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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Five9

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AFive9 is cloud contact center software for inbound, outbound, blended, or multi-channel operations. This solution includes management capabilities such as campaign management, quality monitoring, real-time and historical reporting, and call recording.

    $119

    per month

    Salesforce Service Cloud

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AService Cloud is a customer service platform that helps businesses manage and resolve customer inquiries and issues. It provides tools for case management, knowledge base, omni-channel support, automation, and analytics, enabling companies to deliver exceptional customer service experiences.

    $25

    per month

    Pricing
    Five9Salesforce Service Cloud
    Editions & Modules
    Core
    $119
    per month
    Digital
    $119
    per month
    Premium
    Contact sales team
    Contact sales team
    Optimum
    Contact sales team
    Contact sales team
    Ultimate
    Contact sales team
    Contact sales team
    Starter Suite
    $25
    per month
    Pro Suite
    $100
    per month per user
    Enterprise
    $165
    per month per user
    Unlimited
    $330
    per month per user
    Agentforce 1
    $550
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Five9Salesforce Service Cloud
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsFive9 offers pricing options to suit your business needs: Monthly On-Demand —Companies looking to quickly scale their operations with minimum costs Per-Minute Fees — Products such as voice message broadcasting or IVR with Speech recognition Annual Contracts — Reduced fee compared to monthly on-demand pricing—
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    Community Pulse
    Five9Salesforce Service Cloud
    Considered Both Products
    Five9
    No answer on this topic
    Salesforce
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    84%
    Would buy again
    21 Answers
    88%
    Would buy again
    36 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    86%
    Delivers good value for the price
    19 Answers
    82%
    Delivers good value for the price
    28 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    84%
    Happy with the feature set
    21 Answers
    90%
    Happy with the feature set
    37 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    18 Answers
    81%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    21 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    21 Answers
    83%
    Implementation went as expected
    24 Answers
    Features
    Five9Salesforce Service Cloud
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Five9 and Salesforce Service Cloud
    Feature
    Five9
    8.0
    14 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Salesforce Service Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    Agent dashboard7.514 Ratings00 Ratings
    Validate callers6.213 Ratings00 Ratings
    Outbound response7.112 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call forwarding8.110 Ratings00 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)9.910 Ratings00 Ratings
    Warm transfer8.012 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive dialing10.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Interactive voice response10.010 Ratings00 Ratings
    REST APIs8.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call scripts5.111 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call tracking8.514 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multichannel integration6.513 Ratings00 Ratings
    CRM software integration8.513 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Five9 and Salesforce Service Cloud
    Feature
    Five9
    8.6
    23 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Salesforce Service Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    Inbound call routing8.512 Ratings00 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing6.610 Ratings00 Ratings
    Recording9.013 Ratings00 Ratings
    Quality management8.023 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call analytics10.013 Ratings00 Ratings
    Historical reporting8.514 Ratings00 Ratings
    Live reporting8.012 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics10.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Five9 and Salesforce Service Cloud
    Feature
    Five9
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Service Cloud
    8.8
    77 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings9.475 Ratings
    Expert directory00 Ratings8.553 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings8.663 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings8.260 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings9.375 Ratings
    Ticket response00 Ratings9.174 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of Five9 and Salesforce Service Cloud
    Feature
    Five9
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Service Cloud
    8.7
    72 Ratings
    10% above category average
    External knowledge base00 Ratings8.463 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base00 Ratings8.970 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Five9 and Salesforce Service Cloud
    Feature
    Five9
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Service Cloud
    8.7
    77 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Customer portal00 Ratings7.954 Ratings
    IVR00 Ratings8.834 Ratings
    Social integration00 Ratings8.947 Ratings
    Email support00 Ratings9.276 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings8.866 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Five9Salesforce Service Cloud
    Small Businesses
    Nextiva Contact Center
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Help Scout
    Score7.9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Score8 out of 10
    LiveAgent
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Front
    Score7.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Five9Salesforce Service Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.5
    (38 ratings)
    8.3
    (83 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.1
    (8 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (12 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.5
    (28 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.6
    (7 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    7.0
    (20 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Five9Salesforce Service Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Five9
    We use Five9 as a tool to make and receive calls from various departments such as Customer Service, Underwriting, Claims, and others. It's a tool that has helped us complete various tasks to contact our customers. It has also allowed us to replace Zoom Phone, as it makes it easier to assign new contact numbers to agents, while Zoom Phone only allows reusing numbers. It's a good tool with an easy-to-use interface for new users.
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    Salesforce
    It is a helpful tool, but it can be a bit cumbersome to manage. It is also a bit expensive, but we already use CRM for Salesforce and it is convenient to be able to immediately tag contacts and accounts when the tickets come into the system and tie them directly to the account. I do know an integration with Jira is possible (we use Jira internally for our engineering team to escalate issues) but it is not configured right now so managing the connection between support tickets and Jira tickets is manual and hard to keep up with
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    Pros
    Five9
    • Inbound and outbound calls it process is so well.
    • The service is so good and they give very efficient support in customer need.
    • The calls we can do in Five9 include incoming, outgoing, voicemails and we can also send a note to a specific person. It's a very reliable mode of communication.
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    Salesforce
    • Allows us to make changes quickly and with relative ease
    • Can be flexible enough to use among several teams who do very different work
    • Salesforce in general provides SO much training that anyone on the team can skill up and help maintain the system
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    Cons
    Five9
    • Text. Texting is incredibly difficult on Five9. We've had issues with only some texts logging to Salesforce, issues with threading of text conversations, and issues with having Salesforce contact information appear on the text widget (knowing who you are texting, not just their phone number).
    • The interface to "pause" is challenging. There are not good reminders to our reps to remember to pause or log out of Five9. If you forget to log out, this can affect stats about who worked the longest hours that day - and it's hard to know who actually was active on the phones.
    • Inbound voicemails are too-easily hidden. It's challenging for a lot of our reps to remember to check their inbound voicemails because it is hard to access them in the Five9 widget.
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    Salesforce
    • There is a slight scope for error, but sometimes it has a heavy impact. So this can be improved.
    • Costing is high.
    • Maintenance is more.
    • Expertise is required for implementation.
    • The number of communication messages have some limit per organisation account.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Five9
    Robust product, great reliability and support.
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    Salesforce
    Professional edition works best for a small company with lower call volumes and is very useful but as you grow exponetially I think it has limited ability to do all the things we want to - SLA management, defect, release management to name a few. Reports and dashboards being available in real time.
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    Usability
    Five9
    overall usability is very great. User friendly interface for agents within the Salesforce with the engage button. Easy to go offline and online. Very good Integrations with Salesforce helps lot of clients that implemented Salesforce. As it is cloud based, agents can access it from anywhere. While the agent experience is goof, as a technical person it is hard to manage with the Five9 VCC and also the reporting User Interface is bad and slow when there are large amount of records.
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    Salesforce
    I had Salesforce experience prior to using Service Cloud which made it a little easier to learn and navigate, but overall my team (some who had no Salesforce experience) caught on very quickly and found Service Cloud to be easy to use.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Five9
    We have had minimal downtime due to system outages since it was implemented.
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    Salesforce
    Salesforce's Trust Center clearly communicates occasional issues to anyone who subscribes, down to an organization's cloud instance. Bundled sandboxes ease updates, and seasonal upgrades are seamless, scheduled well in advance with plenty of information about what's coming. Support agents have noticed intermittent Omni-Channel disconnects due to internet connections, and these are clearly notified.
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    Performance
    Five9
    The system's performance is great. Page loads quickly. Reports are generated quickly and sent to our email or FTP. The integration did not impact the performance of our other applications. We have not seen any drop in the performance of either applications since we performed the integration.
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    Salesforce
    The Salesforce Service Cloud generally has very good performance, however the overall new Lightning user experience can bring that down. For example, if you have too many tabs open, then it can take a while for the Lightning UI to load. This UI is probably not well equipped to handle loading of all of that information at once, but Users tend to leave their tabs open all day long. It can also be fickle depending on which browser you use, what extensions you have installed, and whether you've cleared your cache. This can be the downfall with any software as a service though, not just Salesforce
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    Support Rating
    Five9
    Five9's Customer Support team is also based in Manila Philippines, thus turnaround email response times for our reported issues are great for our requirements. Their CS agents also facilitate mobile calls to followup on outstanding issues and operate on a 24/7 schedule. We've also had experience working with the senior tech agents to investigate recurring issues to completion.
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    Salesforce
    Salesforce offers support, although it generally gets routed to overseas support teams first, and once they are unable to help, it gets escalated up the chain to higher tiers. Frequently, the answer back from support is that there is no native solution, and we either have to turn to the AppExchange for some solution provided by another developer, or custom build our own solution.
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    In-Person Training
    Five9
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    Our in-person training was provided by our implementation partner and it was quite good. This was in part because we were already working with them and so it naturally leant itself to a good training relationship. And because they were building our customizations and configuring things, they could then provide training on those things naturally.
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    Online Training
    Five9
    I took the certification course for administrator and also received some tips while working with the developer during implementation. The UI was very intuitive, so I was able to figure out how things worked when I configured the users, skills, campaigns, IVR scripts. I worked with the Five9 AI team to beta test Agent Assist.
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    Salesforce
    Trailheads are great but it was often unclear what actually applied to our organization. This made it difficult to get a whole lot out of it. Part of it is that because the basic Salesforce features didn't quite work for us, we had to add customizations, which then nullified a lot of the training.
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    Implementation Rating
    Five9
    The implementation team that was assigned to us was great. The project manager was very helpful and managed the timeline very efficiently. The developer was very helpful and provided insights while helping us configure the system.
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    Salesforce
    I would go through an implementation very differently knowing what I know now. It was difficult coming from systems we liked in post-sales service and having to adapt to the clunky and underwhelming feature set in Salesforce. I would trim back our expectations
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    Alternatives Considered
    Five9
    Initially selected Five9 but have since switched to RingCentral which has given us what we needed. Better CRM integration, simpler and in my opinion more robust reporting capabilities and the same omnichannel solution at a fraction of the cost
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    Salesforce
    Salesforce service cloud is more configurable than Zendesk and Freshdesk. It has its own inbuilt AI chatbot also which further improves service agent efficiency. Salesforce is more integration agnostic and has pre-built connectors with multiple 3rd party systems. However, in terms of pricing it is priced at a premium compared to the other solutions
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Five9
    We do annual renewals and it's concurrent licensing which is great.
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    Five9
    It was very easy to add additional licenses. Once we placed the order, it was activated the following day. Since it's web-based, it's very quick to deploy across multiple sites.
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    Salesforce
    The product has scaled up with our company growth just fine. No issues here other than slowness in clicking around and running reports
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    Professional Services
    Five9
    Five9 Professional Services team is very knowledgeable and efficient. I worked with them during implementation and during beta testing for Five9 Agent Assist and Ai Insights.
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Five9
    • Cost savings: Five9 replaced a premise-based outbound dialer and a different virtual call center solution for inbound.
    • Cost savings: Five9's voice over IP is less expensive than the land lines we were using.
    • Cost savings: Five9 requires significantly less management than our previous solutions.
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    Salesforce
    • Because this is a cloud service, the security, implementation framework and feature list is very mature and you don't have to develop these during implementation.
    • The larger the implementation programme the better the licensing arrangements
    • Free developer toolkit for proof of concepts or showcasing features
    • Limited to annual subscription model
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