Five9 vs Freshsales comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Five9
Ranking in Sales Force Automation
4th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
20
Ranking in other categories
Contact Center Platforms (3rd), Workforce Engagement Management (2nd), Contact Center Infrastructure (1st), Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) (3rd)
Freshsales
Ranking in Sales Force Automation
10th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
CRM Customer Engagement Centers (9th), CRM (24th), Opportunity Management (7th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2024, in the Sales Force Automation category, the mindshare of Five9 is 1.3%, up from 0.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Freshsales is 2.5%, down from 3.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Sales Force Automation
Unique Categories:
Contact Center Platforms
16.7%
Workforce Engagement Management
6.3%
CRM Customer Engagement Centers
4.3%
CRM
1.7%
 

Featured Reviews

CS
Oct 20, 2023
We're working more efficiently and maximizing resources in less time
Right now, the challenge is making sure we have enough workforce to support our workload, but we don't have many issues with Five9 itself. And not compared to when we first started using it. You really have to play around with it. Practice makes perfect. The more you use it, the better you get with it. Pay attention to the details. Everything is important. Every piece connects with something else, so being very detailed with how you use it is important. The benefits have been progressive every year. With the pandemic, a lot of stores closed down, and that forced us into a lot of digital production.
Sonu Thomas - PeerSpot reviewer
May 16, 2024
Email integration is easy, but we can use only one domain in the basic package
In the beginning, I used the tool to keep my business contacts. Then, we used it for our marketing emails and campaigns. It has a lot of capabilities. We can use it for daily business-related communications, too. It has a lot of templates The solution provides many features like sales pipeline…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The product’s IVR script editor is very easy and simple to use."
"The reporting is good, and we're testing AI summaries now. Also, the workflow automation feature, so far, has been good."
"Five9's most critical feature is a common user interface that delivers consistent customer service across various channels."
"I like the ease with which we can make changes if necessary. Currently, we are using it for phone and email distribution, but we're talking about adding chat and delving into the omnichannel features more."
"The reporting is the most valuable feature in Five9."
"The admin tools are most valuable, such as using the UI to configure all the campaigns and all the settings that we use. Also, the monitoring panels it has are very good. Our supervisors and sales managers build dashboards in the solution so that we can understand how our operation is performing throughout the day. That is very useful."
"Five9 has made our contact center more flexible by taking it to the cloud. The user experience for agents is great because everything is on one dashboard, from the dialer to the workflows for transferring calls and creating tickets."
"Agent Assist and AI server are the two best features because they remind new and existing agents about tips and generate detailed case summaries, saving them the time and effort of making small modifications before posting."
"Freshsales is very simple to use, but it's fairly limited in its functionalities, and it's very cheap."
"I like Freshsales because it's integrated with Shopify which we use to host our website."
"The solution is a low-cost CRM product compared to other CRM alternatives."
"Email integration is easy."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its well-organized sales cycle, which is important to us."
"One of the most valuable features is the ability to divert deals based on the potential revenue or specific market to certain sales teams."
"Freshsales is user-friendly, scalable and stable."
 

Cons

"The SMS feature could use some improvement as far as the opt-out process goes."
"The reporting could be a bit better."
"Maybe they could do better on how we access all the data if we want the data to work outside of Five9. Sometimes, that's not the easiest process. It's not bad, but if there's an area for improvement, that could be one."
"There have also been some challenges in being able to keep the format of an original email. The solution acts as a proxy, but it's not bringing over the full format that the email came in with... Five9's email channel isn't as good as some other vendors' email channels that I've seen. But there is an upgrade coming..."
"What would make Five9 better is a partnership with an SMS AI solution, which would make Five9 pretty powerful."
"Maintaining the original DNS on Five9 across campaigns is difficult."
"The knowledge base of their support is not as strong as the IVR build."
"It would be ideal if they could combine the tools into one suite."
"The licensing costs should be based on the amount of data and number of clients that one can insert into the application."
"We can use only one domain in the basic package."
"The price of this solution could be improved as well as the reporting functionality."
"We have a problem with the time to delivery for our customers, although this is not specific to this solution. Time to delivery can be 90 days."
"It lacks customizability for complex and larger use cases."
"The reporting for this solution across all their products could be improved. Currently, we have clients who export their data from Freshservices to third party solutions such Power BI to create more comprehensive reports."
"The solution needs to improve the user experience and leads capture."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Five9 is a little expensive because of our company's size. That said, it scales pretty well. The daily usage costs and monthly fees seem about right. It's not out of line with what we'd expect from other companies. However, they seem to have a one-size-fits-all implementation fee. Most of their clients have hundreds if not thousands of seats in the call centers, so $5,000 or $10,000 is not a huge cost. It would be nice if they had a sliding scale for smaller companies."
"Five9's pricing wasn't quite as flexible as I'd hoped, but it ended up being reasonably priced overall."
"The pricing seems reasonable. I had anticipated that whatever solution we went with would be more expensive. I was actually pleasantly surprised that the features that we had in Evolve IP, one-to-one, did not cost significantly more in Five9."
"I prefer Five9's licensing model."
"The product is not the most expensive, but it's not cheap."
"Five9 is reasonable."
"Their license structure, out of the box, is better than that of other providers and their pricing is much less than other vendors we've looked at."
"The cost is not at the lower end of the market, but it's worth it."
"The price for this solution is good in general, but in Brazil we do pay additional taxes."
"If one is a very low price and ten is expensive, I rate the product price as a three."
"The tool is not that expensive."
"The basic price is affordable. The add ons are expensive."
"Freshsales is an economical product."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
17%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Healthcare Company
7%
Computer Software Company
23%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Educational Organization
9%
Government
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Five9?
I like the capability of call and screen recording. It has helped us to hold our agents accountable to the expectations for the role. It creates a clearer picture than giving feedback that is just ...
What needs improvement with Five9?
Five9 outages have been a concern for us. While I'm unsure of the industry benchmark, we've experienced three or four incidents in the past year, which feels excessive. Ideally, we'd see a signific...
What is your primary use case for Five9?
We used Five9 in a call center for a bike delivery company. We transitioned to a new call center but opted to keep using the Five9 software we were familiar with from our previous provider.
What do you like most about Freshsales?
Freshsales is very simple to use, but it's fairly limited in its functionalities, and it's very cheap.
What needs improvement with Freshsales?
The basic version has limitations. We cannot use the call functionality. We can use only one domain in the basic package. It would be great if the solution could provide multiple domains with the b...
What is your primary use case for Freshsales?
In the beginning, I used the tool to keep my business contacts. Then, we used it for our marketing emails and campaigns. It has a lot of capabilities. We can use it for daily business-related commu...
 

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