Genesys Cloud CX vs. LiveAgent

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Genesys Cloud CX
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Genesys Cloud CX (formerly PureCloud, Genesys Cloud) is a contact center application optimized for automatic call distribution, interactive voice response, email, social media, chat, and text/SMS. It is also a VoIP interconnect service provider.
$75
per month
LiveAgent
Score 9.0 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
LiveAgent is a help desk software designed to help users bring personalization to customer interactions. LiveAgent presents an omnichannel universal inbox, real-time live chat, built-in call center, and a customer service portal. It offers customer segmentation, automation, built-in CRM, and an analytics package, as well as gamification features, ultimately containing are over 180+ help desk features, and 200+ integrations. The solution boasts users among companies like BMW, Yamaha,…
$9
per month
Pricing
Genesys Cloud CXLiveAgent
Editions & Modules
Genesys Cloud CX 1
$75.00
Per User Per Month
Genesys Cloud CX 2
$110.00
Per User Per Month
Genesys Cloud CX 3
$140.00
Per User Per Month
Genesys Choice
Contact sales team
Contact sales team
Free
$0
per month
Small
$9
per month per seat
Medium
$29
per month per seat
Large
$49
per month per seat
Enterprise
$69
per month per seat
Downloadable licence
11,950
20 agents
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Genesys Cloud CXLiveAgent
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsPricing plans can also be billed hourly.
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Community Pulse
Genesys Cloud CXLiveAgent
Top Pros
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Features
Genesys Cloud CXLiveAgent
Contact Center Software
Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Product A and Product B
Genesys Cloud CX
8.7
307 Ratings
3% above category average
LiveAgent
-
Ratings
Agent dashboard8.8295 Ratings00 Ratings
Validate callers8.5266 Ratings00 Ratings
Outbound response8.5237 Ratings00 Ratings
Call forwarding9.3262 Ratings00 Ratings
Click-to-call (CTC)8.9209 Ratings00 Ratings
Warm transfer9.1286 Ratings00 Ratings
Predictive dialing9.1175 Ratings00 Ratings
Interactive voice response8.7240 Ratings00 Ratings
REST APIs8.6209 Ratings00 Ratings
Call scripts8.9228 Ratings00 Ratings
Call tracking8.6282 Ratings00 Ratings
Multichannel integration8.2224 Ratings00 Ratings
CRM software integration8.5217 Ratings00 Ratings
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Product A and Product B
Genesys Cloud CX
8.4
293 Ratings
1% below category average
LiveAgent
-
Ratings
Inbound call routing9.2276 Ratings00 Ratings
Omnichannel inbound routing7.7216 Ratings00 Ratings
Recording9.2277 Ratings00 Ratings
Quality management8.8258 Ratings00 Ratings
Call analytics8.6265 Ratings00 Ratings
Historical reporting8.1276 Ratings00 Ratings
Live reporting8.0270 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer surveys7.1164 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer interaction analytics8.4198 Ratings00 Ratings
Incident and problem management
Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
Genesys Cloud CX
-
Ratings
LiveAgent
8.2
57 Ratings
1% above category average
Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings8.354 Ratings
Expert directory00 Ratings7.645 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings7.642 Ratings
ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings7.238 Ratings
Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings9.056 Ratings
Ticket response00 Ratings9.157 Ratings
Self Help Community
Comparison of Self Help Community features of Product A and Product B
Genesys Cloud CX
-
Ratings
LiveAgent
8.7
51 Ratings
9% above category average
External knowledge base00 Ratings8.448 Ratings
Internal knowledge base00 Ratings8.946 Ratings
Multi-Channel Help
Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Product A and Product B
Genesys Cloud CX
-
Ratings
LiveAgent
8.1
56 Ratings
1% above category average
Customer portal00 Ratings8.452 Ratings
IVR00 Ratings7.228 Ratings
Social integration00 Ratings8.150 Ratings
Email support00 Ratings9.252 Ratings
Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings7.545 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Genesys Cloud CXLiveAgent
Small Businesses
CloudTalk
CloudTalk
Score 9.3 out of 10
Agiloft Flexible Service Desk Suite
Agiloft Flexible Service Desk Suite
Score 9.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
CloudTalk
CloudTalk
Score 9.3 out of 10
Agiloft Flexible Service Desk Suite
Agiloft Flexible Service Desk Suite
Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises
Webex Contact Center
Webex Contact Center
Score 9.1 out of 10
SAP Service Cloud
SAP Service Cloud
Score 9.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
Genesys Cloud CXLiveAgent
Likelihood to Recommend
8.9
(319 ratings)
9.2
(115 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.7
(30 ratings)
9.3
(4 ratings)
Usability
9.4
(64 ratings)
8.0
(4 ratings)
Availability
8.6
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
7.7
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.6
(123 ratings)
9.3
(27 ratings)
In-Person Training
7.9
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
8.0
(8 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.8
(23 ratings)
9.1
(6 ratings)
Configurability
8.0
(9 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
7.6
(13 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
7.6
(11 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.6
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Professional Services
7.6
(10 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.8
(13 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
8.8
(13 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Genesys Cloud CXLiveAgent
Likelihood to Recommend
Genesys
Overall, the platform is good and provides different channels and collaborative functionalities. The interface is modern and intuitive the users tend to like it. Regarding the technical part, it's overall good support and has great training, however, as with any tool, there's always room for improvement.
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QualityUnit, LLC
LiveAgent is great for companies that want to help customers with their issues. It is also great for getting sales for our company. During our chats, if a customer is interested, we like to ask for the sale. It is too easy for the customers to say no. So it is nice that with LiveAgent, they have an automatic process where the customer can enter their item and address information and it is easy for our agents to get the sale.
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Pros
Genesys
  • Documentation is stellar, and I am able to search Beyond training or the knowledge base for anything I need.
  • Call flows and IVR is stupid easy to build and work in.
  • End users (CSRs) like the interface and seem to be able to navigate easily in the system.
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QualityUnit, LLC
  • Having the ability to transfer tickets or chats has proven useful when we are working with a customer who has a specific type of inquiry - perhaps a sales question or an employment request. We’ve found it helpful to have the ability to transfer the chat to the online agent best equipped to answer the inquiry so we are able to serve our customers to the highest standard and with an immediate response.
  • We find being able to add notes and labels to previous chats and tickets incredibly helpful in data collection and also in our ability to work as a dynamic team. By being able to sort our chats and tickets into an organized system that our company created, we can work cohesively to review old conversations for continuity, opportunities for growth, and with transparency between departments.
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Cons
Genesys
  • Client customization
  • Help articles are lacking in detail, sometimes contain broken links or have out dated and/or are lacking information
  • Features are missing that were in PureConnect, e.g. Drag-and-drop to transfer
  • "Too many clicks" is often a complaint, e.g. to transfer a call.
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QualityUnit, LLC
  • LA doesn't provide you SMS integration.
  • You cannot divert your phone call from your local carrier to LA agent directly. You need to get a third party number which is way much costly. Also, if you get a third party number to divert your calls from a local carrier to LA, then the callers have to wait more than the usual time in order to get them connected with the Customer Support Team.
  • WhatsApp Integration also unavailable.
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Likelihood to Renew
Genesys
Genesys Cloud CX is a solid product and deserves to be in the upper right quadrant in Gartner. They are true innovators in the customer experience space and based on the innovation taking place monthly, they will likely stay in this spot. The product gains new features every time you blink your eyes.
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QualityUnit, LLC
I am giving this rating as Live Agent is a very good software that is essential to any small or big business that provides customer support services. It gives you the possibility to manage any of your clients issues, answer questions and keep a good relationship with them by providing quick solutions.
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Usability
Genesys
Everything is very good. It is very useful, friendly to users and it makes our work easier than what we expected. I think that I don't need any help from someone on how to use Genesys coz basically they will directly feed it to you without any hassle on using it.
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QualityUnit, LLC
The initial setup, onboarding and training is easy. The system provides 2 graphic version of interfaces in black or white default colors. I would appreciate, if there were more. Some of the setup forms are not correctly resized. Overall, I'm always able to find what I am looking for in LiveAgent.
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Reliability and Availability
Genesys
We had a couple of times where there were application issues or unplanned outages, but they were resolved very quickly. We were never in the position where it was a total outage, which is very important.
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QualityUnit, LLC
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Performance
Genesys
The pages are loading quickly but not every time. There is a delay sometimes. About the integrations, everything is working as expected, there is no slow down.
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QualityUnit, LLC
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Genesys
There seem to be so many pages and options for support - but none of them are very seamless and some are very hard to maneuver or manage. I would like to learn more about the product features and tutorials etc. - but have had a hard time finding appropriate content.
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QualityUnit, LLC
The one time that I contacted the customer support at LiveAgent, they were very quick to help me out and the customer support representative walked me through every thing that I needed to know to set up what I needed. Over all, the support staff at LiveAgent were perfect.
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In-Person Training
Genesys
Genesys team that provide trainings are friendly and professional. They helped us to understand well the product and the functionalities. The training was detailed with use cases. At the end, we got a task to develop that ended with success and we got some Genesys rewards. It was amazing experience
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QualityUnit, LLC
No answers on this topic
Online Training
Genesys
I have taken the preparatory course for Genesys Cloud Certification. I must say that it is a good training for administrators and analysts. The bibliography is very clear and is easy to identify the topics, which are conveniently separated. It is, in my opinion, mandatory for those who want to exercise the position of Genesys Cloud platform administrators.
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QualityUnit, LLC
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
Genesys
The support engineer that I partnered with during the implementation was exceptional. Every element of the process was done together and the end result of the efforts to grow the knowledge to be able to hand over at the end enabled a pretty smooth transition.
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QualityUnit, LLC
Implementation was quick and when not counting a bug on our website, it took a couple hours. It was mostly done on our end or with the assistance of LiveAgent's live chat support team. We recommend to check out LiveAgent's tutorial videos on their youtube channel or browsing their knowledge base - we've almost always found answers to our queries there.
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Alternatives Considered
Genesys
I worked in a much larger company when I used TotalView and it had been heavily customized for them (over 10 000 employees) so the comparison is a bit lopsided. I found TotalView quite intuitive but the features of Genesys Cloud CX certainly outweigh that one thing.
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QualityUnit, LLC
Before making the decision, we evaluated many tools, but none of them met all of our needs or the costs we could bear for them, until we found LiveAgent. The implementation process was super simple and supported by the LiveAgent support team, who are excellent!
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Genesys
Genesys provides Licensing in 3 tier subscription types of licenses on top based on any business requirements then any sort of feature/functionality inclusion (or removal) is discussed openly. There are 2 types of billing models available which are "Named" and "Concurrent" based on the type of roles users will perform in Genesys Cloud CX environment (eg. Agent, Supervisor, Administrator, and Business Users) Also, the billing period/frequency starts on the actual day the platform is delivered.
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QualityUnit, LLC
No answers on this topic
Scalability
Genesys
We were able to successfully implement Genesys Cloud (formerly PureCloud) to multiple departments successfully with a range from low call volumes to very high.
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QualityUnit, LLC
No answers on this topic
Professional Services
Genesys
Professional services are definitely much more experienced than the support teams, and the price for their services is very fair. I wish that the support team could help answer simple questions about work that the PSS team does, however, so that we do not have to use our SOW for simple Q&A emails.
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QualityUnit, LLC
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
Genesys
  • SLA improvement (thanks to better overview during real-time scheduling).
  • Better/easier work with multiskilled users which offers more possibilities to work with FTEs (less FTE needed).
  • One time big investment was needed for hardware (laptops, headphones) as we used to work on desktops previously.
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QualityUnit, LLC
  • Less expensive than having multiple individual email accounts.
  • LiveAgent has helped decrease our errors since it's more straightforward than sharing a traditional inbox with multiple team members.
  • Sometimes the emails sent from LiveAgent end up in our customer's spam/junk folder because the auto-generated alpha-numeric ticket looks suspicious.
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ScreenShots

Genesys Cloud CX Screenshots

Screenshot of Genesys Cloud directories make it easy to find the right person in your organizationScreenshot of Agents can see the activities in their queue in this easy to use dashboardScreenshot of Contact center managers are able to quickly get a view on key metrics in this dashboardScreenshot of Call Center Co-browsing capabilities built-in

LiveAgent Screenshots

Screenshot of Inside of TicketsScreenshot of Chat - Support ViewScreenshot of Chat - Customer ViewScreenshot of Chat - Fully Customizable