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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AGenesys PureConnect was an omnichannel contact center platform that offered cloud-based or on-premise deployments. It featured a SIP-based architecture with VoIP capabilities, allowing companies to connect legacy voice systems and use existing phones. A legacy product, new users are encouraged to investigate Genesys Cloud.N/A

    Quo

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AQuo (formerly OpenPhone) is a business phone and VoIP solution designed to help maintain work life balance. Features include incoming call identification, set business hours, contact ownership information to associate calls to teammembers, etc., to help organize call responding.

    $19

    per month per user

    Pricing
    Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)Quo
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Starter
    $19
    per month per user
    Business
    $33
    per month per user
    Scale
    $47
    per month per user
    Enterprise
    Custom Pricing
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)Quo
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Discounts available for annual pricing.
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    Community Pulse
    Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)Quo
    Considered Both Products
    Discontinued Products
    No answer on this topic
    OpenPhone
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    60%
    Would buy again
    6 Answers
    90%
    Would buy again
    9 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    88%
    Delivers good value for the price
    7 Answers
    88%
    Delivers good value for the price
    7 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    90%
    Happy with the feature set
    9 Answers
    90%
    Happy with the feature set
    9 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    80%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    4 Answers
    90%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    9 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    57%
    Implementation went as expected
    4 Answers
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    9 Answers
    Features
    Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)Quo
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Genesys PureConnect (discontinued) and Quo
    Feature
    Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)
    7.9
    64 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Quo
    -
    Ratings
    Agent dashboard6.755 Ratings00 Ratings
    Validate callers7.548 Ratings00 Ratings
    Outbound response8.541 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call forwarding7.756 Ratings00 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)8.043 Ratings00 Ratings
    Warm transfer8.357 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive dialing8.036 Ratings00 Ratings
    Interactive voice response8.045 Ratings00 Ratings
    REST APIs7.037 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call scripts8.539 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call tracking7.755 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multichannel integration9.044 Ratings00 Ratings
    CRM software integration8.038 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Genesys PureConnect (discontinued) and Quo
    Feature
    Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)
    5.5
    54 Ratings
    41% below category average
    Quo
    -
    Ratings
    Inbound call routing6.551 Ratings00 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing6.539 Ratings00 Ratings
    Recording4.552 Ratings00 Ratings
    Quality management4.546 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call analytics3.043 Ratings00 Ratings
    Historical reporting5.052 Ratings00 Ratings
    Live reporting6.548 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer surveys8.035 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics5.030 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cloud PBX
    Comparison of Cloud PBX features of Genesys PureConnect (discontinued) and Quo
    Feature
    Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Quo
    5.8
    5 Ratings
    31% below category average
    Hosted PBX00 Ratings4.54 Ratings
    Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)00 Ratings4.55 Ratings
    User templates00 Ratings8.14 Ratings
    Call reports00 Ratings4.54 Ratings
    Directory of employee names00 Ratings7.24 Ratings
    Call Management
    Comparison of Call Management features of Genesys PureConnect (discontinued) and Quo
    Feature
    Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Quo
    7.5
    9 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Answering rules00 Ratings7.26 Ratings
    Call recording00 Ratings7.28 Ratings
    Call park00 Ratings7.25 Ratings
    Call screening00 Ratings7.27 Ratings
    Message alerts00 Ratings8.97 Ratings
    VoIP system collaboration
    Comparison of VoIP system collaboration features of Genesys PureConnect (discontinued) and Quo
    Feature
    Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Quo
    5.8
    10 Ratings
    31% below category average
    Video conferencing00 Ratings4.52 Ratings
    Audio conferencing00 Ratings4.55 Ratings
    Video screen sharing00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Instant messaging00 Ratings8.910 Ratings
    Mobile apps
    Comparison of Mobile apps features of Genesys PureConnect (discontinued) and Quo
    Feature
    Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Quo
    5.9
    10 Ratings
    29% below category average
    Mobile app for iOS00 Ratings4.510 Ratings
    Mobile app for Android00 Ratings7.25 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)Quo
    Small Businesses
    Zendesk Talk
    Score8.2 out of 10
    CallFire
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    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
    Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)Quo
    Likelihood to Recommend
    5.3
    (116 ratings)
    8.9
    (10 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.6
    (12 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    7.3
    (12 ratings)
    7.2
    (2 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    8.8
    (3 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    4.0
    (12 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.2
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.3
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    6.1
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.8
    (3 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.8
    (3 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)Quo
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    CIC is best suited for business models that rely on heavily leverage Data Integration especially one like ours that require real-time and high-speed data access for billing and customer integration. CIC is not well suited for small organizations < 50 where they are only answering phones in the course of doing business VS. the business is the phone.
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    OpenPhone
    If you have more than 2 people in your organization, then this will save you so much time. Delegation is the key to starting a business. Even when you're a 1 person show, being able to present to your user base the differentiation of options for client communications is critical. As a founder, feeling compelled to be always on is something I strive not to be. OpenPhone gives you that flexibility. I have found it to be less appropriate in complex HIPPA compliant areas, but that is it. OpenPhone really does seem to suit an open array of use cases.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • Purely Software Based System: On Microsoft OS. It is an all software-based system making it easy to manage, integrate and interface with other systems
    • One Vendor: All modules, IVR, ACD, Dialer, WFM are from one vendor. So, no compatibility and latency issues at all.
    • Superb Notifier Service: You don't have to restart any process or service for a change to take effect.
    Incentivized
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    OpenPhone
    • It's great for texting.
    • It's great for making phone calls. You get a new, unique phone number and can text/call from phone or desktop.
    • UI is great and really intuitive.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Discontinued Products
    • Licensing can be challenging and very expensive.
    • Client templates are hard to administer and are built very different than the rest of the functionality.
    • Web desktop has been slow to come along and include all the features.
    • Optimizer is very sub-par product.
    Incentivized
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    OpenPhone
    • Web app could work better in my experience
    • Pricing could be lower
    • Somehow connect with whatsapp or / and other messaging apps that people commonly use
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Discontinued Products
    We are so embedded on Pure Connect that we like to progress with it. For instance, we are looking into ways to provide different solutions to our customers, help our business to succeed, and work in a better CX.
    One of the biggest advantages is that all is in one platform.
    Incentivized
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    OpenPhone
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Discontinued Products
    The interface is only semi user-friendly on almost every front. Agent experience is lacking and we have found many limitations within the system. Workforce forecasting is not as robust as expected. Quality continues to be a struggle. Interaction searches are not robust.
    Incentivized
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    OpenPhone
    In my experience, App features are buggy and confusing, and they often don't match the descriptions and screenshots in their documentation. In fact, many of their help links go to 404 "page not found" errors. In my experience, there are frequent outages and quality issues. My customers prefer to talk to me on a different line, because they find it difficult to understand me on OpenPhone.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Discontinued Products
    The application itself uses a hub and spoke model that can help isolate errors in one section of the application from the rest, creating a much more stable overall program. Of all of the outages that we've had with our contact center platform, I can count on one hand how often it was truly a Genesys issue rather than a network issue, server issue or issue with a platform relied upon for an integration (web services, db calls).
    Incentivized
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    OpenPhone
    For me, there have been too many outages to rate this higher than "1 worst".
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    Performance
    Discontinued Products
    Some of the client applications take a bit of time on initial load, but with the move towards web based applications that issue is alleviated. You can tell that effort really isn't putting into the desktop apps any longer and that the client development effort is being put into bringing Interaction Connect closer to feature parity with the desktop (and bringing wholly new features to Connect). As far as IVR operations, web service calls, database operations: they all operate reasonably.
    Incentivized
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    OpenPhone
    I think the platform is buggy and confusing. There are numerous outages. And the call quality, according to my customers, is atrocious.
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    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
    Some cases are resolved quickly others are taking longer and the reseller sometimes has to chase support several times and explain the issue seen several times. While being a direct customer before, I recognise this and it seems that when a case moves to another engineer they don’t read the previous case notes or don’t understand what has been done. This, from a customers perspective, slows down resolution times.
    Incentivized
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    OpenPhone
    In my experience, their support feels like the opposite of support. They send you in circles, never directly answer questions, provide vague suggestions with unwanted platitudes, and they often take days between responses to provide that. For me, it's a frustrating experience that leaves you with a net loss of time and energy versus before you reached out to them. In my opinion, you definitely don't get "support".
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    In-Person Training
    Discontinued Products
    I liked the setup of the whole class. The instructor knew the topic well enough to answer questions from entry level to a more advanced one.
    Instructor encouraged participation of the whole class and was able to engage every one. Also provided "real live" examples so everyone can relate to it.
    Incentivized
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    OpenPhone
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Discontinued Products
    The online training itself is good. You are provided resources and can self study to a certain point, but the pacing always felt off. Either snails pace or like trying to drink from a fire hose. I think this easily could have had to do with course material and my personal preparations, though. I would say my main gripe is that since the acquisition the team responsible for actually booking training is very unresponsive and often not knowledgeable about the courses they offer. Booking my last training was a real chore.
    Incentivized
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    OpenPhone
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Discontinued Products
    Don't try to go the perfect solution as a first target. Work on answer the more needs with a simple solution. Then analyse and try again to answer the most needs with adding a bit if complexity only if require. No needs to customise straight from the beginning or deployment takes too long.
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    OpenPhone
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    Call Manager, you had to buy all the components that are out of the box for PureConnect. The licensing model is more expensive on the Cisco side vs the Genesys PureConnect side. Lastly was on the Cisco side since you have to connect/integrate all the components on the cisco side you have to have so many vendors to install those parts. This drives the cost up even more so it was not worth going that route for our organization.
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    OpenPhone
    OpenPhone has an easier user interface than Grasshopper. Years ago when I was using Grasshopper, I recall that their user interface looked antiquated and full of complications. They would also update the interface just as everyone was getting used to using it. OpenPhone has many more functions. Grasshopper's app did not offer basic functions such as in-app texting between team members, and its call transfer function was incredibly complicated to use. In my opinion, Grasshopper was an inferior service/product in almost every way.
    Incentivized
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    OpenPhone
    In my experience, Billing lacks transparency, and they have made billing errors (overcharging me) since I started using them. I think the "trust registration" is an insane ripoff charging around $20 for every attempt. Crazy.
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    Scalability
    Discontinued Products
    Genesys PureConnect's core and adjunct model allows for fairly easy growth in satellite locations via off site session managers, remote located media servers, remote content servers, etc to allow you to spread the infrastructure out while not pushing as much network traffic to your core data centers.
    Incentivized
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    OpenPhone
    In my experience, I can't even scale up to sending messages from a single number because of their broken and messed up "trust registration" system.
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    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • We're improving our CX by optimizing our call centers, using additional attributes and keys to identify the best rep for the job.
    • We are also streamlining the journey of each individual customer by using PureConnect as the central interface for omnichannel interactions, allowing us to pick up the conversation where we left off.
    • Using additional attributes that start with the contact center interaction, we're able to track a student journey and proactively step in - increasing our individualized support to focus on the student outcome.
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    OpenPhone
    • Provided us with a simple, yet robust phone system for our small business
    • Price can be lower for premium, and for multiple users
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

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    Quo Screenshots

    Screenshot of the collaborative phone system for teamsScreenshot of the call routing interfaceScreenshot of where the app captures all customer detailsScreenshot of how to share a number across a teamScreenshot of where to use AI to summarize, tag, and transcribe calls and texts