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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Talkdesk

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/ATalkdesk® supports CX with Customer Experience Automation (CXA), using AI agents to replace manual workflows. Powered by the Talkdesk Data Cloud, CXA delivers real-time context and fast deployment—to transform CX without a rip-and-replace.

    $85

    per month per user

    Text-Em-All

    Score9.8 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    Text-Em-All, headquartered in Frisco, delivers personalized, informational, emergency mass text messages and phone calls, whether they’re going to five people or 50,000.

    $0.05

    cents

    Pricing
    TalkdeskText-Em-All
    Editions & Modules
    Digital Essentials
    $85
    per month per user
    Voice Essentials
    $105
    per month per user
    Elite
    $165
    per month per user
    Elite
    $165
    per month per user
    Industry Experience Clouds
    $225
    per month per user
    Starter
    $0
    Credits
    $0.05
    per credit
    Monthly
    $19
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    TalkdeskText-Em-All
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional Details*Talkdesk also offers per hour login consumption pricing and concurrent pricing. Prices are based on a minimum 3 year commitment to these Editions. Additional telco and usage fees not included. Due to foreign exchange rate approximation, list price is not the exact price that will be quoted.Text-Em-All offers a variety of pricing plans to cater to different user needs. The monthly plan starts at $19, with pricing based on group size, making it ideal for consistent senders who reach the same group(s) each month as often as needed. Plans provide access to the full range of Text-Em-All features, to ensure a comprehensive messaging experience. Additionally, the platform offers credits, or pay-as-you-go pricing model, with costs ranging from 5¢ to 9¢ per credit, suitable for users with occasional or high-volume messaging needs. To help potential customers evaluate the service, Text-Em-All offers a free account so users can evaluate and try the service with 25 free credits.
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    Features
    TalkdeskText-Em-All
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Talkdesk and Text-Em-All
    Feature
    Talkdesk
    8.2
    500 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Text-Em-All
    -
    Ratings
    Agent dashboard7.3479 Ratings00 Ratings
    Validate callers8.3420 Ratings00 Ratings
    Outbound response8.4439 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call forwarding8.5431 Ratings00 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)8.2397 Ratings00 Ratings
    Warm transfer8.8454 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive dialing8.9231 Ratings00 Ratings
    Interactive voice response8.5321 Ratings00 Ratings
    REST APIs7.2255 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call scripts8.2229 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call tracking8.6447 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multichannel integration7.0329 Ratings00 Ratings
    CRM software integration8.5381 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Talkdesk and Text-Em-All
    Feature
    Talkdesk
    8.0
    484 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Text-Em-All
    -
    Ratings
    Inbound call routing9.0444 Ratings00 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing7.0322 Ratings00 Ratings
    Recording9.0468 Ratings00 Ratings
    Quality management8.5426 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call analytics8.5440 Ratings00 Ratings
    Historical reporting8.2448 Ratings00 Ratings
    Live reporting7.8441 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer surveys7.3249 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics6.8283 Ratings00 Ratings
    Emergency Notification System
    Comparison of Emergency Notification System features of Talkdesk and Text-Em-All
    Feature
    Talkdesk
    -
    Ratings
    Text-Em-All
    8.2
    26 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Mass Notification00 Ratings8.924 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Delivery00 Ratings8.423 Ratings
    Customization and Templates00 Ratings8.123 Ratings
    Geo-Targeting00 Ratings9.09 Ratings
    Multi-Language Support00 Ratings7.89 Ratings
    Emergency Contacts Database00 Ratings8.414 Ratings
    Two-Way Communication00 Ratings7.924 Ratings
    Notification Reporting and Analytics00 Ratings7.826 Ratings
    Integration with External Systems00 Ratings7.917 Ratings
    Mobile Notifications00 Ratings7.620 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    TalkdeskText-Em-All
    Small Businesses
    Zendesk Talk
    Score8.2 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Score8 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Enterprises
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Score8.4 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
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    User Ratings
    TalkdeskText-Em-All
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (514 ratings)
    9.8
    (215 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.5
    (40 ratings)
    8.8
    (12 ratings)
    Usability
    8.6
    (330 ratings)
    9.2
    (10 ratings)
    Availability
    9.2
    (9 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    9.6
    (9 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    5.6
    (132 ratings)
    9.6
    (113 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    7.6
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.6
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.2
    (224 ratings)
    9.4
    (6 ratings)
    Configurability
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    7.2
    (2 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.8
    (8 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    TalkdeskText-Em-All
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Talkdesk
    As a growing company, we did not have customer service contacts set up like a traditional contact center, even though we were trying to operate like one. Talkdesk made the transition simple to orchestrate the new setup, allowing customers to have their contacts answered quickly. As Talkdesk has continued to roll out new products such as Copilot and AI Autopilot, we are implementing and continuing to realize the benefits.
    Incentivized
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    Text-Em-All
    We have found them to be very good for immediate communication of a brief message to a large number of people at once. Thus, it works perfectly for a neighborhood association. It may not be suitable for longer messages or situations with excessive notifications.
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    Pros
    Talkdesk
    • Talkdesk excels at reporting. It offers a wide range of reports, such as Aux, AHT, and productivity reports, which are great for monitoring performance.
    • Talkdesk has speech-to-text analytics. This is an AI transcript system. The AI detects speech and transcribes it.
    • Talkdesk is easy to integrate with other apps. Such as Calabrio and Zendesk.
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    Text-Em-All
    • Scheduled delivery: works as it should every time and is SUPER convenient.
    • Mass contact upload: I was able to pull a report to excel and it loaded PERFECTLY to ‘Contacts’
    • Feedback: if anyone doesn’t get the message, I will know almost immediately.
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    Cons
    Talkdesk
    • From experience, customer service is terrible, we've had 5 account executives over 18 months, extremely difficult to get timely answers to pressing issues.
    • Integration with other tools, such as ServiceNow, is not truly integration (in my opinion). There was a marked difference between what the salesperson communicated during the evaluation period and what we actually got once we purchased and implemented the product.
    • We continue to have stability issues which force our agents to restart the Talkdesk client. I frequently receive vague error messages ('something went wrong') that can be frustrating as there's no actual detail to what happened. To be fair, it has improved since we implemented the tool, but if you were to ask our agents what frustrated them, Talkdesk would be at the top of their list.
    • Being a multi-channel platform was one of the things that drew us to Talkdesk; however, the chat channel lags way behind voice in customization and reporting.
    • Lack of training resources. The 'Talkdesk Academy' is often very out-of-date. Would be nice to have actual webinars or online training (even paid training) for various functions of the tool like reporting, WFM, IVR, etc.
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    Text-Em-All
    • My initial concern was regarding the "opt out" feature. I work with the senior population, and many of whom are not that tech-savvy. I have a couple of residents who had unintentionally opted out of messages thinking it was an individual message they were skipping. I would suggest that there be a clarifying question when a user chooses to opt out; it should default to opting out of a single message and survey the user to see if they would like to opt out of receiving additional messages. My residents were wondering why they were missing information and why I hadn't informed them of important dates and events.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Talkdesk
    One of the best tools our there to tackle alot of our needs or issues within the organisation's and is value for money as you find alot of the features already in bedded and the Ai features are user friendly no need for additional training and Talk desk support when any issues arise is amazing
    Incentivized
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    Text-Em-All
    Text-Em-All is a great way to get messages to our associates versus posting on a memo board and hoping they see it. Very efficient. I would recommend this great tool to companies big or small as a form of business related communications. The only thing I would change is the ability to use more characters in the messages. And it would be a plus if you can translate to different languages in the app.
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    Usability
    Talkdesk
    As a user, the Talkdesk system is pretty easy. However, as a leader or an admin, the system can be difficult to navigate. Talkdesk appeared to integrate different solutions into their environment. While the overall skin of the environment is pretty seamless, it's easy to see that some solutions are segregated off into their own area of the Talkdesk ecosystem. This is pretty evident with Identity, WFM, and System Analytics, where you have to navigate to their respective areas to pull reports and gather data. Where many other reports are available in Explore
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    Text-Em-All
    It's fantastic. In general, it's a 10. But I give it a 7 because of the way I know it can improve. I save my workers' names in lists...and I have only the first and last name fields to classify them. I grade my workers based on their experiences and based on their jobs; so I use the last name field to group them. This could be easier by you adding another field.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Talkdesk
    Talkdesk is very handy but, sometimes we do face issues were the system can just kick you out and not be able to do calls or receive calls but, what I like about the system once you start refreshing or troubleshooting, everything becomes normal it is a unique system and very modern we don't usually have system issues with Talkdesk.
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    Text-Em-All
    The availability of the text em all is amazing specially when we needed the most to spread out the word on an event that was happening.
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    Performance
    Talkdesk
    reports are good until a report is a big one in size then the wait is longer and some call reports delay by an hour or so which is not ideal as we pull these hourly and need them from Work force management perspective and Quality reports are perfectly fine
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    Text-Em-All
    I love the performance it provided us. Also, want to clarify that the time it takes to send out a mass text is amazing
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    Support Rating
    Talkdesk
    If Talkdesk had a dedicated phone support line I would have given this rating an overall 10. Their knowledge base is absolutely HUGE and at times very helpful. It's easy to search through and their customer support chat system works perfectly fine, but there are just some times that you need to speak to a human on the phone to ensure you are always on the same page.
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    Text-Em-All
    There have been few times over the last 18 years that I have had to make changes to our billing or deal with particular tech questions and I have never had any issues with their response time or ability to be helpful once the issues were communicated
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    In-Person Training
    Talkdesk
    The training that was given to us was very smooth and professional. I give my trainer 10/ 10 rate the training was so smooth and very helpful she would make sure we also watch videos of how to use the system which made it very easier for us and what was interesting it is because, the system is also easy.
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    Text-Em-All
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Talkdesk
    Nothing is perfect!! Needing the ability to repeat the training so everyone was on board was important. Not real sure how many people had to repeat the training as they trained on their own and given 30 minutes at a time.
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    Text-Em-All
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Talkdesk
    We were very satisfied with the implementation of Talkdesk. The team was able to gather all the data and information about the system we had in place at the moment and delivered us a Talkdesk plan that suited our needs. We had a few calls after implementation where our questions were answered and gave us the confidence to continue using the system.
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    Text-Em-All
    This was the best way we were able to reach out to everyone we wanted to, being that there were some not tech-sabi elderly people. This was a better way for them to be able to get the information they needed.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Talkdesk
    Call recordings, quality assessments, feedback, coaching, and monitoring, the call flow is effortless and painless, changing statuses from after-call work is updated to be qued so you cannot change after aftercall work is finished, shows you the company metrics, SLA, abandonment, number of calls taken and record occupancy for you and the team. Many more features make Talkdesk an innovative software compared to its competitors.
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    Text-Em-All
    Our last provider was costly for what we needed. We need the ability to text, and that's it. The sense was challenging to navigate; I had to sign a one-year contract and pay thousands upfront. Text-em-all has been the best thing.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Talkdesk
    No answers on this topic
    Text-Em-All
    Seems like a fair price for the product
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    Scalability
    Talkdesk
    talk desk has helped us massively with flexibility of one system giving us all the relevant information we need to be able to drive improvement and also good service from work force management to quality improvement to the reporting of the work and inputs going in and assess outputs to determine the success of our work and remaining development areas
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    Text-Em-All
    We have never had a problem being able to use Text em all when we needed it
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    Return on Investment
    Talkdesk
    • Reduced hold times with callback feature = better CX
    • Easy transfer option between teams where we can talk rep-rep first before bringing the caller in = less repeated information the customer has to provide = better CX
    • Modified call dispositions allows for better call management & organization = less work on our end!
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    Text-Em-All
    • We definitely have a higher response rate when we contact applicants via text message; it seems to be the thing people check more often than email now.
    • It saves us a lot of time wasted before with "phone tag" when employees are unable to immediately to take a call.
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    ScreenShots

    Talkdesk Screenshots

    Screenshot of Talkdesk Guardian™, which is an AI-driven, native cloud compliance solution that enables contact centers to gain visibility and take control of their WFH and hybrid workforce.Screenshot of Talkdesk Autopilot™, which is a tool that handles common customer queries, like orders, returns and billing, and automatically responds with conversational answers. And when complex cases are detected that need human empathy and expertise, the virtual agent will redirect customers to a human agent.Screenshot of Talkdesk AI Trainer™, which equips customers with tools to observe, simulate, and put guardrails on AI, according to their needs. This way, generative AI can be used responsibly, preventing AI mishaps, and protecting the brand from potentially poor AI experiences.

    Text-Em-All Screenshots

    Screenshot of broadcast creation.Screenshot of the interface to add contacts.Screenshot of where to broadcast results.Screenshot of broadcast details.Screenshot of the contact management interface.Screenshot of two-way conversations.