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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Exotel Contact Center

    Score7.7 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

    Salesforce Experience Cloud

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/ASalesforce Marketing Cloud Engagement (formerly Salesforce Experience Cloud or Salesforce Community Cloud) is an online forum powered by Salesforce that enables businesses to connect with their employees, customers, partner organizations, and prospects. Designed to help facilitate communication and information sharing, customers can ask questions and request help, administrators can integrate data from third-party apps, and employees can collaborate across projects and…N/A

    Zoho Desk

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AZoho Support is a Saas help desk / ticketing system aimed at SMBs. I competes most often with Zendesk, and Desk.com.

    $9

    per month per user

    Pricing
    Exotel Contact CenterSalesforce Experience CloudZoho Desk
    Editions & Modules
    Dabbler
    $200
    5 months Validity
    Believer
    $500
    11 months Validity
    Influencer
    $1000
    11 months Validity
    Custom
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    Free
    $0
    Express
    $9
    per month per user
    Standard
    $20
    per month per user
    Professional
    $35
    per month per user
    Enterprise
    $50
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Exotel Contact CenterSalesforce Experience CloudZoho Desk
    Free Trial
    YesNoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup feeRequired
    Additional Details——A discount is offered for yearly billing.
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    Features
    Exotel Contact CenterSalesforce Experience CloudZoho Desk
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Exotel Contact Center and Salesforce Experience Cloud and Zoho Desk
    Feature
    Exotel Contact Center
    8.7
    2 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Salesforce Experience Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    Zoho Desk
    -
    Ratings
    Agent dashboard9.02 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Validate callers9.02 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Outbound response9.02 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call forwarding9.02 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)9.02 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Warm transfer9.02 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive dialing9.02 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Interactive voice response9.02 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    REST APIs8.02 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call scripts8.02 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call tracking8.02 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multichannel integration8.02 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    CRM software integration9.02 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Exotel Contact Center and Salesforce Experience Cloud and Zoho Desk
    Feature
    Exotel Contact Center
    7.8
    2 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Salesforce Experience Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    Zoho Desk
    -
    Ratings
    Inbound call routing7.02 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing7.02 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Recording8.02 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Quality management8.02 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call analytics8.02 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Historical reporting7.02 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Live reporting8.02 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer surveys8.02 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics9.02 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Exotel Contact Center and Salesforce Experience Cloud and Zoho Desk
    Feature
    Exotel Contact Center
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Experience Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    Zoho Desk
    8.5
    5 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings00 Ratings9.05 Ratings
    Expert directory00 Ratings00 Ratings7.14 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings00 Ratings7.14 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings00 Ratings8.95 Ratings
    Ticket response00 Ratings00 Ratings8.95 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of Exotel Contact Center and Salesforce Experience Cloud and Zoho Desk
    Feature
    Exotel Contact Center
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Experience Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    Zoho Desk
    9.8
    5 Ratings
    20% above category average
    External knowledge base00 Ratings00 Ratings9.85 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base00 Ratings00 Ratings9.85 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Exotel Contact Center and Salesforce Experience Cloud and Zoho Desk
    Feature
    Exotel Contact Center
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Experience Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    Zoho Desk
    6.6
    5 Ratings
    19% below category average
    Customer portal00 Ratings00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Social integration00 Ratings00 Ratings6.83 Ratings
    Email support00 Ratings00 Ratings6.15 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings00 Ratings5.44 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Exotel Contact CenterSalesforce Experience CloudZoho Desk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.1
    (6 ratings)
    8.9
    (71 ratings)
    8.8
    (23 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    7.1
    (3 ratings)
    8.1
    (15 ratings)
    8.0
    (12 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (18 ratings)
    8.8
    (11 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.4
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Exotel Contact CenterSalesforce Experience CloudZoho Desk
    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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    Salesforce
    For well-suited, this product is great for your external clientele groups that you would not necessarily want to have a high user fee rate for. So basically general public or a group that will be authorized to come in and just do a few things here and there, but you don't necessarily want them access to all of your systems and your data points for groups that it would not be a great use for. I'd say probably your high level internal staff, they're going to be using a lot of the backend functionality automations, evaluating data, managing data, and doing custom inputs. That's just not what's intended for.
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    Zoho
    Zoho Desk is a great customer service tool. It is very easy to track the ability to receive tickets and send responses in Zoho Desk. There are lots of options for customization. The knowledge base feature is very extensive and powerful. It makes creating internal and external FAQs easy.
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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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    Salesforce
    • Easy to use, just like Salesforce's other products. Many users can sit down and figure it out in no time, and with a little training become power users.
    • Fast and secure - Salesforce is a leader in the cloud world so you get consistently fast results and security that is top notch in the industry.
    • Accessible from anywhere - if you use cloud CMS already this is a no-brainer, but for those that do in-house CMS still, this is a major difference. Mobile access from anywhere on the planet without a VPN is something you just can't do without the cloud.
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    Zoho
    • It provides a simple widget code with a few clicks once you decide to integrate it with your website or application.
    • There is a very user friendly dedicated mobile application for Zoho Desk for Android and IOS devices.
    • You can easily track all of your tickets and agents from the dashboard interface.
    • You can insert tags with each ticket to group them into specific categories for analysis and troubleshooting.
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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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    Salesforce
    • Unlike other CMS platforms like Wordpress and Adobe Experience Manager, Salesforce does not provide a fully featured editor with a drag-and-drop design tool.
    • Our content creators and marketing team often struggle with permissions and how to distribute content across different experience cloud sites.
    • Also, there is no side-to-side comparison view for content editors to update the content easily.
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    Zoho
    • The biggest drawback that I am facing while using the platform is that their ticketing system is not that great [in my opinion]. It does not give us the option to add sales tax and other charges in the invoices which leads to a big problem for us.
    • [I feel] its customer support needs improvement.
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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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    Salesforce
    Renewal exercise is already underway. Platform is to ubiquitous to not leverage, especially at a Fortune 50 firm
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    Zoho
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Salesforce
    Strengths: - Intuitive for Salesforce Users – If you’re already working within the Salesforce ecosystem, the Salesforce CMS is easy to navigate, with a clean UI, drag-and-drop content management, and reusable assets for quick updates. - Seamless Integration – Since it connects natively with Experience Cloud, Marketing Cloud, and CRM, it allows for efficient multi-channel content distribution without needing extra third-party tools. - AI-Powered Personalization – The ability to deliver dynamic content based on user profiles and engagement data is a huge plus, making content delivery more relevant and impactful. Challenges: - Learning Curve for New Users – If you're not already familiar with Salesforce, the interface can feel overwhelming, requiring training to fully leverage all features. - Limited Customization & Workflow Automation – While it works well for structured content, advanced approval workflows and deep editorial customization are limited compared to enterprise CMS platforms like Adobe Experience Manager. - Media & Design Limitations – Salesforce CMS is not as robust for managing rich media-heavy content, which can be frustrating for teams needing more flexibility in multimedia presentation.
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    Zoho
    I give [Zoho Desk] [an] overall usability score of 9. This is partly due to the search functionality needs improvement. There are several times where I am left unable to find a ticket and have to generate a new one. I am hoping in the future that they will make some changes!
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    Performance
    Exotel Techcom
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    Again, since we provide and recommend solutions, I can't speak to every client's individual experience, but can offer general reflections as to keep their collaborations private, that they are satisfied with the experience. We hear a lot about how this system helps to encourage collaborations between their own business partners, customers, and internal members, and enables quality integrations with other products that help drive revenue.
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    Zoho
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Salesforce
    Although support from Salesforce itself can be quite unresponsive sometimes, the community hub is incredibly helpful. The large user base of Salesforce products contribute to troubleshooting and the forums are a powerful tool for finding solutions and possible bugs and response times can be quite fast compared to your regular support channels.
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    Zoho
    As Zoho Support is based in a different timezone to ours it can be an issue that we cannot get an immediate response to an issue. But I will say that once their Support is in the office they are fairly good to respond. they have resolved almost all issues I have told them about, but Zoho have also made system changes and not communicated these beforehand which means we are faced with something new and cannot get support on this until their support team is in the office
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    Implementation Rating
    Exotel Techcom
    It was pretty straight forward
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Zoho
    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.
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    Salesforce
    Salesforce Experience Cloud was selected due to its tight integration with our existing Salesforce CRM platform. Customization of the portal was much, much simpler compared to Sharepoint - especially with role-based security parameters that are ultimately inherited based on attributes within the Salesforce CRM platform. Salesforce Experience Cloud was a natural fit for this customer-facing purpose.
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    Zoho
    We selected Zoho Desk as we needed a platform that was going to allow the business to grow through both usage and staffing numbers. We wanted something cost-effective but still offered standard features in an effective cloud-delivered solution but would still allow customization by our internal dev team, to derive better value from the service where it natively didn't do what we needed it to. FreeAgent was okay for a while, but Zoho Desk has allowed a vast improvement in our service offering to end customers.
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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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    Salesforce
    • Time savings for our customer success team - no need to continually follow up on tickets as customers have access to see status themselves
    • In the future, it will also allow us to create more impactful knowledge articles that will increase self-service over ticket creation
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    Zoho
    • Zoho Desk has created an organised sytem of support which alows me to help my customers more efficiently.
    • By saving resolutions as articles, Zoho Desk has provided a training resource for current customers and support staff as part of solving problems.
    • All new customers become part of a database of customers who continue to receive support and education from forums created by the articles and customer questions.
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    ScreenShots

    Exotel Contact Center Screenshots

    Screenshot of Login to Exotel dashboard

    Zoho Desk Screenshots

    Screenshot of Log and monitor phone conversations, convert them into new tickets, or attach them to existing ones. Convert social media interactions and live chat into tickets at the click of a button.Screenshot of Bring a Help Center directly into a website to strengthen self-service. Chat with Zia, an AI-powered conversation assistant. Customers can chat with Zia right from a mobile app or website. Zia processes their questions and suggests appropriate solutions from the Knowledge Base.Screenshot of With advanced process automation, internal processes can be setup within the help desk, implement them automatically, and make sure that all processes are followed precisely.Screenshot of Instant responses for instant happiness. Respond to customers the minute they reach out with Zoho Desk's embeddable chat widget. Customers can get in touch with agents instantly, right from the Help Center, so agents can respond and help them find answers faster.Screenshot of Monitor a team's performance, customize and schedule reports. Custom dashboards can be created.Screenshot of Zia brings together predictions across anomalies, sentiment, trending ticket tags, and more into a common dashboard for decision-makers to consume. They can drill down further into the details from the same dashboard to investigate further.