Five9 vs. RingCentral Contact Center

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Five9
Score 8.2 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
RingCentral Contact Center
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
RingCentral Contact Center is an AI-first contact center offers a set of cloud-based software plans with basic features including support for inbound and outbound call centers and IVR and ACD capabilities. Advanced features include analytics, real-time call reporting, workforce optimization analytics, and omni-channel integration with SMS, email, and social media platforms.N/A
Pricing
Five9RingCentral Contact Center
Editions & Modules
Core
$119
per month
Digital
$119
per month
Premium
Contact sales team
Contact sales team
Optimum
Contact sales team
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Ultimate
Contact sales team
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Five9RingCentral Contact Center
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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
Five9RingCentral Contact Center
Considered Both Products
Five9
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
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
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.
RingCentral Contact Center

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Features
Five9RingCentral Contact Center
Contact Center Software
Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Product A and Product B
Five9
8.4
18 Ratings
1% above category average
RingCentral Contact Center
8.3
24 Ratings
0% above category average
Agent dashboard7.717 Ratings8.520 Ratings
Validate callers8.915 Ratings7.010 Ratings
Outbound response7.915 Ratings8.921 Ratings
Call forwarding8.113 Ratings8.822 Ratings
Click-to-call (CTC)8.613 Ratings8.912 Ratings
Warm transfer7.816 Ratings8.010 Ratings
Predictive dialing8.813 Ratings9.78 Ratings
Interactive voice response9.013 Ratings8.712 Ratings
REST APIs8.712 Ratings8.67 Ratings
Call scripts7.613 Ratings8.314 Ratings
Call tracking8.717 Ratings9.010 Ratings
Multichannel integration8.516 Ratings7.012 Ratings
CRM software integration8.716 Ratings6.911 Ratings
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Product A and Product B
Five9
8.7
26 Ratings
6% above category average
RingCentral Contact Center
8.1
23 Ratings
1% below category average
Inbound call routing9.415 Ratings8.921 Ratings
Omnichannel inbound routing8.813 Ratings8.513 Ratings
Recording9.216 Ratings9.121 Ratings
Quality management8.825 Ratings8.719 Ratings
Call analytics8.315 Ratings8.420 Ratings
Historical reporting8.317 Ratings7.620 Ratings
Live reporting8.216 Ratings8.118 Ratings
Customer interaction analytics8.513 Ratings6.88 Ratings
Customer surveys00 Ratings7.09 Ratings
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Five9RingCentral Contact Center
Small Businesses
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Score 8.3 out of 10
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Score 8.3 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
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Score 8.3 out of 10
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Score 8.3 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
Five9RingCentral Contact Center
Likelihood to Recommend
8.4
(42 ratings)
9.1
(23 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(1 ratings)
6.3
(4 ratings)
Usability
8.1
(6 ratings)
8.7
(3 ratings)
Availability
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(9 ratings)
4.3
(3 ratings)
Online Training
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Configurability
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Professional Services
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Five9RingCentral Contact Center
Likelihood to Recommend
Five9
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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RingCentral
The ease of use and file retention/retrieval is key. The adjustment from an e-mail-focused workflow to the RingCentral Contact Center was easier with the organization. Recall and search features mimic Outlook and allow me to quickly find what I’m looking for. RingCentral Contact Center is not ideal for communication with external partners, so we still have to rely on Outlook e-mails for that.
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Pros
Five9
  • 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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RingCentral
  • Reliability: Our previous service was prone to outages, RingCentral Contact Center has been rock solid as long as we've used it.
  • Integration: Our IT team was able to build a custom RingCentral Contact Center dashboard on our website for our salespeople to manage inbound/ outbound calling. From there we were able to send call data directly into activities in our ERP (Acumatica).
  • Ease of use: It works well whether in the office or WFH (which many employees do regularly.
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Cons
Five9
  • 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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RingCentral
  • I would like to be able to text from our main office line rather than only my office direct line, so I can keep my direct line private
  • I wish it was easier for all users to be able to toggle between calls ringing at their desk phone and cell phone
  • It would be nice if the process to add other team member's numbers to our desk phone screen was easier
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Likelihood to Renew
Five9
Robust product, great reliability and support.
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RingCentral
We have no intention of renewing our contract with Ring Central. We have had multiple outages in the past 2 years. We have been without an account manager for the past 4 months and the resolution of open issues takes 2-3 months. We were being misbilled for cancelled services for almost 12 months. We are not satisfied with the quality, support, or price of the service
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Usability
Five9
The Five9 solution is very easy to use and for a very dynamic Contact Center environment, the scalability and flexiblity is untouched. Can we brought into a environment and be up and running in not time as with the power of cloud technologies. Minimal training is needed to onboard new agent.
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RingCentral
RingCentral Contact Center is not just only an app or platform which allows the company to manage the telephone calls, messaging functions, social media and emails, but also allows advanced features like the possibility of easy integration with other industrial systems, and customer/call analysis functions as well. It also supports and included with AI technology as well into some extent.
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Reliability and Availability
Five9
We have had minimal downtime due to system outages since it was implemented.
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RingCentral
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Performance
Five9
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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RingCentral
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Support Rating
Five9
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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RingCentral
We honestly did not need much support but whatever we wanted was resolved via email and that experience was nice but took a bit of time
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Online Training
Five9
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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RingCentral
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Implementation Rating
Five9
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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RingCentral
As I recall it was not a very cumbersome implementation and we were up and running as promised
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Alternatives Considered
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
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RingCentral
RingCentral Contact Center's application is much more intuitive than Nextiva's application. It's also easier to configure. It also has a lot of functionality that Nextiva does not. For example, RingCentral will transcribe Voice mail messages for us, whereas Nextiva does not. RingCentral also sends us notifications when a customer sends us a text message, whereas Nextiva does not.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Five9
We do annual renewals and it's concurrent licensing which is great.
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RingCentral
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Scalability
Five9
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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RingCentral
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Professional Services
Five9
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.
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RingCentral
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Return on Investment
Five9
  • 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.
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RingCentral
  • With RingCentral Contact Center we were able to connect with our customers. The feature that allows the call to be sent to the first available rep ensured that this happened.
  • Also, my favorite feature is the call recording and transcription feature. This allowed me to get the customer's emails without asking them to repeat if I missed them the first time. Hence, happier customers and more meetings.
  • RingCentral Contact Center also made it very easy to set up a mailbox for customers to leave messages and reassure them that they've connected with the right person.
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