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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    NetFortris (discontinued)

    Score6.4 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    NetFortris, and the former Fonality, provided business phone systems using Polycom and Yealink IP phones. In 2022 the company was acquired by Sangoma. NetFortris and Fonality UCaaS and other services are no longer available.N/A

    Zoom Phone

    Score7.4 out of 10
    N/ABuilt on Zoom's platform, Zoom's cloud phone consolidates business communication and collaboration into a single system. Available in 40+ countries, with expandable coverage through a bring-your-own-carrier offering, Zoom Phone supports inbound and outbound calling through the public switched telephone network (PSTN). Features: Post call summary & next steps A post-call summary from Zoom’s AI Companion keeps the focus on the conversation instead of…

    $10

    per month per user

    Pricing
    NetFortris (discontinued)Zoom Phone
    Editions & Modules
    Hybrid Premise Purchase
    Varies
    Varies
    US & Canada Metered
    $10
    per month per user
    US & Canada Unlimited
    $15
    per month per user
    Global Select
    $20
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    NetFortris (discontinued)Zoom Phone
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—No fees for emergency 911 Service No fees for compliance and administrative cost recovery Fee No 10DLC SMS fees
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    NetFortris (discontinued)Zoom Phone
    Considered Both Products
    Discontinued Products
    No answer on this topic
    Zoom
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    96%
    Would buy again
    49 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    45 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    48 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    89%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    40 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    92%
    Implementation went as expected
    44 Answers
    Features
    NetFortris (discontinued)Zoom Phone
    Cloud PBX
    Comparison of Cloud PBX features of NetFortris (discontinued) and Zoom Phone
    Feature
    NetFortris (discontinued)
    7.8
    90 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Zoom Phone
    8.4
    48 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Hosted PBX7.058 Ratings8.525 Ratings
    Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)6.046 Ratings8.031 Ratings
    User templates6.82 Ratings8.019 Ratings
    Call reports9.078 Ratings9.023 Ratings
    Directory of employee names10.078 Ratings8.543 Ratings
    Call Management
    Comparison of Call Management features of NetFortris (discontinued) and Zoom Phone
    Feature
    NetFortris (discontinued)
    7.4
    94 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Zoom Phone
    8.5
    47 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Answering rules7.089 Ratings8.544 Ratings
    Call recording7.067 Ratings8.145 Ratings
    Call park6.073 Ratings8.537 Ratings
    Call screening8.067 Ratings9.835 Ratings
    Message alerts9.078 Ratings8.542 Ratings
    VoIP system collaboration
    Comparison of VoIP system collaboration features of NetFortris (discontinued) and Zoom Phone
    Feature
    NetFortris (discontinued)
    7.5
    55 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Zoom Phone
    9.3
    24 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Video conferencing7.017 Ratings9.223 Ratings
    Audio conferencing8.054 Ratings9.223 Ratings
    Video screen sharing00 Ratings9.423 Ratings
    Instant messaging00 Ratings9.419 Ratings
    Mobile apps
    Comparison of Mobile apps features of NetFortris (discontinued) and Zoom Phone
    Feature
    NetFortris (discontinued)
    9.0
    55 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Zoom Phone
    8.5
    46 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Mobile app for iOS9.046 Ratings8.541 Ratings
    Mobile app for Android9.033 Ratings8.532 Ratings
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    NetFortris (discontinued)Zoom Phone
    Small Businesses
    CallFire
    Score9.7 out of 10
    CallFire
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Fuze
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Fuze
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Call Manager)
    Score8.3 out of 10
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    Score8.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    NetFortris (discontinued)Zoom Phone
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (108 ratings)
    6.1
    (51 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.8
    (16 ratings)
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    7.6
    (8 ratings)
    7.9
    (4 ratings)
    Availability
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (7 ratings)
    6.6
    (4 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    7.2
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.8
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.7
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    NetFortris (discontinued)Zoom Phone
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    For Insurance agencies, small practices, small call centers, anyone that need call forwarding or work with his number remotely while away from office. I can't list all the things I'm gaining as a Fonality customer. From the installation process, the configuration phase with the technicians, the account managers, every Fonality employee was professional and savvy. I was a contact center specialist for more than 10 years and I can tell you that I've never been this happy with a service! Never! Probably if you need a more complex solution and you have an enterprise level company having your own hardware gives you more control over your calls and how to manage them. But again, I think that Fonality can cover most scenarios without the need of a huge investment.
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    Zoom
    Zoom Workplace is ideal for any business looking for a communication/collaboration solution. This is more so for businesses with a hybrid workforce. It makes holding virtual meetings and collaboration sessions easy, and teams can participate seamlessly thanks to features such as Zoom Whiteboard, Zoom Teams chat, and Zoom Phone, among others. In a nutshell, Zoom Workplace makes teamwork and productivity easy.
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • From an administrator's perspective, Fonality makes administering the company's phone system easy. Configuration menus and setup options are logically structured and easy to understand.
    • Technical support has been very good. Early on in our deployment, we had some nagging voice quality issues which were network related. Fonality provided exceptional support even though it was not technically their issue. It is important to know ahead of time how well your vendors work with other vendors for integrated services like a VOIP telephone system. Fonality support demonstrated their patience and perseverance in helping us resolve our issues.
    • Although we don't use remote office capabilities much, the ability to set up phones on the system in remote locations has been a significant help to several of our departments.
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    Zoom
    • Having our Phone system all in onc place. Call, Text, Voicemail. with live transcript
    • Zoom Meeting AI companion - taking notes, creating action items, and summarizing the meetings then email immediately afterwards
    • Scheduler - being able to send links to team members or vendors to book a time that works best for them that is linked and synced to my calendar.
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    Cons
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    • Bugginess - Some things just really need some tweaking. I had to get very creative with my call routing and hold music, because the in-queue announcements don't work right at all. For example, even set to 'play once' it would loop the 'you are the first caller' announcement over and over, and cause call drops. Or my caller-name ID, which shows the registered user's name on each line on outgoing calls, even though it's not set to such anywhere in the CP settings.
    • Support - I'll give them 50/50 on this. My experience with Verizon VCE was everyone playing hot potato with issues and saying it was the responsibility of another department, meaning several phone calls and lots of hold time. Fonality doesn't have that issue, I've never really been passed around or blown off. However, some of the 'offshore' CS reps are... wow. I spent about half a dozen emails back and forth with two of them, trying to figure out why queues I deleted from the CP randomly and consistently reappeared in the HUD. Most of those emails were spent trying to explain that no, my issue was NOT that I wanted to create those queues again in the CP.
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    Zoom
    • The first time I ported a number and set up a outlying office, I had to keep going back in and correcting things. I feel like there could be more straightforward instructions on this, instead of having to go to multiple sections just to accomplish everything.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Discontinued Products
    We've already made a deep investment in the system hardware. We wouldn't be interested in another system at this point! And by the look of my colleagues faces when they see the HUD, I don't think we'd want to switch to a system that would limit us or take away any of these features! We may look at putting the server in the cloud, should internet outages prove to be such a common issue that it is preventing our other locations from functioning smoothly
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    Zoom
    Almost perfect. Transformed from just being on my mobile phone. The phone has moved from a ituility to a value driving service in the business. Nobody yet has an AI to help manage the system. Come on Zoom, seems an obvious AI use case.
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    Usability
    Discontinued Products
    Overall excellent usability, with a few adjustments I feel this is the absolute best VoIP system out there. Just a clarification on the licences and limit the interface to reflect what licence we have. There should be a back or redunancy feature to Fonality Server, If there was a mistake we should be able to resort back to a usable state asap. Before implementing changes to the server, there should be a trial or sample of the changes to make sure it behaves as intended before effecting customer experience. It would be nice to have a demo version of Fonality interface so possible clients can truly evauluate the system. Because of the quality, it would have made it easier to convince the owners to make the transition sooner
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    Zoom
    Zoom Phone has a very sleek design which makes it very easy to operate and use both in the setting up of and interacting in a meeting space. That being said, certain features can seem a bit crowded while trying to screen share or display video which somewhat defeats the purpose of the application as compared to a standard conference call.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Discontinued Products
    Fonality has been available to us 99% of the time. There have rarely been any lengthy outages. If any issues do occur, their support staff is available around the clock to help. This is important, since communication is a big part in our company and availability of the phone system is important in maintaining this reliability
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    Zoom
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    Performance
    Discontinued Products
    Fonality's performance is excellent. The phones work flawlessly and the calls are clear. It is a well put-together system that does not need daily support. It is not complex from a user standpoint, as most of our staff are quick to learn how to use the phones. More systems should strive to work as well as Fonality's
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    Zoom
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
    Because of their customer support and their attention for details in our problems that we face during our initial stage. We simply love fonality just for the way we are treated when we reach them with our fonality issues - they take it seriously and resolve it as early as possible and the most important part is we dont need to keep on insisting them to do so.
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    Zoom
    I haven't had any sort of issues with Zoom as of yet to have to call Support. That right there makes me think it's a good product. Simple and easy to use. Nothing confusing or glitchy that would make me have to get in touch with them. Straightforward so I'm not trying to figure out a specific workflow.
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    In-Person Training
    Discontinued Products
    Training was provided by the in-house IT administrator. Fonality was able to provide support to the admin, who then assisted the users. It went smoothly and all the details and functions of the system were made available to the office staff. Any questions were answered promptly and if any issues did arise, Fonality was available to answer them
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    Zoom
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    Online Training
    Discontinued Products
    Training was excellent, but most of what they had was webinars and not real world situation for our company's need. It would be better to have them remote in my local computer and test my system using inbound / outbound calls. This would have made it easier to learn and more relevant
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    Zoom
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    Implementation Rating
    Discontinued Products
    Everything from the installation to the implementation has been great with Fonality, there is a lot of freedom to how the system will operate but the freedom comes at a cost of more technical experience to make sure it is configured correctly. The staff is very helpful can will make sure that the system is setup correctly and work perfectly.
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    Zoom
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    I have not used any other VoIP system that I have been paying for. I hope that Fonality proves itself enough to where I will not have to switch. So far, for the price and the functionality, this is my recommendation for small businesses. I might recommend going with a more high end phone to increase functionality, but other than that, the system is one I would definitely recommend.
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    Zoom
    The main reason why we switched to Zoom Phone is because our VOIP system inexplicably went down for almost a month and no one could figure out what was wrong. Lumen was charging way more than Zoom Workplace, but could not get the system to work.
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    Scalability
    Discontinued Products
    It is easy to scale this system, as long as you have the proper technical staff available to support it. Adding users and phones is straightforward. The main work involves having the physical network in place and configuring the networking equipment. Overall, it is not that difficult as long as all of this is in place.
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    Zoom
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    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • We are still new to Fonality, but having the flexability has proven quite successful thus far.
    • The management of incoming calls and voicemail messages has really helped us to be able to follow up with potential clients.
    • The service at Fonality helped our new business take a leap into 2017, and we expect much growth with the continued use of Fonality.
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    Zoom
    • We're better able to work together as a team answering phones multiple people can be logged in to answer at the same time.
    • The voicemail transcription feature helps with sharing messages to different departments.
    • Overall, we're able to answer more calls and have fewer callers being sent to voicemail.
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    ScreenShots

    NetFortris (discontinued) Screenshots

    Screenshot of Fonality's Heads Up Display (HUD) Web dashboard is home base for connecting with colleagues and customers.Screenshot of Chatting is easy in HUD as they are easily launched by hovering over a fellow user's avatar. Chats are also available within Groups and Conferences.Screenshot of Managers with Fonality's Advance Call Center license can Barge, Monitor, or Whisper with one click. Useful for training, customer insights, and quality assurance. Real-time call queue information is shown in the Dock area to the right.Screenshot of Every Fonality system comes with voicemail boxes for all users, but with optional Voicemail Transcription you'll never have to listen to a voicemail again. Transcribed voicemails are delivered in HUD and via email.

    Zoom Phone Screenshots

    Screenshot of the Zoom AI for business phone communications, available at no additional costScreenshot of Zoom's integrated workflowsScreenshot of the Call Handling Panel