Freshdesk Contact Center vs. Webex Contact Center

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
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
Webex Contact Center
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Cisco Webex Contact Center is a cloud-based omni-channel (e.g. voice, email, and chat) contact center solution providing customer / agent matching, customer service self-service agent, and built-in chat and voice for collaboration between agents.N/A
Pricing
Freshdesk Contact CenterWebex Contact Center
Editions & Modules
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
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Freshdesk Contact CenterWebex Contact Center
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Freshdesk Contact CenterWebex Contact Center
Features
Freshdesk Contact CenterWebex Contact Center
Cloud PBX
Comparison of Cloud PBX features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk Contact Center
8.9
Ratings
11% above category average
Webex Contact Center
-
Ratings
Hosted PBX9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)8.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Call reports9.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Directory of employee names9.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Call Management
Comparison of Call Management features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk Contact Center
8.9
Ratings
6% above category average
Webex Contact Center
-
Ratings
Answering rules8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Call recording9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Call park9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Call screening8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Message alerts9.40 Ratings00 Ratings
VoIP system collaboration
Comparison of VoIP system collaboration features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk Contact Center
9.6
Ratings
19% above category average
Webex Contact Center
-
Ratings
Audio conferencing9.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Contact Center Software
Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk Contact Center
-
Ratings
Webex Contact Center
8.0
Ratings
4% below category average
Agent dashboard00 Ratings9.20 Ratings
Validate callers00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Outbound response00 Ratings6.10 Ratings
Call forwarding00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Click-to-call (CTC)00 Ratings8.40 Ratings
Warm transfer00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Predictive dialing00 Ratings5.60 Ratings
Interactive voice response00 Ratings8.10 Ratings
REST APIs00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Call scripts00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Call tracking00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Multichannel integration00 Ratings7.40 Ratings
CRM software integration00 Ratings7.40 Ratings
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk Contact Center
-
Ratings
Webex Contact Center
7.9
Ratings
4% below category average
Inbound call routing00 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Omnichannel inbound routing00 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Recording00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Quality management00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Call analytics00 Ratings7.60 Ratings
Historical reporting00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Live reporting00 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Customer surveys00 Ratings7.10 Ratings
Customer interaction analytics00 Ratings6.50 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Freshdesk Contact CenterWebex 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
Bright Pattern Contact Center
Bright Pattern Contact Center
Score 9.1 out of 10
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User Ratings
Freshdesk Contact CenterWebex Contact Center
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
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8.8
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(0 ratings)
8.6
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.1
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Freshdesk Contact CenterWebex Contact Center
Likelihood to Recommend
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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It depends on your needs. If you only need simple call flows, consider using Cisco Webex Calling Auto-Attendant. If you require more complex call flows and time-of-day routing, you can utilize Cisco Webex Contact Center. You only have to purchase 1 Agent to use the Call Flow Designer.
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Pros
  • 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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  • Things that it does particularly well include a really good UX or UI so that our agents as well as our administrators, can easily provide remote access from agents, new agents, and old agents, manage interactions with customers, and have a good call experience from start to finish.
  • The uptime is a big selling point of Cisco.
  • I feel supposed by Cisco in terms of new features/functionality coming down the line.
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Cons
  • 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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  • Better integration with Webex Calling.
  • More on premise features integrated into the cloud solution.
  • Better documentation for pebble templates.
  • Better information for changes and when new features are available. Instead of having to look on the what’s coming webpage alerts or a pop-up inside Webex control hub would be nice.
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Likelihood to Renew
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We are happy with the product, with Cisco as a partner and the roadmap looks mightily impressive. Webex Contact Center is one of our growth areas so we're keen to get more agents on the platform, we want to get more customers on it and we want to make use of all the features and functionalities it offers, so that we can help our customers do what they do best.
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Usability
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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It is great to use Webex Contact Center as it delivers the call routing and workflow for agent and call routing. In addition to this the noise reduction helps to focus attention on the call and with the client. The notes feature and the ability for the transcription really helps with translation and language barriers.
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Support Rating
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 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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Webex Contact Center works great in conjunction with the above product to produce a better system from businesses and more options to reach the maximum number of clients to make the business thrive. It makes it easier to reach all generations and remove any limitation or obstetrical and makes the business have a better chance of success.
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Return on Investment
  • 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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  • No Capex required for this solution (which makes our CFO very happy)
  • Digital channels are builtin and therefore very easy to deploy
  • The built in CRM integration was missing features so we had to install a thirdparty connector which we had to pay for (and wasn't in our budget) in order to get the features which our business demanded
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ScreenShots

Webex Contact Center Screenshots

Screenshot of Agent desktop viewScreenshot of View of Analyzer - Dark ModeScreenshot of Contact Center in Control Hub viewScreenshot of Supervisor desktop view