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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    eGain Conversation Hub

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AeGain Conversation Hub unifies and automates customer conversations across channels, featuring comprehensive capabilities for messaging, social, chat, email, cobrowse, video, and phone.N/A

    Freshdesk

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AFreshdesk (a product of Freshworks Inc.) is a customer service solution with enterprise capability. Freshdesk unifies channels, conversations, AI capabilities, customer insights, and advanced ticketing into the Freshdesk Command Center so agents are ready to resolve. With Freddy, People-first AI, customer service teams can take AI agents live in minutes to fully resolve complex and simple queries, get response and resolution assistance from AI copilot, and stay ahead with AI insights.…

    $18

    per month per user

    Ruby

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ARuby, or Ruby Receptionists headquartered in Portland, boasts supporting more than 10,000 businesses with live virtual receptionists and 24/7 available chat services. Users set their preferences to have Ruby answer the phone part-time, full-time, or after hours, and Ruby deploys personalized company greetings to custom call handling instructions.

    $129

    per month

    Pricing
    eGain Conversation HubFreshdeskRuby
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Growth
    $18
    per month per agent
    Pro
    $59
    per month per agent
    Enterprise
    $95
    per month per agent
    Chat Ruby 10
    $129
    monthly
    Chat Ruby 30
    $299
    monthly
    Call Ruby 100
    $319
    monthly
    Chat Ruby 50
    $469
    monthly
    Call Ruby 200
    $599
    monthly
    Call Ruby 350
    $999
    monthly
    Call Ruby 500
    $1,399
    monthly
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    eGain Conversation HubFreshdeskRuby
    Free Trial
    NoYesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional DetailsBundled Chat Ruby 10 Your Call Ruby Plan + Up to 10 Chats for $99 Bundled Chat Ruby 30 Your Call Ruby Plan + Up to 30 Chats for $249 Bundled Chat Ruby 50 Your Call Ruby Plan + Up to 50 Chats for $399
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    Community Pulse
    eGain Conversation HubFreshdeskRuby
    Considered Multiple Products
    eGain Corporation
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    Freshworks Inc
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    Ruby Receptionists, Inc
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    93%
    Would buy again
    213 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    147 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
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    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    174 Answers
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    Features
    eGain Conversation HubFreshdeskRuby
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of eGain Conversation Hub and Freshdesk and Ruby Virtual Receptionist Services
    Feature
    eGain Conversation Hub
    -
    Ratings
    Freshdesk
    8.6
    210 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Ruby Virtual Receptionist Services
    -
    Ratings
    Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings9.3206 Ratings00 Ratings
    Expert directory00 Ratings7.9140 Ratings00 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings7.812 Ratings00 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings8.115 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings9.0207 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ticket response00 Ratings9.1207 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of eGain Conversation Hub and Freshdesk and Ruby Virtual Receptionist Services
    Feature
    eGain Conversation Hub
    -
    Ratings
    Freshdesk
    8.0
    185 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Ruby Virtual Receptionist Services
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    Ratings
    External knowledge base00 Ratings8.1169 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base00 Ratings8.0173 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of eGain Conversation Hub and Freshdesk and Ruby Virtual Receptionist Services
    Feature
    eGain Conversation Hub
    -
    Ratings
    Freshdesk
    8.3
    197 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Ruby Virtual Receptionist Services
    -
    Ratings
    Customer portal00 Ratings8.3169 Ratings00 Ratings
    IVR00 Ratings8.563 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social integration00 Ratings8.2105 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email support00 Ratings8.6197 Ratings00 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings7.8126 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    eGain Conversation HubFreshdeskRuby
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.6
    (277 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.5
    (25 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (42 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.5
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.6
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.4
    (41 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.7
    (207 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.5
    (7 ratings)
    -
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.5
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.9
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    6.8
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.7
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.6
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.7
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    eGain Conversation HubFreshdeskRuby
    Likelihood to Recommend
    eGain Corporation
    Search function Global Synonyms Guided Helps. Documentation does a great job of describing features but lacks the big picture of how things relate to one another. Strong consulting partnership and customer focus. There are areas where they need to improve - Improve compliance & risk management plus Improve customer relations/service.
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    Freshworks Inc
    I believe Freshdesk is well-suited for companies that manage multiple accounts, such as those in the Business Process Outsourcing industry. It has all the necessary capabilities, such as ticket management that uses omnichannel to receive ticket requests from service requests (managed internally) in the system, emails, etc. There are also several workflow automations that can be built within the platform/system. What is lacking is the API documentation, which limits the possibilities for further automations. Overall, it is a highly recommended tool for managing employee productivity and timeliness.
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    Ruby Receptionists, Inc
    Ruby Virtual Receptionist Services is well suited for a business that needs call screening and message-taking services. The service is expensive but if the user is willing to put a lot of time and effort into planning and scriptwriting, as well as call handling instructions, it may work well. Also, if there is not much information that must be captured by the receptionist, I feel this may be a better fit.
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    Pros
    eGain Corporation
    • Multiple options to choose channel of your convenience
    • The product capabilities are very good. Easy for integration and deployment
    • Strong consulting partnership
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    Freshworks Inc
    • No prior experience with similar platforms is required to use Freshdesk. I found its interface to be quite intuitive, at least for the end user.
    • It's easy to connect with other platforms, so you can sync and manage data from other platforms because the integrations work correctly.
    • Freshdesk's technical support is quite responsive, with short and effective response times. They have easily handled my questions and issues.
    • It has tools for customizing automated chats, answering frequently asked questions before transferring to an agent. Its configuration is extensive and highly customizable.
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    Ruby Receptionists, Inc
    • Call-out request "personal assistant services."
    • Ruby Receptionist app.
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    Cons
    eGain Corporation
    • Service and support needs to be done better.
    • Compliance and risk management needs to be improved
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    Freshworks Inc
    • Freshdesk is buggy, full stop. I don't know how many support tickets I submitted related to user login.
    • There can be a language barrier with support and sales.
    • There were a couple of hours-long outages that significantly impacted my company's customer experience.
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    Ruby Receptionists, Inc
    • Clarity in billing.
    • Shortened hold times.
    • Less transfer time from call to receptionist (between English and Spanish).
    • Better training of receptionists to prevent certain things from being said to clients - decreases client confidence.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    eGain Corporation
    No answers on this topic
    Freshworks Inc
    New support agents can learn the system quickly, minimizing training time and maximizing productivity from day one. Agents are more willing to use a system that is simple, reducing resistance to change and ensuring all interactions are logged (a common problem with complex systems). The platform is known for being easy to set up and customize, allowing teams (especially smaller ones) to get started with minimal technical expertise.The platform makes it easy to set and monitor Service Level Agreements (SLAs), ensuring customers get timely responses and helping managers enforce performance standards.
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    Ruby Receptionists, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    eGain Corporation
    No answers on this topic
    Freshworks Inc
    Freshdesk is extremely easy to use as implemented it on our own with average technical skills. A lot of the options are straightforward and Freshdesk provides easy-to-understand explanations for some of the more complex-sounding ones. We recently onboarded new specialists and they were able to learn Freshdesk with minimal training.
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    Ruby Receptionists, Inc
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    Reliability and Availability
    eGain Corporation
    No answers on this topic
    Freshworks Inc
    I have encountered a lot of errors in the Freshdesk, however, they tend to resolve it on priority or at least they will share the timeline by when this can be resolved. Most of the time the issue has been from the other partner's end. They take time to resolve their vendor issues and they don't have any timelines in case of developed app errors.
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    Ruby Receptionists, Inc
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    Performance
    eGain Corporation
    No answers on this topic
    Freshworks Inc
    The reports take a lot of time to download if the time period is large. Also, the tickets take their sweet time to open and load. It is not fast as Zendesk. Only 30 tickets are visible in a single go and there isn't any option to select all. If we need to change the pages and dashboards it takes a lot of time to open.
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    Ruby Receptionists, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    eGain Corporation
    No answers on this topic
    Freshworks Inc
    Because I never worked with a company that responds so quickly to their customer! They are always fast at responding and very open to new ideas and quickly turning them around to include them in future releases. They walk us through when we need assistance and are very good at communicating. Overall top notch support
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    Ruby Receptionists, Inc
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    In-Person Training
    eGain Corporation
    No answers on this topic
    Freshworks Inc
    In-person training is provided to all the agents and it is very easy to learn the basics of the Freshdesk interface. Solving tickets via dashboards, replying to the guest queries in bulk via Freshdesk. The training which is a bit hard is creating the logic according to the ticket flow and intergeration.
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    Ruby Receptionists, Inc
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    Online Training
    eGain Corporation
    No answers on this topic
    Freshworks Inc
    This tool is no doubt easy to learn but in-person training is a lot better than online training. It takes time to grasp things in the online training, however, in pandemic we have done all the training online. Apart from a bit more time we haven't faced any issues with online training.
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    Ruby Receptionists, Inc
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    Implementation Rating
    eGain Corporation
    No answers on this topic
    Freshworks Inc
    Was a fairly quick implementation for us. However, we are only doing email integration and not some of the more complex integrations that are possible. One clarification on an earlier question. I selected that Freshdesk doesn't have a given feature, but this is not true. I selected this because there wasn't a selection for I don't use the feature. This is a weakness in the survey.
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    Ruby Receptionists, Inc
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    Alternatives Considered
    eGain Corporation
    While searching for a Customer Experience software, eGain came first in the search and we were pretty satisfied with the product features it has. We liked the support and customer service which made sure all our queries were answered in a very short turnaround time.
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    Freshworks Inc
    Compared to Crisp, Freshdesk offers much more organization and is just much more helpful when it comes to having more than one region/team. Not that Crisp is bad, but with Freshdesk, internal communication and collaboration are much easier, which was quite important for our team to grow.
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    Ruby Receptionists, Inc
    We switched over from Answer First to Ruby Receptionist because we wanted a more full-service answering service. We wanted to be able to call out using our business number as well as text in and out. We also really liked the "call-out request" feature as it freed up our time and allowed Ruby to handle minor client communications, etc.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    eGain Corporation
    No answers on this topic
    Freshworks Inc
    I was not very involved with the purchase/contract (my company purchased Fresjdesk before I was brought on), but I will say that pricing per agent made it difficult to grow our support team. Additionally, we were kind of disappointed after our upgrade because it didn't solve our pain points as much as we expected.
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    Ruby Receptionists, Inc
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    Scalability
    eGain Corporation
    No answers on this topic
    Freshworks Inc
    My company had Freshdesk agents from support and success. It's generally difficult to customize permissions for different agent "roles." We were a fully distributed company, so "multiple sites" doesn't apply to us. We found Freshdesk features lacking as we grew our customer base, and adding agents wasn't easy because price steeply increases with number of agents.
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    Ruby Receptionists, Inc
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    Professional Services
    eGain Corporation
    No answers on this topic
    Freshworks Inc
    - good customer support
    - personal contact
    - usage limited to basic product features, individually designed solutions seem unlikely
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    Ruby Receptionists, Inc
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    Return on Investment
    eGain Corporation
    • eGain helped in improvising our customer engagements
    • Customer retention was made possible as the tool helps us analyse the painpoints of the customer
    • Social Media Marketing helped to gain a lot of customers with minimal cost incurred.
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    Freshworks Inc
    • Increased response times - Client Success maintains at 98% SLA for resolution
    • Categorization of feedback and issues - custom ticket fields make it easier for us to review why clients contact us on a high level
    • Standardization of internal procedures via templates, canned responses and automations
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    Ruby Receptionists, Inc
    • Increased efficiency.
    • NEGATIVE ROI.
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