Five9 vs. Freshdesk Contact Center

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Five9
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Five9 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
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
Five9Freshdesk Contact Center
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
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
Five9Freshdesk Contact Center
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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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Five9Freshdesk Contact Center
Features
Five9Freshdesk Contact Center
Contact Center Software
Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Product A and Product B
Five9
8.0
Ratings
4% below category average
Freshdesk Contact Center
-
Ratings
Agent dashboard7.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Validate callers6.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Outbound response7.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Call forwarding8.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Click-to-call (CTC)9.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Warm transfer8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Predictive dialing10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Interactive voice response10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
REST APIs8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Call scripts5.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Call tracking8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Multichannel integration6.60 Ratings00 Ratings
CRM software integration8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Product A and Product B
Five9
8.6
Ratings
5% above category average
Freshdesk Contact Center
-
Ratings
Inbound call routing8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Omnichannel inbound routing6.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Recording9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Quality management8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Call analytics10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Historical reporting8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Live reporting8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer interaction analytics10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Cloud PBX
Comparison of Cloud PBX features of Product A and Product B
Five9
-
Ratings
Freshdesk Contact Center
8.9
Ratings
11% above category average
Hosted PBX00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Call reports00 Ratings9.40 Ratings
Directory of employee names00 Ratings9.20 Ratings
Call Management
Comparison of Call Management features of Product A and Product B
Five9
-
Ratings
Freshdesk Contact Center
8.9
Ratings
6% above category average
Answering rules00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Call recording00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Call park00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Call screening00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Message alerts00 Ratings9.40 Ratings
VoIP system collaboration
Comparison of VoIP system collaboration features of Product A and Product B
Five9
-
Ratings
Freshdesk Contact Center
9.6
Ratings
19% above category average
Audio conferencing00 Ratings9.60 Ratings
User Ratings
Five9Freshdesk Contact Center
Likelihood to Recommend
6.5
(0 ratings)
8.8
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Likelihood to Renew
10.0
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-
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Usability
9.0
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
Availability
9.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
8.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(0 ratings)
8.1
(0 ratings)
Online Training
10.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
10.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
9.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.0
(0 ratings)
-
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Product Scalability
9.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.0
(0 ratings)
-
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Vendor pre-sale
8.0
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User Testimonials
Five9Freshdesk Contact Center
Likelihood to Recommend
very well suited for large number of enrollments, registrations by insurance companies. Also we recently implemented it for automating a order placement. Maybe not very well suited for live agent chat experience as there are limitations on texting, laggy performance in this area. I think its also hard to incorporate a payment system within the five9- Salesforce automation.
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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
  • 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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  • 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
  • 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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  • 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
Robust product, great reliability and support.
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Usability
I wish it was a 10. For the sake of a call center, it allows me to keep it simple for newer sales reps and just focus on basic KPI's. This is not an advanced CRM used for digital approaches. It is strictly a churn and burn call center CRM for me. It is a dialer.
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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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Reliability and Availability
We have had minimal downtime due to system outages since it was implemented.
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Performance
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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Support Rating
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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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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Online Training
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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Implementation Rating
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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Alternatives Considered
We use Five9 as a tool to make and receive calls from various departments such as Customer Care, Underwriting, Claims, and others. These departments have experienced issues primarily from supervisor consoles because they sometimes lose access without making significant changes to the admin console. Although 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.

A good tool with an easy interface for new users.

They need a more minimalist look.

They need to improve the supervisor console because it's very basic.

New agents aren't receiving calls from previous agents because they don't reuse numbers.

The user group license is cheaper than the Zoom Phone license, which allows for a better ROI.
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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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Scalability
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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Return on Investment
  • ROI was not as anticipated due to lacking reporting functionality - Negative
  • Allowed us to develop a geographically dispersed call center workforce in response to the pandemic - Positive
  • Provided true omnichannel capability that we lacked in the past (Voice/Voicemail/Chat). Positive
  • CRM integration (with Salesforce) was not as expected. Negative
  • Bang for the Buck just was not where it needed to be. High cost solution. Negative.
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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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