Compare Five9 and RingCentral Contact Center - Jun 2022

Shlomi LaviShlomi Lavi / Jun 22, 2022

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Bottom Line: Which is Better - Five9 or RingCentral Contact Center?

Five9 is more expensive to implement (TCO) than RingCentral Contact Center, and Five9 is rated higher (88/100) than RingCentral Contact Center (83/100). Five9 offers users more features (15) than RingCentral Contact Center (5).

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 Contact Center?

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 Contact Center.

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 Contact Center price starts at $14.99 per user/month , When comparing RingCentral Contact Center to its competitors, the software is rated 2 - much lower than the average Call Center software cost.

Bottom line: Five9 is more expensive than RingCentral Contact Center.

Which software includes more/better features?

We've compared Five9 Vs. RingCentral Contact Center 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 Contact Center: Blended Call Center, Call Conferencing, Call Recording, Inbound Call Center, Outbound Call Center.

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. The typical customers of RingCentral Contact Center are the business people belonging to small (with employees ranging from 10 to 100) and/or medium-sized (with employees ranging from 100 to 1,000) businesses category as well as large enterprises that use the offering from IT, web and data hosting and related information service sectors, mainly with contact center management.



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 Contact Center

ITQlick rating
(4.3/5)

starts at $14.99 per user/month

RingCentral Contact Center is a comprehensive call center management software that can be accessed in the cloud, scalable and an end-to-end communication solution.

Categories: BI & Analytics, Data Analysis Tools, Automatic Call Distribution (ACD), Call Monitoring, Call Recording.

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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 Contact Center: 5 Features

Blended Call Center
Call Conferencing
Call Recording
Inbound Call Center
Outbound Call Center
ITQlick rating ITQlick Rating is based on the software score (below) and aggregated online reviews
ITQlick score ITQlick Score is a 1 to 100, the calculation is based on pricing, and functionality Vs. alternative solutions
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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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.