JustCall vs. Skype (discontinued)

JustCall.Io is well suited as a backbone phone system with many capabilities for small to medium-sized businesses and their sales teams. With its rich feature set, dependable functionality, and developer and integration-friendly architecture, it could be a great solution. The platform is less well suited for those companies that have a well established telephony solution and are only looking to take advantage of one or two of its features, such as SMS for instance. There are probably other solutions that provide the same functionality at a lower price point.

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Skype is an excellent choice for phone calls, both local and international, and is also one of the most affordable solutions for business office line. It is simple to use and get started with and provides a call experience on mobile that is similar to a regular phone call. It is not the ideal tool for team chat. For text-based team communication, a separate dedicated tool is still ideal

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• Users of this system do it through the cloud, SaaS, Web Pc, and mobile devices Android, iPhone, and iPad.
• Allows sending alerts and notifications, by events, has connections (SIP and VoIP) and unified communications through SMS, voice messages, text-to-speech, conference calls, videoconferences, call forwarding, call disposition, automatic call distribution to other providers, call routing, telephone keypad entry, mass text messages, call recording, call text, bidirectional messaging, scheduled messaging, among others.
• Create and analyze real-time reports, customer statistics, products, services, sales, and surveys.

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• Perfect for chatting via text. Has emojis, file sharing, audio sharing, and even video sharing capabilities.
• Good for video chats. You can do 1 on 1 sessions with a good quality video.
• Privacy is also another important function they have. They allow for private conversations between users.
• Ability to delete conversations with sensitive information you may not want seen by users not authorized. Can share confidential information via Skype.
• Customizable profiles to fit your company culture.

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• Customer service/ease of contacting could be better for worldwide users (I believe they're sourced overseas)
• Pricing seems to have increased, which affected the benefit we originally found in the service
• Increased functionality, such as bulk SMS Messaging and power-dialer

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• Skype is a RESOURCE hog. People who have limited bandwidth will have poor call quality.
• It is hard to figure out how to use emojis and upload images in the chat.
• The background images do not fool anybody....it is clearly not your real background.

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I have given this rating as this need to give more than that as it's very helpful for us and makes our work more efficient and fast.

I think the UI/UX needs to be simplified and reorganized. It was hard to find settings, understand what they did, and then replicate those across phone numbers. They need better bulk actions, better analytics and, frankly, more stability in the system. The negative impacts to our business overall make it such that I cannot recommend JustCall

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Skype is not as good as Facetime in terms of ease to glance at it and figure out how it works. I think that's a result of Skype trying to be too many things at once. A lot of the menu and UI could be streamlined, and I would jettison some of the additional functions that have been tacked on over the years to simplify. That being said, while some options are slightly hard to find, they all work flawlessly once found.

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I am not aware of the current support level for Skype for business, as I have never used even though I have the product. However, the support for Skype's personal paid users is not where it could be. Users who pay for Skype features do not have a clear path to reach out to support. So, rating 6, can be better as soon as I need to use Skype for business support and get a good experience. I will say that I will renew Skype for Business subscription, which is a significant inconsistency on my end. The explanation is that Skype for Business comes bundled with Office for Business, with no additional cost, so why not.

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It can be used on the phone via mobile application as well as on the desktop by logging in to the website. Easily installed and ready to use.

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We left JustCall for Aircall. Aircall, in some cases, had a better integration with Hubspot, but for us that was the only redeeming quality. That integration, though important, was not enough to convince us to stay with JustCall. In my opinion, the Aircall UX/UI, feature set and analytics were far superior. Furthermore, the ability to copy and paste settings (like IVR menus) across phone numbers saved us so much time.

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Selected Skype because it was the only platform that was available for such purposes for video conferencing or audio conferencing. Since Microsoft, the tech giant, backed it, it was assured that it would work great in terms of productivity, with utmost security measures for all data, conversations, work materials, and personal information.

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• we got more business for RE and data services
• we can easily generate report of pervious days calls of team members
• there is no interrupt in services while calling

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• Skype has contributed to increased efficiency for remote collaboration, especially now due to the ways things are and having so many remote employees. Without this tool, or any collaboration tool, business could not move forward.
• I think Skype is the cost effective solution also between it and the other competitors out there. I'm not privy to the exact costs, but it strikes me as the cheaper option.
• The only negative impact I would say is its lack of functionality and customization for larger organizations or groups that have employees spread out or require inter-departmental collaboration.

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