Likelihood to Recommend Five9 is suited for both large-scale and small-scale companies. If your company deals with marketing more than the technical aspect, Five9 gives a mode of communication and getting in touch with our customer or client in the most reliable way rather than setting physical meetings. In the covid period, Five9 has made it easier to work on calls.
Read full review Outreach is well suited for teams that need to do cold outbound to prospects. It's easy enough to create sequences that will use a variety of touchpoints (email, inMail, call, etc...). It's also easy to share sequences with team members to collaborate and the very best messaging. Outreach's integration over Salesforce and Gmail is also invaluable, without it each team member would probably spend hours per week clicking between tabs just to get to prospect information On the other hand, Outreach is not the best to help you create content, as of this writing there is no AI support. It is also worth noting that Outreach's permission structure can create a lot of confusion for team members and that untangling errors at times can become complex
Read full review Pros Easy dialing and call logging. The process of starting or answering a call, then logging a call disposition with its notes, is simple and easy. Voicemail drops. You can pre-record voicemails to leave for customers without needing to speak the voicemail content each time. This is a huge timesaver for our reps. You can customize the call dispositions / call labels to match what's used in your CRM. Read full review Organization - I know when to make calls/emails/LinkedIn connections without having to overthink anything. Alignment - the colleagues I work with on my accounts can keep tabs on my activity so there is no redundancy or overcommunication. Ease of use - all my contacts are in one place, and sending automated emails I have built in my sequences give me so much time back in my day. Read full review Cons Java based desktop application is a pain to keep updated. The user interface for the agent desktop application is clunky and outdated. It could use a facelift. The help center for documentation isn't well organized and the documentation needs substantial editing. Read full review Customer Service - zero support for small - medium businesses. Billing - billing is messy, and customer service for billing questions is pretty awful (if anyone is ever available). Bounce Rates - our bounce rates are through the roof when using Outreach which isn't a problem we have with HubSpot or Pardot. Read full review Likelihood to Renew Robust product, great reliability and support.
Read full review I like Outreach, but I do wonder about new competitors that are 25-50% less expensive.
Read full review Usability UI is very user friendly and intuitive. Updates are implemented immediately.
Read full review The ease of use for outreach is next to none. Everything is clearly explained, you can hop on a call with their support team whenever, and it effortlessly integrates into your computer. You can do everything you need sales related on it, and the learning curve is small. I'd recommend it as a first and last CRM.
Read full review Reliability and Availability We have had minimal downtime due to system outages since it was implemented.
Read full review 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.
Read full review 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.
Read full review The overall support of Outreach has been great. Whenever I have a problem, they were quick to fix it and typically respond within one business day. I don't typically have many requests for support because a lot of my questions can be answered through their knowledge panel. They have been fantastic to work with overall.
Read full review 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.
Read full review Lots of attention from the Outreach training team, with a great willingness to customize to our needs. To be clear, you get out what you put in. If you don't work with them, you'll get cookie-cutter training. But we asked for a lot of customization, and they delivered what we asked for.
Read full review 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.
Read full review Although we required a special setup, the process was quick. But we paid a lot for the implementation and didn't use 33% of the hours we purchased.
Read full review Alternatives Considered 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
Read full review We found that Outreach was superior to
Salesloft and
Gong , and a better fit for our organization for the following reasons:
User interface and overall experience: it's just a cleaner platform and easier to work in than the other two. Feature set: the other two tools had more bells and whistles, but sometimes less is more, and the core functionality of Outreach is preferable. Integration with Salesforce Price Customer support and training options are superior on Outreach Read full review Contract Terms and Pricing Model We do annual renewals and it's concurrent licensing which is great.
Read full review 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.
Read full review Professional Services 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.
Read full review Return on Investment 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. Read full review The huge positive impact it had was the team not needing to spend as much time as disengaged opps as they were engaged ones. We were able to set sequences to work with them while the team could focus on generating new leads or converting Opps. For an AE - post demo communication is important. With templates and snippets we could just click a few buttons and have a really nice email sent out with the relevant information and then the next several steps already planned out. This freed up time for us and even allowed us to take calls a lot sooner after demo's then before. For busy days this was very helpful. Read full review ScreenShots