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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

    Yesware

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AYesware, from Vendasta since the October 2022 acquisition, is a service for salespeople that helps them close deals faster. An email service tracks email, templates responses and syncs to CRM.

    $19

    per month

    Pricing
    Exotel Contact CenterYesware
    Editions & Modules
    Dabbler
    $200
    5 months Validity
    Believer
    $500
    11 months Validity
    Influencer
    $1000
    11 months Validity
    Custom
    Get in touch
    Pro
    $19
    per month
    Premium
    $45
    per month
    Enterprise
    $85
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Exotel Contact CenterYesware
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Annual plans save up to 23%.
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    Community Pulse
    Exotel Contact CenterYesware
    Considered Both Products
    Exotel Techcom
    No answer on this topic
    Vendasta
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    83%
    Would buy again
    5 Answers
    88%
    Would buy again
    22 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    91%
    Delivers good value for the price
    21 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    67%
    Happy with the feature set
    4 Answers
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    22 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    94%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    17 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    83%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    19 Answers
    Features
    Exotel Contact CenterYesware
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Exotel Contact Center and Yesware
    Feature
    Exotel Contact Center
    8.7
    2 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Yesware
    -
    Ratings
    Agent dashboard9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Validate callers9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Outbound response9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call forwarding9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Warm transfer9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive dialing9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Interactive voice response9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    REST APIs8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call scripts8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call tracking8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multichannel integration8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    CRM software integration9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Exotel Contact Center and Yesware
    Feature
    Exotel Contact Center
    7.8
    2 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Yesware
    -
    Ratings
    Inbound call routing7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Recording8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Quality management8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call analytics8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Historical reporting7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Live reporting8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer surveys8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Exotel Contact CenterYesware
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    Zendesk Talk
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Mailtrack
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Score8 out of 10
    Mailtrack
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Score8.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Exotel Contact CenterYesware
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.1
    (6 ratings)
    9.0
    (63 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    7.1
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.2
    (12 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Exotel Contact CenterYesware
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Vendasta
    It works for my company and my problems. If you need a Sales CRM you can go for higher-end products that will give you what Yesware gives along with other stuff. Wherein we had specific problems we wanted to solve. -We needed a solution for a smaller team within our bigger sales team. -We needed a solution to be easy to use point and click and did not require any setup. -We needed to have a better solution to YAMM.
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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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    Vendasta
    • Tracking open rates, link click rates, and reply rates. This allows us to compare different templates in order to see which allows for the most interactions and meetings set directly from email engagement.
    • Seeing exactly when someone opens an email and whether it is in their normal location. Also if they are opening on a mobile device versus a computer to be able to organize the set up of the email in a more beneficial way.
    • Being able to save Templates for Mail Merges to avoid the duplication of effort that other mass email systems utilize.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Vendasta
    • The ability to unwrap iframe embeds on email (e.g. if I send a Vimeo link over email, have that video thumbnail show and link out to a video)
    • Removing recipients from a campaign. If my ruleset is to remove a contact from a sequence after he/she replies, sometimes a person will reply from another email and Yesware doesn't recognize it. (e.g. if I add jeff@amazon.com to my campaign and jeff.bezos@amazon.com replies to my thread, Yesware will still send an email to jeff@amazon.com unless he is manually removed)
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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
    Incentivized
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    Vendasta
    I like the product, but due to the limitations I don't love it. I'm curious to revisit other options, particularly in lieu of Yesware's recent price increases (although I'm on a legacy plan). Some of my challenges to be browser related (I'm on an older computer) -- I'll have to see how things go when I receive my new computer. If the glitches (especially with regard to tracking accuracy and send later feature) go away, I'd be much more inclined to renew
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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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    Vendasta
    Yesware is easy to setup and get connected in existing systems. We were able to get started sending the day we puchased our subscription because of the addon for Gmail and easy connection to our CRM. It's also very easy to use in the day to day, kicking off campaigns and seeing their status to as about as easy as it gets. I have not concerns about usability
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Vendasta
    Because it deserves this rating. The features and functionality provided are great. Our Sales team is very satisfied with this software as it integrates very well with our other software like Outlook, Salesforce, etc. Yesware provides great follow up with customers, which is essential for sales. Meeting scheduling is also flawless.
    Incentivized
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    Implementation Rating
    Exotel Techcom
    It was pretty straight forward
    Incentivized
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    Vendasta
    No answers on this topic
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Vendasta
    All of these tools do what Yesware does, and more; but Yesware does the follow-up email portion best, in my experience. It is reasonably priced and is regularly adding new functionality to make it a sticky license for us to have. Yesware does not have predictive analytics or a particularly strong dialer solution, but it does provide team-wide and template efficacy tracking, and a basic dialer.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Vendasta
    • I think net positive ROI from generating meetings that lead to closed deals. Ultimately very difficult to quantify the ROI since it is essentially automating a lot of the manual prospecting done by BDRs/AEs - so ROI is likely higher than just that quantifiable number around deals closed.
    Incentivized
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    Exotel Contact Center Screenshots

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    Yesware Screenshots

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