Grasshopper vs. Ringostat

Grasshopper is well suited for basic needs of texting in and out as well as calling out if you would like to avoid using your personal line. It also eliminates the need to have a dedicated land land in your office or business. You can obtain a vanity number and forward calls through grasshopper.

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Ringostat is a perfect all-in-one solution for companies that have more than 20,000 visits on their website per month. This service can help with: - call tracking service and tracking sources of your calls. - organizing virtual PBX with the voice menu and workspace for managers. - providing analytics of manager's efficiency in working with calls.

Incentivized

• I like that there are differing voicemails for each extension, to keep up with the image of calling a separate line.
• I love the voicemail text emails. I believe we pay a little extra, but worth every penny for those urgent calls while I am in a meeting.
• The cost is very reasonable for the value added to our company.

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• Calltracking service. You can track sources of your calls (ads campaigns), also you can set up calls as goals in Google Analytics.
• Virtual PBX service. You can set up your own call center with voice menu for different schemes of routing calls.
• Works with your CRM. You can get all the info about your client from the CRM right before the call.
• Integrates with different services. You have ready integrations for Google Analytics and amoCRM.
• Rich API. You can build your custom solution with simple API.
• Productivity reports. You have all analytics about work of your managers and track their personal efficiency.

Incentivized

• It would be nice to have the ability to transfer some calls to another Grasshopper IVR, for those customers who mistakenly dial the wrong number (we have two incoming numbers, one for corporate and one for sales).
• Likewise, it would be nice to have the ability to forward to a toll-free number, which would have allowed us to work around the inability to transfer between IVRs (see above).
• Lastly, it would be great to have an 'emergency' switch setting (default off but could be toggled on) that would let us override all IVR settings and transfer all incoming calls elsewhere (either to a direct dial or toll free number) for those rare times when we cannot take any calls (such as a weather emergency OR the one time each year we take all of our staff on a retreat) - that would allow us to send all calls to a backup answering service rather than just voicemail.

Incentivized

• Lacking of full support for end-to-end analytics.
• Price. It might be expensive for small companies with a not so huge amount of traffic.

Incentivized

The admin functions are kind of confusing in the old interface which was my most recent experience on the admin side.

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When I was setting up my account I contacted support a couple of times. They were also very professional, personable, and helpful. Their response is prompt and thorough. I'm confident I can get any question answered as well as help with any issue I might have. That's pretty important to me.

Incentivized

I have not used any other phone services like Grasshopper. I know that there is another option out there called Ruby, which is more like a virtual receptionist but since I did not try it out I cannot compare the two. When I started my company I found the services that Grasshopper offers to be perfect. It still works for us and we have no need to change to anything else right now.

Incentivized

We chose this service because of these reasons: 1. It's an all-in-one solution for virtual PBX and call tracking. 2. The ability to fully track the personal efficiency of our managers. 3. It's a complete solution, our manager could call from the browser without installing apps, also service provided full info about the client before calling. 4. All calls can be recorded, so we had all the history of calls to check out the work of our managers. 5. Has a trial period to check out if this solution could satisfy our needs.

Incentivized

• It's allowed us to keep cost down. Other phone systems can seriously get outrageous in implementation and monthly fees!
• It's allowed our team the confidence to work in locations outside of the office and still be seen as professionals.
• It's decreased the amount of time spent on unwanted sales calls via the call screening application.

Incentivized

• We determined what are the sources of our leads, and which ads worked more effectively to provide them.
• Our company didn't need to buy a separate virtual PBX service.
• We completely eliminated the problem with missed calls.

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