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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Exotel Contact Center

    Score8.3 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Exotel is a Contact Center platform for managing customer interactions across voice, video, email, SMS, WhatsApp, and social media from a unified agent desktop. The platform combines routing, agent-assistance, self-service, analytics, quality management, and deployment options for customer-service operations.

    $200

    5 months Validity

    Five9

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AFive9 is cloud contact center software for inbound, outbound, blended, or multi-channel operations. This solution includes management capabilities such as campaign management, quality monitoring, real-time and historical reporting, and call recording.

    $119

    per month

    Pricing
    Exotel Contact CenterFive9
    Editions & Modules
    Dabbler
    $200
    5 months Validity
    Believer
    $500
    11 months Validity
    Influencer
    $1000
    11 months Validity
    Custom
    Get in touch
    Core
    $119
    per month
    Digital
    $119
    per month
    Premium
    Contact sales team
    Contact sales team
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Exotel Contact CenterFive9
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Five9 offers pricing options to suit your business needs: Monthly On-Demand —Companies looking to quickly scale their operations with minimum costs Per-Minute Fees — Products such as voice message broadcasting or IVR with Speech recognition Annual Contracts — Reduced fee compared to monthly on-demand pricing
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    Community Pulse
    Exotel Contact CenterFive9
    Considered Both Products
    Exotel Techcom
    No answer on this topic
    Five9
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    83%
    Would buy again
    5 Answers
    85%
    Would buy again
    23 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    88%
    Delivers good value for the price
    21 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    67%
    Happy with the feature set
    4 Answers
    85%
    Happy with the feature set
    23 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    18 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    83%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    22 Answers
    Features
    Exotel Contact CenterFive9
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Exotel Contact Center and Five9
    Feature
    Exotel Contact Center
    8.7
    2 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Five9
    7.9
    20 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Agent dashboard9.02 Ratings6.819 Ratings
    Validate callers9.02 Ratings8.017 Ratings
    Outbound response9.02 Ratings7.717 Ratings
    Call forwarding9.02 Ratings7.715 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)9.02 Ratings8.515 Ratings
    Warm transfer9.02 Ratings8.218 Ratings
    Predictive dialing9.02 Ratings8.415 Ratings
    Interactive voice response9.02 Ratings7.715 Ratings
    REST APIs8.02 Ratings8.514 Ratings
    Call scripts8.02 Ratings7.615 Ratings
    Call tracking8.02 Ratings8.919 Ratings
    Multichannel integration8.02 Ratings7.118 Ratings
    CRM software integration9.02 Ratings7.618 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Exotel Contact Center and Five9
    Feature
    Exotel Contact Center
    7.8
    2 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Five9
    8.0
    28 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Inbound call routing7.02 Ratings9.017 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing7.02 Ratings8.315 Ratings
    Recording8.02 Ratings9.018 Ratings
    Quality management8.02 Ratings7.927 Ratings
    Call analytics8.02 Ratings7.417 Ratings
    Historical reporting7.02 Ratings7.719 Ratings
    Live reporting8.02 Ratings7.918 Ratings
    Customer surveys8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics9.02 Ratings7.315 Ratings
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    Exotel Contact CenterFive9
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    User Ratings
    Exotel Contact CenterFive9
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.1
    (6 ratings)
    8.6
    (44 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    7.1
    (3 ratings)
    7.7
    (8 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Exotel Contact CenterFive9
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Exotel Techcom
    Exotel is well suited for: - Small and mid-sized Internet based businesses where it is necessary for them to have a very strong customer support team working round the clock and in different shifts. - Company making large number of calls and sending mass SMS's. They can do that on a single cloud based platform. Exotel might not be a good fit if: -it is not a call intensive business that you want to cater to. Though the setup cost is very low but it follows economies of scale i.e. more the number of calls, less will be per call cost.
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    Five9
    We use Five9 as a tool to make and receive calls from various departments such as Customer Service, Underwriting, Claims, and others. It's a tool that has helped us complete various tasks to contact our customers. It has also allowed us to replace Zoom Phone, as it makes it easier to assign new contact numbers to agents, while Zoom Phone only allows reusing numbers. It's a good tool with an easy-to-use interface for new users.
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    Pros
    Exotel Techcom
    • To quickly and effectively route customer inquiries to the appropriate agents our customer support team uses it's omnichannel routing feature , a member with technical knowledge may be contracted by customer who has a technical questions.
    • Its automated ticket routing features allows customer service team to distribute tickets to customer team member in accordance with their availability and skill sets. by ensuring that tickets are handled by most knowledgeable agents this can result in quicker and more precise resolutions.
    • Its AI powered knowledge base search feature helps us to quickly find the details required to respond to inquiries from customer , this time it take to respond to customer inquires is shortened as a result.
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    Five9
    • Inbound and outbound calls it process is so well.
    • The service is so good and they give very efficient support in customer need.
    • The calls we can do in Five9 include incoming, outgoing, voicemails and we can also send a note to a specific person. It's a very reliable mode of communication.
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    Cons
    Exotel Techcom
    • Inter campaigns call transfer feature which currently is not possible
    • Interface in Agent login to monitor and keep track of their own break and login times.
    • Ameyo’s wide feature set can make onboarding challenging. Offering enhanced training materials, interactive tutorials, and a more structured onboarding process could make adoption easier for new users.
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    Five9
    • Text. Texting is incredibly difficult on Five9. We've had issues with only some texts logging to Salesforce, issues with threading of text conversations, and issues with having Salesforce contact information appear on the text widget (knowing who you are texting, not just their phone number).
    • The interface to "pause" is challenging. There are not good reminders to our reps to remember to pause or log out of Five9. If you forget to log out, this can affect stats about who worked the longest hours that day - and it's hard to know who actually was active on the phones.
    • Inbound voicemails are too-easily hidden. It's challenging for a lot of our reps to remember to check their inbound voicemails because it is hard to access them in the Five9 widget.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Exotel Techcom
    As a company our goals have slightly surpassed the current Exotel features and would want some other software which has better capabilities
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    Five9
    Robust product, great reliability and support.
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    Usability
    Exotel Techcom
    As I said previously, Ameyo is a good tool however it has a long way to go compared to Avaya. The user interface can be improved a lot as they can use it as an app instead of completely web-based. Also, the reporting can be improved substantially and make the experience much better.
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    Five9
    overall usability is very great. User friendly interface for agents within the Salesforce with the engage button. Easy to go offline and online. Very good Integrations with Salesforce helps lot of clients that implemented Salesforce. As it is cloud based, agents can access it from anywhere. While the agent experience is goof, as a technical person it is hard to manage with the Five9 VCC and also the reporting User Interface is bad and slow when there are large amount of records.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Exotel Techcom
    No answers on this topic
    Five9
    We have had minimal downtime due to system outages since it was implemented.
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    Performance
    Exotel Techcom
    No answers on this topic
    Five9
    The system's performance is great. Page loads quickly. Reports are generated quickly and sent to our email or FTP. The integration did not impact the performance of our other applications. We have not seen any drop in the performance of either applications since we performed the integration.
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    Support Rating
    Exotel Techcom
    Initially they had chat support which was available faster. But now the chat support gets routed to a virtual agent and unable to get in touch with an actual agent. They also have no support with respect to the API's and other integrations.
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    Five9
    Five9's Customer Support team is also based in Manila Philippines, thus turnaround email response times for our reported issues are great for our requirements. Their CS agents also facilitate mobile calls to followup on outstanding issues and operate on a 24/7 schedule. We've also had experience working with the senior tech agents to investigate recurring issues to completion.
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    Online Training
    Exotel Techcom
    No answers on this topic
    Five9
    I took the certification course for administrator and also received some tips while working with the developer during implementation. The UI was very intuitive, so I was able to figure out how things worked when I configured the users, skills, campaigns, IVR scripts. I worked with the Five9 AI team to beta test Agent Assist.
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    Implementation Rating
    Exotel Techcom
    It was pretty straight forward
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    Five9
    The implementation team that was assigned to us was great. The project manager was very helpful and managed the timeline very efficiently. The developer was very helpful and provided insights while helping us configure the system.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Exotel Techcom
    Exotel was selected by us because of the following reasons: -Low set-up and maintenance cost as compared to its peers. -Prompt customer service: You want to upgrade your plan or facing any issues around the platform, Exotel team is just a call away. -Call recording Quality was also better than the peers.
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    Five9
    Initially selected Five9 but have since switched to RingCentral which has given us what we needed. Better CRM integration, simpler and in my opinion more robust reporting capabilities and the same omnichannel solution at a fraction of the cost
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Exotel Techcom
    No answers on this topic
    Five9
    We do annual renewals and it's concurrent licensing which is great.
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    Scalability
    Exotel Techcom
    No answers on this topic
    Five9
    It was very easy to add additional licenses. Once we placed the order, it was activated the following day. Since it's web-based, it's very quick to deploy across multiple sites.
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    Professional Services
    Exotel Techcom
    No answers on this topic
    Five9
    Five9 Professional Services team is very knowledgeable and efficient. I worked with them during implementation and during beta testing for Five9 Agent Assist and Ai Insights.
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    Return on Investment
    Exotel Techcom
    • This increased onboarding efficiency to save money on startup.
    • This saved us money by getting both services from one company.
    • Con was price was higher than we would have liked but efficiency made up for that.
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    Five9
    • Cost savings: Five9 replaced a premise-based outbound dialer and a different virtual call center solution for inbound.
    • Cost savings: Five9's voice over IP is less expensive than the land lines we were using.
    • Cost savings: Five9 requires significantly less management than our previous solutions.
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