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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

    Cisco Unified Contact Center

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/ACisco Unified Contact Center is a contact center platform that can support up to 24,000 agents. It supports call routing, omnichannel integrations, and a management portal for creating customer profiles, segmentation, and resource monitoring.N/A
    Pricing
    AircallCisco Unified Contact Center
    Editions & Modules
    Essentials
    $30
    per user/per month
    Professional
    $50
    per user/per month
    Custom
    Contact sales team
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    AircallCisco Unified Contact Center
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    AircallCisco Unified Contact Center
    Considered Both Products
    Aircall
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    Cisco
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    91%
    Would buy again
    29 Answers
    88%
    Would buy again
    35 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    92%
    Delivers good value for the price
    24 Answers
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    35 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    91%
    Happy with the feature set
    29 Answers
    83%
    Happy with the feature set
    33 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    23 Answers
    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    23 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    30 Answers
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    30 Answers
    Features
    AircallCisco Unified Contact Center
    Cloud PBX
    Comparison of Cloud PBX features of Aircall and Cisco Unified Contact Center
    Feature
    Aircall
    7.4
    27 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Cisco Unified Contact Center
    -
    Ratings
    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 Cisco Unified Contact Center
    Feature
    Aircall
    7.1
    30 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Cisco Unified Contact Center
    -
    Ratings
    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 Cisco Unified Contact Center
    Feature
    Aircall
    5.7
    19 Ratings
    33% below category average
    Cisco Unified Contact Center
    -
    Ratings
    Audio conferencing5.719 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile apps
    Comparison of Mobile apps features of Aircall and Cisco Unified Contact Center
    Feature
    Aircall
    7.8
    28 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Cisco Unified Contact Center
    -
    Ratings
    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 Cisco Unified Contact Center
    Feature
    Aircall
    -
    Ratings
    Cisco Unified Contact Center
    8.9
    40 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Agent dashboard00 Ratings8.640 Ratings
    Validate callers00 Ratings8.536 Ratings
    Outbound response00 Ratings8.936 Ratings
    Call forwarding00 Ratings9.037 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)00 Ratings9.730 Ratings
    Warm transfer00 Ratings9.235 Ratings
    Predictive dialing00 Ratings8.627 Ratings
    Interactive voice response00 Ratings9.034 Ratings
    REST APIs00 Ratings8.430 Ratings
    Call scripts00 Ratings9.335 Ratings
    Call tracking00 Ratings8.838 Ratings
    Multichannel integration00 Ratings8.530 Ratings
    CRM software integration00 Ratings9.030 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Aircall and Cisco Unified Contact Center
    Feature
    Aircall
    -
    Ratings
    Cisco Unified Contact Center
    8.6
    41 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Inbound call routing00 Ratings8.738 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing00 Ratings9.030 Ratings
    Recording00 Ratings8.734 Ratings
    Quality management00 Ratings9.635 Ratings
    Call analytics00 Ratings9.536 Ratings
    Historical reporting00 Ratings8.839 Ratings
    Live reporting00 Ratings8.839 Ratings
    Customer surveys00 Ratings7.027 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics00 Ratings6.929 Ratings
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    AircallCisco Unified Contact Center
    Small Businesses
    Zoom Phone
    Score9 out of 10
    Nextiva Contact Center
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Call Manager)
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Google Voice
    Score7.8 out of 10
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Score9.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    AircallCisco Unified Contact Center
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (31 ratings)
    9.3
    (49 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.8
    (2 ratings)
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.3
    (7 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.8
    (2 ratings)
    7.3
    (16 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    AircallCisco Unified 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.
    Incentivized
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    Cisco
    I would recommend it to other people in my contact and business circle, but if I recommend it to someone who has certain difficulties in accessing some tools within Cisco, he may have great difficulty in getting help because of the support that is lacking in most of the times.
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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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    Cisco
    • Provides you with a solid routing engine that was built to handle Service Provider level throughput - if you need stability and a work horse this is the platform for you.
    • The core features on the whole are good, but where UCCE is very good is the eco-system of Solutions Plus partner integrations that expand on the core capabilities with the market leaders in areas such as WFO, Campaign Management, Biometrics and Natural Language.
    • The investment Cisco makes in the CC space means they are always improving the platform features, scale and reliability.
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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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    Cisco
    • After 25+ years, the product still requires experienced and highly skilled engineers to deploy the product properly per Cisco Best Practice guidelines.
    • Third-party integrations are also very cumbersome and require highly skilled and experienced engineers and significant time and financial investment to deploy.
    • Upgrading the product is cumbersome and requires Cisco ATP or Cisco AS which is time consuming and very expensive.
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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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    Cisco
    if it is up to me I would maintain its use. I was not able to make those decisions previously.
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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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    Cisco
    Cisco Unified Contact Center is a scalable product . Can be used in amy organizational units not only the contact center . Can be used for many IT Helpdesk setups and any internal or external CC . We can use it to automate the outbound dialing as well for marketting and invoices and other use cases
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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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    Cisco
    Cisco Unified Contact center is a very smart & reliable solution to go for. Its active-active sight base architecture and [customizable] features really help to deliver efficient customer service, enhanced next-gen experience, and uninterrupted operations. I believe every [organization] should opt for it if required.
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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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    Cisco
    Similar I guess, however, I feel like Avaya was more suited for a contact center and allowed for all information to be in one place. The QA Forms were more flexible and easy to review. Predicative analysis was available to assist with scheduling and staffing. It was easier to manipulate and implement- I didn't need to go through 3 different parties to make a simply modification.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Aircall
    No answers on this topic
    Cisco
    Licenses are very expensive. The customer has to buy IP telephony or Unified Communication and Collaboration Licenses and for Contact Center Solution licenses separately. There must be a price tone down as the competition is really high. New customers are willing to go for cloud-based solutions [that] are cheaper and easy to deploy.
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    Professional Services
    Aircall
    No answers on this topic
    Cisco
    Scripting not supported
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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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    Cisco
    • A smoother route to helping end users with critical needs
    • With quick assist while on hold, less calls come into the pool while agents have the ability to assist more critical needs
    • The ability to work remotely during an extreme event assisting end users
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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.