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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Fuze

    Score8.2 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Fuze is a cloud-based unified communications platform that includes IP PBX voice service, video conferencing, and collaboration tools such as content sharing and instant messaging capabilities. It also integrates with a wide range of popular CTI, CRM, and click-to-call solutions.

    $15

    per month

    Pricing
    Fuze
    Editions & Modules
    US Outbound
    $0.02
    Per Minute
    Fuze Meetings
    $15
    Per User/Per Month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Fuze
    Free Trial
    No
    Free/Freemium Version
    No
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    Yes
    Entry-level Setup FeeRequired
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    Community Pulse
    Fuze
    Considered Both Products
    Fuze
    Chose Fuze
    Fuze was basically selected as our priority because of its seamless calling feature as compared to its competitors and the edge of simplifying the contextual features it is offering
    Incentivized
    Chose Fuze
    8x8 Contact Center offers almost the same product and features.
    Incentivized
    Chose Fuze
    Fuze proved to be a great solution and quite the improvement from our XO phone platform we moved away from. Fuze as a cloud solution allowed us to transition to a remote work environment very easily. Fuze reporting provided valuable insight into the call activity of sales …
    Incentivized
    Chose Fuze
    We did not evaluate any other products for our phone service.
    Incentivized
    Chose Fuze
    Almost went with PanTerra and then discovered that Fuze has better infrastructure which allows for more reliability and uptime. RingCentral had too many apps and didn't feel centralized enough.
    Incentivized
    Chose Fuze
    We have used smaller VoIP vendors and UCaaS, such as Ring Central, in the past. We chose Fuze, and it has been the right fit for us. The private VoIP vendor was not as expandable, and the services [were] just not there. Ring Central, though a capable product, was just not …
    Incentivized
    Chose Fuze
    They are more expensive, with less product offerings, and a less dependable service.
    Incentivized
    Chose Fuze
    Fuze had a much better global model and call center.
    Incentivized
    Chose Fuze
    Better organization level coverage.
    Incentivized
    Chose Fuze
    Fuze has more features available and the UI is more friendly.
    Incentivized
    Chose Fuze
    I've used or reviewed Zoom, Ring Central Fuze, MS Teams, GoTo Meetings, and CallTower.
    Incentivized
    Chose Fuze
    We evaluated other projects like Skype for Business (now Teams), RingCentral, and Cisco alongside Fuze. What set Fuze aside for our organization was the amount of care and support they put into the proof of concept process to ensure that when we decided to start our test, it …
    Incentivized
    Chose Fuze
    We have had several vendors try to get our phone business, and I have always given my opinion to management why we need to stay with Fuze. Customer service is wonderful and the support staff puts up with me and they are very helpful. We use another company to do our dialing …
    Incentivized
    Chose Fuze
    Fuze was far more expensive and more complicated to set up. Our current platform took a few days to set up with SSO. Our contact center took a bit longer but works amazingly.
    Incentivized
    Chose Fuze
    We did a short POC so we did not fully implement all functions with any of the providers before going with Fuze which was the cheapest.
    Incentivized
    Chose Fuze
    I was not employed at my company at the time they selected Fuze. But in a general comparison to Vonage which I used at my last company, I think Fuze and Vonage are both good products.
    Incentivized
    Chose Fuze
    Our company has used three different phone systems during my time. It began with an on-premises system from Interactive Intelligence, Inc. (I3), which is primarily a higher-end call-center product. Due to a business relationship, we were able to utilize what would have been …
    Incentivized
    Chose Fuze
    Fuze is on par with its feature set of any cloud pbx provider I have seen.
    Incentivized
    Chose Fuze
    When we were shopping, Fuze was able to give us the features we needed and a good price point.
    Incentivized
    Chose Fuze
    Fuze does not stack up against NVM or Five9 at all. Fuze is such an inferior product to NVM. inContact and Serenova have great platforms as well but I haven't used them first hand yet. All these other plaforms plug into Salesforce well as Fuze does not. Fuze needs to …
    Incentivized
    Chose Fuze
    Fuze has had consistent site availability as opposed to the selected provider. Their portals were down 90% of the time even before implementation.
    Incentivized
    Chose Fuze
    They all have different usages, Fuze makes it feel like we are using a phone even if we use it from our laptops. We also wanted to have one centralized VOIP system, for example, we have Webex as our meeting system and Slack as our instant messaging system. Definitely much …
    Incentivized
    Chose Fuze
    It's only the fact that we ported our phone numbers to Fuze that made us adopt the solution, for a question of price and support. Meetings, Chat and the mobile application have great potential for improvement.
    Incentivized
    Chose Fuze
    We looked at RingCentral as well. They are a big name out there right now. It was actually a tough choice between the two. We had demos of all the software and understood how things worked. In the end, Fuze just made more sense for us. It has solved our problems and fits our …
    Incentivized
    Chose Fuze
    Five9 is better as a contact center but can be used with Fuze if you want to combine it with a separate PBX type system. Avaya has more configuration options but is very costly when you need to setup or update hardware. Genesys gives you the best of both worlds, but the startup …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    77%
    Would buy again
    20 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    77%
    Delivers good value for the price
    17 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    23 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    79%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    11 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    67%
    Implementation went as expected
    12 Answers
    Features
    Fuze
    Cloud PBX
    Comparison of Cloud PBX features of Fuze
    Feature
    Fuze
    5.5
    111 Ratings
    36% below category average
    Hosted PBX5.178 Ratings
    Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)6.073 Ratings
    User templates5.060 Ratings
    Call reports6.192 Ratings
    Directory of employee names5.1107 Ratings
    Call Management
    Comparison of Call Management features of Fuze
    Feature
    Fuze
    6.5
    107 Ratings
    23% below category average
    Answering rules7.099 Ratings
    Call recording6.089 Ratings
    Call park7.073 Ratings
    Message alerts6.193 Ratings
    VoIP system collaboration
    Comparison of VoIP system collaboration features of Fuze
    Feature
    Fuze
    7.1
    91 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Video conferencing7.077 Ratings
    Audio conferencing7.190 Ratings
    Mobile apps
    Comparison of Mobile apps features of Fuze
    Feature
    Fuze
    8.0
    103 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Mobile app for iOS8.094 Ratings
    Mobile app for Android8.077 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Fuze
    Small Businesses
    CallFire
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Nextiva
    Score8.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Call Manager)
    Score8.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Fuze
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (116 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.7
    (20 ratings)
    Usability
    7.1
    (12 ratings)
    Availability
    8.9
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.4
    (88 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (111 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.7
    (3 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.8
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.6
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Fuze
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Fuze
    Fuze has way more capability than we need for our small office so it might be best suited for large installations, call centers, and complex environments. Our office is small and our needs [are] minimal, so when we need support we are challenged to understand the support person due to our lack of technical sophistication. We sometimes feel like we should switch to a solution more geared for consumers or SOHO. Nevertheless, Fuze provides reliable service at [a] reasonable cost that meets our needs, and because support is rarely needed we are happy with them most of the time, i.e. when support isn't needed.
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    Pros
    Fuze
    • Support Team - the best I have ever worked with. They help 24/7 on any issue I could come across. Usually it is an item I could fix myself and they fix it and show me how to fix the same issue if I have it in the future.
    • Contact Center - We do Commercial Collections involving Sales and Collections. We have 50 people on the phone at one time. Contact Center lets a Manager listen live and gives help if the rep needs help selling or collecting.
    • Pandemic 2020 - without Fuze we would have been unable to work for 3 months. They saved our "rears" since we already had all their services up and running for years.
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    Cons
    Fuze
    • Desktop application stability and compatibility with certain hardware.
    • Better installation - Per-user and per-computer installs sometimes compete with one another and/or upgrades fail to install.
    • [The] desktop app is not best for touchscreen-enabled devices due to lack of ability to scroll through messages using a finger or stylus.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Fuze
    Fuze is a solid application that is a great asset to the business for our sales staff to make daily calls to clients and candidates. Managers can monitor call data and times to keep up to date with team performance, as well as monitor calls for users on their team. The Fuze/MS Teams integration is an exciting prospect that would be very beneficial to us as a business, for seamless integration between the 2 platforms.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Fuze
    Fuze was built with the end-user in mind. It was built to have a common interface on mobile and desktop. Fuze Web is new, and it also has the exact same interface as the desktop and mobile, and they are still working on the ability to make phone calls from the browser itself, currently it can do meetings just fine. Everything about Fuze was built with the end-user in mind.
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    Fuze
    We've had a few outages over the past year. More than other vendors I've used. They usually have outages fixed within an hour. The downside is they do not provide root cause of outages. If they do at takes them at least a month to get it to you
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    Performance
    Fuze
    Since Fuze runs across multiple devices and platforms they really strived to make a lightweight interface that is optimized for phone calls, chat, and collaboration. The web client loads fast, the chat is always up-to-date, phone calls arrive on-time. The desktop client is the most feature rich and basically it just adds desktop sharing functionality as well as VoIP for calling, and the mobile client doesn't consume a lot of battery, and it stays running to get phone calls, chats, and can do meetings over Wifi, Cellular Data, or Cellular voice.
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    Support Rating
    Fuze
    Our experience with Fuze support has been overall very positive. Their technicians seem to be well trained and able to handle a variety of requests and issues without unnecessary delays or extensive troubleshooting. Fuze allows enough customer access to avoid the need to call support for every little issue but is ready to assist when issues are beyond our capabilities to resolve.
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    In-Person Training
    Fuze
    At many of our sites with more than 50 users, Fuze sent someone onsite to train. This worked surprisingly well, as the trainer allowed the users to set the pace and answered TONS of questions. Fuze has a very streamlined training process, their staff is very professional, very knowledgeable and very engaging.
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    Online Training
    Fuze
    Fuze has vast amounts of training videos and guides on how to use its products and services. There are literally endless-hours of training and I often point end-users to a particular video which addresses the specific needs of the user, for example: how to check voicemail. Or, how to share your desktop, etc.
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    Implementation Rating
    Fuze
    Personally, I didn't have any trouble getting started with Fuze. It was installed on my computer on my first day and I was good to go! Little to no hiccups. I was not with the company when they first adapted Fuze so I can not speak to the implementation as a whole.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Fuze
    Fuze was far more expensive and more complicated to set up. Our current platform took a few days to set up with SSO. Our contact center took a bit longer but works amazingly.
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    Scalability
    Fuze
    Fuze does have scalability limits but most of that is how many end-points they can put on a virtual PBX, or VCX as they call them, I THINK its limit is somewhere between 2,000 and 5,000, but we've not had issues with that because we have put users into various VCXs some by location, some by department or function. Either way, we have 7,000 currently deployed, and are going to end up with over 15,000 when we are done, Fuze is VERY scalable.
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    Return on Investment
    Fuze
    • We receive constant negative feedback from mangers about the system not functioning correctly. (This is mainly due to lack of support from Fuze)
    • This has had a positive impact in that the system is cheaper and we are missing less calls due to the functionality of the system.
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