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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    8x8 Work

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/A8x8 Work is a collaboration hub for phone, video, and messaging. It brings secure unified communication and collaboration experiences to every employee.

    $24

    per month

    RingEX

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/ARingEx is a cloud-based VoIP solution available via computer mobile application. It features video and audio conferencing, desktop phone rentals, collaboration tools, and integrations with other business applications. Plans are available on a monthly, per user subscription basis.

    $20

    per month

    Pricing
    8x8 WorkRingEX
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    8x8 WorkRingEX
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsPricing is /user/month paid annually. Pricing increases when paid monthly. Core - $20/month (paid monthly) Advanced - $25/month (paid monthly) Ultra - $35/month (paid monthly) Customer Engagement Bundle - contact us for pricing
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    Community Pulse
    8x8 WorkRingEX
    Considered Both Products
    8x8 Inc.
    Chose 8x8 Work
    8x8 Work and RingCentral EX have similar features available. 8x8 Analytics is a little better at summarizing data and creating dashboard visuals. Other than that they are both great products. I prefer the admin console confirmation for 8x8 Work over RingCentral. Things seem to …
    Incentivized
    Chose 8x8 Work
    8x8 easier to install / use, and equal or better pricing
    Incentivized
    Chose 8x8 Work
    I was told by an uninformed salesperson who is NOT affiliated with 8x8 Work or ring central, that 8x8 Work would be great and he likes it more than ring central for my use case.

    I have since left 8x8 Work and gone to one of their competitors.
    Incentivized
    Chose 8x8 Work
    RingCentral seems to have a better feature set and more options to expand on services where 8x8 falls short. We selected 8x8 based on our vendor recommendation at the time but are looking into possibly moving to Ring Central after some additional evaluation.
    Incentivized
    Chose 8x8 Work
    Very well, overall, on par if not better product than all.
    Incentivized
    Chose 8x8 Work
    Admin interface is much more intuitive with 8x8. I was able to easily train my team on user administration and day to day support of our end users. Even our non-technical contacts are able to handle the simple day to day tasks.

    Meeting platform is easier to leverage with 8x8 …
    Incentivized
    Chose 8x8 Work
    8x8 X Series seems to be more flexible and feature rich than other similar public cloud telephony solutions.
    Incentivized
    Chose 8x8 Work
    Compared to RingCentral, 8x8 is far more user friendly and intuitive. It boasts a number of features that outweigh this competitor.
    Incentivized
    Chose 8x8 Work
    The 8x8 UCaaS solution provides the same functionality that we were looking for that is the same as the other cloud-only phone vendors that we also looked at. However, the integration of the 8x8 UCaaS with the 8x8 CCaaS was also a big factor in why we liked 8x8 better. The …
    Incentivized
    Chose 8x8 Work
    8x8 X Series (Formerly Virtual Office) seemed to present the optimal combination of cost, features, scalability to support our growth, track record, and positive reviews.
    Incentivized
    Chose 8x8 Work
    We had Fusion Connect which was sparse at best and hard to program. We needed to step it up and get a system that had more features and was easy for us to program ourselves. 8x8 X Series does all of that for us out of the box. We looked at Ring Central and it seemed like they …
    Incentivized
    Chose 8x8 Work
    8x8 seemed to be a more established business platform than Vonage, which seemed to still be a little stuck in its consumer roots. We also checked out RingCentral which was pricier and we didn't particularly like the fact that it would have a virtual answer instead of just …
    Incentivized
    Chose 8x8 Work
    8x8 provides the most user friendly portal that is simple to use & understand. 8x8 also has the most budget friendly pricing with all of the same features that you can get with the other providers at a higher price.
    Incentivized
    Chose 8x8 Work
    8x8 [X Series (Formerly Virtual Office)] was more flexible with regards to having a mixed environment than RingCentral. It is less expensive and requires less IT skill than operating a Cisco phone environment. It offers better traditional desk-based and computer based phone …
    Incentivized
    Chose 8x8 Work
    8x8 has a considerably lower upfront cost and is much easier to manage than an in-house VOIP system, such as Cisco UCM.

    In my case the subscription cost was less than RingCentral.
    Incentivized
    Chose 8x8 Work
    We chose 8x8 because the price was lower. We also used to have hard-line phones, but when our company went remote, that didn't make sense anymore. I don't remember what company that was. They didn't have a good VOIP service and the prices were very high. We chose 8x8 for the …
    Incentivized
    Chose 8x8 Work
    Much easier to implement new extensions, includes all the feature and apps on the basic X2 license.
    Incentivized
    Chose 8x8 Work
    RingCentral was more expensive so I thought 8x8 would save me money.
    Incentivized
    Chose 8x8 Work
    Significantly cheaper than other services and overall a more pleasant customer service and sales experience.
    Incentivized
    Chose 8x8 Work
    We switched from RingCentral because of the cost savings and better reviews
    Incentivized
    Chose 8x8 Work
    Both systems have their own strengths and weaknesses. RingCentral Meetings is better than 8x8 X Series. Ring Central has Glip and 8x8 does not have that in the X Series. 8x8 has fewer glitches and better technical support than RingCentral.
    Incentivized
    Chose 8x8 Work
    8x8 X Series was one of the most affordable and comprehensive available. They were responsive during the sales and training process and helped walk us through our use case. We thought it was pretty clearly the winner despite a few gaps as mentioned, but those are not major and …
    Incentivized
    Chose 8x8 Work
    8x8's interface is better, app more stable, and the overall service is also more stable.
    Incentivized
    Chose 8x8 Work
    It's more affordable.
    Incentivized
    Chose 8x8 Work
    Have not used so cannot compare.
    Incentivized
    RingCentral
    Chose RingEX
    RingEX provided a more reliable, easy to use and consistant experience compared to the other platforms that we tested. While Teams is also used, it is far more complex and harder to manage for a smaller IT team. RingEX was able to provide the service without the huge overhead …
    Incentivized
    Chose RingEX
    Feature-rich. Ease of setup and support. This is the only one I would prefer to have.
    Incentivized
    Chose RingEX
    Many of the features are the same but I feel that RC makes it more user friendly for configuration and work. We have also not seen the cost increases with RingCentral that we saw with the other providers

    Incentivized
    Chose RingEX
    RingEX sales team was the most responsive team. Zoom was not as mature and did not have a fax solution like RingEX had. 8x8 sales process was a disaster and their finance team began billing us during the sales process as if we were a customer. We could tell 8x8 didn't focus on …
    Incentivized
    Chose RingEX
    This was a solution that we could not only use in house as our primary VOIP service, but we could also support and resell to our member offices. The cost savings and deals that RingEX will work out to win new business has been a major win for both ourselves and our customers.
    Incentivized
    Chose RingEX
    RingEX is more expensive, but the increased reliability was worth it for us. We also liked the support experience better on RingEX.
    Incentivized
    Chose RingEX
    RingEX beat Fuze in every single department: cost, function, reliability, features. It is more stable than Microsoft Teams although not as widely adopted only because it's not Microsoft. 8x8 while a decent platform, just was not as "mature" in its application as RingEX. We …
    Incentivized
    Chose RingEX
    8x8 was clunky. App did not always work and calls were not always pushed through
    Incentivized
    Chose RingEX
    Our sister campuses are using Microsoft Teams as the phone system. While MS Teams works great for collaboration, storage, and video conferencing, there are still many issues with using them as the phone system. Desk phone integration with Teams is nothing short of horrible, as …
    Incentivized
    Chose RingEX
    In user reviews, stellar reliability was consistently repeated, and that was not the case with any of the other solutions I evaluated at the time. RingEX had all the features we desired, too, and was competitively priced. The fact that Gartner recognized it as a leader in its …
    Incentivized
    Chose RingEX
    Tough choice in bake off with 8x8 but functionality and company behind the product tipped the scales for RingEX
    Incentivized
    Chose RingEX
    I think their desktop client is much more reliable. I wasn't too happy with 8x8 as it used Adobe Air and constantly asked me to update Adobe Air when I opened the program. Very annoying. I had to update Adobe Air and 8x8 as well. If I tried to update the client it would …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    90%
    Would buy again
    445 Answers
    89%
    Would buy again
    167 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    414 Answers
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    156 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    461 Answers
    92%
    Happy with the feature set
    173 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    340 Answers
    90%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    137 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    87%
    Implementation went as expected
    352 Answers
    88%
    Implementation went as expected
    149 Answers
    Features
    8x8 WorkRingEX
    Cloud PBX
    Comparison of Cloud PBX features of 8x8 Work and RingEX
    Feature
    8x8 Work
    8.5
    486 Ratings
    0% above category average
    RingEX
    8.5
    211 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Hosted PBX8.9267 Ratings9.1118 Ratings
    Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)8.7131 Ratings8.6161 Ratings
    Directory of employee names8.5446 Ratings8.8196 Ratings
    Call Management
    Comparison of Call Management features of 8x8 Work and RingEX
    Feature
    8x8 Work
    8.6
    539 Ratings
    1% below category average
    RingEX
    9.0
    220 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Answering rules8.7492 Ratings8.9206 Ratings
    Call recording8.6416 Ratings8.7190 Ratings
    Call park8.5390 Ratings8.7171 Ratings
    Call screening8.5376 Ratings8.7179 Ratings
    Message alerts8.7472 Ratings8.9207 Ratings
    Business SMS/External Messaging00 Ratings9.226 Ratings
    Online Fax00 Ratings9.523 Ratings
    Voicemail Transcription00 Ratings9.326 Ratings
    Mobile apps
    Comparison of Mobile apps features of 8x8 Work and RingEX
    Feature
    8x8 Work
    9.2
    471 Ratings
    4% above category average
    RingEX
    9.3
    194 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Mobile app for iOS9.2397 Ratings9.2170 Ratings
    Mobile app for Android9.1304 Ratings9.4151 Ratings
    Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software
    Comparison of Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software features of 8x8 Work and RingEX
    Feature
    8x8 Work
    -
    Ratings
    RingEX
    9.5
    23 Ratings
    12% above category average
    High quality audio00 Ratings9.525 Ratings
    High quality video00 Ratings9.423 Ratings
    Screen Sharing
    Comparison of Screen Sharing features of 8x8 Work and RingEX
    Feature
    8x8 Work
    -
    Ratings
    RingEX
    9.9
    18 Ratings
    15% above category average
    Desktop sharing00 Ratings9.921 Ratings
    Online Meetings / Events
    Comparison of Online Meetings / Events features of 8x8 Work and RingEX
    Feature
    8x8 Work
    -
    Ratings
    RingEX
    9.7
    19 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Calendar integration00 Ratings9.222 Ratings
    Meeting initiation00 Ratings9.922 Ratings
    Record meetings / events00 Ratings9.920 Ratings
    Online Events Collaboration
    Comparison of Online Events Collaboration features of 8x8 Work and RingEX
    Feature
    8x8 Work
    -
    Ratings
    RingEX
    8.7
    14 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Live chat00 Ratings8.717 Ratings
    Online Events Security
    Comparison of Online Events Security features of 8x8 Work and RingEX
    Feature
    8x8 Work
    -
    Ratings
    RingEX
    8.9
    21 Ratings
    11% above category average
    User authentication00 Ratings8.621 Ratings
    Participant roles & permissions00 Ratings9.223 Ratings
    Unified Communications Platform and Collaboration
    Comparison of Unified Communications Platform and Collaboration features of 8x8 Work and RingEX
    Feature
    8x8 Work
    -
    Ratings
    RingEX
    9.0
    21 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Centralized communications management00 Ratings9.521 Ratings
    Team messaging00 Ratings9.220 Ratings
    Team document sharing00 Ratings8.517 Ratings
    Call and meeting analytics00 Ratings9.023 Ratings
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    Score8.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    8x8 WorkRingEX
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (560 ratings)
    9.0
    (228 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.9
    (40 ratings)
    8.9
    (15 ratings)
    Usability
    8.7
    (205 ratings)
    8.7
    (11 ratings)
    Availability
    8.9
    (14 ratings)
    9.4
    (158 ratings)
    Performance
    8.5
    (14 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.8
    (152 ratings)
    5.3
    (28 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (18 ratings)
    8.1
    (6 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.3
    (12 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.2
    (10 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.2
    (8 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.4
    (14 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.1
    (8 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.0
    (12 ratings)
    4.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.5
    (13 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    8x8 WorkRingEX
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8x8 Inc.
    Having the capability to copy and paste in phone numbers that I am trying to call directly into the 8x8 Work user interface is a massive time saver for me so that I don't have to type in each phone number like we had to do before 8x8 Work. When you are in sales and productivity and time is important that can really add up.
    Incentivized
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    RingCentral
    Everything just works. The interface is easily the best we've used or tested. The applications available are so good that it was easy to move away from using a desk phone. The admin interface is also easily the best we've used or tested.The licensing model for Teams integration is our only currently minor issue. I'm hopeful that will improve as we would love to integrate.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    8x8 Inc.
    • 8x8 Work manages roles and permissions well. It is very simple to create permission groups needed for certain roles that may even overlap teams needs.
    • User management is fairly simple and straight forward.
    • Analytics reporting is good quality for the higher tier licenses
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    RingCentral
    • Quick provision of new numbers to match business requirements.
    • Per-user and per-queue routing options to allow calls to end where you want (e.g., forwarding, multi-user answering, etc).
    • Geographically wide deployments - we have numbers from all across the globe, and we can stand up numbers even where we have no geographical presence.
    • No-hardware deployments. There is no need for on-premises hardware if you don't need it.
    • Bulletproof platform, we so rarely have any significant issues or widespread outages.
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    Cons
    8x8 Inc.
    • Customer support do not respond properly if you are facing any compliance issue.
    • If any person in the organisation misbehaves with a customer and the customer raises a complaint to the concerned team, they suspend the organisation's entire
    • account without any warning.
    • Rarely we face voice disturbance.
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    RingCentral
    • It will be nice to have more text room monthly.
    • Providing clear instructions on how to access features, as most features are buried in the tabs.
    • The ability to redial a number without having to go back to the settings buttons on the landlines will be nice.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    8x8 Inc.
    All our employees love this product. No one has ever had an issue, whether it be the phone or fax. Great during the winter when employees have to work from home because of the snow. Never had an issue with the phone app. Highly recommend this product
    Incentivized
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    RingCentral
    We are grandfathered into our unlimited toll-free minutes plan. We are very unlikely to switch because of that. It has been the major factor saving us a lot of money compared to switching to other solutions. I don't know any other company that still offers these unlimited plans.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    8x8 Inc.
    As long as the general system for your organization is up, it is a completely fine system, no issues; however, if there are any glitches, those are rarely solvable in-house. It's a completely fine system with just enough features to keep everyone happy, but not WOW anyone
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    RingCentral
    They were working on updating a few of the modules while we were going live, so this made usability difficult to train on once they did go live with those changes. Now that the changes are in place, we have really enjoyed the usability of the platform
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    Reliability and Availability
    8x8 Inc.
    The 8x8 product is absolutely the best when it comes to this! I have had zero application errors or unplanned outages allowing me the opportunity to provide a constant source of reliable customer service to my members. I know this is something I can count on. Unlike the internet, it is subject to go down without warning
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    RingCentral
    Because it works great. In case there's a Wi-Fi issue, communication does not stop because the mobile app can be use with regular cell phone data. During one year + 3 months I've have the service, there's been only one time when there were issues on RingEX's side; however, the time of resolution was on the same day.
    Incentivized
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    Performance
    8x8 Inc.
    No problems with performance, Pages load as they should. I can't answer on the reports side as only a handful of our Admins ( call center ) currently use that side of the software. It does intergrate very well with Office for meetings and conferences. Sometimes there is a slight lag or static when users are talking, but we found this to be a cause of a users computer had not restarted in a while, Once the user restarts thier computer the problem is resolved, So this is not an issue with 8x8
    Incentivized
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    RingCentral
    Occasional bandwith issues. In addition to this, I have one individual whose calls are blocked. We were not able to determine whether this was a RingEX or a carrier issue.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    8x8 Inc.
    We are a USA based organization. Support was refreshingly quick (callback via phone or email, online live agents). Agents are knowledgeable, thorough in their explanations, and extremely patient when dealing with end-users at various levels of the ICT knowledge spectrum.
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    RingCentral
    Call-in support is fantastic. I have never called in and had it taken more than 30 minutes to resolve our issue. Email support is terrible. You will likely go 24+ hours until you hear back and the response is likely a canned one. I personally prefer the email or chat support option, but find myself calling instead because the email support experience is so poor.
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    In-Person Training
    8x8 Inc.
    The representative that arrived was very prompt and knowledgeable about the product and able to provide understandable instruction for how everything worked and what to be expected by us when using the product. They did not make me feel rushed or like they were ready to get the training over with
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    RingCentral
    I really didn't know all the capabilities
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    Online Training
    8x8 Inc.
    online (video) training is good. No issues.
    Incentivized
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    RingCentral
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    8x8 Inc.
    The implementation of 8x8 X was rather smooth. We had training prior to getting the system. The IT company did a good job on the training. The whole system is wonderful. Saves me so much time with the faxing, as i can just let it go by itself and not have to make sure pages don't get skipped, as with a regular fax machine.
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    RingCentral
    If someone has an existing system I tell them to keep that running initially and keep RingEX separate initially until the system is configured and tested to one's satisfaction. After testing and configuration is completed, then roll over the main phone numbers to the new RingEX system. I've seen one person who immediately flipped over to RingEX without properly configuring/testing the software and had many issues with missed customer calls until I helped him sort out his configuration.
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    Alternatives Considered
    8x8 Inc.
    The customer support is not good on Zoom. They do not know about their product. When we ask something about a Zoom feature, customer support takes time and denied for that feature but those features available in Zoom and we have to find out those features by Google and logs. 8x8 Work is the best in the market.
    Incentivized
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    RingCentral
    We are using these products like (Skype, Voip, TextNow, and Second line), but comparatively these products the RingEX has a good performance, because while we were using the other platform, we didn't get proper communication, we couldn't reach out the candidate, we lags to much into spam number, we couldn't communicate properly and the textnow we couldn't sigin sometime. When we start to use RingEX, we get much better productivity and proper communication with our clients.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8x8 Inc.
    At this time, we’re very happy with the pricing model that we have worked out and they have provided for us. Just be sure to do your homework, and use your comparisons to work out your cost with 8x8. They will be very straightforward with you on what they can
    adjust for you.
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    RingCentral
    not to sign up for it or give them any money for a product that does not work
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    Scalability
    8x8 Inc.
    The only issue was adding licences was not via a button click but through your account admin which seems bad practice in a SaaS world as the user should be able to sign up, amend and close their account with ease
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    RingCentral
    We have 75 users and 85 phones on the system and have yet to have any noticeable outages. The system just works all of the time without issues. Our old VOIP system on Voyant would go out all the time for multiple hours. RingEX is much more stable and reliable.
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    Professional Services
    8x8 Inc.
    PS had all the users etc. set up by our go-live date. All hard phones were activated and when we received them, all we had to do was set them up and punch in the activation code to activate them.
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    RingCentral
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    8x8 Inc.
    • Efficiency to be on the road and still have our calls well-managed.
    • Whether on the road or in the office, the incoming caller always assumes we are at our desks and in touch.
    • The ability to change our outgoing messages to suit immediate needs is simple.
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    RingCentral
    • Enhanced patient accountability, we can track all calls - incoming and outgoing - patients tend to state that they called and left a message, but they either never called or did not leave a message. With RingEX, we can track whether they really did. It saves us quite a bit of time and aggravation.
    • Faxing is more accurate and usually very quick. Because it's accurate, it saves us time with phone calls about faxes we never received and having to refax items. Also, faxing via the system instead of printing and scanning is a time-saver.
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