RingEX is a pricey but very reliable VOIP option for business phones.
March 29, 2024

RingEX is a pricey but very reliable VOIP option for business phones.

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with RingEX

Our whole company is using RingEX, we previously had VOIP through our IT provider and they stopped supporting us so we had to move. We liked the flexibility and reliability of the system. We used to have outages all the time on our old system and we are enjoying not having a single outage on RingEX in the last year. The reliability was a huge selling point since we need to have working phones and fax. The flexibility of the system allows us to use physical phones where needed or Softphones for our computers or mobile devices. Our users love the ability to use their company extension from their mobile phone.
  • Reliability
  • Flexibility
  • Devices Supported
  • Technical Support
  • Physical Device Provisioning
  • Technical Support
  • Price
  • User Management
  • Reduced internal support calls
  • High cost per month per user
  • High reliability
The system just works all of the time. We used to have outages all the time on our old VOIP system.
They have templates to apply features to various things like ring groups and whatnot, but I often find them to be quirky and end up applying setting manually. They have a lot of features that we frankly don't need and would have liked the abilty to disable them from our users as it's just a lot to look at. We don't use any of the analytics features, but they look very in depth.
RingEX is more expensive, but the increased reliability was worth it for us. We also liked the support experience better on RingEX.

Do you think RingEX delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with RingEX's feature set?

No

Did RingEX live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of RingEX go as expected?

No

Would you buy RingEX again?

Yes

RingEX is a great solution if you want reliability and flexibility. We can trust that our phones are just going to work when we need them. Our users love the ability to be able to use the app on their mobile phones or computers when they are on the go. The ability to review the call logs makes troubleshooting very easy. The call quality is also very good.

RingEX Feature Ratings

Hosted PBX
10
Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)
Not Rated
User templates
7
Call reports
10
Directory of employee names
Not Rated
Answering rules
10
Call recording
10
Call park
Not Rated
Call screening
Not Rated
Message alerts
10
Video conferencing
Not Rated
Audio conferencing
8
Video screen sharing
Not Rated
Instant messaging
7
Mobile app for iOS
10
Mobile app for Android
10

Evaluating RingEX and Competitors

Yes - Voyant VOIP service was replaced by RingEX. The Voyant system went down all of the time, for multiple hours in some cases and was in general very unreliable. RingEX has not gone down for us at all in the last year that we have used it. The advertised reliability is definitely true.
  • Cloud Solutions
  • Scalability
  • Ease of Use
We wanted a reliable system that was easy to setup and administer. The setup was completed by myself for about 75 users in about a week. The phone porting was painless and the Poly phone provisioning works great. We have very few issues once everything is setup for a user. The system just works.
I would have put more time into testing some of the fringe use cases we have. The Fax lines we have setup are costing more than I feel they should, and we are missing a pin-less conference room feature that we had on our old phone system. I would still have gone with RingEX, but feel I should have tested it out a little harder before pulling the trigger.

RingEX Implementation

Make sure that you test the features that you need before you buy. We were missing some functionality that we needed and had to change our processes to get them working. The salespeople will overpromise what the system can do.
Change management was minimal
  • Missing Features
  • User Training\Notification

RingEX Support

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.
ProsCons
Quick Resolution
Immediate help available
Not kept informed
Escalation required
Need to explain problems multiple times
Support doesn't seem to care
Slow Initial Response
There is no "Premium Support" option I know of. I would not if there was since it should be included in the service.
I had an issue where phone calls were ending automatically after 4 hours. I had a ticket open with email support for 3 days with sparse and meaningless responses. I finally called in and got the issue resolved in 15 minutes after talking to a human. If you can call in for support, the experience will be a much better one.

RingEX Reliability

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.
The administration website loads quickly and is always there when I need it.