8x8 Contact Center vs. Playvox

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
8x8 Contact Center
Score 7.5 out of 10
N/A
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
Playvox
Score 6.9 out of 10
N/A
Playvox, headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, offers their call center agent monitoring, coaching and QA platform, designed to motivate and improve the performance of call center agents and reps.N/A
Pricing
8x8 Contact CenterPlayvox
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Pricing Offerings
8x8 Contact CenterPlayvox
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
8x8 Contact CenterPlayvox
Considered Both Products
8x8 Contact Center
Chose 8x8 Contact Center
Although every platform has their pros & cons but the flexibility of omni channel communications all in one central suite of application window along with license pricing flexibility gave us a point to make our decision for 8x8 Contact Center.
Chose 8x8 Contact Center
I have not tried any other similar product at all. There has been no reason for me to even consider such.
Chose 8x8 Contact Center
I prefer 8x8; it has the right number of features and modes for the communication I need. I much prefer 8x8 meetings to Zoom meetings, as it is much, much easier to transition between devices when I am on the road. 8x8 is also easier to manage across multiple modes of …
Chose 8x8 Contact Center
RingCentral Contact Center and Zoom Contact Center
Chose 8x8 Contact Center
The right technology for the size contact center we have. The right RoI for migrating to a Cloud Contact Center. The E5 Microsoft license allowed us to leverage the 8x8 Contact Center integrations and not add additional cost for user PSTN. Able to reduce licensing across all …
Chose 8x8 Contact Center
we have service, training now and can use the system
Chose 8x8 Contact Center
Compared to something like a NICE InContact (which I have used/administered before too), 8x8 has less powerful scripting tools. However, their reliability and uptime is much better than NICE. You probably only should be looking at NICE if you have a really large CC and/or …
Chose 8x8 Contact Center
It's easy to contact the customer support team.
Chose 8x8 Contact Center
Because we needed a contact center environment that could integrate with our CRM and ERP.
Chose 8x8 Contact Center
Salesforce Service Cloud and Salesforce Sales Cloud
Chose 8x8 Contact Center
We selected an 8x8 contact center based on the tools available to meet our needs. 8x8 was also rated as a more stable platform than Cisco, which helped us select 8x8 for our UCaaS platform. The amount of tools available in the 8x8 Contact Center for leaders to be able to manage …
Chose 8x8 Contact Center
You could not sell service lines and new phones and always had to wait for them; 8x8 allows you to be self-sufficient.
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
Zoom's administration interface has call flow diagrams showing how calls move through the workflow
Chose 8x8 Contact Center
Prior to this we were using a private company with land lines. So, the change was amazing!
Chose 8x8 Contact Center
We had many technical issues and functions not working correctly and very poor support to help fix these issues. 8x8 Contact Center is much more advanced.
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
Nextiva is very comparable to 8x8 Work. We're moving to as we are moving away from 8x8 as a whole. Their pricing has increased and Nextiva offers comparable features for a fraction of the price including their contact center. The contact center features available for use are …
Chose 8x8 Contact Center
We have no experience with any similar products.
Chose 8x8 Contact Center
With 8x8 Contact Center, help is only seconds away! The features of Caller ID, Voice Mail, Recorded Calls, Missed Calls, Customer Service, and Dialpad calling from anywhere on your computer! It is fast and easy to maneuver through and the information is at your fingertips! …
Chose 8x8 Contact Center
We also use 8x8 for Work on a sister company. I couldn't find it in that list of products, but they use it, and as far as I know it helped the company to grow as well, just like it helped ours. The ability to "queues" was something we considered when we moved to 8x8, about 4 …
Chose 8x8 Contact Center
I was not in the decision making process.
Chose 8x8 Contact Center
I feel it provides basically every thing that is needed for the functionality. I think the help desk are easy to work with and provide good support.
Playvox
Chose Playvox
CCMath - Playvox was more intuitive to use
Chose Playvox
As far as my usage allows me to say, Scorebuddy did not open room for a dispute; in case the person evaluated does not agree with the rating she/he received, there is no possibility to document coaching and follow up on development or do the quiz for knowledge check. (I used …
Chose Playvox
My quality coach through that gives me real examples of my failures attached to my photos and voices, which give me a real improvement of my total performance and following the quality coach guidelines and I used to get my results of coaching through it because that's UI is …
Chose Playvox
Playvox is the best monitoring software I have ever seen, as other monitoring softwares don't support all tasks we need as a quality team, but in Playvox we can find all tasks we need, we can monitor the agents daily, we can make coaching sessions with the agents if they get …
Chose Playvox
Playvox stands in front of many obstacles, but it is working to develop it and there are not many problems in it unlike other things and applications, and I chose Playvox because it is useful and easy to use for small companies and works on developing the service provided in it …
Chose Playvox
Everything at Playvox is done in real-time, and our agents are working in real-time more and more these days. Playvox supplied the appropriate solution for our firm, which included intelligent decision-making and a real-time monitoring system. It's also a well-organized tool …
Chose Playvox
Playvox shows the company how their agents are doing, and shows what are the real mistakes that agents are doing to try to solve it. Sessions in Playvox are too important for the teams to improve their skills that's why my company selected Playvox its the best way to improve …
Chose Playvox
At Playvox, everything is done in real-time; today, our agents work more and more in real-time. Playvox provided our organization with the ideal answer, which was intelligent decision-making combined with a real-time monitoring system. It's also a well-organized tool for …
Chose Playvox
Playvox was my first choice because it is the platform that my company employs. I've never worked on a platform like this before. Procedures, communications, and training were not saved in previous places where I worked; they were only transmitted verbally and occasionally in a …
Chose Playvox
Playvox is the best at all points related to monitoring chats and calls also it's easy to use and all information is very clear and well organized which helps the managers to analyze agents' skills and performance, Playvox also is the best in coaching to help the agents learn …
Chose Playvox
I selected Playvox as it is the platform my organization uses. I've never worked with another platform like this. In other companies I worked, procedures, communications, and training were not saved, they were only communicated verbally and sometimes a document with what should …
Chose Playvox
I selected Playvox as it is the platform my organization uses. I've never worked with another platform like this. In other companies I worked, procedures, communications, and training were not saved, they were only communicated verbally and sometimes a document with what should …
Chose Playvox
I selected Playvox as it is the platform my organization uses. I've never worked with another platform like this. In other companies I worked, procedures, communications, and training were not saved, they were only communicated verbally and sometimes a document with what should …
Chose Playvox
I selected Playvox as it is the platform my organization uses. I've never worked with another platform like this. In other companies I worked, procedures, communications, and training were not saved, they were only communicated verbally and sometimes a document with what should …
Chose Playvox
I selected Playvox as it is the platform my organization uses. I've never worked with another platform like this. In other companies I worked, procedures, communications, and training were not saved, they were only communicated verbally and sometimes a document with what should …
Chose Playvox
I selected Playvox as it is the platform my organization uses. I've never worked with another platform like this. In other companies I worked, procedures, communications, and training were not saved, they were only communicated verbally and sometimes a document with what should …
Chose Playvox
I selected Playvox as it is the platform my organization uses. I've never worked with another platform like this. In other companies I worked, procedures, communications, and training were not saved, they were only communicated verbally and sometimes a document with what should …
Chose Playvox
I selected Playvox as it is the platform my organization uses. I've never worked with another platform like this. In other companies I worked, procedures, communications, and training were not saved, they were only communicated verbally and sometimes a document with what should …
Chose Playvox
I selected Playvox as it is the platform my organization uses. I've never worked with another platform like this. In other companies I worked, procedures, communications, and training were not saved, they were only communicated verbally and sometimes a document with what should …
Chose Playvox
I had a good experience with CloudTalk in my previous company but Playvox is much more flexible and easy to use compared to other apps Playvox can adapt with any business about monitoring and coaching Playvox have a great home page that shows data of agent every month and by …
Chose Playvox
I had a good experience with CloudTalk in my previous company but Playvox is much more flexible and easy to use compared to other apps Playvox can adapt with any business about monitoring and coaching Playvox have a great home page that shows data of agent every month and by …
Chose Playvox
I had a good experience with CloudTalk in my previous company but Playvox is much more flexible and easy to use compared to other apps Playvox can adapt with any business about monitoring and coaching Playvox have a great home page that shows data of agent every month and by …
Chose Playvox
Playvox helps us as a quality team to do all work tasks we have, as all our work tasks are provided in Playvox, as we can monitor the agents daily, coaching them immediately if they get any failure using Playvox, making gauge score by monitoring the evaluations which had been …
Chose Playvox
Playvox is more convenient for users as well as for Performance Analysts to analyze the overall performance and goals, Easy to get access and implement without hurdles.
Chose Playvox
Ease of analysis and use is one of the first reasons for choosing Playvox, as Playvox analyzed my performance very skillfully, which brought me great benefit in developing my performance and then increasing my financial return, and from my experience Playvox is one of the most …
Features
8x8 Contact CenterPlayvox
Contact Center Software
Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Product A and Product B
8x8 Contact Center
6.0
Ratings
32% below category average
Playvox
-
Ratings
Agent dashboard5.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Validate callers6.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Outbound response4.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Call forwarding5.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Click-to-call (CTC)5.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Warm transfer6.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Predictive dialing7.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Interactive voice response5.50 Ratings00 Ratings
REST APIs7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Call scripts7.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Call tracking6.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Multichannel integration3.60 Ratings00 Ratings
CRM software integration7.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Product A and Product B
8x8 Contact Center
6.6
Ratings
22% below category average
Playvox
-
Ratings
Inbound call routing8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Omnichannel inbound routing7.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Recording7.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Quality management6.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Call analytics4.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Historical reporting3.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Live reporting7.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer surveys5.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer interaction analytics8.30 Ratings00 Ratings
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8x8 Contact CenterPlayvox
Small Businesses
CloudTalk
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8x8 Contact Center
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Score 7.5 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
CloudTalk
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Score 7.2 out of 10
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Eleveo
Score 10.0 out of 10
Enterprises
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Google Cloud Contact Center AI
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User Ratings
8x8 Contact CenterPlayvox
Likelihood to Recommend
6.4
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1.0
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Likelihood to Renew
5.4
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8.5
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Usability
7.9
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2.0
(0 ratings)
Availability
9.1
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9.1
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Performance
9.1
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-
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Support Rating
9.1
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3.8
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In-Person Training
9.1
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-
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Implementation Rating
9.1
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8.5
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Configurability
9.1
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6.4
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.6
(0 ratings)
-
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Product Scalability
9.1
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6.4
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Vendor post-sale
-
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8.1
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Vendor pre-sale
-
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9.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
8x8 Contact CenterPlayvox
Likelihood to Recommend
IMO, 8x8 is great in the mid-market space. Contact Centers with 25-1000 seats. Is it perfect? No, but none of them are (Ring, Nice, Five9, Talk) they're all going to have their defects. If you're a small or micro business, I don't know if If 8x8 is the place to be. Functionally, it will work fine, but the ROI isn't good for that sized org. And, you want get the support the same way the Mid and Enterprise customers will. Another things to consider is integrations - of which, 8x8 has many. Integrations and APIs is an areas where I have really seen 8x8 making a big push in the last few years. They have a powerful CPaaS product too, but I've not used it enough to be qualified to comment on it (yet).
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Playvox is excellent for a team who knows exactly what they need in order to get better. You have full control to set your metrics, track the data and provide feedback. If you're a team looking for software that will create the solutions for you, look elsewhere. Playvox is a fantastic tool, but a terrible genie
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Pros
  • Tracks all inbound and outbound calls from our organization.
  • Gives us the ability to record and review calls.
  • Gives the user the ability to receive phone call either via computer, cell phone, or polycom phone when in-house - all received from the same static number/extension.
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  • It's easy to start evaluating since it pulls up all the data automatically.
  • It is easy to generate reports as all the data is stored in its servers and we just download it.
  • Filters make it easy to see our Associates' areas of opportunity and strengths.
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Cons
  • Post-sale support through the online ticket system is painfully slow.
  • It's hard to get in contact with people for license help and understanding why phone numbers are not properly distributed in your account. i.e. Our account has 48 free local numbers and we had to purchase 120 additional numbers. But for some reason only 25 of the 48 free numbers are being utilized, and there's no good way in the Admin UI to see which numbers are which, or reallocate paid numbers into those 'free' slots.
  • The system has bugs which pop up from time to time such as when a user uses the 'Do Not Disturb' option in their app or on their phone - it does not always turn off on the back-end of the system, even though the phone or app shows the user as available. This causes inbound phone calls to be routed directly to Voicemail, and the only notice the user has is when someone reaches out by other means to say "Why is your phone going directly to voicemail?" - which initiates a service ticket for IT who cannot see this in the admin center. And unless 'flipping' DND on then off again fixes it, it requires a ticket with 8x8 which is, as mentioned before, slow.
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  • The speed of loading the chat that I am evaluating for the customer service representative because sometimes it shows that there is an error in the load.
  • Keep a lot of information
  • It should have more languages for ease of control
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Likelihood to Renew
8 x 8 is not an ordinary system, it works well for everyday business and assists in working efficiencies. So much is required for credentialing and re-credentialing. 8 x 8 takes out a lot of the extra steps by providing smarter working features that saves time and money. Also, when faxing, once the fax is complete, you receive an actual confirmation! Absolutely love this feature.
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I do not think my organization has and 2nd thought of changing the Playvox because I am sure they cannot find another option that is as easy and smooth. There is no other option at all. Playvox is being used here in every department and the company cannot run without this. Now it is a basic need of this business
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Usability
The system is flexible, adaptable and easy to use and research. Once again the reporting is fantastic and gives up the information we need to be successful and even make changes or tweaks. The 8x8 Contact Center team is there to assist with questions when needed or to help get through an issue. Charlie Knutson is the best!!
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Playvox is an easy-to-use platform, all features are intuitive, which makes navigation easy. I never found navigation problems, I was always able to find all the items I needed, all the information is well separated, what could improve is the possibility of moving some items, putting the ones that I use the most in evidence.
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Reliability and Availability
The only issue I have ran across was on getting the updated new version
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I don't think I've encountered software problems before
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Performance
Yes everything loads quickly and its ready for use
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do pages load quickly? yes / Do reports complete in a reasonable time frame, given their complexity? yes i think / If Playvox integrates with any other software or systems, does it tend to slow them down? i don't know
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Support Rating
The initial live support person seems to be just collecting information and is outsourced. Sometimes it is difficult to communicate with them, but going through this process gets me to the right person and having my support ticket opened in order. It's usually very smooth thereafter.
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We have had multiple live trainings (Zoom). The training at the beginning of the set up was top notch. We had some additional questions about coaching and they jumped on the opportunity to help us. We have a designated trainer and account manager.
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In-Person Training
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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Online Training
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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Implementation Rating
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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From the day first, we were active on Playvox and happy with the features. It does not take much time to understand its features and its performance. A few training sessions with 'How to use' and we are experts using Playvox.
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Alternatives Considered
I prefer 8x8; it has the right number of features and modes for the communication I need. I much prefer 8x8 meetings to Zoom meetings, as it is much, much easier to transition between devices when I am on the road. 8x8 is also easier to manage across multiple modes of communication.
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As far as my usage allows me to say, Scorebuddy did not open room for a dispute; in case the person evaluated does not agree with the rating she/he received, there is no possibility to document coaching and follow up on development or do the quiz for knowledge check. (I used Scorebuddy 2 years ago).
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Scalability
It was implemented across the board in the company and has worked perfectly
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I think it is the best rating based on my experience
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Return on Investment
  • 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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  • Positive return motivation and learning[.]
  • Negative return not continuous update[.]
  • Positive return Guidance and assistance in my work[.]
  • Negative return There are no pages to explain and facilitate access[.]
  • Positive return Training to get back to better performance and learn from mistakes[.]
  • Negative return no abbreviation[.]
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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.

Playvox Screenshots

Screenshot of Give your team real-time feedback and allow them to discuss evaluation results with our built-in collaboration messaging. Generate advanced reports based on agent evaluations. Quickly identify areas of improvement and add personalized agent dashboards to give them visibility of their results. Conduct quality calibrations, to measure and identify areas for improvement. Help your team deliver consistency in their QA evaluation process.Screenshot of Provide your customer service team with all the educational information they need and allow them to take courses and paths in the learning topics they want to improve on. Identify areas in which your agents need to be trained on, send them targeted learning courses and easily track their results. Review your team’s progress and evaluate their knowledge by creating quizzes and comprehension checks.Screenshot of Connect data, measure and consolidate your agents’ KPIs such as NPS, CSAT, AHT, among many others. Detect problems when they occur. Track team progress. Give visibility. Easily measure where your team members stand and identify the KPIs they need to improve on. Create dashboards for your team to view, customize your objectives and keep track of your teams’ progress.Screenshot of Customize your online store with rewards and gift cards for team members to exchange based on their results. Reward your team with Karma Points and allow them to redeem their points in your customized online store. Publicly recognize peer with badges, based on their quality results and performance. Access our social community wall where your team can exchange ideas, ask questions and share relevant information.Screenshot of Coach agents based on the identified customer service problems, as quality is achieved by driving continuous improvement. Create coaching sessions based on your team’s quality and performance results. Based on recurring customer service problems. Tailor all sessions to your needs. Create interactive coaching cards with goals and dates of achievement to easily organize and keep track of all your sessions.