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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

    MiCloud Connect / ShoreTel (discontinued)

    Score3 out of 10
    N/AMiCloud Connect, or ShoreTel, was a business communications solution for contact centers that included features like IP PBX telephony service, desk phones, softphone, and collaboration tools. It was acquired by RingCentral in early 2026, and discontinued, with customers being moved to RingCentral's MVP platform.N/A
    Pricing
    Five9MiCloud Connect / ShoreTel (discontinued)
    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
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Five9MiCloud Connect / ShoreTel (discontinued)
    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
    Five9MiCloud Connect / ShoreTel (discontinued)
    Considered Both Products
    Five9
    No answer on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    85%
    Would buy again
    23 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    88%
    Delivers good value for the price
    21 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    85%
    Happy with the feature set
    23 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    18 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    22 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    Five9MiCloud Connect / ShoreTel (discontinued)
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Five9 and MiCloud Connect / ShoreTel (discontinued)
    Feature
    Five9
    7.9
    20 Ratings
    7% below category average
    MiCloud Connect / ShoreTel (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Agent dashboard6.819 Ratings00 Ratings
    Validate callers8.017 Ratings00 Ratings
    Outbound response7.717 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call forwarding7.715 Ratings00 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)8.515 Ratings00 Ratings
    Warm transfer8.218 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive dialing8.415 Ratings00 Ratings
    Interactive voice response7.715 Ratings00 Ratings
    REST APIs8.514 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call scripts7.615 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call tracking8.919 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multichannel integration7.118 Ratings00 Ratings
    CRM software integration7.618 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Five9 and MiCloud Connect / ShoreTel (discontinued)
    Feature
    Five9
    8.0
    28 Ratings
    4% below category average
    MiCloud Connect / ShoreTel (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Inbound call routing9.017 Ratings00 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing8.315 Ratings00 Ratings
    Recording9.018 Ratings00 Ratings
    Quality management7.927 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call analytics7.417 Ratings00 Ratings
    Historical reporting7.719 Ratings00 Ratings
    Live reporting7.918 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics7.315 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cloud PBX
    Comparison of Cloud PBX features of Five9 and MiCloud Connect / ShoreTel (discontinued)
    Feature
    Five9
    -
    Ratings
    MiCloud Connect / ShoreTel (discontinued)
    8.2
    27 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Hosted PBX00 Ratings7.515 Ratings
    Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)00 Ratings8.315 Ratings
    User templates00 Ratings8.016 Ratings
    Call reports00 Ratings8.621 Ratings
    Directory of employee names00 Ratings8.327 Ratings
    Call Management
    Comparison of Call Management features of Five9 and MiCloud Connect / ShoreTel (discontinued)
    Feature
    Five9
    -
    Ratings
    MiCloud Connect / ShoreTel (discontinued)
    8.6
    28 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Answering rules00 Ratings9.024 Ratings
    Call recording00 Ratings8.323 Ratings
    Call park00 Ratings8.626 Ratings
    Call screening00 Ratings8.622 Ratings
    Message alerts00 Ratings8.323 Ratings
    VoIP system collaboration
    Comparison of VoIP system collaboration features of Five9 and MiCloud Connect / ShoreTel (discontinued)
    Feature
    Five9
    -
    Ratings
    MiCloud Connect / ShoreTel (discontinued)
    7.6
    23 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Video conferencing00 Ratings8.08 Ratings
    Audio conferencing00 Ratings9.023 Ratings
    Video screen sharing00 Ratings7.04 Ratings
    Instant messaging00 Ratings6.75 Ratings
    Mobile apps
    Comparison of Mobile apps features of Five9 and MiCloud Connect / ShoreTel (discontinued)
    Feature
    Five9
    -
    Ratings
    MiCloud Connect / ShoreTel (discontinued)
    6.2
    15 Ratings
    24% below category average
    Mobile app for iOS00 Ratings8.014 Ratings
    Mobile app for Android00 Ratings4.512 Ratings
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    Zendesk Talk
    Score8.2 out of 10
    CallFire
    Score9.7 out of 10
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    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Score8 out of 10
    Fuze
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Score8.4 out of 10
    Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Call Manager)
    Score8.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Five9MiCloud Connect / ShoreTel (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (44 ratings)
    8.3
    (63 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.6
    (42 ratings)
    Usability
    7.7
    (8 ratings)
    8.0
    (21 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (27 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    5.1
    (9 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    3.5
    (16 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.0
    (3 ratings)
    Online Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    2.0
    (12 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.6
    (30 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.4
    (3 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.6
    (5 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Five9MiCloud Connect / ShoreTel (discontinued)
    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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    Discontinued Products
    Mitel is excellent at allowing me as a user to setup up custom call routing in response to rapidly changing work flows. If I need to work from home for a period due to medical or other reasons, logging into Mitel and setting my office phone to ring through to my home or cell is quick and simple. Changing back is just as quick.
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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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    Discontinued Products
    • The system up-time has been 100% over 3 years.
    • With separate systems and two locations we used to have to fake the system into 4 digit dialing by forwarding all remote extensions to DIDs. Now with Shortel extended to the remote location we have true 4 digit dialing.
    • The Shortel desktop application makes managing calls and call routing a breeze for even our most novice users.
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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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    Discontinued Products
    • There are persistent problems with the app's functionality on mobile devices.
    • At times, the web conferencing service may have delays. It appears to be less stable than competing approaches.
    • Using a headset instead of the microphone and speakers integrated into a desktop computer slows down the softphone's performance.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Five9
    Robust product, great reliability and support.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    Although the price is higher than some of the other Hosted systems out there, the value is definitely worth a renewal. Everything is relative: there are some companies out there who need phones, but don't necessarily care how they work, the functionality/features available/durability etc., they just care that they have phones that make and receive calls. There are other companies that are completely reliant on phones and certain functionality that is provided by the system. There are even some companies who are straight up dependent on the phone system and are losing tons of money anytime they are down, ShoreTel is the perfect fit for theSMB client who sees value in a solid,robust, reliable and high functioning phone system
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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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    I have not used a wide array of communication software, but this far ShoreTel/MiCloud has been the simplest and easiest to get into. My work employs several temps at certain points throughout the year, and they use this piece of software frequently, and new hires seem to have little to no issue using this software. Additionally, this is our primary telephone communication infrastructure, and I have yet to encounter any issues when signed in and regularly using it handling external calls to our department.
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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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    Discontinued Products
    The system has gone down on us MULTIPLE times. We asked them to move us to a different cluster. Shoretel declined. Basically we had problems or outages every month of the year from June 2012 to date. Our old phone system was just that: OLD, no bells or whistles. But it was up every day and I never had to think about it much until it was time for an upgrade. That's how I want Shoretel to be. I want it so reliable that I never have to think about it.
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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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    Discontinued Products
    Even though the system uses a lower bandwidth connection we have experienced a higher call quality than our previous system which required a T1 line and back up broadband connection.
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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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    Discontinued Products
    ShoreTel Sky's support is amazing. The only reason why I didn't give it a 10 is that we still need to contact them for stuff that we should be able to do, for ourselves, within the management portal. I know their portal is being worked on, so hopefully they will get the "little things" included for self-management.
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    In-Person Training
    Five9
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    Discontinued Products
    I attended the first ShoreTel installer class in Austin,TX. It was a week of intensive study with a live lab and having hands on experience made the class worthwhile. I have taken all of the sales courses and remaining technical courses either online or self study to keep costs down. I send my techs to the first installer course in Austin as I feel it gives them a solid foundation and most of teh other courses they have taken have been online.
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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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    Discontinued Products
    The training identified some things M5 (ShoreTel's cloud division) could provide, however it was only using it every day and asking the Shoretel support several questions that I got the hang of it. The training was able to highlight functions but I did not learn how to use the phone from the training.
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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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    Discontinued Products
    Each of our locations has a dedicated ShoreTel router and managed QoS. With full management, it provides us a breath of space and bandwidth to use our resources in other means. Strongly consider the managed solution as you have to maintain more technical issues when hosting with your ISP. You have to make sure your ISP can provide you the best service for voice and data. Plug and 'hope' doesn't work with just routing your phones over any Internet connection....especially when your handsets run int he 100's
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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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    Discontinued Products
    Aptela. I chose M5 (ShoreTelSky) because their platform puts call quality first. Their system also uses Cisco endpoints, which are very compatible with the rest of my Cisco network. I also liked the fact that ShoreTelSky uses the internet only as a backup for transport; I use MPLS as my primary connectivity.
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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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    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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    I believe that ShoreTel can be used by a minimum company size of about 25 to almost any size of a company and this can be achieved while the company grows, hence makes it pretty scalable when required. For companies which are smaller in size i.e. smaller than 25, I am not sure how useful it would be, it may be depending upon the type of business
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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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    Discontinued Products
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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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    Discontinued Products
    • At my branch alone, we are saving over $500 a month using Shoretel Sky versus the phone company we were using before them.
    • Shoretel Sky has increased customer service by allowing our employees to easily transfer a call to the proper department or branch no matter where they are located instead of giving the caller a phone number to call.
    • Most of our locations did not have caller ID before Shoretel Sky. That feature has increased employee efficiency because when they know who is calling before they answer allows them to professionally greet their caller and have their info up on their computer as they answer.
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