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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Zoom Workplace

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AZoom Workplace, Zoom’s open collaboration platform with an AI Companion, empowers teams to be more productive, and strengthen customer relationships throughout the customer lifecycle with Zoom’s Business Services for sales, marketing, and customer experience teams, including Zoom Contact Center.

    $16.99

    per month per user

    Pricing
    RingCentral Contact CenterZoom Workplace
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Add-On Zoom Translated Captions
    $5
    per month per license
    Pro
    $16.99
    per month per user
    Business
    $21.99
    per month per user
    Add-On - Conference Room Connector
    $499
    per year
    Basic
    Free
    Enterprise
    Custom
    Add-On - Zoom Whiteboard
    starting at $2.49
    per month per user
    Add-On - Large Meetings
    starting at $600
    per year
    Add-On - Cloud Storage
    starting at $120
    per year
    Add-On Audio Conferencing
    starting at $1200
    per year
    Add-On Zoom Phone Power Pack
    Starting at $300
    per year per user
    Add-On - Quality of Service Subscription
    Contact Sales
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    RingCentral Contact CenterZoom Workplace
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual billing.
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    RingCentral Contact CenterZoom Workplace
    Considered Both Products
    RingCentral
    No answer on this topic
    Zoom
    Chose Zoom Workplace
    Quailty of Video and Audio on all three is very good. However, Zoom Workplace really shined with its AI features. RingCentral hadn't really rolled their AI out when we evaluated them and Dialpad did have AI features, but they really failed in some critical testing. Had the …
    Incentivized
    Chose Zoom Workplace
    Zoom is very similar and has great features. We generally prefer Teams because that is what we use company-wide for messaging communications. When using Teams, it shows your availability automatically and it is easy to save chats and messages from a meeting for future use. Some …
    Incentivized
    Chose Zoom Workplace
    Zoom Workplace is certainly the superior product, but MS Teams gives it a run for its money due to all of the AI integrated features that MS CoPilot has added to the entire MS Office product portfolio. If Zoom added more AI features, and possibly something similar to ZoomInfo …
    Incentivized
    Chose Zoom Workplace
    Zoom Workplace is far superior to the other products. I think it's the ease of use of the platform. Zoom is very user freindly.
    Incentivized
    Chose Zoom Workplace
    Zoom Workplace is more cost-efficient, faster and reliable. It also bundles text messages and phone calls into a single package, it’s also cheaper per user.
    Incentivized
    Chose Zoom Workplace
    Zoom is the only one that just works. No need for technical support. We can simply conduct our business.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    94%
    Would buy again
    33 Answers
    92%
    Would buy again
    412 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    30 Answers
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    386 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    33 Answers
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    437 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    20 Answers
    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    287 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    22 Answers
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    327 Answers
    Features
    RingCentral Contact CenterZoom Workplace
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of RingCentral Contact Center and Zoom Workplace
    Feature
    RingCentral Contact Center
    8.6
    35 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Zoom Workplace
    -
    Ratings
    Agent dashboard9.430 Ratings00 Ratings
    Validate callers7.010 Ratings00 Ratings
    Outbound response8.631 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call forwarding8.231 Ratings00 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)9.420 Ratings00 Ratings
    Warm transfer8.010 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive dialing8.716 Ratings00 Ratings
    Interactive voice response9.121 Ratings00 Ratings
    REST APIs9.910 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call scripts7.619 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call tracking9.010 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multichannel integration8.619 Ratings00 Ratings
    CRM software integration7.719 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of RingCentral Contact Center and Zoom Workplace
    Feature
    RingCentral Contact Center
    9.0
    34 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Zoom Workplace
    -
    Ratings
    Inbound call routing9.430 Ratings00 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing9.020 Ratings00 Ratings
    Recording9.632 Ratings00 Ratings
    Quality management9.229 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call analytics8.931 Ratings00 Ratings
    Historical reporting9.030 Ratings00 Ratings
    Live reporting8.927 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer surveys9.613 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics7.315 Ratings00 Ratings
    Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software
    Comparison of Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software features of RingCentral Contact Center and Zoom Workplace
    Feature
    RingCentral Contact Center
    -
    Ratings
    Zoom Workplace
    8.5
    1005 Ratings
    1% above category average
    High quality audio00 Ratings8.8997 Ratings
    High quality video00 Ratings8.9997 Ratings
    Screen Sharing
    Comparison of Screen Sharing features of RingCentral Contact Center and Zoom Workplace
    Feature
    RingCentral Contact Center
    -
    Ratings
    Zoom Workplace
    8.7
    1005 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Desktop sharing00 Ratings9.31004 Ratings
    Online Meetings / Events
    Comparison of Online Meetings / Events features of RingCentral Contact Center and Zoom Workplace
    Feature
    RingCentral Contact Center
    -
    Ratings
    Zoom Workplace
    8.7
    1011 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Calendar integration00 Ratings9.0922 Ratings
    Meeting initiation00 Ratings9.1985 Ratings
    Record meetings / events00 Ratings9.2960 Ratings
    Online Events Collaboration
    Comparison of Online Events Collaboration features of RingCentral Contact Center and Zoom Workplace
    Feature
    RingCentral Contact Center
    -
    Ratings
    Zoom Workplace
    8.5
    873 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Live chat00 Ratings9.1855 Ratings
    Online Events Security
    Comparison of Online Events Security features of RingCentral Contact Center and Zoom Workplace
    Feature
    RingCentral Contact Center
    -
    Ratings
    Zoom Workplace
    8.9
    863 Ratings
    12% above category average
    User authentication00 Ratings8.9754 Ratings
    Participant roles & permissions00 Ratings8.7828 Ratings
    Cloud PBX
    Comparison of Cloud PBX features of RingCentral Contact Center and Zoom Workplace
    Feature
    RingCentral Contact Center
    -
    Ratings
    Zoom Workplace
    8.1
    235 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Hosted PBX00 Ratings8.3111 Ratings
    Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)00 Ratings7.8140 Ratings
    Directory of employee names00 Ratings8.2217 Ratings
    Call Management
    Comparison of Call Management features of RingCentral Contact Center and Zoom Workplace
    Feature
    RingCentral Contact Center
    -
    Ratings
    Zoom Workplace
    8.2
    263 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Answering rules00 Ratings8.6191 Ratings
    Call recording00 Ratings8.7239 Ratings
    Call park00 Ratings7.9146 Ratings
    Call screening00 Ratings8.0164 Ratings
    Message alerts00 Ratings8.2209 Ratings
    Business SMS/External Messaging00 Ratings8.0134 Ratings
    Voicemail Transcription00 Ratings8.0182 Ratings
    Mobile apps
    Comparison of Mobile apps features of RingCentral Contact Center and Zoom Workplace
    Feature
    RingCentral Contact Center
    -
    Ratings
    Zoom Workplace
    8.9
    296 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Mobile app for iOS00 Ratings8.8262 Ratings
    Mobile app for Android00 Ratings8.9180 Ratings
    Unified Communications Platform and Collaboration
    Comparison of Unified Communications Platform and Collaboration features of RingCentral Contact Center and Zoom Workplace
    Feature
    RingCentral Contact Center
    -
    Ratings
    Zoom Workplace
    8.7
    248 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Centralized communications management00 Ratings8.9198 Ratings
    Team messaging00 Ratings8.9213 Ratings
    Team document sharing00 Ratings8.6192 Ratings
    Call and meeting analytics00 Ratings8.4201 Ratings
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    Score8 out of 10
    Webex Calling
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Score8.4 out of 10
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    Score8.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    RingCentral Contact CenterZoom Workplace
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.3
    (35 ratings)
    8.8
    (1069 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.6
    (6 ratings)
    9.4
    (27 ratings)
    Usability
    9.7
    (6 ratings)
    9.4
    (46 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.9
    (4 ratings)
    6.4
    (46 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    6.4
    (11 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (13 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.8
    (3 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.2
    (8 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    RingCentral Contact CenterZoom Workplace
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Zoom
    In most cases, and I mean almost all, Zoom is vastly superior to Teams in terms of functionality and ease of use. Case in point: I recently tried to join a Teams meeting in the web browser, and it took me multiple attempts to access it. This NEVER happens with a Zoom link.
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    Pros
    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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    Zoom
    • Audio quality of phone calls is spot on. Calls are clear and crisp.
    • Video quality of video meetings are clear and there aren't any pixelization artifacts that some systems can have.
    • Having AI summaries have been life changing for us. We no longer have to concentrate on note taking, like we did in the past. The summaries are accurate and enable us to put our efforts in the meeting or conversation. Plus, we can save them into our practice management system as required.
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    Cons
    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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    Zoom
    • Love notes - allow insertion of table or grid
    • Allow admin to turn off DND
    • Allow a way to group individual people chats - not channels just individual peeps into groups for ease of finding - like how you can group shared calendars into sections in Outlook
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    Zoom
    We're sticking with Zoom for the foreseeable future--given its compelling feature set, ease of use, and advanced technology, there's just no other competition to be excited about. Plus it's a Gartner-recognized industry leader, so it's a rather easy choice.
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    Usability
    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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    Zoom
    Zoom is made for the non tech office. It has features that can be made to do what you need to run things on a day to day basis. Immediately we we able to get meetings going with remote employees. The ability to be able to add smartphone connected people was a big plus. Zoom met our needs at the time.
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    Reliability and Availability
    RingCentral
    No answers on this topic
    Zoom
    There have been less than a handful of outages during our two years with Zoom, and whenever there was one, an email informing us of the outage went out immediately, and they had the issue resolved shortly thereafter.
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    Performance
    RingCentral
    No answers on this topic
    Zoom
    Zoom has among the best performance of any video conference platform, as I've mentioned several times. Besides that, their Chat platform works great, and their back end always runs smooth. It's unfortunate that reporting can now only be done by one month at a time, but nonetheless, it only takes a second to run any kind of Zoom report, whether it's an attendee report, Poll results, a user report, a list of meetings from the past month, etc.
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    Support Rating
    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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    Zoom
    Because I got a response right away, and was assigned one specific individual to work with me from the beginning to the resolution. I had an actual email address and direct contact with this person without having to start over and over every time I contacted Zoom - this singular individual remained attentive and was well informed on the subject matter and quite able to resolve my needs.
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    Implementation Rating
    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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    Zoom
    If you receive any pushback from higher ups, point to any of the various positive reviews like this one. Or show Zoom's excellent Gartner report, or articles describing Zoom's partnership with Sequoia capital. It's not difficult to show how Zoom is a trustworthy industry leader with best-in-class technology.
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Zoom
    Zoom Workplace is typically on the more expensive end against other options, but it's the industry leader for a reason. It has the most brand credibility by far, but that doesn't mean it's perfect. There are limitations when it comes to technical performance, customization and video/audio quality. I prefer Slack myself for communication apps, but Zoom Workplace is a good alternative.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    RingCentral
    No answers on this topic
    Zoom
    The billing and price model is really fair for so many functions that they offer, our remote work requires each of the features that Zoom offers, so accepting payment for a tool like this is the least we can do. I like that billing arrives on time and that they offer opportunities and payment times.
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    Scalability
    RingCentral
    No answers on this topic
    Zoom
    Because the Basic licenses are completely free, and because it's very easy to configure and install Zoom, and because anyone can join Zoom from a link without needing an account, scaling is a Breeze. There are absolutely no roadblocks. My company keeps adding more Zoom Pro license every week since it's so in demand. We were able to convert users from several different platforms onto Zoom with no trouble at all.
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    Professional Services
    RingCentral
    No answers on this topic
    Zoom
    Zoom is perfect for our business. We use it to video chat with prospective clients. The name recognition alone gives us credibility and it is very easy to screen share and send content out.
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Zoom
    • We have not lost much productivity in our teamwork during the pandemic because of the ability to have Zoom video calls and keep everyone in touch. This is definitely a positive.
    • We are able to have more people participate in coaching sessions (described earlier) because we don't have room space limitations. This is a big positive.
    • Being able to start a meeting instantly is great when we are doing support and/or training with a client over the phone and need to be able to share a visible
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    ScreenShots

    Zoom Workplace Screenshots

    Screenshot of an example collaboration feature. These are used to:
Transcribe, summarize, and capture action items with AI Companion from your in-person meetings.
Improve visibility and alignment by sharing emails to chats
Elevate a chat to a meeting or phone call to get to resolution faster. 
Continue meeting conversations and easily access shared information in Team Chat.Screenshot of an example of Zoom's productivity features. These features are used to:
Improve productivity across teams, locations, and time zones.
Organize project deliverables and assets in a centralized, collaborative doc.
Collaborate and map out projects visually on a whiteboard.
Jumpstart brainstorming sessions using AI and templates.
Gather valuable team input for well-informed decision-making with surveys and polls.
Stay on top of action items surfaced from across Zoom Workplace.Screenshot of some additional collaboration features. These are used to:
Optimize office experiences and in-person time.
Make sure remote participants feel connected with what is going on in the room.
Collaborate across remote and in-person teams on a virtual whiteboard.
Easily know and identify who is in the room and who is speaking in a Zoom Room with smart name tags and smart speaker tags.Screenshot of an example of Zoom's AI companion. This feature is used to streamline communications, improve productivity, increase employee engagement, and optimize flexible work.Screenshot of additional AI Companion features. The tools is also used to:
Launch internal campaigns.
Deliver visually rich updates with live streams, billboards, and videos.
Ensure critical comms are never missed with read receipts.
Send updates to deskless workers with Workvivo TV and Chat.