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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Five9

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AFive9 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

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/ARingCentral 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
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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
    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.
    Incentivized
    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 …
    Incentivized
    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 …
    Incentivized
    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
    Incentivized
    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.
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    RingCentral
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    85%
    Would buy again
    23 Answers
    94%
    Would buy again
    33 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    88%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    85%
    Happy with the feature set
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    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    33 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    22 Answers
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    22 Answers
    Features
    Five9RingCentral Contact Center
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Five9 and RingCentral Contact Center
    Feature
    Five9
    7.9
    20 Ratings
    7% below category average
    RingCentral Contact Center
    8.6
    35 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Agent dashboard6.819 Ratings9.430 Ratings
    Validate callers8.017 Ratings7.010 Ratings
    Outbound response7.717 Ratings8.631 Ratings
    Call forwarding7.715 Ratings8.231 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)8.515 Ratings9.420 Ratings
    Warm transfer8.218 Ratings8.010 Ratings
    Predictive dialing8.415 Ratings8.716 Ratings
    Interactive voice response7.715 Ratings9.121 Ratings
    REST APIs8.514 Ratings9.910 Ratings
    Call scripts7.615 Ratings7.619 Ratings
    Call tracking8.919 Ratings9.010 Ratings
    Multichannel integration7.118 Ratings8.619 Ratings
    CRM software integration7.618 Ratings7.719 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Five9 and RingCentral Contact Center
    Feature
    Five9
    8.0
    28 Ratings
    4% below category average
    RingCentral Contact Center
    9.0
    34 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Inbound call routing9.017 Ratings9.430 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing8.315 Ratings9.020 Ratings
    Recording9.018 Ratings9.632 Ratings
    Quality management7.927 Ratings9.229 Ratings
    Call analytics7.417 Ratings8.931 Ratings
    Historical reporting7.719 Ratings9.030 Ratings
    Live reporting7.918 Ratings8.927 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics7.315 Ratings7.315 Ratings
    Customer surveys00 Ratings9.613 Ratings
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    Five9RingCentral Contact Center
    Small Businesses
    Zendesk Talk
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Zendesk Talk
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Score8 out of 10
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Score8.4 out of 10
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Score8.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Five9RingCentral Contact Center
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (44 ratings)
    9.3
    (35 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.6
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    7.7
    (8 ratings)
    9.7
    (6 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    8.9
    (4 ratings)
    Online Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 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)
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    Vendor pre-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Five9RingCentral Contact Center
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Five9
    We use Five9 as a tool to make and receive calls from various departments such as Customer Service, Underwriting, Claims, and others. 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. It's a good tool with an easy-to-use interface for new users.
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    RingCentral
    RingCentral Contact Center is extremely useful for tracking employee availability and working hours, particularly for remote employees. It is also helpful to be able to share certain skills between various employees so that customers dialing in have the best chance to get in touch with the correct contact immediately. RingCentral Contact Center is not ideal for lots of outbound outreach, particularly due to the phone number not coming in with the user's extension (and in our case, the number is an 800 number and looks more like spam), but for incoming calls it is very useful. The difference between a cold transfer and trying to conference someone on before you transfer is not always clear. Many people in the company often make mistakes, such as not being able to conference on the contact before transferring or accidentally hanging up on the conference, also affecting the others on the line.
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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 have not experienced it firsthand, but I have heard that their customer service is hard to reach and to resolve issues.
    • Verification to login can be annoying with the number of steps required.
    • I do receive spam calls through the number, which i wish were filtered out.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Five9
    Robust product, great reliability and support.
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    RingCentral
    If we haven't used the contact center for support is because the service is so good that make us not need to use it very often. However, I guess our IT team has found some useful features on it for system implementation, automation, and updates that have helped them to keep providing us with the right support as needed.
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    Usability
    Five9
    overall usability is very great. User friendly interface for agents within the Salesforce with the engage button. Easy to go offline and online. Very good Integrations with Salesforce helps lot of clients that implemented Salesforce. As it is cloud based, agents can access it from anywhere. While the agent experience is goof, as a technical person it is hard to manage with the Five9 VCC and also the reporting User Interface is bad and slow when there are large amount of records.
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    RingCentral
    It's a really intuitive platform. All the buttons and sections are almost exactly where you would expect them to be. Navigating the platform is fairly easy, even for folks who have not used it before. I can usually just tell my colleagues to "go to the settings tab and you'll see the audio settings" and they are able to take it from there.
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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
    It was really straightforward to get our phone number ported over and start using the platform. The agent walked us through the steps and we were able to configure everything ourselves. Much easier to setup than some of the other platforms
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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
    All of them are good choices, but if you're looking for something where all of these are included, it must needs be RingCentral Contact Center, All in one communication tool, don't worry about communication outages, RingCentral Contact Center updates in out of office schedules, if you're looking for "The Experience" RingCentral is the best choice.
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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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