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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Bright Pattern Contact Center

    Score9.1 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Bright Pattern provides an AI-powered omnichannel contact center software. With the purpose of making customer service, sales, and marketing brighter and faster, Bright Pattern offers an advanced omnichannel cloud platform with embedded AI. Bright Pattern’s platform can be…N/A
    Pricing
    AircallBright Pattern Contact Center
    Editions & Modules
    Essentials
    $30
    per user/per month
    Professional
    $50
    per user/per month
    Custom
    Contact sales team
    Omnichannel CX
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    Call Center Standard
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    AircallBright Pattern Contact Center
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional Details—One-time set-up fee includes 45 hours of services for workflow implementation and training: Discovery and Design Workshop; Configuration and Customization to customer requirements; Testing and Evaluation; Agent and Supervisor Training; Administration Mentoring & Knowledge Transfer
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    AircallBright Pattern Contact Center
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    Aircall
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    Bright Pattern, Inc.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    92%
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    Happy with the feature set
    91%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    92%
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    AircallBright Pattern Contact Center
    Cloud PBX
    Comparison of Cloud PBX features of Aircall and Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Feature
    Aircall
    7.4
    27 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
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    Hosted PBX8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)8.719 Ratings00 Ratings
    User templates5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call reports7.524 Ratings00 Ratings
    Directory of employee names8.023 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call Management
    Comparison of Call Management features of Aircall and Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Feature
    Aircall
    7.1
    30 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
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    Answering rules8.929 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call recording9.027 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call park4.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call screening7.823 Ratings00 Ratings
    Message alerts6.025 Ratings00 Ratings
    VoIP system collaboration
    Comparison of VoIP system collaboration features of Aircall and Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Feature
    Aircall
    5.7
    19 Ratings
    33% below category average
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
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    Audio conferencing5.719 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile apps
    Comparison of Mobile apps features of Aircall and Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Feature
    Aircall
    7.9
    28 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
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    Mobile app for iOS7.922 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile app for Android7.818 Ratings00 Ratings
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Aircall and Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Feature
    Aircall
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    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    7.9
    31 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Agent dashboard00 Ratings8.130 Ratings
    Validate callers00 Ratings8.128 Ratings
    Outbound response00 Ratings8.128 Ratings
    Call forwarding00 Ratings8.127 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)00 Ratings8.024 Ratings
    Warm transfer00 Ratings8.230 Ratings
    Predictive dialing00 Ratings9.025 Ratings
    Interactive voice response00 Ratings8.328 Ratings
    REST APIs00 Ratings7.427 Ratings
    Call scripts00 Ratings8.224 Ratings
    Call tracking00 Ratings8.126 Ratings
    Multichannel integration00 Ratings7.226 Ratings
    CRM software integration00 Ratings6.227 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Aircall and Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Feature
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    Ratings
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    7.9
    29 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Inbound call routing00 Ratings8.328 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing00 Ratings8.127 Ratings
    Recording00 Ratings8.929 Ratings
    Quality management00 Ratings7.227 Ratings
    Call analytics00 Ratings8.124 Ratings
    Historical reporting00 Ratings8.129 Ratings
    Live reporting00 Ratings7.227 Ratings
    Customer surveys00 Ratings8.126 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics00 Ratings7.121 Ratings
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    Score8.6 out of 10
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    Score8 out of 10
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    Google Voice
    Score7.8 out of 10
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    Score7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    AircallBright Pattern Contact Center
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (31 ratings)
    9.1
    (31 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.8
    (2 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.3
    (31 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.8
    (2 ratings)
    9.1
    (31 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.3
    (5 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
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    9.0
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    Vendor post-sale
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    User Testimonials
    AircallBright Pattern Contact Center
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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.
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    Bright Pattern, Inc.
    Bright Pattern has been fantastic in allowing us to automate voice and chat contacts, and we're currently building out scenarios that will allow us to automate even more. It's super simple to collect data from customers, and using some API calls provides the answers they're looking for without a human needing to get involved. There is less functionality currently for emails. Emails can be routed to queues based on keywords, and auto-replies can be sent, but it's pretty basic functionality. We'd love to see some of the enhanced capabilities offered in voice and chat scenarios for email.
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    Pros
    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.
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    Bright Pattern, Inc.
    • AI platform integration - IBM Watson, Google Dialogflow, for example
    • Quality Management - out of the box sentiment anlysis
    • Unified agent desktop - ability to see all channels in one pane of glass
    • Robust analytic widgets that can also drive wall boards
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    Cons
    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
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    Bright Pattern, Inc.
    • That they had a text and voice analysis module Que tuvieran un modulo de analisis de texto y voz
    • Customized agent interface with company logos. Interfaz de agente personalizada con logos de la empresa
    • The softphone, when entering multiple interactions, causes the advisors to become confused when they have several. It should be less complex and more adaptable.
    • El softphone al momento de ingresar varias interacciones, los asesores se pierden cuando tienen varios. que sea menos complejo y mas adaptable
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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.
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    Bright Pattern, Inc.
    Es una plataforma confiable, en la que ya tengo bastante tiempo utilizando y conociendola. Entonces me siento confiada en volver a utilizarla dentro de la empresa e igual que al ofrecer a mis clientes internos y externos, además con el roadmap que nos brindan estoy segura que seguirá innovando cada vez
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    Usability
    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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    Bright Pattern, Inc.
    It's pretty simple for agents to pick up quickly, it takes a bit longer for supervisors to get familiar with. QA tools are pretty barebones but functional enough. It can be as simple or complex as you need it to be, if you spend some time configuring the settings or working with Bright Pattern's support team to build out what you need.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Aircall
    No answers on this topic
    Bright Pattern, Inc.
    It is always on. The only outage to date that I have experienced was with an upstream telco provider a few years ago. The inbound leg telco was hit by a DDOS attack which led to delays in routing calls to the platform. This was not the fault of the Bright Pattern platform but the telco provider. We have had a few minor carrier issues with call quality, or a handful of brief drops, but Bright Pattern is quick to identify these and change carriers when it starts to happen.
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    Performance
    Aircall
    No answers on this topic
    Bright Pattern, Inc.
    All pages load when expected, and reports render either in the web browser or as a download. I never really have issues with accessing the admin or agent desktop sites. It just works.
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    Support Rating
    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.
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    Bright Pattern, Inc.
    Although we have only had 1 very short outage in our 4 years of service. Bright Pattern support was easy to contact and solved our sisue very quickly as well as provided more than adequate information on an RCA (Root Cause Analysis) for our clients
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    In-Person Training
    Aircall
    No answers on this topic
    Bright Pattern, Inc.
    In-person and virtual training was great, but Bright Pattern could use some online training videos similar to other platforms. I would welcome online training videos to keep the steady flow of new agents up to date. Admin training is one of the largest areas that need video. The static documentation is great. It is pretty easy to follow and configure your contact center as you progress through each step. The documentation is available online on an easy to use knowledgebase or wiki style site. You do not need a user account to access the help docs, meaning that users at any level can freely access the materials to learn about the platform.
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    Online Training
    Aircall
    No answers on this topic
    Bright Pattern, Inc.
    Online training is documentation based only. It is thorough and step by step, but no videos. It would also be helpful to have more information within the help docs on custom reporting. I find that many of the Bright Pattern specific configurations for the Jasper Reporting Server have to be "stumbled" across through existing report templates and they are not clearly listed out somewhere. In person training will not generally go into great depth on report customizations.
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    Implementation Rating
    Aircall
    No answers on this topic
    Bright Pattern, Inc.
    As an implementor, I have found the Bright Pattern Contact Center very easy to work with. The platform operates in the manner which I think. Therefore, everything I do seems logical and works exactly as expected. Many solutions are much more difficult to work with and make implementations difficult
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Bright Pattern, Inc.
    As a contact centre technology vendor we have experience of many different contact centre platforms. We chose Bright Pattern Contact Center because its the best omni-channel contact centre we've ever seen, it's incredibly reliable, its hosted in-country, it has the Microsoft integrations many of our customers want, we can integrate with virtually any CRM or ITSM system and the platform offers a vast feature set.
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    Scalability
    Aircall
    No answers on this topic
    Bright Pattern, Inc.
    Very flexible and will scale without any intervention from my team. Scaling at the carrier/telco layer is handled by Bright Pattern, if you use their offered telecom
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    Return on Investment
    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
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    Bright Pattern, Inc.
    • We saved customers between 30% - 40% of the cost of their current omnichannel contact center solutions when we implemented Bright Pattern Contact Center
    • Very quick to implement so we are able to service more customers with same number of staff
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    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.

    Bright Pattern Contact Center Screenshots

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