CallFire vs. Freshdesk Contact Center

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
CallFire
Score 9.7 out of 10
N/A
CallFire is a VoIP and messaging solution designed for both external B2C interactions and internal company use. It includes features such as text messaging, call tracking, voice broadcasting, and an interactive voice response (IVR) system. Subscription pricing starts at $99 per month.
$99
per month
Freshdesk Contact Center
Score 6.9 out of 10
N/A
Freshdesk Contact Center ( Formerly Freshcaller) is a call center software for startups and small teams. Fresh Contact Center aims to enable businesses / teams set-up and run a call center without spending a lot of time and money. It is suited for phone teams of size 1- 30. Users can create custom greeting texts based on specific call scenarios. The nested Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system allows the user to provide a detailed set of options to callers. The call queues…
$0
per agent/per month
Pricing
CallFireFreshdesk Contact Center
Editions & Modules
Lite
$99.00
per month
Startup
$199.00
per month
Grow
$299.00
per month
Pro
$599.00
per month
FREE
$0
per agent/per month
Growth
$15
per agent/per ,billed annually
Pro
$39
per agent/per month, billed annually
Enterprise
$69
per agent/per month, billed annually
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CallFireFreshdesk Contact Center
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
CallFireFreshdesk Contact Center
Features
CallFireFreshdesk Contact Center
Cloud PBX
Comparison of Cloud PBX features of Product A and Product B
CallFire
7.6
Ratings
5% below category average
Freshdesk Contact Center
8.9
Ratings
11% above category average
Hosted PBX6.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)9.00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
User templates7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Call reports7.20 Ratings9.40 Ratings
Directory of employee names9.00 Ratings9.20 Ratings
Call Management
Comparison of Call Management features of Product A and Product B
CallFire
9.3
Ratings
11% above category average
Freshdesk Contact Center
8.9
Ratings
6% above category average
Answering rules8.00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Call recording10.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Call park8.50 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Call screening10.00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Message alerts10.00 Ratings9.40 Ratings
VoIP system collaboration
Comparison of VoIP system collaboration features of Product A and Product B
CallFire
10.0
Ratings
23% above category average
Freshdesk Contact Center
9.6
Ratings
19% above category average
Video conferencing10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Audio conferencing10.00 Ratings9.60 Ratings
Mobile apps
Comparison of Mobile apps features of Product A and Product B
CallFire
8.3
Ratings
5% above category average
Freshdesk Contact Center
-
Ratings
Mobile app for iOS8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile app for Android8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
CallFireFreshdesk Contact Center
Small Businesses
CloudTalk
CloudTalk
Score 7.2 out of 10
CloudTalk
CloudTalk
Score 7.2 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
CloudTalk
CloudTalk
Score 7.2 out of 10
CloudTalk
CloudTalk
Score 7.2 out of 10
Enterprises
Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Call Manager)
Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Call Manager)
Score 8.7 out of 10
Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Call Manager)
Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Call Manager)
Score 8.7 out of 10
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User Ratings
CallFireFreshdesk Contact Center
Likelihood to Recommend
9.4
(0 ratings)
8.8
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.1
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
CallFireFreshdesk Contact Center
Likelihood to Recommend
If you need to find a test candidate for your client quickly, this is one of the best ways. Pull yourself a hot list of a couple hundred potential candidates and load them in to CallFire. Then get ready to hit about 50-60 calls per hour. You should have a great test candidate for your client in about 24 hours! It's amazing how quickly you can show your clients the true speed of your company.
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One of FreshDesk Contact Center's greatest strengths is that it can centralize all of a company's channels for communicating with customers. Additionally, you get access to a large number of free collaborators seats, enabling you to bring on board non-customer support team members who may play an indirect role in handling client concerns. Offering an omnichannel experience to our staff and consumers eliminates the need to juggle numerous tools for handling customer service issues. In addition, we may direct customer service interactions like tickets, chats, and phone calls according to predetermined guidelines.
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Pros
  • CallFire has amazing organization as far as categories and campaigns and all aspects go.
  • It is very easy to use and understand! Very user friendly.
  • Customer service and help is awesome! There have been some times when I have needed assistance and they were always so quick to reply.
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  • Routes parent request directly to our admin department
  • Allows you to set up chats
  • Allows you to measure how well you are doing
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Cons
  • The services are easy to use and robust, but there is room for improvement. Unfortunately, not much has changed over the last 2 years of use. There haven't been any new features or innovations in that time.
  • API integration and automation is not easy for most folks to jump into and there is very little technical support or documentation to take advantage of such features.
  • The standard reports are generally sufficient, but there isn't any customization or intelligence available.
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  • The UX and UI could use an upgrade.
  • The process could be better when importing a hard line into the system.
  • We could use more additional reporting features.
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Likelihood to Renew
There is no reason not to, it has proven effective in the usage
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Usability
No answers on this topic
It's a really simple and affordable software solution if you're looking to upgrade your system or processes to a softphone. The service has been fantastic for both our outbound sales team and our inbound customer service team. As a manager, I'm really grateful I found FreshCaller early on in the process of evaluating companies to go to for a softphone.
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Support Rating
No answers on this topic
Freshcaller support is great. They will respond very quickly once I submit a ticket. On occasion, they are unable to answer a question and require a deep dive on some research for random questions but that's completely understandable. Overall, great service, great quality, and very accommodating. This is one of the better support groups, in my opinion.
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Alternatives Considered
We considered Trello before deciding on CallFire. Trello is a good service that seems to do much of what CallFire does, however we wanted to avoid the labor-hours necessary to get Trello up to speed, as it is very technically involved. We didn't want to hire any additional developers just to get Trello set up and maintained. With CallFire, it was very intuitive and easy to setup quickly.
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We selected Freshdesk Contact Center because it proved to be easier to use not only for us but for the parents who call our school as well. Our parent complaints of not being able to reach our admin department have significantly decreased. I think Freshdesk Contact Center stacks up against Cisco in that the ease of use is better and the price is more efficient.
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Return on Investment
  • I sent out a broadcast message pretty deep in our data base, well three years out. I had one customer come in and buy thanking me for contacting her.
  • Our holiday season was up 35% over last year, this year we used CallFire more than we did in the past.
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  • Overpriced for what it offered - we paid nearly $600/month for 10 users. Could not drop them fast enough for this reason alone.
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