Overview
What is Fuze?
Fuze is a cloud-based unified communications platform that includes IP PBX voice service, video conferencing, and collaboration tools such as content sharing and instant messaging capabilities. It also integrates with a wide range of popular CTI, CRM, and click-to-call solutions.
TrustRadius Insights
Fuze - a one stop solution for micro management teams
If you want a phone then Fuze is not the answer
A great product
Fuze VoIP
Fuze works
Reliable with extensive capabilites
FUZE - 2 Years Later
The Fuze Experience thus far
Fuze: Effective and feature-rich VoIP
Good experience with Fuze
Read EVERY Order or MSA with a magnifying glass - Buyer Beware
Enjoying Fuze
One Cloud for all Geos
Team connected and stay informed with Fuze
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Popular Features
- Mobile app for iOS (94)8.181%
- Answering rules (99)7.171%
- Message alerts (93)6.565%
- Directory of employee names (107)5.858%
Reviewer Pros & Cons
Pricing
US Outbound
$0.02
Fuze Meetings
$15
Entry-level set up fee?
- Setup fee required
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Starting price (does not include set up fee)
- $15 per month
Product Demos
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Features
Cloud PBX
A cloud PBX system is based on cloud computing technology where data is stored and transferred over the intenet without any need for on-site PBX equipment
- 5.4Hosted PBX(78) Ratings
Hosted telephony infrastructure obviated the need for local PBX hardware
- 6.2Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)(73) Ratings
IVR is a phone menu allowing callers to interact with the system through voice and keypad
- 5.2User templates(60) Ratings
Create and apply batch configurations to multiple users at once
- 6.4Call reports(92) Ratings
Historical call analysis and trending metrics
- 5.8Directory of employee names(107) Ratings
Voice directory of all employees for self-service dialing
Call Management
Customized phone system settings
- 7.1Answering rules(99) Ratings
Ability to enter rules to route calls to main number or other extensions in case of absence
- 6.3Call recording(89) Ratings
Automatic recording of inbound and outbound calls
- 7.2Call park(73) Ratings
Ability to hold calls in virtual location and subsequently access from any phone in system
- 6.5Message alerts(93) Ratings
Receive SMS and email message notifications for voice and fax messages
VoIP system collaboration
Team collaboration via cloud phone system
- 7.3Video conferencing(77) Ratings
Built-in video conferencing capabilities
- 7.4Audio conferencing(90) Ratings
Audio conferencing credentials for all on the system.
Mobile apps
Apps are compatible with mobile devices.
- 8.1Mobile app for iOS(94) Ratings
App for iPhone and iPad
- 8.1Mobile app for Android(77) Ratings
Android app
Product Details
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- Competitors
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What is Fuze?
Fuze Features
Cloud PBX Features
- Supported: Hosted PBX
- Supported: Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)
- Supported: User templates
- Supported: Call reports
- Supported: Directory of employee names
Call Management Features
- Supported: Answering rules
- Supported: Call recording
- Supported: Call park
- Supported: Message alerts
VoIP system collaboration Features
- Supported: Video conferencing
- Supported: Audio conferencing
Mobile apps Features
- Supported: Mobile app for iOS
- Supported: Mobile app for Android
Fuze Videos
Fuze Integrations
Fuze Competitors
- RingEX
- Mitel MiCollab
- Dialpad Ai Voice
- Slack
- 8x8 Work
- MiCloud Connect
- Avaya IX Contact Center (formerly Intelligent Xperiences Contact Center)
- Microsoft Skype For Business
- Cisco
Fuze Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android, Mobile Web |
Supported Countries | Global - NA, EMEA, APAC |
Supported Languages | English, Spanish, French, German |
Fuze Downloadables
- IT leaders are accustomed to accepting the upfront risks that come with implementing new standards, processes, and technologies. Yet 76 percent of CIOs say that adoption is critical to the success of the new technology. Learn how to best serve employee needs when introducing a Unified Communication as a Service (UCaaS) solution, and how to drive widespread adoption.
- The role of today’s CIO has never been more challenging. Operational responsibilities, budget pressures, customer expectations, and the demands of the business are creating a unique landscape for the CIO to navigate. This new study of 292 CIOs sheds light on current challenges to maneuver along with key strategies and initiatives forward-looking CIOs are planning to push through in 2017.
- Effective unified communications as a service (UCaaS) promises to deliver seamless, secure, and cost-effective communications—across multiple channels, and on different devices, anywhere you need it. Learn all the basics and best practices of unified communications.
- Fuze Game Changers
Frequently Asked Questions
Fuze Customer Size Distribution
Consumers | 0% |
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Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 8% |
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 27% |
Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 65% |
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Reviews and Ratings
(199)Community Insights
- Business Problems Solved
- Recommendations
Fuze is widely used as a Unified Communications platform, offering voice, video, and text collaboration for offices and mobile users. Its cloud architecture and intelligent design ensure business continuity, even in the event of a primary circuit outage. With Fuze, organizations can address the distributed nature of their workforce by providing voice, call center, instant messaging, and teleconferencing capabilities throughout the organization. Users rely on Fuze as their primary means of communication, enabling 24/7/365 connectivity among employees in corporate offices, satellite offices, and work-from-home setups. During the Covid shutdown, Fuze proved invaluable as it replaced outdated phone systems and allowed employees to take their phones home and use them seamlessly as if they were in the office. Fuze's variety of features and capabilities meet the high expectations of users who have experienced more advanced systems in the past. It serves as a single communications platform across multiple locations and divisions within an organization, meeting the diverse needs of various divisions around the globe. Whether it's for collaboration, messaging, calling or replacing traditional phone systems, Fuze offers ease and convenience while addressing critical business issues such as managing multiple phone systems, supplier accounts, invoices, and call support problems. With its streamlined unified communications experience, Fuze has helped reduce telephony and conferencing costs while simplifying internal communications infrastructure. From remote meetings to contact center solutions and sales departments' communication needs, Fuze provides a reliable platform that improves productivity and builds stronger relationships with customers. Users appreciate how it integrates seamlessly with different devices like desk phones, computers, and mobile devices, streamlining communication processes and saving valuable time.
In summary, Fuze offers a wide range of use cases including voice calling, video conferencing, instant messaging for collaboration purposes within an organization or between offices and mobile users. It solves critical business problems by providing reliable connectivity among employees regardless of their location or setup. With its variety of features and capabilities, Fuze meets the high expectations of users who have experienced more advanced systems in the past. It simplifies internal communications infrastructure, reduces costs, and improves productivity by providing a streamlined unified communications experience. From contact center solutions to sales departments' communication needs, Fuze proves to be an invaluable tool that enhances collaboration and strengthens relationships with customers.
These recommendations reflect users' positive experiences with Fuze, highlighting its effectiveness in improving collaboration across multiple platforms. Users highly recommend Fuze for its ease of use and navigation, as well as its ability to enhance web conferencing experiences, especially with the webinar function. They suggest ensuring a steady internet connection with sufficient bandwidth and comparing Fuze with other options before making a decision. Users also advise thoroughly testing the setup and considering other customers' experiences before fully committing to Fuze. Additionally, they recommend checking if Fuze can integrate with the CRM system and suggest having a backup plan for connecting with clients. Some users mention the need for improvements in contact center reporting and call quality, as well as better technical support. They also recommend working closely with Fuze for call tree preparation and phone routing. Overall, users find Fuze to be a reliable, cost-effective solution for lightweight audio/video conferencing and collaboration.
Attribute Ratings
- 7.7Likelihood to Renew20 ratings
- 8.9Availability3 ratings
- 8Performance3 ratings
- 7.1Usability12 ratings
- 7.4Support Rating88 ratings
- 9Online Training2 ratings
- 8In-Person Training2 ratings
- 8Implementation Rating111 ratings
- 8.7Configurability3 ratings
- 7.8Product Scalability3 ratings
- 8Ease of integration3 ratings
- 8Vendor pre-sale3 ratings
- 8.6Vendor post-sale3 ratings
Reviews
(1-25 of 70)Fuze - a one stop solution for micro management teams
- Voice calling with anyone registered in the directory
- Video calling with anyone registered in the directory
- Messaging with anyone in and out of the registered directory
- Insights about the entire workflow and the services offered for
- The voice calling application is definitely not the best when it comes to selecting various user enhanced options and connectivity
- The video calling feature can be equipped with modern day features from competitors like google voice , viber
- The messaging needs to have seamless automation integration options for better and enhanced usage
If you want a phone then Fuze is not the answer
- UcaaS.
- Browser based app ability.
- Salesforce integration is horrible.
- Their support team is lackluster.
- The CSMs and account managers aren't knowledgeable about phone systems.
- Fuze is NOT a contact center system. They need to merge with somebody like Serenova.
A great product
- Calling
- Messages
- Meetings
- Screen sharing during meetings
- Video calls
- Conference meetings
- Aesthetics
Fuze VoIP
- Fuze integrated nicely with Salesforce allowing call activity to be easily logged into SFDC.
- Fuze call reporting provided valuable insight into call activity and the history of individuals.
- The Fuze softphone UI was clear and simple.
- We left Fuze because they could not integrate with MS Teams as a direct routing partner.
- Overall the monthly cost for the licenses and variable per minute dialing costs were too high.
- IT administration was a bit confusing because of all the Admin consoles used for different administration tasks.
FUZE - 2 Years Later
- Voice quality.
- Mobile app.
- Meetings - Simple, yet feature-rich interface.
- Desktop application stability and compatibility with certain hardware.
- Better installation - Per-user and per-computer installs sometimes compete with one another and/or upgrades fail to install.
- [The] desktop app is not best for touchscreen-enabled devices due to lack of ability to scroll through messages using a finger or stylus.
Good experience with Fuze
- Customer Service.
- Listens to customers for new ideas.
- Ability to call monitor.
- Portal could be more intuitive and easier to use.
- It's cumbersome to install files on the Fuze desktop.
Read EVERY Order or MSA with a magnifying glass - Buyer Beware
- Getting involved when an issue is critical and they have liability.
- Selling product features.
- Believing that they have a superior product than the competition.
- They make you sign orders with extended terms every time you get new lines (beware).
- Unless you tell them multiple times, support will not be from your own country.
- Their app, even on great wifi, has poor quality.
- The phones will have random issues that need to be addressed daily.
- The portal for customers is hard to navigate or implement changes.
- The billing is confusing, almost purposefully confusing (in my opinion).
- Set up and implementation is abysmal.
- You will have issues if any of your extensions have the same last four digits as your DIDs.
Enjoying Fuze
- Easy to make contact with colleagues.
- Searching instant messages.
- Sharing screens.
- Can not export call list.
- Can not export contacts.
- Does not let you know if someone has the app (available for instant messages).
- Easy to create a meeting and invite everyone outside of the organization since you don't need Google or Microsoft account to join them.
- Simplify the fact that you can bring your line anywhere you are.
- Easy to keep close with your officemates with the messaging feature.
- You can modify your plans anytime in the most convenient way for you.
- One of the improvements could be adding a feature to submit case support, directly from the Fuze application whenever technical assistance is needed.
Sometimes ConFuzed
- Chatting features.
- Calling.
- Lagging issues. Whether using it on an older pc or a brand new one, no matter my connection, there always seems to be a lag/delay.
Fuze and Me
- The mobile app was delightful to use.
- The GUI of the Windows/MacOS app were very intuitive.
- Meeting quality was great.
- Audio quality was phenomenal.
- [In my experience,] customer service was bad. Might as well have been the Russian scammers from a Capital One commercial.
- The contact center is a little more cumbersome to manage than the rest of the platform and is rebranded as InContact.
- Had some SERIOUS billing/account management issues.
One Unified Communications Platform to rule them all!
- Fuze seamlessly integrates audio communication, chat collaboration, file sharing, and video conferencing / video meetings in one easy-to-use software package.
- The Fuze application is solid and steady across all platforms, Windows, iOS, or even Android.
- Even if just collaborating via text, Screen sharing is available to use and works incredibly well.
- While they have been improving, there is still a limit to video feeds in their meetings function. This limit is much higher on other platforms.
- Other platforms have the ability to use virtual backgrounds, this feature is missing from Fuze.
- While their technical support is good, sometimes a number of follow-ups are required to solve the more complicated issues.
If your company does not have a dedicated IT staff to work as a liaison to the Fuze support staff, I could see where there could be challenges.
- Easy deployment.
- Simple setup.
- SSO integration.
- The Fuze app for windows needs to not rely on hardware acceleration by default.
- Has simple design, but needs to have a compact mode to not take up so much screen space.
- Needs to have a better recovery from computer shutting off wifi, bc it thinks it isn't in use. The error that displays for that doesn't go away until reopen application.
Fuze is not appropriate in low internet service areas, where you don't have a IT person that can assist in working out the subtle nuances in the app for Windows.
Best Product this Century
- Support Team - the best I have ever worked with. They help 24/7 on any issue I could come across. Usually it is an item I could fix myself and they fix it and show me how to fix the same issue if I have it in the future.
- Contact Center - We do Commercial Collections involving Sales and Collections. We have 50 people on the phone at one time. Contact Center lets a Manager listen live and gives help if the rep needs help selling or collecting.
- Pandemic 2020 - without Fuze we would have been unable to work for 3 months. They saved our "rears" since we already had all their services up and running for years.
- Not sure on these questions. The 3 main products we use (phones, desktop and mobile app) all work great and we use all 3 every day. We even installed the click to dial so my users can click on a number in Chrome browser and they don't even need to use their hands. And when Chrome service goes down, they all forget how to dial by using a finger. It is rather funny except for all the calls I get.
Don't be scared to light this Fuze!
- It's cloud based, so you can access it anywhere. Works great for staff that works from home.
- It can be used across different platforms. We use the desktop app, mobile app, or the web version, and they all work fine.
- It can be linked if it has multiple locations. We have two locations in our city and are under the same center.
- During the pandemic, this really help our company stay open the whole time.
- Some configurations are not available, which causes it to be more limited than other systems.
- Support is not always knowledgeable with some of the more common PBX issues.
- The Contact Center Desktop app requires Java, and only uses an older version.
- Support is sometimes oversees, so may reply to an issue we'll after business hours in the states.
I wouldn't recommend it for a contact center solution because it can get pricey if you're a large business and everyone will be using desk phones. You also won't be able to access the desk phones' admin settings for specific configurations because it's not allowed with their service. If you're using the desktop app, then that can be an inexpensive solution for a contact center but is updated frequently, which can cause it to act unstable at times. In all, Fuze is a pretty solid system for a company that is small in size and/or doesn't mind depending solely on Fuze's support for small issues like adding a fax line without having a phone line attached to the user's account.
We use Fuze for instant messaging between coworkers, video meetings, and conference calls. The ability to send a text message from your work phone number to any other phone number is a great feature that we use on occasion as well. We also use Fuze to route calls to our Customer Service Agents through Nice In Contact CXone.
- Instant Messaging.
- Phone calls through your desktop or mobile app.
- text messaging from your desktop to any phone number.
- Video Conference Meetings can at time be choppy.
- Fuze Video meetings seem to use more bandwith than other video conference programs.
- Does not fully integrate with meetings/calendar status through outlook.
Fuze is a great softphone program that allows employees to instant message, text message and communicate form their web browser or a free mobile app to be able to make calls and send texts from their work phone number all from within the app.
- Their data API is great for getting the data you need out of their system as long as you or somebody you know can write a program to call that API.
- Allows for calls to be taken by mobile app, desktop app, or desk phone.
- Flexible call center logic and that allowed us to continue to function as we have been, even if what we were doing wasn't the most common practice.
- Simplified administration of users through an increasingly feature rich Hub.
- The platform is constantly evolving and increasing functionality. Things that were once only manageable by support routinely make their way down to the admins.
- Fuze support response time is typically very slow and they routinely miss their SLAs.
- Some admin portals have an interface that are in need of updating. They are very much still in the middle of their rebranding as some portals reference "Fuze" while others reference "Thinking Phones." This is a bit confusing for new end users when their primary web portal is "portal.thinkingphones.com"
- The canned reports are very limited and seem and the tech driving them leads to some reports missing or chopping off longer fields even though they are standard fields for any Fuze call (i.e. "ABCDEFG" shortened to "ABCD...")
The main critique I can give is that it may fall short if you rely on the canned data reports. However, they have continued to expand their reporting systems and have released a powerful reporting tool that can slice and dice data as long as you're willing to spend some time with it. If all else fails, they have a great API that can be used for even more reporting options.
Outside of that, what can I say? We primarily used it for the phone service and the best thing I can say is that it was largely uneventful. For me, that's a great sign of performance and reliability.
- As the administrator of our account, I can add/delete employees, forward calls, etc.
- Fuze has excellent customer service. We rarely contact customer service because we hardly ever have issues.
- We have never had an issue with call quality.
- I think the administrator account interface could be more user friendly; it is designed more for Fuze employees and less towards the average customer user.
Fuze - your collaborative, cloud-based telephony solution!
- Voice quality.
- Call clarity.
- Bandwidth-connectivity independent.
- Main App Interface - be more user-friendly.
Fuze gives you great mobility
- Gives you mobility
- Supported on iOS, Android and Windows
- Good connection without problems
- Android app needs a bit improvement--notifications not working well
My Fuze Review
- Software clients available on a variety of platforms.
- Regular updates with useful new features.
- Support staff is well trained and responsive to customer issues.
- Android and iOS apps do not always handle disruptions from other phone activities well. Inbound phone calls and changes to Bluetooth connections (earpiece to car, for example) can foul up an ongoing meeting.
- We would love the ability to easily move calls between devices -- Software to desk phone, desk phone to mobile client, etc. Fuze has made some improvements in this area, but there are still a couple of missing pieces.
- The Fuze Meetings module is still a bit behind the major players like WebEx, Zoom, etc., in features and general usability.
Good service and a reliable product
- Availability of service has been up 99 % of the time.
- Call quality via WiFi is pretty good.
- Mobile app is great.
- On the desktop app, the errors with updating the app are constant if it can't update.
- Pick up groups don't seem to work the best.
- Constant error message - meetings are not available.
Fuze is great--don't hesitate!
- Fuze is really easy to use even if you've never used a VOIP system.
- You can easily connect your cellphone number and Fuze number together to make it feel like a regular phone call.
- Fuze support is very helpful and will reply to us as soon as possible.
- I want to have the ability to block out numbers especially if they are from automated telemarketers.
- The option of having caller ID, although it does show where the call is coming from
- On mobile, if my phone was silent the ringer turns on automatically on its own
Fuze implementation and usage in a small to medium business
- Easy to set up. The team that carried out the analysis and implementation of the solution was very professional and attentive to our needs.
- Training. The online training and documentation is very comprehensive and well organized.
- The support is very reactive if a problem occurs.
- Look and feel. The interface is not very modern and cannot be branded in your company's colors.
- Contacts synchronisation. Some fields of the contacts are not imported (If you have "company" contacts you will only see the phone number unless you move the company name into the first name). The interface does not show you all fields.
- Video conference. Image quality is worse than other products (Zoom, Google Meet).
To Fuze or Not to Fuze
- Good call quality
- Mobile App
- Finally being able to dial extensions to reach people across sites
- Mobile app
- Setting up is a little confusing
- Outages