Freshdesk Contact Center vs. Webex Contact Center

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Freshdesk Contact Center
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
Freshdesk Contact Center ( Formerly Freshcaller) is a call center software for startups and small teams. Fresh Contact Center aims to enable businesses / teams set-up and run a call center without spending a lot of time and money. It is suited for phone teams of size 1- 30. Users can create custom greeting texts based on specific call scenarios. The nested Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system allows the user to provide a detailed set of options to callers. The call queues…
$0
per agent/per month
Webex Contact Center
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Cisco Webex Contact Center is a cloud-based omni-channel (e.g. voice, email, and chat) contact center solution providing customer / agent matching, customer service self-service agent, and built-in chat and voice for collaboration between agents.N/A
Pricing
Freshdesk Contact CenterWebex Contact Center
Editions & Modules
FREE
$0
per agent/per month
Growth
$15
per agent/per ,billed annually
Pro
$39
per agent/per month, billed annually
Enterprise
$69
per agent/per month, billed annually
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Freshdesk Contact CenterWebex Contact Center
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Freshdesk Contact CenterWebex Contact Center
Features
Freshdesk Contact CenterWebex Contact Center
Cloud PBX
Comparison of Cloud PBX features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk Contact Center
8.9
8 Ratings
10% above category average
Webex Contact Center
-
Ratings
Hosted PBX9.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)8.28 Ratings00 Ratings
Call reports9.48 Ratings00 Ratings
Directory of employee names9.27 Ratings00 Ratings
Call Management
Comparison of Call Management features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk Contact Center
8.9
8 Ratings
6% above category average
Webex Contact Center
-
Ratings
Answering rules8.58 Ratings00 Ratings
Call recording9.08 Ratings00 Ratings
Call park9.07 Ratings00 Ratings
Call screening8.58 Ratings00 Ratings
Message alerts9.47 Ratings00 Ratings
VoIP system collaboration
Comparison of VoIP system collaboration features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk Contact Center
9.6
6 Ratings
18% above category average
Webex Contact Center
-
Ratings
Audio conferencing9.66 Ratings00 Ratings
Contact Center Software
Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk Contact Center
-
Ratings
Webex Contact Center
8.1
41 Ratings
2% below category average
Agent dashboard00 Ratings9.039 Ratings
Validate callers00 Ratings8.537 Ratings
Outbound response00 Ratings7.032 Ratings
Call forwarding00 Ratings8.938 Ratings
Click-to-call (CTC)00 Ratings8.535 Ratings
Warm transfer00 Ratings8.638 Ratings
Predictive dialing00 Ratings6.025 Ratings
Interactive voice response00 Ratings8.134 Ratings
REST APIs00 Ratings8.334 Ratings
Call scripts00 Ratings8.734 Ratings
Call tracking00 Ratings8.537 Ratings
Multichannel integration00 Ratings8.236 Ratings
CRM software integration00 Ratings7.636 Ratings
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk Contact Center
-
Ratings
Webex Contact Center
8.1
37 Ratings
1% below category average
Inbound call routing00 Ratings8.335 Ratings
Omnichannel inbound routing00 Ratings8.033 Ratings
Recording00 Ratings8.935 Ratings
Quality management00 Ratings8.531 Ratings
Call analytics00 Ratings7.832 Ratings
Historical reporting00 Ratings8.335 Ratings
Live reporting00 Ratings8.135 Ratings
Customer surveys00 Ratings7.533 Ratings
Customer interaction analytics00 Ratings7.229 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Freshdesk Contact CenterWebex Contact Center
Small Businesses
CloudTalk
CloudTalk
Score 8.3 out of 10
CloudTalk
CloudTalk
Score 8.3 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
CloudTalk
CloudTalk
Score 8.3 out of 10
CloudTalk
CloudTalk
Score 8.3 out of 10
Enterprises
Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Call Manager)
Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Call Manager)
Score 9.1 out of 10
Bright Pattern Contact Center
Bright Pattern Contact Center
Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
Freshdesk Contact CenterWebex Contact Center
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
(9 ratings)
8.6
(42 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(1 ratings)
8.1
(18 ratings)
Support Rating
8.1
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Freshdesk Contact CenterWebex Contact Center
Likelihood to Recommend
Freshworks Inc
One scenario where Freshdesk Contact Center is well suited is when we have a lot of parents calling in with requests about student transcripts, and or grades, we can better interact with each caller and not have a lot of people on hold waiting for a long time. One scenario where Freshdesk might not be well suited is when callers get the chatbot more often than talking to an actual person.
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Cisco
It depends on your needs. If you only need simple call flows, consider using Cisco Webex Calling Auto-Attendant. If you require more complex call flows and time-of-day routing, you can utilize Cisco Webex Contact Center. You only have to purchase 1 Agent to use the Call Flow Designer.
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Pros
Freshworks Inc
  • From this centralized help desk, we are able to allocate tickets and communicate with staff and clients via email.
  • The ability to phone a lead or customer directly from Freshdesk is fantastic.
  • Handling of waiting lines.
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Cisco
  • Easy to setup a flow and managing it and make changes without impacting the production system
  • Great analyzer that gives detailed information
  • Provide social channels to reach all the customers regardless of age and social groups
  • Easy to SMS and have communication for customers on the go
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Cons
Freshworks Inc
  • Cost - the system was felt to be way overpriced for the feature-set it provided. For the cost of 10 support agents, I could engage with a full-blown VoIP UCaaS provider to support 20-30 users.
  • The system was dependent on the Amazon Web Services system, which was prone to outages, and as it was outsourced by Freshworks to Amazon, resolution time did not have clear SLAs.
  • Non-US support - any issues encountered with the system would go through international channels which decreased resolution time depending on when the development team was available.
  • Call reliability was questionable - sometimes agents would have ringing devices that would have no one on the other end - other times calls would be dropped without explanation.
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Cisco
  • Better integration with Webex Calling.
  • More on premise features integrated into the cloud solution.
  • Better documentation for pebble templates.
  • Better information for changes and when new features are available. Instead of having to look on the what’s coming webpage alerts or a pop-up inside Webex control hub would be nice.
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Likelihood to Renew
Freshworks Inc
No answers on this topic
Cisco
We are happy with the product, with Cisco as a partner and the roadmap looks mightily impressive. Webex Contact Center is one of our growth areas so we're keen to get more agents on the platform, we want to get more customers on it and we want to make use of all the features and functionalities it offers, so that we can help our customers do what they do best.
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Usability
Freshworks Inc
It's a really simple and affordable software solution if you're looking to upgrade your system or processes to a softphone. The service has been fantastic for both our outbound sales team and our inbound customer service team. As a manager, I'm really grateful I found FreshCaller early on in the process of evaluating companies to go to for a softphone.
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Cisco
It is great to use Webex Contact Center as it delivers the call routing and workflow for agent and call routing. In addition to this the noise reduction helps to focus attention on the call and with the client. The notes feature and the ability for the transcription really helps with translation and language barriers.
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Support Rating
Freshworks Inc
Freshcaller support is great. They will respond very quickly once I submit a ticket. On occasion, they are unable to answer a question and require a deep dive on some research for random questions but that's completely understandable. Overall, great service, great quality, and very accommodating. This is one of the better support groups, in my opinion.
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Cisco
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Alternatives Considered
Freshworks Inc
After multiple checks and constant research we found Freshdesk is one of the leading product service providers and the best at it too. We used to have PSTIN hard phones which caused a lot of drops and customer discontent. After Freshdesk, it has been a cakewalk. Really happy with it.
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Cisco
Webex Contact Center feels the most modern of the solutions we evaluated. It is an all in one package which required no capital expenditure up front. Webex Contact Center was able to integrate with the AI packages which our IT team investigating for future use. Webex Contact Center was also able to integrate with the CRM packages which we use internally (without the use of a 3rd party connector).
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Return on Investment
Freshworks Inc
  • Call logs helps analyse the interactions which each lead - helps space out if need be.
  • Follow ups are simplified due to viewing of past activity.
  • Easy integration helps in saving costs of phone calls.
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Cisco
  • Increasing the number of channels agent can reach out to customers, especially text has shaved off a lot of hours from calling , leaving voicemail and waiting for customers to call back.
  • Less Downtime. No Upgrades or certificate Renewal, so fewer overtime hours.
  • Adoption of new features is now so quick, I don't have to worry about upgrading the Software or even hardware to get new features deployed.
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ScreenShots

Webex Contact Center Screenshots

Screenshot of Agent desktop viewScreenshot of View of Analyzer - Dark ModeScreenshot of Contact Center in Control Hub viewScreenshot of Supervisor desktop view