Five9 vs. Gladly CX Platform

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Five9
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
Five9 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
Gladly CX Platform
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Gladly Software headquartered in San Francisco offers their omnichannel customer service platform, providing one platform to oversee customer correspondences and also provide customer self-help.
$38
Per Month Per User
Pricing
Five9Gladly CX Platform
Editions & Modules
Core
$119
per month
Digital
$119
per month
Premium
Contact sales team
Contact sales team
Optimum
Contact sales team
Contact sales team
Ultimate
Contact sales team
Contact sales team
Task Based
$38.00
Per Month Per User
Customer Facing
$150.00
Per Month Per User
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Five9Gladly CX Platform
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsFive9 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
Five9Gladly CX Platform
Considered Both Products
Five9
Chose Five9
Just tried to keep it simple. For this call center, I only need people to focus on making as many calls as possible. It is very streamlined and makes things basic for the reps without needing extensive training.
Chose Five9
We use Five9 as a tool to make and receive calls from various departments such as Customer Care, Underwriting, Claims, and others. These departments have experienced issues primarily from supervisor consoles because they sometimes lose access without making significant changes …
Chose Five9
As we have Salesforce for our agent's member support platform, Five9 has a very good integration with Salesforce compared to Talkdesk. With the iVR customization for our order placement and scripting for agents, we preferred Five9 over Talkdesk.
Also, for our enrollments, …
Chose Five9
Five9 has a much better integration with salesforce and allows contact center agents to be separate from back office staff that do not use the Five9 phone. Five9 allows us to route digital activity such as emails and texts just like we route calls. Five9 also had a …
Chose Five9
With Avaya Call Center Elite - Muti Channel is was competitor to Five9 which tried to push their on-prem omni channel approach. The reason it coudl not compete against Five9 was because it was not cloud based, was not flexible and added addional channels as an add on the CC …
Chose Five9
Five9 has a great learning curve, whether you're an admin, agent, or supervisor. Each role can be easily learned and mastered.
Cost was a major factor back when Five9 was the only stable and reliable contact center solution. But now they tend to be overpriced compared to Genesys …
Chose Five9
Five9 has way better features than RingCentral - Five9 has way better features including the Call script, software integration, and ability to manage outbound campaigns while RingCentral doesn't allow these features
Chose Five9
Five9 allows to call automatically to the leads in Hubspot, this wasn’t possible with Justcall.
Chose 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.
Chose Five9
I currently use Gong.io at my current company, I really like the dashboard of Gong.
Chose Five9
We started evaluating Zendesk Talk when Five9 lost integration with Zendesk, as we use Zendesk as our primary CS database and issue tracker. However, Five9 offers better ROI than Zendesk Talk given we require unlimited minutes for our requirements, thus we continue with our …
Chose Five9
While we use Invoca and Leadspedia for more granular tracking and data, Five9 has always sort of been the end all be all. If it's in Five9, it's pretty concrete that the info in Five9 is the correct information. It doesn't matter which campaign a call came through, if it came …
Chose Five9
We recommend Five9, with 2 major reasons: Its flexibility on contract terms and base contacts are less restrictive.
Chose Five9
I have not used another dialer system other than Five9. Before Five9, we dialed our clients with lists and standard phone systems.
Chose Five9
We felt that Five9 was superior to Genesys PureCloud because of Five9's ability to better manage outbound dialing campaigns. Genesys PureCloud required automation rules to reset/refresh the list position which meant that it was impossible to keep up with our aggressive dialing …
Chose Five9
Five9 has some of the same features as competitors but offers other features that help users better complete their tasks. This could be tasks such as putting calls on hold, logging calls and reports, and multitasking on the system platform. Overall, Five9 feels very easy to use …
Chose Five9
We started with InContact and were very disappointed that you could not make changes without incurring costs for each program or project. Five9 allows us to adjust to any new clients needs without incurring costs.
Chose Five9
I've used RingCentral, LiveOps, and Sendbloom Contact in my sales career so far.

Five9 is more sophisticated and offers more customizable features than all the above products. Only RingCentral and Five9 have texting ability, but neither solution is perfect at threading …
Chose Five9
Used solutions from Cisco, VICI, SkySwitch in the past. Comparing cost, resources, and deployment time, Five9 wins for sure.
Chose Five9
I would use Five9 verses another application because it is user friendly. You can add users and manage them as your business grows, and have your stats easily accessible. The ability to use it remotely is a huge factor as well.
Chose Five9
Five9 blows Serenova out of the water. Serenova is an immature platform compared to Five9. Five9 provides many features that Serenova does not and is a much more stable platform, which is absolutely critical in our 24/7/365 environment.
Chose Five9
Better than the old ShoreTel Director we had prior to deploying Five9. But could be better!
Chose Five9
When we chose Five9, it was largely due to the research of features and functionality, plus hearing good things about it from other contact centers in our area.
One huge edge that Five9 has compared with other dialers...is that you don't pay per minute of talk time (unless it's …
Gladly CX Platform
Chose Gladly CX Platform
First of all, the ease of the platform, the way it helps us to make our job faster as they have the customer information on the left of our screenand we have it linked to Shopify. The fact that this program has helped our productivity is amazing, and also, during peak season, …
Chose Gladly CX Platform
Gladly is in a league of its own. None of the other companies I have rated can stack up to Gladly's abilities. You can communicate with customers and coworkers alike. This makes it easy for everyone to be able to be on the same page no matter the topic discussed.
Chose Gladly CX Platform
Gladly truly delivers what other vendors promote:
  • True Omnichannel support.
  • Easy to use UI.
  • Robust reporting.
Features
Five9Gladly CX Platform
Contact Center Software
Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Product A and Product B
Five9
8.0
Ratings
5% below category average
Gladly CX Platform
-
Ratings
Agent dashboard6.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Validate callers8.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Outbound response7.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Call forwarding7.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Click-to-call (CTC)8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Warm transfer8.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Predictive dialing8.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Interactive voice response7.80 Ratings00 Ratings
REST APIs8.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Call scripts7.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Call tracking8.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Multichannel integration7.30 Ratings00 Ratings
CRM software integration7.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Product A and Product B
Five9
8.1
Ratings
3% below category average
Gladly CX Platform
-
Ratings
Inbound call routing9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Omnichannel inbound routing8.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Recording9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Quality management8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Call analytics7.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Historical reporting7.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Live reporting7.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer interaction analytics7.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Incident and problem management
Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
Five9
-
Ratings
Gladly CX Platform
8.9
Ratings
8% above category average
Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings9.30 Ratings
Expert directory00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings9.30 Ratings
Ticket response00 Ratings9.70 Ratings
Self Help Community
Comparison of Self Help Community features of Product A and Product B
Five9
-
Ratings
Gladly CX Platform
9.2
Ratings
14% above category average
External knowledge base00 Ratings9.50 Ratings
Internal knowledge base00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Multi-Channel Help
Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Product A and Product B
Five9
-
Ratings
Gladly CX Platform
9.4
Ratings
16% above category average
Customer portal00 Ratings9.70 Ratings
IVR00 Ratings9.30 Ratings
Social integration00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Email support00 Ratings9.70 Ratings
Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings9.30 Ratings
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User Ratings
Five9Gladly CX Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
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9.7
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Likelihood to Renew
10.0
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10.0
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Usability
7.7
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10.0
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Availability
9.0
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-
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Performance
8.0
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-
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Support Rating
9.0
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10.0
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Online Training
10.0
(0 ratings)
-
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Implementation Rating
10.0
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-
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Configurability
9.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.0
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-
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Product Scalability
9.0
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Vendor post-sale
8.0
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Vendor pre-sale
8.0
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User Testimonials
Five9Gladly CX Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
very well suited for large number of enrollments, registrations by insurance companies. Also we recently implemented it for automating a order placement. Maybe not very well suited for live agent chat experience as there are limitations on texting, laggy performance in this area. I think its also hard to incorporate a payment system within the five9- salesforce automation.
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In my case, every day working with Gladly CX Platform is better than the way we used to work with Zendesk, as we did have a big upgrade. So, working with Gladly CX Platform has improved our job daily, making the job faster and easier and that help us tomake the customer happier and to succed in our goal and happiness guarantee
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Pros
  • 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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  • Keeps record of previous interactions/customer history.
  • Displays customer profile, orders and inquiries simultaneously.
  • Allows for excellent employee management (as in seeing where the team is at individually and collectively during a work day).
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Cons
  • 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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  • Gladly continues to enhance the reporting capabilities of the platform making it an even stronger tool with each update.
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Likelihood to Renew
Robust product, great reliability and support.
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Gladly really has all the information needed about a customer that you would need.If gladly does have a specified space for specific information you can add notes in multiple locations to remind you self of special circumstances. Gladly meets all our expectations and continues to provide a see less transaction
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Usability
I wish it was a 10. For the sake of a call center, it allows me to keep it simple for newer sales reps and just focus on basic KPI's. This is not an advanced CRM used for digital approaches. It is strictly a churn and burn call center CRM for me. It is a dialer.
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Because I've been using the platform for almost 3 years, and it has been a game changer in our line of work, making the work easier and faster. And in peak season, when we hire new agents, the training is way better and easier. So for me, using this platform has made my job better
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Reliability and Availability
We have had minimal downtime due to system outages since it was implemented.
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Performance
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
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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Gladly is always available to support its customers. That being said, we really haven’t needed support. The product is intuitive and stable. The reality is the support we receive is more collaboration on how we can help Gladly continue to revolutionize this space.
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Online Training
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
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
We use Five9 as a tool to make and receive calls from various departments such as Customer Care, Underwriting, Claims, and others. These departments have experienced issues primarily from supervisor consoles because they sometimes lose access without making significant changes to the admin console. Although 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.

A good tool with an easy interface for new users.

They need a more minimalist look.

They need to improve the supervisor console because it's very basic.

New agents aren't receiving calls from previous agents because they don't reuse numbers.

The user group license is cheaper than the Zoom Phone license, which allows for a better ROI.
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Gladly truly delivers what other vendors promote:
  • True Omnichannel support.
  • Easy to use UI.
  • Robust reporting.
  • Full SaaS solution.
  • Built-in knowledgebase.
  • Simple implementation.
  • Great support team.
  • True business partnership.
  • Full 360 views of your customer.
  • Reduced ramp time for agents.
It truly is the future of Customer Support software. True game changer.
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Scalability
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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Return on Investment
  • ROI was not as anticipated due to lacking reporting functionality - Negative
  • Allowed us to develop a geographically dispersed call center workforce in response to the pandemic - Positive
  • Provided true omnichannel capability that we lacked in the past (Voice/Voicemail/Chat). Positive
  • CRM integration (with Salesforce) was not as expected. Negative
  • Bang for the Buck just was not where it needed to be. High cost solution. Negative.
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  • Improved Customer Satisfaction
  • Operational Efficiency and Cost Savings
  • Revenue Growth Through Enhanced Customer Experience
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Gladly CX Platform Screenshots

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