8x8 Contact Center, Great Solutions with some 'Quirks'
Updated October 17, 2022
8x8 Contact Center, Great Solutions with some 'Quirks'
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with 8x8 Contact Center
Our entire organization migrated from an on premise VoIP system to 8x8 Contact Center to solve many hurdles we faced, including the recent pandemic and how that changed the needs of the organization due to working from home. This solved our need for a more modern, cloud-based solution, and provided remote administration capabilities as well as multi-platform solutions for our users.
- 8x8 supports multiple platforms which made it easy to implement across our organization, with both physical and virtual phones for all employees.
- 8x8 offers an easy to learn administration system, which is fairly robust and offers as much or as little customization as you may need for your business.
- 8x8 comes with great onboarding support.
- Post-sale support through the online ticket system is painfully slow.
- It's hard to get in contact with people for license help and understanding why phone numbers are not properly distributed in your account. i.e. Our account has 48 free local numbers and we had to purchase 120 additional numbers. But for some reason only 25 of the 48 free numbers are being utilized, and there's no good way in the Admin UI to see which numbers are which, or reallocate paid numbers into those 'free' slots.
- The system has bugs which pop up from time to time such as when a user uses the 'Do Not Disturb' option in their app or on their phone - it does not always turn off on the back-end of the system, even though the phone or app shows the user as available. This causes inbound phone calls to be routed directly to Voicemail, and the only notice the user has is when someone reaches out by other means to say "Why is your phone going directly to voicemail?" - which initiates a service ticket for IT who cannot see this in the admin center. And unless 'flipping' DND on then off again fixes it, it requires a ticket with 8x8 which is, as mentioned before, slow.
- It has eased the administrative burden on our IT department.
- It has eased the overall user adoption process with the multi-platform availability and easy user interfaces.
- It has enabled our remote customer service workforce to remain working through the COVID pandemic.
- RingCentral, RingCentral Contact Center, GoToConnect (formerly Jive) and Nextiva Business Phone Service
8x8 had better pricing for our needs. 8x8 offered the features we needed without extras we did not. The overall onboarding process as demoed was smoother and provided more confidence in the product.
Do you think 8x8 Contact Center delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with 8x8 Contact Center's feature set?
Yes
Did 8x8 Contact Center live up to sales and marketing promises?
I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process
Did implementation of 8x8 Contact Center go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy 8x8 Contact Center again?
Yes