Overview
What is Talkdesk?
Talkdesk is a cloud-based contact center platform with voice, digital channel, and workforce engagement management capabilities. Talkdesk’s key features are its customizable user interface, built-in AI automation, and its integration with numerous CRM and helpdesk applications.
Good but could be great with advanced reporting
Review 09/20
Great solution for a cloud call center of any size
Doesn't really fit all environments
An easy to use, efficient software
Scalable solution for Salesforce integration
Awesome product! easy and powerful
Talkdesk : optimized call center (30 agents)
Promising service provider
Talkdesk review
Long lasting relationship, with customized solutions
Recommend with a few reservations
Talkdesk is a really strong service with some issues to resolve
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Popular Features
- Recording (406)9.393%
- Warm transfer (392)8.989%
- Historical reporting (388)8.585%
- Agent dashboard (416)8.484%
Reviewer Pros & Cons
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Pricing
CX Cloud Essentials
$85
CX Cloud Elevate
$115
CX Cloud Elite
$145
Entry-level set up fee?
- Setup fee optional
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Starting price (does not include set up fee)
- $85 per month per user
Product Demos
Automatic Summary Demo | Talkdesk
Proactive Outbound Engagement Demo | Talkdesk
AI Customer Self-Service Demo | Talkdesk
Coaching Performance Development Demo | Talkdesk
AI Workforce Management Demo | Talkdesk
Omnichannel Agent Experience Demo | Talkdesk
Features
Contact Center Software
Contact center software allows companies to manage inbound and outbound customer communications across a range of channels at scale, and may or may not include call reporting analytics. These channels can include voice (phone), email, fax, VoIP, webchat, video chat, and social media platforms.
- 8.4Agent dashboard(416) Ratings
Enables agents to track and view their individual and team performance.
- 8.1Validate callers(365) Ratings
Authenticates inbound callers with a customer ID.
- 8.4Outbound response(381) Ratings
Allows agents to make outgoing responses via different communication channels (e.g. phone, SMS/text, live chat, messaging apps etc..).
- 8.6Call forwarding(370) Ratings
Forwarding of calls to the appropriate agents.
- 8.9Click-to-call (CTC)(345) Ratings
Allows one-click calling for agents.
- 8.9Warm transfer(392) Ratings
Allows current agent to speak with new agent before call is transferred.
- 8.6Predictive dialing(194) Ratings
Dials multiple numbers at once and connects the salesperson if a live speaker answers.
- 8.2Interactive voice response(270) Ratings
Pre-recorded greeting and menu options a customer can select from a telephone keypad.
- 8.1REST APIs(215) Ratings
Open APIs, SDKs, and supporting documentation, that enable businesses to customize and build on the Contact Center platform.
- 8Call scripts(190) Ratings
Providing agents with a predefined conversation script.
- 8.7Call tracking(386) Ratings
Enables agents and managers to see the origin of the call.
- 8.1Multichannel integration(281) Ratings
Ability to collect, store, and share customer data across communication channels such as voice (phone), email, fax, SMS/text, video, web chat, and social media
- 7.9CRM software integration(335) Ratings
Allows agents to access aggregated customer information and call history data, enabling them to view a comprehensive history of a customer’s interactions.
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Tools that allow managers or team leaders to evaluate and track agent performance.
- 8.7Inbound call routing(384) Ratings
Connecting inbound callers to agents based on wait time, call priority, or whether any specific skills or knowledge is required to handle the call.
- 8.5Omnichannel inbound routing(272) Ratings
Connecting inbound communications (coming from a variety of channels) to agents based on wait time, call priority, or whether any specific skills or knowledge is required to handle the call.
- 9.3Recording(406) Ratings
Record conversations to improve service quality by evaluating agent-customer interactions.
- 9Quality management(367) Ratings
Ability to monitor conversation content, administer evaluations, establish policies etc..
- 8.9Call analytics(381) Ratings
Gathers key performance indicators (KPIs) such as average time in the queue, average call abandonment rate, average handle time (AHT), average speed of answer etc..
- 8.5Historical reporting(388) Ratings
Ability to analyze long-term call patterns and trends such as peak call times and downtimes.
- 8.8Live reporting(382) Ratings
Ability to analyze real-time agent-customer interactions such as how long a caller has in the queue and call script deviation.
- 8Customer surveys(208) Ratings
Allows agents to gather post-interaction feedback from customers on the communication channel of their choice.
- 8.3Customer interaction analytics(238) Ratings
The process of taking unstructured interaction data across channels (audio, video, email, text etc..) and formatting it so that it can be searched and categorized based on interaction patterns.
Product Details
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What is Talkdesk?
Talkdesk Features
Contact Center Software Features
- Supported: Agent dashboard
- Supported: Validate callers
- Supported: Outbound response
- Supported: Call forwarding
- Supported: Click-to-call (CTC)
- Supported: Warm transfer
- Supported: Predictive dialing
- Supported: Interactive voice response
- Supported: REST APIs
- Supported: Call scripts
- Supported: Call tracking
- Supported: Multichannel integration
- Supported: CRM software integration
- Supported: Automatic speech recognition (ASR)
- Supported: Natural language processing for IVR
- Supported: Communications forecasting
Workforce Optimization (WFO) Features
- Supported: Inbound call routing
- Supported: Omnichannel inbound routing
- Supported: Recording
- Supported: Quality management
- Supported: Call analytics
- Supported: Historical reporting
- Supported: Live reporting
- Supported: Customer surveys
- Supported: Customer interaction analytics
Omnichannel support Features
- Supported: Email
- Supported: Voice (phone)
- Supported: VoIP
- Supported: SMS/Text
- Supported: Video channel
- Supported: Live chat channel
- Supported: Co-browse
- Supported: Screen-share
- Supported: Social media channels
- Supported: Mobile applications
Predictive Analytics Features
- Supported: Intelligent call routing
- Supported: Chatbots
- Supported: AI assistance for live agents
Talkdesk Integrations
Talkdesk Competitors
Talkdesk 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 |
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Reviews and Ratings
(603)Attribute Ratings
- 8.7Likelihood to Renew36 ratings
- 9.8Availability6 ratings
- 10Performance5 ratings
- 8.6Usability264 ratings
- 8.6Support Rating130 ratings
- 8.4Online Training4 ratings
- 10In-Person Training2 ratings
- 8.1Implementation Rating205 ratings
- 10Configurability6 ratings
- 10Product Scalability6 ratings
- 10Vendor pre-sale2 ratings
- 10Vendor post-sale2 ratings
Reviews
(101-125 of 448)One of the best phone solutions!
- IVR flow
- Integration with our helpdesk system and other system
- Great reporting
- Stability
- Agent callbar functions
- Bulk import options
Talkdesk Review
- Integrate with Salesforce.
- High reliability of call service and audio quality.
- Good apps for use with the system.
- Features, As Talkdesk is new they are slowly improving the product.
- Studios can be complicated via their UI experience.
- No Ring Group control gives difficulty in Management.
Talkdesk is wonderful and easy to use!
- Easy to use
- Convenient
- Faster transition for phone calls
- Saves Space
- User Friendly
- Making it easier to end calls when your line is constantly ringing
- Selecting options with ring tones
- A different screen where it pops up in the corner
- Keyboard options to answer a call
Talkdesk is the go to for communication efficiency!
- Providing the keypad as the main screen, and being able to use it as you would as a regular phone.
- Being able to navigate the app so easily and quickly
- Being able to call back the person you were just on the phone with without having to look up their information is a huge plus
- I would say being able to troubleshoot. Like calling your own line from TalkDesk.
Best App for International calling
- Great connectivity
- Quite simple
- cool features
- need to work on connectivity
- should work less data speed
- Mobile application need improvement
Clear review on Talkdesk
- Connects to other countries easily
- No charges need to be paid
- Voice clarity
- Sometimes we get connected to the customer but they are not able to hear us don’t know if there is a connectivity issue
Paulina Thrasher-Review
- Easy to monitor calls and download recordings
- Clean, simple to use UI
- Good service, always connects easily and has clear audio
- Glitchy-sometimes will ring with the noise but will not give you an option to answer
- Difficult to make changes/suggestions of new features
- Slow-sometimes the availability will not update or you think you're available when you're actually not
Talk Desk Review.
- Give us good network
- Give us accurate report
- Less time consuming
- Needs to give an option to make conference calls.
- NA
- NA
Not tech savvy user but still delivers
- Technology and how it works for us
- Communication
- Wholeness within the company
- There are tech user issues
- Functionality issues
- Dropped calls
Talk Desk perfectionist
- User friendly
- Accurate reports
- Needs to add the option to make conference calls.
Talkdesk all the way !
- Make call flows efficent
- Relevant report generation for improvement across LOBs
- Custom and flexible integration
- Ringing options
Team Lead Review
- Good for VOIP services
- Has helped cut cost compared to competitors
- Communication within the company
- Tech is confusing
- Could have better tutorials
- Call forward is hard to understand
Management review
- Offers national communications structure
- Offers tech savvy options for keeping in touch
- Tech issues are quickly resolved
- Would like the operation to run more smoothly
- Missing user functions
- Could offer walk through for less tech savvy users
Simple man honest opinion
- Communication
- Problem solving
- Technology advances
- Calling is sometimes hard to figure out
- Not initially user friendly
- Tech issues
Talkdesk!
- Indicates how many calls are in the queue
- Shows who is calling what line and when
- Shows a call log history
- The actual time someone called in-this is often a day or two off.
- Having the ability to empty a queue without having to take every call.
- Incorporating the old version with the new version!
Opportunity to Improve
- Integrate with our CRM
- Client Side Application Launches easily and Work Consistently
- Administration Tools are easy to understand and use
- Support of issues - resolution is often measured in days\weeks
- Omnichannel experience for agents is flawed and configuration options are limited
- Typical tools (such as transfer) does not have customization or ability to work with a business
- Unable to assign calls from the dashboard
- [In my experience, ] reporting is unreliable through the dashboard and hard to leverage useful information
- Omnichannel reporting is terrible
My part of experience with Talkdesk
- User friendly
- Accurate reports
- NA
- NA
TalkDesk Review
- Global Calling number and workflow
- integration
- Administrative
BEST DIALLER USED EVER!!!
- Best Call Recording maintains weekly.
- Easy to Use interface.
- Easy to switch number to call from.
- Need to have a option to dial auto and after upload dialing sheet.
- If we can get different themes for dialer.
- Need to have a option to set Voice Mail.
More Features for our Future!
- Really good in using for comprehensive reporting
- Love how we can interact with our customers real-time
- Chat interactions are always on point
- can simplify some reporting
- should help with history data
- the ability to manage users status in omnichannel
If you are looking for the ability to control your own phone system - then Talkdesk is for you.
- Making it easy to update the call flows
- Support
- Online documentation
- Easy to administrate
- Reports are good but are lacking some of metrics we expected.
- Some metrics were calculated differently than expected - not bad but made it somewhat difficult to compare past results to current ones.
- The SMS feature could use some improvement.
Talkdesk has been the perfect fit for us!
- Professional services to onboard companies.
- Support is excellent.
- Easy to install client side software on PC and mobile devices.
- Easy to manage from cloud-based portal.
- Account managers have been very responsive to our needs.
- They have developed a healthy support community that has lots of useful info (see https://community.talkdesk.com/s/)
- There is currently no way to manage reporting dashboards in a central manner. This is on the roadmap.
- There is currently no way to route calls based on agent skills. This is on the roadmap.
- A more advanced understanding is required in order to produce meaningful reports right now. This is on the roadmap.
TalkDesk what more do you need
- Studio for call flows.
- Higher quality calls.
- Ease of access to the system.
- Images in Omni Channel.
- Better structure in Omni Channel.
- Integration with Okta to auto build user profiles.
Give it a try, you wont regret it.
- Minitor status of agents
- Check how many calls they take
- Change their status from available to away and many more status.
- Make outbound calls
- Inbound calls
- Whenever we listing to calls, it would be good if we could maybe fast forward the recordings
The good, the bad, and the ugly
- Easy to find stats. Allows us to see which agents are performing well and which agents may need a little assistance.
- Allows us to track how long agents are on the phones.
- Allows us to find calls that we can listen to.
- Easier way to find service level.
- Easier way to see what time agents logged into the phones