GoTo Connect vs. Talkdesk

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
GoTo Connect
Score 7.5 out of 10
N/A
GoToConnect, from GoTo, is a cloud-based business phone system with built-in web-based video conferencing solutions. It includes features such as call analytics, call recording, softphone, fax to email, voicemail to email, and desktop integration.N/A
Talkdesk
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
Talkdesk® supports CX with Customer Experience Automation (CXA), using AI agents to replace manual workflows. Powered by the Talkdesk Data Cloud, CXA delivers real-time context and fast deployment—to transform CX without a rip-and-replace.
$85
per month per user
Pricing
GoTo ConnectTalkdesk
Editions & Modules
Phone System
Contact Sales
per month per seat
Customer Experience (CX)
Contact Sales
per month per seat
CX Complete
Contact Sales
per month per seat
Contact Center
Contact Sales
per month per seat
Digital Essentials
$85
per month per user
Voice Essentials
$105
per month per user
Elite
$165
per month per user
Elite
$165
per month per user
Industry Experience Clouds
$225
per month per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
GoTo ConnectTalkdesk
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details*Talkdesk also offers per hour login consumption pricing and concurrent pricing. Prices are based on a minimum 3 year commitment to these Editions. Additional telco and usage fees not included. Due to foreign exchange rate approximation, list price is not the exact price that will be quoted.
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Community Pulse
GoTo ConnectTalkdesk
Considered Both Products
GoTo Connect
Chose GoTo Connect
Honestly, tools like Zoom or Google Meet are fine if you just need basic video, but they completely ignore the actual phone side of things. I chose GoTo Connect because it handles everything at once. We finally ditched our clunky old phone provider and stopped paying for …
Chose GoTo Connect
Go to is the only VoIP system we have ever tested. Teams is just more widely used and preferred in the business world for meetings and screen sharing, and several of our customers and contacts send us meetings in Teams, so for that reason alone, it is our preferred product. For …
Chose GoTo Connect
We love the way it works with our sometimes work-from-home situations and the ease of setting up everything in the admin portal.
Chose GoTo Connect
N/A. GoTo is our first VOIP and we have not felt the need to look for alternative systems.
Chose GoTo Connect
Older telephony technology can be extremely difficult to understand and Admin. I can't say enough about the UI with GoTo as one does not need any IT experience to Administrate this tool.
Chose GoTo Connect
Some providers are very eager to catch a sale and not help you once you are locked in. I found with GoTo Connect the merchant support team to be very helpful and easy to get a hold of.
Chose GoTo Connect
Goto Connect is way better than ooma, mainly in customer service. Ooma, however, integrates with my CRM, and I miss that. I need for GTC to integrate with Vertafore's Agency Zoom platform
Chose GoTo Connect
It is very similar, but with even easier administration which allows administration with a smaller IT Team. One of the main reason we selected GoTo Connect was for its cost and feature packed admin panel.
Chose GoTo Connect
The customer service and interface are no Comparison. In my opinion, GoTo Connect is far better at cloud voice than Verizon
Chose GoTo Connect
Amazon Connect is way harder to configure and get working than GoTo Connect is to setup.
Chose GoTo Connect
Almost non comparable. Microsoft nickel and dimes you for licensing that is not overly clear. Any change to the teams phone system can take upwards of 48 hours sometimes leaving clients without a phone system for that time. No dialing through phone trees when on a conference …
Chose GoTo Connect
The admin interface in GoTo Connect feels much simpler and faster to configure. It offers right balance of reliability, clean UI, and flexibility.
Chose GoTo Connect
Much more affordable and has everything that we need.
Chose GoTo Connect
Go-To was the more cost-effective option between these. They also had the closest alignment to our goals and what we needed for our company without going overboard. We are happy with our decision and will continue to recommend Go-To.
Chose GoTo Connect
Goto seemed to be the best UI and easiest to manage users on the admin side. Easy to customize everything to meet individual needs.
Chose GoTo Connect
It work better and able to implement it faster.
Chose GoTo Connect
GoTo Connect struck the right balance between functionality, simplicity, and cost.
Chose GoTo Connect
GoTo Connect is a higher-quality product. It is easy to use and easy to integrate with our other systems. We have been looking into different programs (there are so many) and GoTo Connect has a more professional interface.
Chose GoTo Connect
You could evaluate Zoom phone or right by eight or RingCentral or Microsoft Teams with full capabilities those are all suitable alternatives. Make sure you understand the monthly service fees, and the cost for the telephones are needed for the service as they do very …
Chose GoTo Connect
Much more reasonable and equally reliable
Chose GoTo Connect
I just find it simpler easier to visualize the screen and nobody has any problem connecting. Unlike Teams which is tricky on mobile devices and many people are accessing the meetings from mobile devices.
Talkdesk
Chose Talkdesk
Talkdesk stacks up much better against Five9 as this vendor is more of an al la cart menu and you don't see a cost savings. Also, some the features that we are using within Talkdesk today, Five9 does not have those things, and I can see why they are just more a telecom for …
Chose Talkdesk
Talkdesk is a much easier system to utilize and to train on from an agent perspective. Additionally, Talkdesk has far more features than Cisco Finesse, like WFM, caller identification, sentiment, real time call transcriptions, and so much more. Where Cisco Finesse as more of …
Chose Talkdesk
I'm honestly not really sure about the others, but we did view Dialpad, and that was a lot like Slack in terms of the UI. I do like that Talkdesk is more unique looking, and that it has different "apps" within the app itself. We tailor it depending on the roles the agents have.
Chose Talkdesk
We chose Talkdesk over five years ago because they were an innovator and leader in AI integration for a contact center.

From an AI functionality standpoint today, we don't notice much difference between platforms. There's kind of an LLM plateau right now, and the key …
Chose Talkdesk
Talkdesk is more expensive per license than Daktela's offering. However there are more advanced AI functions with Talkdesk compared to Daktela. I think Daktela's portal is more user friendly than Talkdesk. However Talkdesk offers an Academy and Ceritfications which Daktela does …
Chose Talkdesk
Talkdesk has a lot of competitors, but it really stands out because of its strong features. Talkdesk is modern and was chosen for its ability to meet specific business needs. Talkdesk was selected for its balance of powerful features, such as robust integration and evolving …
Chose Talkdesk
Talkdesk records your calls for you, and you can listen to them right after the call, if there's information you want to verify. You can get your QA markings/scores right on Talkdesk, and it has a direct link to the dashboard or Zendesk of the call that was marked. Softphone …
Chose Talkdesk
Talkdesk is the most used, as we are a voice company, which means we have to have inbound and outbound calls throughout the day. We find tickets on Zendesk, send chasers, and call the seller on Talkdesk. Calabrio allows us to see daily break schedules and a monthly off-day …
Chose Talkdesk
Slack helps in making conversations with people within the business, and Zendesk works hand in hand with Talkdesk in terms of providing tickets for the seller's information, like phone number, and then we dial them out using Talkdesk. Calabro helps keep track of our daily …
Chose Talkdesk
Talkdesk meets our needs well and struck the right balance between features and price. It had all the capabilities we are looking for and has been easy to integrate and maintain. Their tech stacks up well against competitors and we did not feel we we were missing out on any …
Chose Talkdesk
Talkdesk is very efficient and intergrates interaction data very well
Chose Talkdesk
Talkdesk has been very easy to use, easy to get used to and to teach others how to use it without consuming much time, Talkdesk Can transfer call within the business making it more efficient assisting and resolving queries of our clients ,This has helped us also reduce average …
Chose Talkdesk
Talkdesk easily adapts to the evolving needs of sales and support teams and their end customers, agents receive and handle calls, texts, emails, or chats initiated by customers. Without a Talkdesk, you cannot perform the most simple, Talkdesk sends agents notifications …
Chose Talkdesk
Talkdesk easily adapts to the evolving needs of sales and support teams and their end customers, driving customer lifetime value and loyalty. Talkdest also supports tickets to chat with an agent for help; it has all the support needed for both agents and clients that we deal …
Chose Talkdesk
Other Talkdesk competitors offer better solutions for small-scale businesses as it doesn't contain advanced call management features that require extensive software training.
Features
GoTo ConnectTalkdesk
Cloud PBX
Comparison of Cloud PBX features of Product A and Product B
GoTo Connect
7.8
Ratings
2% below category average
Talkdesk
-
Ratings
Hosted PBX7.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)7.50 Ratings00 Ratings
User templates7.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Call reports8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Directory of employee names9.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Call Management
Comparison of Call Management features of Product A and Product B
GoTo Connect
8.3
Ratings
1% above category average
Talkdesk
-
Ratings
Answering rules8.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Call recording8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Call park8.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Call screening7.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Message alerts8.20 Ratings00 Ratings
VoIP system collaboration
Comparison of VoIP system collaboration features of Product A and Product B
GoTo Connect
7.8
Ratings
1% below category average
Talkdesk
-
Ratings
Video conferencing8.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Audio conferencing7.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Video screen sharing7.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Instant messaging7.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile apps
Comparison of Mobile apps features of Product A and Product B
GoTo Connect
8.3
Ratings
5% above category average
Talkdesk
-
Ratings
Mobile app for iOS8.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile app for Android8.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Contact Center Software
Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Product A and Product B
GoTo Connect
-
Ratings
Talkdesk
7.8
Ratings
8% below category average
Agent dashboard00 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Validate callers00 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Outbound response00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Call forwarding00 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Click-to-call (CTC)00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Warm transfer00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Predictive dialing00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Interactive voice response00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
REST APIs00 Ratings6.50 Ratings
Call scripts00 Ratings7.50 Ratings
Call tracking00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Multichannel integration00 Ratings6.20 Ratings
CRM software integration00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Product A and Product B
GoTo Connect
-
Ratings
Talkdesk
7.9
Ratings
5% below category average
Inbound call routing00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Omnichannel inbound routing00 Ratings7.10 Ratings
Recording00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Quality management00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Call analytics00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Historical reporting00 Ratings7.90 Ratings
Live reporting00 Ratings7.50 Ratings
Customer surveys00 Ratings7.40 Ratings
Customer interaction analytics00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
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User Ratings
GoTo ConnectTalkdesk
Likelihood to Recommend
7.3
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.7
(0 ratings)
8.5
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.2
(0 ratings)
8.3
(0 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(0 ratings)
9.5
(0 ratings)
Performance
9.1
(0 ratings)
9.7
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.9
(0 ratings)
6.0
(0 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
7.7
(0 ratings)
Online Training
5.9
(0 ratings)
8.9
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.9
(0 ratings)
7.3
(0 ratings)
Configurability
9.1
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.1
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.1
(0 ratings)
9.9
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.1
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.1
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
GoTo ConnectTalkdesk
Likelihood to Recommend
Go To is a great phone system that has made the transition from our old landline phone system to a VoIP product easy. Our users can customize their speed dial buttons; the dial plans are robust, so we can fully customize anything we need to; and, besides provisioning, setting up a new device is quick and easy.
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Talkdesk does an excellent job with productivity reports. I can monitor my agent's lives during calls and their current status, allowing me to affect them productively at that moment. I can also download a productivity report on Talkdesk to analyze historical data and see patterns and problems.
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Pros
  • Call reports: You can see and review calls received from the first receptor until the last who attend this call, also you can review all calls make and received by your teams
  • Voicemail options: Availability to create some voicemail with multiple receptors
  • Devices option: with several options to change on your devices
  • Audio library: Multiple option to create your own audio library with or without ambien music
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  • We were able to replace on-premise solution with Talkdesk Cloud solution within project timelines
  • We were able to migrate region by region while keeping our existing IVR numbers to minimize the impact on customer.
  • We were able to integrate Talkdesk with our cloud CRM, AWS storage and reporting applications
  • The IVR flow changes are easier to understand and manage and to onboard any new team members to support the agents
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Cons
  • Making a dedicated button for "mute all" (other than yourself) for when someone "walks off before they mute"/has to quickly leave their computer....and FORGOT to Mute. Particularly when dogs are barking when someone working from home has a visitor at the door
  • I'd like to see some of the functionality from GoTo Webinar enabled for GoTo Connect: see who's "actively watching" vs has their computer screen on another application
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  • Studio Builder - Can get messy really fast when building.. I'd love a more free-flow setup. Think something like LucidChart where it's all drag and drop. When I'd finish building our trees, it was VERY hard to show our executives because of how chaotic all the lines looked
  • I'd love to see some additional integration flexibility, aside from Salesforce. We use Help Scout and the inability of "splitting" created interactions from TD to HS creates a challenge with having a CS team and Sales Team. We have to have all inbound calls go through CS and all outbound go through Sales. Then it's just workflow / transfer city
  • Creating an API that would refresh the Callbar / browser window would be nice to avoid things timing out if we don't have calls going in/out in 1-2 hours. What will happen is that our status will read "Available" but when a call comes in, it'll push to VM until we go and logout / in to refresh the system
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Likelihood to Renew
They are knocking it out of the park on all fronts. I love the service and support I am receiving and have no complaints. If they raised their prices substantially I would reconsider but I don't think that will happen anytime soon. They would have to mess up something consistently moving forward to make me want to move
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Renewing the use of talkdesk is a cost-effective solution for our company. By continuing to use it, we can leverage potential cost savings and efficiencies. For instance, talkdesk may have features that automate certain processes or enable better resource allocation, resulting in reduced operational costs. Secondly, renewing the contract contributes to enhanced customer service. Talkdesk likely offers specific functionalities that improve customer satisfaction and support. This could include features such as intelligent routing or real-time analytics that help agents provide personalized assistance and resolve issues more effectively. Thirdly, renewing the contract ensures seamless integration and compatibility with other systems or technologies used in our company. Having a unified system across different departments or functions enhances efficiency and reduces potential disruptions caused by incompatible systems. Moreover, there may be benefits gained from data sharing or streamlined workflows enabled by an integrated platform.
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Usability
Overall, it's a decent product for the price. It has the basic features our company needed when it was brand new and was not overly difficult to set up. As we've grown, it's become increasingly difficult to build out the features we want to implement within the PBX, and customer support can be less than helpful. Many of the more advanced features (dial plans, queues, etc.) take a lot of research to understand how to implement. Some of the features we paid for weren't even available when we were attempting to set them up.
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Talkdesk is helpful because we use it to receive calls in our BPO. Not only do we track live ques and statuses from agents, but we also receive feedback from our assessors through the talk desk as well as coaching, and it also stores customer contact data; I can track all my calls, and It records all the calls so we can come back to review them. You can also listen live and track your daily productivity. You can change your aux statuses very quickly, and there was an update talk desk that allows you to queue another status while you are on a call or after-call work, which is a great feature.
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Reliability and Availability
I have never experienced or heard of unplanned outages when it comes to GoTo Connect. Most of the time the unplanned outage is always local power at a site or internet service provider having an unplanned outage. GoTo's service has never failed any of our orgs yet that I know of.
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Talkdesk is very handy but, sometimes we do face issues were the system can just kick you out and not be able to do calls or receive calls but, what I like about the system once you start refreshing or troubleshooting, everything becomes normal it is a unique system and very modern we don't usually have system issues with Talkdesk.
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Performance
There is no lag in phone calls. There is no background noise or static/fuzz. Calls are crystal clear. With other dialers and phone systems, I have experienced delays between dialogue or delays with the caller picking up the phone and then being able to hear you. We do not experience this with Go To Connect.
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reports are good until a report is a big one in size then the wait is longer and some call reports delay by an hour or so which is not ideal as we pull these hourly and need them from Work force management perspective and Quality reports are perfectly fine
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Support Rating
Support used to be great when it was Jive support out of Utah. Now that they've offshored support it can be difficult to get a response. Our most common issues are least cost routing, and we run into support pushing back in stead of just figuring out which upstream carrier is having an issue like they used to. We often have to get our account manager involved, who is pretty strong.
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If Talkdesk had a dedicated phone support line I would have given this rating an overall 10. Their knowledge base is absolutely HUGE and at times very helpful. It's easy to search through and their customer support chat system works perfectly fine, but there are just some times that you need to speak to a human on the phone to ensure you are always on the same page.
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In-Person Training
No answers on this topic
The training that was given to us was very smooth and professional. I give my trainer 10/ 10 rate the training was so smooth and very helpful she would make sure we also watch videos of how to use the system which made it very easier for us and what was interesting it is because, the system is also easy.
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Online Training
The training videos could be more in-depth. This would help our user base so that they can feel impowered to look up information that they need without having to ask our admins every time they have a question about the system. Online training videos are also inferior to an actual person explaining systems.
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Nothing is perfect!! Needing the ability to repeat the training so everyone was on board was important. Not real sure how many people had to repeat the training as they trained on their own and given 30 minutes at a time.
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Implementation Rating
The implementation was incredibly easy and straightforward. I came into the project never having migrated and changed phone systems before, and the team at Go-To made it super easy to port all of our numbers and phone lines over to the new system. It was not intimidating, and all of my questions were answered promptly.
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The implementation and switch from our old software were unproblematic. We experience no issues with our IVR or transferring the number to carry our calls over. All of the information in Talkdesk is also easily synced with our current CRM and is accurate and up to date.
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Alternatives Considered
Honestly, tools like Zoom or Google Meet are fine if you just need basic video, but they completely ignore the actual phone side of things. I chose GoTo Connect because it handles everything at once. We finally ditched our clunky old phone provider and stopped paying for separate chat apps. Now my team manages client calls, texts, and meetings from one single screen. It just makes life so much easier.
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Talkdesk is a much easier system to utilize and to train on from an agent perspective. Additionally, Talkdesk has far more features than Cisco Finesse, like WFM, caller identification, sentiment, real time call transcriptions, and so much more. Where Cisco Finesse as more of just a call system that allowed us to make and receive calls
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Scalability
Its not readily apparent to me, other than cost, where you would run into any issues with larger scale deployments. When we went live on the product, the Jive team was always willing to do mass updates for us on our extensions, users, etc. in the system, so we didn't have to do too much manual one-by-one updates.
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talk desk has helped us massively with flexibility of one system giving us all the relevant information we need to be able to drive improvement and also good service from work force management to quality improvement to the reporting of the work and inputs going in and assess outputs to determine the success of our work and remaining development areas
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Return on Investment
  • Cost Savings have been realized from reducing hardware .
  • We are all able to collaborate remotely and it has been seamless and easy to setup.
  • I'm able to pull reports, i wish there was improvement on the data analysis side. It has gotten better since LogMeIn, but something is a miss and can be improved.
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  • Better reporting than we had with the previous system. Better metrics = better analytics.
  • WFM and QA being modules within the tool have improved how we manage agent performance, which has let to improvements in overall quality.
  • Has been a key component as we continue to mature the service desk organization.
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ScreenShots

GoTo Connect Screenshots

Screenshot of GoTo App - contact center general settingsScreenshot of GoTo App - meeting chat (in-session)Screenshot of simple setupScreenshot of mobile app - ongoing callScreenshot of session controlsScreenshot of call menu

Talkdesk Screenshots

Screenshot of Talkdesk Guardian™, which is an AI-driven, native cloud compliance solution that enables contact centers to gain visibility and take control of their WFH and hybrid workforce.Screenshot of Talkdesk Autopilot™, which is a tool that handles common customer queries, like orders, returns and billing, and automatically responds with conversational answers. And when complex cases are detected that need human empathy and expertise, the virtual agent will redirect customers to a human agent.Screenshot of Talkdesk AI Trainer™, which equips customers with tools to observe, simulate, and put guardrails on AI, according to their needs. This way, generative AI can be used responsibly, preventing AI mishaps, and protecting the brand from potentially poor AI experiences.