8x8 Contact Center vs. RingCentral Contact Center

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
8x8 Contact Center
Score 8.7 out of 10
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8x8 Contact Center is a cloud-based platform that unifies customer interactions across voice, chat, email, video, SMS, and social. It offers intelligent self-service automation, real-time analytics, and CRM integrations. With omnichannel engagement, agents deliver consistent, personalized service from one interface.N/A
RingCentral Contact Center
Score 8.1 out of 10
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RingCentral Contact Center is an AI-first contact center offers a set of cloud-based software plans with basic features including support for inbound and outbound call centers and IVR and ACD capabilities. Advanced features include analytics, real-time call reporting, workforce optimization analytics, and omni-channel integration with SMS, email, and social media platforms.N/A
Pricing
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
8x8 Contact Center
Chose 8x8 Contact Center
8x8 Contact Center has wonderful uptime. It is best for all businesses like small to large business. It provides all important features that a businesses needs to grow up the business on reasonable price. 8x8 Contact Center has best user interface that helps to use all options …
Chose 8x8 Contact Center
8x8 Contact Center is best software in the market . I am really sorry i can not share my bad experience of previous software. Because i am using 8x8 Contact Center from long time. But i am deadly sure that 8x8 Contact Center has best feature , fast, reliable and easy to use. If …
Chose 8x8 Contact Center
We are currently evaluating Ringcentral as a possible replacement for 8x8 when our contract is up. Pricing is similar, but the support and admin experience looks better so far with Ring Central. Go to connect lacked features for what we needed and we have moved away from it, …
Chose 8x8 Contact Center
We liked the agent experience, as well as the reporting and some of the QM & CE suites. The self-service options and customizability of contact center routing scripts was desirable. Overall when finalizing vendors 8x8 was one of the more cost-effective options between the UCaaS …
Chose 8x8 Contact Center
8x8 had better pricing for our needs. 8x8 offered the features we needed without extras we did not. The overall onboarding process as demoed was smoother and provided more confidence in the product.
Chose 8x8 Contact Center
We selected 8x8 Contact Center because they gave us the best value. They had the best features for the price
Chose 8x8 Contact Center
8x8 is much more inexpensive and is more scalable for a small call center.
RingCentral Contact Center
Chose RingCentral Contact Center
The cost was much lower than Cisco, but functionality and usability were the same. The cost was the deciding factor for our business.
8x8 is cheaper and has much more fucntionality
Features
8x8 Contact CenterRingCentral Contact Center
Contact Center Software
Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Product A and Product B
8x8 Contact Center
8.6
165 Ratings
3% above category average
RingCentral Contact Center
8.4
26 Ratings
1% above category average
Agent dashboard8.7148 Ratings8.822 Ratings
Validate callers8.4129 Ratings7.010 Ratings
Outbound response8.6131 Ratings8.923 Ratings
Call forwarding8.8150 Ratings8.924 Ratings
Click-to-call (CTC)8.8100 Ratings8.814 Ratings
Warm transfer8.6142 Ratings8.010 Ratings
Predictive dialing8.164 Ratings9.29 Ratings
Interactive voice response9.194 Ratings8.613 Ratings
REST APIs8.061 Ratings8.77 Ratings
Call scripts8.792 Ratings8.414 Ratings
Call tracking8.7146 Ratings9.010 Ratings
Multichannel integration8.687 Ratings7.612 Ratings
CRM software integration8.582 Ratings7.511 Ratings
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Product A and Product B
8x8 Contact Center
8.5
152 Ratings
3% above category average
RingCentral Contact Center
8.6
25 Ratings
4% above category average
Inbound call routing9.1137 Ratings9.122 Ratings
Omnichannel inbound routing8.482 Ratings8.713 Ratings
Recording8.7136 Ratings9.323 Ratings
Quality management8.7136 Ratings9.220 Ratings
Call analytics8.1137 Ratings8.721 Ratings
Historical reporting8.4128 Ratings8.221 Ratings
Live reporting8.329 Ratings8.319 Ratings
Customer surveys8.476 Ratings8.09 Ratings
Customer interaction analytics8.722 Ratings7.69 Ratings
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Small Businesses
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Score 7.6 out of 10
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Score 7.6 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
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CloudTalk
Score 7.6 out of 10
CloudTalk
CloudTalk
Score 7.6 out of 10
Enterprises
Bright Pattern Contact Center
Bright Pattern Contact Center
Score 8.8 out of 10
Bright Pattern Contact Center
Bright Pattern Contact Center
Score 8.8 out of 10
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User Ratings
8x8 Contact CenterRingCentral Contact Center
Likelihood to Recommend
8.6
(168 ratings)
9.2
(26 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.4
(9 ratings)
6.2
(4 ratings)
Usability
8.5
(54 ratings)
8.7
(3 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
9.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(53 ratings)
3.6
(3 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.1
(5 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Configurability
9.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
7.3
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.6
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.1
(2 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
8x8 Contact CenterRingCentral Contact Center
Likelihood to Recommend
8x8 Inc.
Any organisation that has a customer-facing call center should seriously consider 8x8 as a solution. It is cost-effective and competitive on pricing, their customer service has been very responsive and knowledgeable, and the integration was seamless. It is suited to any areas where a centralised and unified call center solution is required, in particular, being able to refer to all customer data interactions. Call data analysis is also incredibly helpful.
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RingCentral
The ease of use and file retention/retrieval is key. The adjustment from an e-mail-focused workflow to the RingCentral Contact Center was easier with the organization. Recall and search features mimic Outlook and allow me to quickly find what I’m looking for. RingCentral Contact Center is not ideal for communication with external partners, so we still have to rely on Outlook e-mails for that.
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Pros
8x8 Inc.
  • The out of the box chat feature is outstanding for your website. My team was able to adopt chat easily.
  • Setting up the system with the help of an integrator was especially easy and did not require any IT training on my part.
  • The visibility of being able to manage my team and all media channels in one panel is awesome.
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RingCentral
  • Reliability: Our previous service was prone to outages, RingCentral Contact Center has been rock solid as long as we've used it.
  • Integration: Our IT team was able to build a custom RingCentral Contact Center dashboard on our website for our salespeople to manage inbound/ outbound calling. From there we were able to send call data directly into activities in our ERP (Acumatica).
  • Ease of use: It works well whether in the office or WFH (which many employees do regularly.
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Cons
8x8 Inc.
  • Support has always been a less than stellar area.
  • There's a few feature gaps that have been called out for years that haven't been addressed yet. I.e. passing calls from UC to CC requires a phone number (like why?)
  • Another frequent complaint I get is "why can't I just completely shut off a user's voicemail". You can fiddle with call forwarding rules, but sooner or later, an errant call finds a way to end up there.
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RingCentral
  • I would like to be able to text from our main office line rather than only my office direct line, so I can keep my direct line private
  • I wish it was easier for all users to be able to toggle between calls ringing at their desk phone and cell phone
  • It would be nice if the process to add other team member's numbers to our desk phone screen was easier
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Likelihood to Renew
8x8 Inc.
8x8 contact center is meeting our needs as a call center communication solution. We use 8x8 across the entire organization and have been able to work with our account management team to ensure our configuration and integrations meet our business, legal & compliance needs across the organization. The greatest benefit has been the 8x8 account management team who consistently works with us to ensure our needs are being met.
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RingCentral
We have no intention of renewing our contract with Ring Central. We have had multiple outages in the past 2 years. We have been without an account manager for the past 4 months and the resolution of open issues takes 2-3 months. We were being misbilled for cancelled services for almost 12 months. We are not satisfied with the quality, support, or price of the service
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Usability
8x8 Inc.
It is very easy to use; some features that I don't frequently use but still occasionally need to rely on can be hard to find simply because my memory is poor. Once you get in the swing of it, however, the user interface is very straightforward and can be easily used by employees across a range of technical literacy levels.
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RingCentral
RingCentral Contact Center is not just only an app or platform which allows the company to manage the telephone calls, messaging functions, social media and emails, but also allows advanced features like the possibility of easy integration with other industrial systems, and customer/call analysis functions as well. It also supports and included with AI technology as well into some extent.
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Reliability and Availability
8x8 Inc.
The only issue I have ran across was on getting the updated new version
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RingCentral
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Performance
8x8 Inc.
Yes everything loads quickly and its ready for use
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RingCentral
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Support Rating
8x8 Inc.
Charlie Knutson is fantastic, however when you call the support number it is almost impossible to get through and when you do they cannot fix your issue. That is the biggest challenge. It is a difference between that and reaching our contact directly. The email support number that our company was given is very responsive and good.
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RingCentral
We honestly did not need much support but whatever we wanted was resolved via email and that experience was nice but took a bit of time
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In-Person Training
8x8 Inc.
Detailed training and good quality to provide our customers to achieve their needs and to give the best we can as far as information and technology and the best service we can to have the customers be satisfied with the technology and the best quality to get the best answers to their doubts.
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RingCentral
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Online Training
8x8 Inc.
its was with the best quality and the best performance we could have as far as detailed information for us to get the best training on how to get used of 8*8 and provide the best quality and technology to provide to our customers when they need and made us fell comforatble in how to use it
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RingCentral
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Implementation Rating
8x8 Inc.
The transition from Mitel to 8 x 8 was smooth and no "hiccups". The support was one of the best that we had received. No surprises except what 8 x 8 is actually capable of doing! Support remained available throughout the transition! Co-workers were amazed at what they were able to do with having 8 x 8,
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RingCentral
As I recall it was not a very cumbersome implementation and we were up and running as promised
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Alternatives Considered
8x8 Inc.
I would say they are all very comparable. The one advantage to the Spectrum Enterprise OnDemand would be that it has it own internet bandwidth, so it doesn't eat into our overall internet usage bandwidth. It is however more expensive than 8x8. Poly Series just didn't have the flexibility and extensive features offered by 8x8, and therefore was not an acceptable replacement.
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RingCentral
RingCentral Contact Center's application is much more intuitive than Nextiva's application. It's also easier to configure. It also has a lot of functionality that Nextiva does not. For example, RingCentral will transcribe Voice mail messages for us, whereas Nextiva does not. RingCentral also sends us notifications when a customer sends us a text message, whereas Nextiva does not.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
8x8 Inc.
It is pretty much "Par for the course" with the options out there with other vendors.
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RingCentral
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Scalability
8x8 Inc.
It was implemented across the board in the company and has worked perfectly
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RingCentral
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Return on Investment
8x8 Inc.
  • The callback queue was a big thing for a while. Still is to a point but we would have MANY duplicate callbacks & it was frustrating to both the customer & the agent.
  • Support is my biggest negative for 8x8 Contact Center. Being able to communicate with someone is essential yet having MANY support agents have a language barrier has made it difficult on both ends to get things addressed/taken care of. Being able to follow the requests of the ticket is a big one as well. I talked about both of these points before, but if I request to communicate via email 9/10 times, I am being called to talk about the problem when it could have been an email. They also request information MANY many times that seems to be useless when I have provided what I think to be all the necessary information. It just doesn't make a lot of sense to me. It has been a little bit since I have had to put anything in for support the last one I did it was substantially better so hopefully that continues.
  • Being able to work solely on 8x8 work or 8x8 Contact Center would be a HUGE plus for agents & IT. I see other platforms that are able to do this, if 8x8 was able to do this it would make it 100x better for us so we don't have to work out of two things for an agent to be able to work.
  • The last thing is the plans. Not offering an unlimited talking plan to me seems very weird. What we are paying for & the amount of minutes that agents are using doesn't make a lot of sense on a billing standpoint. Offering better pricing/unlimited plans for enterprise like other companies would be a HUGE plus as well.
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RingCentral
  • With RingCentral Contact Center we were able to connect with our customers. The feature that allows the call to be sent to the first available rep ensured that this happened.
  • Also, my favorite feature is the call recording and transcription feature. This allowed me to get the customer's emails without asking them to repeat if I missed them the first time. Hence, happier customers and more meetings.
  • RingCentral Contact Center also made it very easy to set up a mailbox for customers to leave messages and reassure them that they've connected with the right person.
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ScreenShots

8x8 Contact Center Screenshots

Screenshot of inbound SMS with contact center agent response in 8x8 Agent Workspace. Agents are able to see incoming interactions and respond with consistently across channels like voice, SMS, RCS, webchat, email, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, one-way video, Viber, and social media channels via our Meltwater integration.Screenshot of real-time suggestions via 8x8 Smart Assist and full customer history and overall sentiment in 8x8 Agent Workspace.Screenshot of the completely customizable 8x8 Supervisor Workspace for real-time and historical reporting plus features to make quick changes on the fly. Available on desktop and mobile.Screenshot of 8x8 Analytics for Contact Center, which provides out-of-the-box reports, dashboards, and visualizations like the Interaction Journey visual that shows the complete customer journey across channels.Screenshot of 8x8 Quality Management, used to drill into specific interactions, playback, and leave comments with timestamps.Screenshot of 8x8 Voice/Text/Sentiment Analytics, used to create Topics to track common phrases and keywords within customer interactions happening in the contact center.