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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

    Telegram

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/ATelegram is an open source and free messaging app with a focus on speed and security. Telegram can be used on all devices at the same time — messages sync across any number of phones, tablets or computers. Telegram boasts over 500 million monthly active users and is one of the 10 most downloaded apps in the world.N/A

    Zoho CRM Plus

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AZoho Corporation offers Zoho CRM Plus, a customer experience management platform that features a virtual AI assistant, process automation and business rules engine, and customer behavior analytics.

    $59

    per month per user

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    Exotel Contact CenterTelegramZoho CRM Plus
    Editions & Modules
    Dabbler
    $200
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    Believer
    $500
    11 months Validity
    Influencer
    $1000
    11 months Validity
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    $57
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    Offerings
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    Free Trial
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    Considered Multiple Products
    Exotel Techcom
    Chose Exotel Contact Center
    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.
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Features
    Exotel Contact CenterTelegramZoho CRM Plus
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Exotel Contact Center and Telegram and Zoho CRM Plus
    Feature
    Exotel Contact Center
    8.7
    2 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Telegram
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    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
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    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 Telegram and Zoho CRM Plus
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    Exotel Contact Center
    7.8
    2 Ratings
    7% below category average
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    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
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    Small Businesses
    Zendesk Talk
    Score8.2 out of 10
    WhatsApp Business
    Score9 out of 10
    MindTouch
    Score7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Score8 out of 10
    Twilio
    Score7.7 out of 10
    Sogolytics
    Score9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Score8.4 out of 10
    WhatsApp Business
    Score9 out of 10
    Medallia
    Score8.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Exotel Contact CenterTelegramZoho CRM Plus
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.1
    (6 ratings)
    9.9
    (8 ratings)
    7.7
    (53 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Usability
    7.1
    (3 ratings)
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    7.2
    (18 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.0
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    7.7
    (42 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    5.0
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    8.2
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    User Testimonials
    Exotel Contact CenterTelegramZoho CRM Plus
    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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    Open Source
    Telegram has been very well suited for family video calls and conversations where detailed and private information is being shared. Video calling is fantastic and I'm so thrilled that they added group video calls now! The video quality is also so good that I've been able to use it to make virtual portrait sessions happen. I just don't use this for sending out formal contracts and things like that. I feel like email still needs to be used for those scenarios, but any client that just wants a secure way of communicating with me about their private family matters...this is THE app to use!
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    Zoho
    Starting with campaigns, once we send the campaign out, prospects who open it are moved into the sales funnel; the sales team then calls or emails the prospect. Our VOIP works in conjunction with Zoho CRM Plus, so phone calls are logged into the contact. And generates another call, letter, or appointment with the client on the Zoho calendar. Emails are sent through Gmail since Zoho CRM Plus does not work with Gmail. The client's email must be copied and pasted into Gmail. (responses are tracked in the Zoho CRM Plus). Once the sales team meets with the client and starts the process, it turns into an "opportunity" where all stages in the sale are tracked. We mail merge the contact info to the correct letter template, then download it into "Word," where the letter is proofed and corrected as necessary (Zoho merge does not allow you to work in "Word" 2019). When finalized, it is then uploaded back into Zoho CRM Plus under the Opportunity. The sale then continues through the process, and once signed off on, all the details of the job are logged into the Zoho CRM Plus. When the job is completed and closed out, Zoho CRM Plus automatically sends the client a thank you email. The client will then can biannual automatic emails reminding them to set up their bi-annual inspection.
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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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    Open Source
    • Easy to use and user friendly
    • Collaborating application
    • File sharing
    • Audio and video calling feature
    • Instant messaging
    • Channel and group formation
    • Data security
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    Zoho
    • Zoho CRM Plus is very good at automating many functional areas of our company including: sales, marketing, operations, and engineering. It is functionally rich, and matches the functionality we used to have with Salesforce.com, but at a much more reasonable cost.
    • Zoho CRM Plus is easily "configured" to match our business processes. The ability to configure the user interface is very good, and the "BluePrint", custom functions, and reporting allow us to automate our unique operational needs.
    • The buying process for Zoho CRM is extremely friendly. You can switch between software types from basic CRM to Zoho CRM +. You also can pay monthly, or annually, and don't have to purchase months before your renewal dates and get pestered by sales people.
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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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    Open Source
    • It is so safe to use that many users can share anything, including private pictures of anyone, even nudity as well. That is horribly disgusting.
    • They should restrict those users who run nudity in the Telegram groups and community.
    • Otherwise, I don't have any problem[s with] Telegram. I am a very satisfied user of Telegram.
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    Zoho
    • Managing attachments. Limited space for each user and you can’t easily delete attachments in bulk so if you reach your limit it becomes expensive to buy more space or labor-intensive to find and delete attachments manually.
    • You can’t filter accounts by their related module fields. For example, in list view, filter all accounts with more than one contact.
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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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    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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    Open Source
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    Zoho
    I personally started off as a CRM novice. But in a matter of 2 months, I was writing my own custom workflows, playing with modules and fields, and training my sales and operations teams to manage leads and accounts. Simply put, the system is intuitive after a brief introduction. The level of customization is staggering until you change your mindset. Zoho CRM Plus excels where you're able to attack your goals as problems already solved in the platform — you just need to locate the feature to make what you want to happen... happen! I equate it to the Adobe Creative Suite. You don't pick the fun filter before you lay out what exactly you want to draw. With that mindset intact, you can dial in the system to meet your and your team's needs based on your proposed SOLUTIONS, not just leaning heavily into a single feature to "force" some ROI.
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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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    Zoho
    Every account representative I have worked with has been extremely helpful and nice. You can tell the account reps and support staff truly care about the product and want to provide you with the resources that you need. The response time is also fast for support inquiries and that has been a massive help for us.
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    Implementation Rating
    Exotel Techcom
    It was pretty straight forward
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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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    Open Source
    I used WhatsApp Business but it's limited. I can add only 250+/- members to the WhatsApp group. But in Telegram, it's 200000. So this is a big opportunity to promote my event. Telegram has much more user data privacy and company transparency than Signal. I am using both but telegram for vas communication
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    Zoho
    I utilize HubSpot to gather data based on IP addresses from customers who visit our website. I do not use Zoho CRM for forms since the customization is clunky to design. HubSpot collects account data from the form and that helps me evaluate to sales potential of that account. Then I use Zapier to Zap the info into Zoho. Zoho CRM then is used to reach back out to the customer and begin tracking interactions
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Exotel Techcom
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    Open Source
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    Zoho
    I would recommend that module wise update feature be opened up, for free to an additional 50-75% of paid users. These users can be restricted to work on a single module to update information only where they do not cross over multiple modules
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    Professional Services
    Exotel Techcom
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    Zoho
    I already discussed this prior with the Enterprise Support. But them aside, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention Zoho is committed to connecting their userbase together. Within a month or two of using the product, we were told about Zoho User Groups. We had one right in my backyard (Chicago). I was able to both attend a meeting (pre-covid), and then stay in touch in an integrated Cliq channel. I always have power-users at my fingertips to ask quick questions. That Zoho makes it a point to keep these connections, and empower them... makes my life easier when inevitable "wants" pop up.
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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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    • Easy spread of information and updates among customers.
    • Easier and faster communication among colleagues.
    • Groups may accumulate a huge number of people.
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    Zoho
    • The ROI is significantly positive due to the comprehensive set of modules available.
    • Positive: My clients have better Dashboard data developed through Zoho Analytics than they do even though they use Salesforce. Also, Zoho CRM Plus can integrate with Salesforce or other system either through their own integrations or from Zapier.
    • Campaigns allows me to target specific prospects via HTML emails, and complete tracking. This is a complement to the more shotgun approach of social media,
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