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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    8x8 Work

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/A8x8 Work is a collaboration hub for phone, video, and messaging. It brings secure unified communication and collaboration experiences to every employee.

    $24

    per month

    Aircall

    Score7.3 out of 10
    N/AAircall headquartered in Paris provides a VOIP system for business designed to support contact centers, featuring IVR and automated call routing, conference calls, shared call inbox and call notes, unlimited concurrent calls and call queuing, and many integrations with CRM or marketing systems to support a variety of support or sales purposes.

    $30

    per user/per month

    Pricing
    8x8 WorkAircall
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Essentials
    $30
    per user/per month
    Professional
    $50
    per user/per month
    Custom
    Contact sales team
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    8x8 WorkAircall
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    8x8 WorkAircall
    Considered Both Products
    8x8 Inc.
    Chose 8x8 Work
    We selected 8x8 for better pricing and better reviews. Our 3rd party vendor rep also suggested 8x8.
    Incentivized
    Chose 8x8 Work
    Similar products, so much so they haven't justified the hassle of changing. However, we are considering such a move due to an ongoing customer service issue.
    Incentivized
    Aircall
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    91%
    Would buy again
    29 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    92%
    Delivers good value for the price
    24 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    91%
    Happy with the feature set
    29 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    23 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    30 Answers
    Features
    8x8 WorkAircall
    Cloud PBX
    Comparison of Cloud PBX features of 8x8 Work and Aircall
    Feature
    8x8 Work
    8.8
    395 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Aircall
    7.4
    27 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Hosted PBX9.9218 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)8.876 Ratings8.719 Ratings
    Directory of employee names8.4357 Ratings8.023 Ratings
    User templates00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Call reports00 Ratings7.524 Ratings
    Call Management
    Comparison of Call Management features of 8x8 Work and Aircall
    Feature
    8x8 Work
    8.7
    442 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Aircall
    7.1
    30 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Answering rules9.1398 Ratings8.929 Ratings
    Call recording8.7343 Ratings9.027 Ratings
    Call park8.4318 Ratings4.01 Ratings
    Call screening9.1301 Ratings7.823 Ratings
    Message alerts8.1385 Ratings6.025 Ratings
    Mobile apps
    Comparison of Mobile apps features of 8x8 Work and Aircall
    Feature
    8x8 Work
    8.9
    385 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Aircall
    7.9
    28 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Mobile app for iOS9.0318 Ratings7.922 Ratings
    Mobile app for Android8.8248 Ratings7.818 Ratings
    VoIP system collaboration
    Comparison of VoIP system collaboration features of 8x8 Work and Aircall
    Feature
    8x8 Work
    -
    Ratings
    Aircall
    5.7
    19 Ratings
    33% below category average
    Audio conferencing00 Ratings5.719 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    8x8 WorkAircall
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (463 ratings)
    8.6
    (31 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.9
    (30 ratings)
    7.8
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    8.7
    (104 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    8.5
    (10 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (10 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.9
    (142 ratings)
    9.8
    (2 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (14 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.8
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    9.1
    (9 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.1
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.0
    (10 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    8.7
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.9
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.9
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    8x8 WorkAircall
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8x8 Inc.
    I’ve found 8x8 Work to be a reliable and efficient communication solution for our business. It offers excellent call quality, easy management of call flows and departments, and seamless integration for both in-office and remote users. One feature we especially like is that it automatically searches for phone numbers on the web, which saves time and makes it easier to identify and reach contacts
    Incentivized
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    Aircall
    Aircall is a great fit for any SaaS organization for sales and support groups. Since I come from sales, I cannot talk about support, but for the sales team, it's a great help. It's intuitive and user-friendly. No need for formal training as it's very easy to access all the features you need. I particularly like the option of taking calls on my mobile phone while I am away from my desk or traveling, and also how I can easily manage my working hours and schedule. I also like its ability to interact with different CRMs and other useful tools like Slack, etc.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    8x8 Inc.
    • 8x8 Work manages roles and permissions well. It is very simple to create permission groups needed for certain roles that may even overlap teams needs.
    • User management is fairly simple and straight forward.
    • Analytics reporting is good quality for the higher tier licenses
    Incentivized
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    Aircall
    • Aircall's integration with HubSpot is fantastic. I can call from anywhere in HubSpot and know that my call is logged automatically. During my call, I have easy access to a contact's record and can pull up any information I need in just the click of a button. The only limit I've found is that it doesn't (yet?) auto-log to tickets. This seems to be pretty common among other integrations so it wasn't seen as a con in our buying decision.
    • I really like the Aircall dashboard and being able to customize who has access to what number. We even have the ability to give outbound calling privileges only to certain team members. It's also great that you can set up each individual number's answer tree to ring to the correct person.
    • There's a lot of cool features that don't make sense for our particular business, but I think Aircall's metric tracking and coaching abilities would be really useful for a lot of teams. I remember in my first call hearing about a feature where a manager can listen in and "whisper" tips to a rep during a call that only the rep would be able to hear. I can see how this would add value in a coaching situation.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    8x8 Inc.
    • Click to dial for the web based client.
    • The ability to have specific contact lists that can be shared with certain teams only.
    • Group voicemail notification to show once a voicemail has been listened to by another member of the team.
    Incentivized
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    Aircall
    • No schedule for bank holidays
    • No feature to update more than one phone line at the same time
    • Admins don't have access to the timeline of a call to see with which agent it rang
    • Missing agent-specific stats when your phone lines are organized in teams
    • If calls are setup to ring to a first group and then a second, if the whole first group is already busy, it does not go to the second group but puts the customer on hold
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    8x8 Inc.
    All our employees love this product. No one has ever had an issue, whether it be the phone or fax. Great during the winter when employees have to work from home because of the snow. Never had an issue with the phone app. Highly recommend this product
    Incentivized
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    Aircall
    I give this rating as aircall is very easy to use but also lacks a parallel dialing feature which makes it slower to use. aircall has a pretty seamless integration with salesforce which is helpful. For the cost it is definitely very reasonable but it also lacks a live coaching/listening feature which is very valuable as a manager.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    8x8 Inc.
    We never have problems working with 8x8, employees pickup quickly on how to use the system best for them. Calling out and receiving calls is simple, the ablility to click on a number and 8x8 dial it for you saves so much time when you are making high volume calls.
    Incentivized
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    Aircall
    I provide this rating based on my overall experience using Aircall. I have used it on my previous company as well and that being said, it is a proof that Aircall is a great tool to use in contact centers and with B2B businesses that has direct communication with clients.
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    Reliability and Availability
    8x8 Inc.
    As mentioned before, we have not had an outage with the phone system per say, There was an issue with the call center where we did have an outage, but it was quickly and promplty handled by 8x8 support, they got us up and going again within 24 hours. The 8x8 hard phone and softphone side of things have been rock solid, I couldn't ask for anything more seeing we are in health care and it's exactly what we were looking for. When and if there is an issue 99% of the time it's user error
    Incentivized
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    Aircall
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    8x8 Inc.
    None of the features that are available slow down the application. The reports (even the ones with hundreds of records) complete very quickly and the web interface as well as the mobile application never struggle to load or complete a task. The analytics will sometimes take some time to reflect the online status of users but it is to be expected due to connection speeds.
    Incentivized
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    Aircall
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    8x8 Inc.
    We are a USA based organization. Support was refreshingly quick (callback via phone or email, online live agents). Agents are knowledgeable, thorough in their explanations, and extremely patient when dealing with end-users at various levels of the ICT knowledge spectrum.
    Incentivized
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    Aircall
    We've enjoyed using Aircall so far and have had no issues with it. The platform is easy to use, looks nice, and makes it easy to keep track of everything.
    Incentivized
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    In-Person Training
    8x8 Inc.
    The person giving the training was very engaged, He also listened and answered all the questions. He created a video for our company while he was training in case we needed to reference it again in the future. The questions he could not answer were answered within 24 hours via an email to the IT support staff here so we could share the answers with the rest of the group
    Incentivized
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    Aircall
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    8x8 Inc.
    online (video) training is good. No issues.
    Incentivized
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    Aircall
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    8x8 Inc.
    The implementation of 8x8 X was rather smooth. We had training prior to getting the system. The IT company did a good job on the training. The whole system is wonderful. Saves me so much time with the faxing, as i can just let it go by itself and not have to make sure pages don't get skipped, as with a regular fax machine.
    Incentivized
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    Aircall
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    8x8 Inc.
    I prefer 8x8 Work; it has the right number of features and modes for the communication I need. I much prefer 8x8 Work meetings to zoom meetings, as it is much, much easier to transition between devices when I am on the road. 8x8 Work is also easier to manage across multiple modes of communication.
    Incentivized
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    Aircall
    We used to answer phone calls on our fix line when at the office. The quality was very bad but we had in mind that a VOIP solution would be too expensive. When lockdown began last year, I had to redirect calls on my own mobile phone which was not efficient. Also I couldn't receive voicemails, have a history of calls or choose working hours.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8x8 Inc.
    At this time, we’re very happy with the pricing model that we have worked out and they have provided for us. Just be sure to do your homework, and use your comparisons to work out your cost with 8x8. They will be very straightforward with you on what they can
    adjust for you.
    Incentivized
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    Aircall
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    8x8 Inc.
    The only issue was adding licences was not via a button click but through your account admin which seems bad practice in a SaaS world as the user should be able to sign up, amend and close their account with ease
    Incentivized
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    Aircall
    No answers on this topic
    Professional Services
    8x8 Inc.
    PS had all the users etc. set up by our go-live date. All hard phones were activated and when we received them, all we had to do was set them up and punch in the activation code to activate them.
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    Aircall
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    8x8 Inc.
    • Getting access to emergency voicemails left on our office lines when we are at home, on the weekend, or after hours.
    • Texting clients from a dedicated office line portal, keep things private and organized.
    • The ease of installation and helpful support when needed significantly limit the time wasted.
    Incentivized
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    Aircall
    • Because of the lack of local partnerships with South African telecoms companies, calls to South Africa is very expensive. This was not originally apparent when opening the Aircall account.
    • Not having the option to display a local South African number in the CLIP, means that people are not always eager to pick up the phone when they see an overseas number ringing.
    • The only positive impact has been the collaborative experience and being able to maintain a virtual office
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Aircall Screenshots

    Screenshot of A simple way to make and receive calls at your desk.Screenshot of Your calls on the go, anywhere you go (iOS + Android).Screenshot of Track your team's call activities in real-time in the Aircall Activity Feed.Screenshot of Track your team's call performance in real-time in the Aircall Analytics Dashboard.