

Additional Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Starting Price

Fuze Editions & Modules

Edition

Additional Pricing Details

Likelihood to Renew