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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    LiveAgent

    Score8.8 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,…

    $15

    per month per seat

    RingCentral Contact Center

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/ARingCentral Contact Center is an AI-first contact center offers a set of cloud-based software plans with basic features including support for inbound and outbound call centers and IVR and ACD capabilities. Advanced features include analytics, real-time call reporting, workforce optimization analytics, and omni-channel integration with SMS, email, and social media platforms.N/A
    Pricing
    LiveAgentRingCentral Contact Center
    Editions & Modules
    Free
    $0
    per month
    Small
    $15
    per month per seat
    Medium
    $29
    per month per seat
    Large
    $49
    per month per seat
    Enterprise
    $69
    per month per seat
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    LiveAgentRingCentral Contact Center
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    LiveAgentRingCentral Contact Center
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    QualityUnit, LLC
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    36 Answers
    94%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    30 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    35 Answers
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    33 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    30 Answers
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    20 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    31 Answers
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    22 Answers
    Features
    LiveAgentRingCentral Contact Center
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of LiveAgent and RingCentral Contact Center
    Feature
    LiveAgent
    7.7
    59 Ratings
    6% below category average
    RingCentral Contact Center
    -
    Ratings
    Organize and prioritize service tickets7.956 Ratings00 Ratings
    Expert directory7.947 Ratings00 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications7.042 Ratings00 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation6.838 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission8.458 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ticket response8.459 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of LiveAgent and RingCentral Contact Center
    Feature
    LiveAgent
    10.0
    52 Ratings
    22% above category average
    RingCentral Contact Center
    -
    Ratings
    External knowledge base10.049 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base10.047 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of LiveAgent and RingCentral Contact Center
    Feature
    LiveAgent
    8.5
    58 Ratings
    6% above category average
    RingCentral Contact Center
    -
    Ratings
    Customer portal10.053 Ratings00 Ratings
    IVR7.028 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social integration8.150 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email support7.454 Ratings00 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration10.046 Ratings00 Ratings
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of LiveAgent and RingCentral Contact Center
    Feature
    LiveAgent
    -
    Ratings
    RingCentral Contact Center
    8.6
    35 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Agent dashboard00 Ratings9.430 Ratings
    Validate callers00 Ratings7.010 Ratings
    Outbound response00 Ratings8.631 Ratings
    Call forwarding00 Ratings8.231 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)00 Ratings9.420 Ratings
    Warm transfer00 Ratings8.010 Ratings
    Predictive dialing00 Ratings8.716 Ratings
    Interactive voice response00 Ratings9.121 Ratings
    REST APIs00 Ratings9.910 Ratings
    Call scripts00 Ratings7.619 Ratings
    Call tracking00 Ratings9.010 Ratings
    Multichannel integration00 Ratings8.619 Ratings
    CRM software integration00 Ratings7.719 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of LiveAgent and RingCentral Contact Center
    Feature
    LiveAgent
    -
    Ratings
    RingCentral Contact Center
    9.0
    34 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Inbound call routing00 Ratings9.430 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing00 Ratings9.020 Ratings
    Recording00 Ratings9.632 Ratings
    Quality management00 Ratings9.229 Ratings
    Call analytics00 Ratings8.931 Ratings
    Historical reporting00 Ratings9.030 Ratings
    Live reporting00 Ratings8.927 Ratings
    Customer surveys00 Ratings9.613 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics00 Ratings7.315 Ratings
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    LiveAgentRingCentral Contact Center
    Small Businesses
    Help Scout
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Zendesk Talk
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Help Scout
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Front
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Score8.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    LiveAgentRingCentral Contact Center
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (117 ratings)
    9.3
    (35 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.3
    (4 ratings)
    9.6
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    9.7
    (6 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.3
    (24 ratings)
    8.9
    (4 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    LiveAgentRingCentral Contact Center
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    RingCentral
    RingCentral Contact Center is extremely useful for tracking employee availability and working hours, particularly for remote employees. It is also helpful to be able to share certain skills between various employees so that customers dialing in have the best chance to get in touch with the correct contact immediately. RingCentral Contact Center is not ideal for lots of outbound outreach, particularly due to the phone number not coming in with the user's extension (and in our case, the number is an 800 number and looks more like spam), but for incoming calls it is very useful. The difference between a cold transfer and trying to conference someone on before you transfer is not always clear. Many people in the company often make mistakes, such as not being able to conference on the contact before transferring or accidentally hanging up on the conference, also affecting the others on the line.
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    Pros
    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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    RingCentral
    • Reliability: Our previous service was prone to outages, RingCentral Contact Center has been rock solid as long as we've used it.
    • Integration: Our IT team was able to build a custom RingCentral Contact Center dashboard on our website for our salespeople to manage inbound/ outbound calling. From there we were able to send call data directly into activities in our ERP (Acumatica).
    • Ease of use: It works well whether in the office or WFH (which many employees do regularly.
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    Cons
    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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    RingCentral
    • I have not experienced it firsthand, but I have heard that their customer service is hard to reach and to resolve issues.
    • Verification to login can be annoying with the number of steps required.
    • I do receive spam calls through the number, which i wish were filtered out.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    RingCentral
    If we haven't used the contact center for support is because the service is so good that make us not need to use it very often. However, I guess our IT team has found some useful features on it for system implementation, automation, and updates that have helped them to keep providing us with the right support as needed.
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    Usability
    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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    RingCentral
    It's a really intuitive platform. All the buttons and sections are almost exactly where you would expect them to be. Navigating the platform is fairly easy, even for folks who have not used it before. I can usually just tell my colleagues to "go to the settings tab and you'll see the audio settings" and they are able to take it from there.
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    Support Rating
    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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    RingCentral
    We honestly did not need much support but whatever we wanted was resolved via email and that experience was nice but took a bit of time
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    Implementation Rating
    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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    RingCentral
    It was really straightforward to get our phone number ported over and start using the platform. The agent walked us through the steps and we were able to configure everything ourselves. Much easier to setup than some of the other platforms
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    RingCentral
    All of them are good choices, but if you're looking for something where all of these are included, it must needs be RingCentral Contact Center, All in one communication tool, don't worry about communication outages, RingCentral Contact Center updates in out of office schedules, if you're looking for "The Experience" RingCentral is the best choice.
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    Return on Investment
    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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    RingCentral
    • With RingCentral Contact Center we were able to connect with our customers. The feature that allows the call to be sent to the first available rep ensured that this happened.
    • Also, my favorite feature is the call recording and transcription feature. This allowed me to get the customer's emails without asking them to repeat if I missed them the first time. Hence, happier customers and more meetings.
    • RingCentral Contact Center also made it very easy to set up a mailbox for customers to leave messages and reassure them that they've connected with the right person.
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