Compare Five9 and RingCentral Office - May 2022

Shlomi LaviShlomi Lavi / May 22, 2022

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Bottom Line: Which is Better - Five9 or RingCentral Office?

RingCentral Office is more expensive to implement (TCO) than Five9, and Five9 is rated higher (88/100) than RingCentral Office (72/100). Five9 offers users more features (15) than RingCentral Office (13). There is a clear winner in this case and it is Five9!

Looking for the right Call Center solution for your business? Buyers are primarily concerned about the real total cost of implementation (TCO), the full list of features, vendor reliability, user reviews, and the pros and cons. In this article we compare between the two software products:

Five9 Vs. RingCentral

Five9: Five9 offers an IVR with Speech Recognition that delivers robust speech application technology with the same easy-to-use graphical user interface for development that is provided in the Inbound Call Center. To optimize your staffing costs and improve agent productivity, Five9 provides an integrated Workforce Management solution.

RingCentral: RingCentral provides cloud computing based phone systems, designed to help small businesses manage mobile, fax, and email communications.

Who is more expensive? Five9 or RingCentral?

The real total cost of ownership (TCO) of Call Center software includes the software license, subscription fees, software training, customizations, hardware (if needed), maintenance and support and other related services. When calculating the TCO, it's important to add all of these ”hidden costs” as well. We prepared a TCO (Total Cost) calculator for Five9 and RingCentral.

Five9 price starts at $149 per month , On a scale between 1 to 10 Five9 Virtual Call Center is rated 6, which is similar to the average cost of Call Center software. RingCentral price starts at $20 per user/month , When comparing RingCentral to its competitors, the software is rated 6 - similar to the average Call Center software cost.

Bottom line: Five9 cost is around the same cost of RingCentral.

Which software includes more/better features?

We've compared Five9 Vs. RingCentral Office based on some of the most important and required Call Center features.

Five9: this software is considered "feature-rich" with more than 10 important features, here is a partial list: ACD (Automatic Call Distribution), ANI (Automatic Number Identification), Auto Dialer, Blended Call Center, Call Conferencing, Call Queue Management, Call Recording, CRM with Call Center.

RingCentral: ACD (Automatic Call Distribution), ANI (Automatic Number Identification), Auto Dialer, Call Conferencing, Call Recording.

Target customer size

Five9 is ideal for small to large businesses that handle customer service (particularly outsourcers or BPOs), sales and marketing, finance and collections. and RingCentral's target customer size include: SMBs.



Five9

ITQlick rating
(4.2/5)

starts at $149 per month

Five9 software is a comprehensive cloud-hosted contact center solution designed to serve inbound, outbound, omnichannel, or blended contact centers globally. The software uses the power of practical AI to enabl...

Categories: Auto Attendant, Auto Dialer / Predictive Dialer, Automatic Call Distribution (ACD), Call Recording.

RingCentral Office

ITQlick rating
(3.7/5)

starts at $20 per user/month

RingCentral is a fully integrated cloud-based contact/call centre and business phone solution designed to offer business communication tools for voice, video, fax and text too small businesses and enterprises.

Categories: Communications, Video Conferencing, VoIP, Chat.

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Five9: 15 Features

ACD (Automatic Call Distribution)
ANI (Automatic Number Identification)
Auto Dialer
Blended Call Center
Call Conferencing
Call Queue Management
Call Recording
CRM with Call Center
CTI (Computer Telephony Integration)
DTMF (Dial Tone Multi-Frequency)
Inbound Call Center
IVR (Interactive Voice Response)
Outbound Call Center
Real Time Reporting
Virtual Call Center Support

RingCentral: 13 Features

ACD (Automatic Call Distribution)
ANI (Automatic Number Identification)
Auto Dialer
Call Conferencing
Call Recording
CTI (Computer Telephony Integration)
Inbound Call Center
IVR System
Outbound IVR
PBX (Private Branch Exchange)
Real Time Reporting
Virtual Call Center Support
Call Center
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Pricing score pricing Score is a 1 to 10 (10 is high cost), based on the TCO (cost of licences, customizations, training, hardware when relevant) Vs. alternative solutions
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4.2/5
Score
88/100
Pricing
6/10
License pricing
$149 per month
Functionality
29
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Score
72/100
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Functionality
17
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ITQlick rating
4.6/5
Score
91/100
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9

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Shlomi Lavi is an entrepreneur and founder of ITQlick.com. He holds a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Information Systems Engineering from Ben Gurion University in Israel. Shlomi brings 17 years of global IT and IS management experience as a consultant and implementation expert for small, medium and large-sized (global) companies. Shlomi’s goal is to share the best knowledge and news about information systems so you can make smarter buying decisions for your business.