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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

    Freshdesk Contact Center

    Score6.9 out of 10
    N/AFreshdesk 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
    YesNo
    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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    Community Pulse
    Five9Freshdesk Contact Center
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    Five9
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    Freshworks Inc
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    84%
    Would buy again
    21 Answers
    63%
    Would buy again
    5 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    86%
    Delivers good value for the price
    19 Answers
    63%
    Delivers good value for the price
    5 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    84%
    Happy with the feature set
    21 Answers
    75%
    Happy with the feature set
    6 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    18 Answers
    75%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    6 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    21 Answers
    86%
    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    Features
    Five9Freshdesk Contact Center
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Five9 and Freshdesk Contact Center
    Feature
    Five9
    8.0
    14 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Freshdesk Contact Center
    -
    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 Freshdesk Contact Center
    Feature
    Five9
    8.6
    23 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Freshdesk Contact Center
    -
    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
    Cloud PBX
    Comparison of Cloud PBX features of Five9 and Freshdesk Contact Center
    Feature
    Five9
    -
    Ratings
    Freshdesk Contact Center
    8.9
    8 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Hosted PBX00 Ratings9.06 Ratings
    Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)00 Ratings8.28 Ratings
    Call reports00 Ratings9.48 Ratings
    Directory of employee names00 Ratings9.27 Ratings
    Call Management
    Comparison of Call Management features of Five9 and Freshdesk Contact Center
    Feature
    Five9
    -
    Ratings
    Freshdesk Contact Center
    8.9
    8 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Answering rules00 Ratings8.58 Ratings
    Call recording00 Ratings9.08 Ratings
    Call park00 Ratings9.07 Ratings
    Call screening00 Ratings8.58 Ratings
    Message alerts00 Ratings9.47 Ratings
    VoIP system collaboration
    Comparison of VoIP system collaboration features of Five9 and Freshdesk Contact Center
    Feature
    Five9
    -
    Ratings
    Freshdesk Contact Center
    9.6
    6 Ratings
    19% above category average
    Audio conferencing00 Ratings9.66 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Five9Freshdesk Contact Center
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.5
    (38 ratings)
    8.8
    (9 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    8.1
    (3 ratings)
    Online Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 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)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Five9Freshdesk Contact Center
    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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    Freshworks Inc
    One scenario where Freshdesk Contact Center is well suited is when we have a lot of parents calling in with requests about student transcripts, and or grades, we can better interact with each caller and not have a lot of people on hold waiting for a long time. One scenario where Freshdesk might not be well suited is when callers get the chatbot more often than talking to an actual person.
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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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    Freshworks Inc
    • From this centralized help desk, we are able to allocate tickets and communicate with staff and clients via email.
    • The ability to phone a lead or customer directly from Freshdesk is fantastic.
    • Handling of waiting lines.
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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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    Freshworks Inc
    • Cost - the system was felt to be way overpriced for the feature-set it provided. For the cost of 10 support agents, I could engage with a full-blown VoIP UCaaS provider to support 20-30 users.
    • The system was dependent on the Amazon Web Services system, which was prone to outages, and as it was outsourced by Freshworks to Amazon, resolution time did not have clear SLAs.
    • Non-US support - any issues encountered with the system would go through international channels which decreased resolution time depending on when the development team was available.
    • Call reliability was questionable - sometimes agents would have ringing devices that would have no one on the other end - other times calls would be dropped without explanation.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Five9
    Robust product, great reliability and support.
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    Freshworks Inc
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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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    Freshworks Inc
    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
    Five9
    We have had minimal downtime due to system outages since it was implemented.
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    Freshworks Inc
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Freshworks Inc
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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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    Freshworks Inc
    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
    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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    Freshworks Inc
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Freshworks Inc
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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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    Freshworks Inc
    After multiple checks and constant research we found Freshdesk is one of the leading product service providers and the best at it too. We used to have PSTIN hard phones which caused a lot of drops and customer discontent. After Freshdesk, it has been a cakewalk. Really happy with it.
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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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    Freshworks Inc
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    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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    Freshworks Inc
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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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    Freshworks Inc
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    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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    Freshworks Inc
    • Call logs helps analyse the interactions which each lead - helps space out if need be.
    • Follow ups are simplified due to viewing of past activity.
    • Easy integration helps in saving costs of phone calls.
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