Five9 vs. GoTo Connect

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Five9
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Five9 is cloud contact center software for inbound, outbound, blended, or multi-channel operations. This solution includes management capabilities such as campaign management, quality monitoring, real-time and historical reporting, and call recording.
$119
per month
GoTo Connect
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
GoToConnect, from GoTo, is a cloud-based business phone system with built-in web-based video conferencing solutions. It includes features such as call analytics, call recording, softphone, fax to email, voicemail to email, and desktop integration.
$27
per month per user
Pricing
Five9GoTo Connect
Editions & Modules
Core
$119
per month
Digital
$119
per month
Premium
Contact sales team
Contact sales team
Optimum
Contact sales team
Contact sales team
Ultimate
Contact sales team
Contact sales team
Basic
Starting at $27
per month per user
Standard
Starting at $32
per month per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Five9GoTo Connect
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsFive9 offers pricing options to suit your business needs: Monthly On-Demand —Companies looking to quickly scale their operations with minimum costs Per-Minute Fees — Products such as voice message broadcasting or IVR with Speech recognition Annual Contracts — Reduced fee compared to monthly on-demand pricingNo-obligation month-to-month account are available, or a long-term contract is available for better deals on service pricing and hardware. GoToConnect provides all features with unlimited use. Customer & Technical support is available 24/7 to resolve any issue. A dedicated onboarding team will help to the phone system set up for any plan.
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Community Pulse
Five9GoTo Connect
Considered Both Products
Five9
Chose Five9
As we have Salesforce for our agent's member support platform, Five9 has a very good integration with Salesforce compared to Talkdesk. With the iVR customization for our order placement and scripting for agents, we preferred Five9 over Talkdesk.
Also, for our enrollments, …
Chose Five9
Five9 has a much better integration with salesforce and allows contact center agents to be separate from back office staff that do not use the Five9 phone. Five9 allows us to route digital activity such as emails and texts just like we route calls. Five9 also had a …
Chose Five9
With Avaya Call Center Elite - Muti Channel is was competitor to Five9 which tried to push their on-prem omni channel approach. The reason it coudl not compete against Five9 was because it was not cloud based, was not flexible and added addional channels as an add on the CC …
Chose Five9
Five9 has a great learning curve, whether you're an admin, agent, or supervisor. Each role can be easily learned and mastered.
Cost was a major factor back when Five9 was the only stable and reliable contact center solution. But now they tend to be overpriced compared to Genesys …
Chose Five9
Five9 has way better features than RingCentral - Five9 has way better features including the Call script, software integration, and ability to manage outbound campaigns while RingCentral doesn't allow these features
Chose Five9
Five9 allows to call automatically to the leads in Hubspot, this wasn’t possible with Justcall.
Chose Five9
Initially selected Five9 but have since switched to RingCentral which has given us what we needed. Better CRM integration, simpler and in my opinion more robust reporting capabilities and the same omnichannel solution at a fraction of the cost.
Chose Five9
I currently use Gong.io at my current company, I really like the dashboard of Gong.
Chose Five9
We started evaluating Zendesk Talk when Five9 lost integration with Zendesk, as we use Zendesk as our primary CS database and issue tracker. However, Five9 offers better ROI than Zendesk Talk given we require unlimited minutes for our requirements, thus we continue with our …
Chose Five9
While we use Invoca and Leadspedia for more granular tracking and data, Five9 has always sort of been the end all be all. If it's in Five9, it's pretty concrete that the info in Five9 is the correct information. It doesn't matter which campaign a call came through, if it came …
Chose Five9
We recommend Five9, with 2 major reasons: Its flexibility on contract terms and base contacts are less restrictive.
Chose Five9
I have not used another dialer system other than Five9. Before Five9, we dialed our clients with lists and standard phone systems.
Chose Five9
We felt that Five9 was superior to Genesys PureCloud because of Five9's ability to better manage outbound dialing campaigns. Genesys PureCloud required automation rules to reset/refresh the list position which meant that it was impossible to keep up with our aggressive dialing …
Chose Five9
Five9 has some of the same features as competitors but offers other features that help users better complete their tasks. This could be tasks such as putting calls on hold, logging calls and reports, and multitasking on the system platform. Overall, Five9 feels very easy to use …
Chose Five9
We started with InContact and were very disappointed that you could not make changes without incurring costs for each program or project. Five9 allows us to adjust to any new clients needs without incurring costs.
Chose Five9
I've used RingCentral, LiveOps, and Sendbloom Contact in my sales career so far.

Five9 is more sophisticated and offers more customizable features than all the above products. Only RingCentral and Five9 have texting ability, but neither solution is perfect at threading …
Chose Five9
Used solutions from Cisco, VICI, SkySwitch in the past. Comparing cost, resources, and deployment time, Five9 wins for sure.
Chose Five9
I would use Five9 verses another application because it is user friendly. You can add users and manage them as your business grows, and have your stats easily accessible. The ability to use it remotely is a huge factor as well.
Chose Five9
Five9 blows Serenova out of the water. Serenova is an immature platform compared to Five9. Five9 provides many features that Serenova does not and is a much more stable platform, which is absolutely critical in our 24/7/365 environment.
Chose Five9
Better than the old ShoreTel Director we had prior to deploying Five9. But could be better!
Chose Five9
When we chose Five9, it was largely due to the research of features and functionality, plus hearing good things about it from other contact centers in our area.
One huge edge that Five9 has compared with other dialers...is that you don't pay per minute of talk time (unless it's …
Chose Five9
We looked at the differences and though it looked like a great piece of software, it was very expensive, and had a lot of features that we didn't need at the time. We may look back at them in the future, but right now Five9 suits our needs and we save a little money in the …
Chose Five9
I looked at 10 solutions and for the price along with the functionality, ease of use, ease of integration and new features such as agent desktop. I believe this solution provided the biggest bang for your buck.
GoTo Connect
Chose GoTo Connect
GoTo Connect was more complete and affordable than Zoom for what we needed. Much more affordable than teams, some features were sacrificed, but the overall experience is better in my opinion.
Chose GoTo Connect
As I mentioned, the system has given us the freedom to make changes without depending on the provider. It has also given us options we couldn't imagine being possible in a telephone system. The previous system was too controlled by the provider and didn't show us any reports …
Chose GoTo Connect
I have not managed other phone systems before and have not used phones as a large part of positions that I have had
Chose GoTo Connect
Mounds above any of the compitition. They not only beat them on price but again the customer service part in even winning the bid for us was amazing. They truley went far above any other vendor.
Chose GoTo Connect
GoTo works as expected, unlike other VOIP providers that often have unfriendly user interfaces and products that don't function as intended.
Chose GoTo Connect
Honestly, we still need to use LogMeIn Rescue because of differences in use cases, and GoTo Meetings leaves a lot to be desired if you are trying to demonstrate how to use different features of Windows or Apple products.
Chose GoTo Connect
GoTo Connect's pricing is VERY competitive, and, in my opinion, their customer service is MUCH better than Zoom's. Easy to understand their tech support agents' English, and most of their support folks are VERY well trained. You don't typically have to go into "Tier2" or …
Chose GoTo Connect
Avaya IP office was for us a complicated and inflexible on-prem solution. It could be made to do a great many things similar to GoTo, however it was not flexible and scalable in the same way as GoTo, which is to be expected of a cloud solution. In particular, as we aimed to …
Chose GoTo Connect
I think Resolve is easy to navigate and features are constantly being added. It is also very affordable. Easy setup and installation on endpoints with the ability to look at the system without remoting in to pull information. You can easily see where there a security gaps and …
Chose GoTo Connect
It was a touch cheaper, but Goto seemed to provide better value, better support, and seemed easier from a user perspective.
Chose GoTo Connect
I gave RingCentral a chance and nearly switched, but, in my opinion, their platform was terrible and their customer service worse. I understood how they were able to offer such a cheap price. They also claimed they could switch us over seamlessly, but I doubt it highly.
Chose GoTo Connect
The faxes all come to an app that we can download and print the faxes. We have been using RingCentral before we switched to GoTo. We still have RingCentral because it is easy to download and see faxes in their app. I do find having faxes emailed is easy, but not everyone has …
Chose GoTo Connect
We went with GoTo Connect because Mitel was removing its offering of on -premises PBX and forcing users to switch to their cloud offerings. This did not sit well with us which had us looking for alternatives. We met with many vendors and GoTo was the one that made the best …
Chose GoTo Connect
User friendly PBX interface. The above products have a more complex and less intuitive interface design. Pricing is also a big factor, as other products can cost more compared with what GoTo offers. In addition, the access to customer support and the quality of support …
Chose GoTo Connect
We looked at several leading phone systems, ultimately choosing GoTo Connect for functionality we thought met our needs. We ultimately thought the reception console was the best one we saw and the admin screens seemed easy to navigate. In addition, their pricing was so …
Chose GoTo Connect
GoTo has been a far superior system to both Avaya and Mitel - from available features to ease of administartion.
Chose GoTo Connect
I would say rank GoTo in this order from my list above

Chose GoTo Connect
GoTo Connect did not have the same functionality of Teams. Teams has better Meeting rooms
Chose GoTo Connect
GoTo Connect is ranked at the top of the market options. Surely the best option for small and medium size companies accross the Americas region
Chose GoTo Connect
I’d recommend GoTo Connect, if you’re looking for a reliable, all-in-one communication tool. It’s user-friendly, comes with great support, and works well for teams of all sizes.
Chose GoTo Connect
GoTo Connect serves the needs of medium-sized organizations like ours better than MS Teams. Its User Interface and call connectivity feel better than that of MS Teams. GoTo Connect was a better fit for our specific business needs, offering the right combination of telephony …
Chose GoTo Connect
GoTo Connect came from an old system called Jive. The online PBX is one of the best I have used due to is ease of setup and configuration. GoTo Connect is a setup above the rest in this aspect.
Chose GoTo Connect
Everything we need is in one system and have no connection issues and easy to access through phone and computer
Chose GoTo Connect
I just discovered the GoTo Connect here in my current company, I have been using other platform before, but this app is just right for me and in my remote set up job. Since then, I never used other platform since it has features that I really like, such as recordings, …
Chose GoTo Connect
We prefer GoTo to TeamViewer. Teamviewer had a good recording feature, but that was the only advantage.
Features
Five9GoTo Connect
Contact Center Software
Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Product A and Product B
Five9
8.0
Ratings
4% below category average
GoTo Connect
-
Ratings
Agent dashboard7.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Validate callers6.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Outbound response7.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Call forwarding8.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Click-to-call (CTC)9.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Warm transfer8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Predictive dialing10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Interactive voice response10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
REST APIs8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Call scripts5.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Call tracking8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Multichannel integration6.60 Ratings00 Ratings
CRM software integration8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Product A and Product B
Five9
8.6
Ratings
5% above category average
GoTo Connect
-
Ratings
Inbound call routing8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Omnichannel inbound routing6.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Recording9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Quality management8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Call analytics10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Historical reporting8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Live reporting8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer interaction analytics10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Cloud PBX
Comparison of Cloud PBX features of Product A and Product B
Five9
-
Ratings
GoTo Connect
8.1
Ratings
1% above category average
Hosted PBX00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)00 Ratings7.70 Ratings
User templates00 Ratings6.90 Ratings
Call reports00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Directory of employee names00 Ratings9.60 Ratings
Call Management
Comparison of Call Management features of Product A and Product B
Five9
-
Ratings
GoTo Connect
7.9
Ratings
6% below category average
Answering rules00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Call recording00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Call park00 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Call screening00 Ratings6.50 Ratings
Message alerts00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
VoIP system collaboration
Comparison of VoIP system collaboration features of Product A and Product B
Five9
-
Ratings
GoTo Connect
8.2
Ratings
2% above category average
Video conferencing00 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Audio conferencing00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Video screen sharing00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Instant messaging00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Mobile apps
Comparison of Mobile apps features of Product A and Product B
Five9
-
Ratings
GoTo Connect
5.4
Ratings
38% below category average
Mobile app for iOS00 Ratings5.70 Ratings
Mobile app for Android00 Ratings5.00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Five9GoTo Connect
Likelihood to Recommend
6.5
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9.2
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
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4.9
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.0
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7.9
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Availability
9.0
(0 ratings)
8.9
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Performance
8.0
(0 ratings)
9.4
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(0 ratings)
8.3
(0 ratings)
Online Training
10.0
(0 ratings)
-
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Implementation Rating
10.0
(0 ratings)
7.4
(0 ratings)
Configurability
9.0
(0 ratings)
-
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Ease of integration
9.0
(0 ratings)
-
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Product Scalability
9.0
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9.4
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.0
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Vendor pre-sale
8.0
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User Testimonials
Five9GoTo Connect
Likelihood to Recommend
very well suited for large number of enrollments, registrations by insurance companies. Also we recently implemented it for automating a order placement. Maybe not very well suited for live agent chat experience as there are limitations on texting, laggy performance in this area. I think its also hard to incorporate a payment system within the five9- Salesforce automation.
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I would give it a 10 out of 10 rating just because of the service and easiness it has offered us, which made our work effortless and stress-free. I do recall an instance where one of our clients' medical conditions suddenly deteriorated while he was traveling overseas. The doctors there could not understand his situation at that time. He asked them to connect with our team, and our team guided them with his medical records, and his life was saved
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Pros
  • Inbound and outbound calls it process is so well.
  • The service is so good and they give very efficient support in customer need.
  • The calls we can do in Five9 include incoming, outgoing, voicemails and we can also send a note to a specific person. It's a very reliable mode of communication.
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  • GoTo Connect is a much more cost-effective solution rather than separate phone lines and video conferencing tools.
  • I conduct daily team meetings and project brainstorming sessions using video conferencing using GoTo Connect.
  • It integrates smoothly with our regularly used tools like Google Drive and has become very easy to share the documents we use.
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Cons
  • Text. Texting is incredibly difficult on Five9. We've had issues with only some texts logging to Salesforce, issues with threading of text conversations, and issues with having Salesforce contact information appear on the text widget (knowing who you are texting, not just their phone number).
  • The interface to "pause" is challenging. There are not good reminders to our reps to remember to pause or log out of Five9. If you forget to log out, this can affect stats about who worked the longest hours that day - and it's hard to know who actually was active on the phones.
  • Inbound voicemails are too-easily hidden. It's challenging for a lot of our reps to remember to check their inbound voicemails because it is hard to access them in the Five9 widget.
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  • Making a dedicated button for "mute all" (other than yourself) for when someone "walks off before they mute"/has to quickly leave their computer....and FORGOT to Mute. Particularly when dogs are barking when someone working from home has a visitor at the door
  • I'd like to see some of the functionality from GoTo Webinar enabled for GoTo Connect: see who's "actively watching" vs has their computer screen on another application
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Likelihood to Renew
Robust product, great reliability and support.
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They are knocking it out of the park on all fronts. I love the service and support I am receiving and have no complaints. If they raised their prices substantially I would reconsider but I don't think that will happen anytime soon. They would have to mess up something consistently moving forward to make me want to move
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Usability
I wish it was a 10. For the sake of a call center, it allows me to keep it simple for newer sales reps and just focus on basic KPI's. This is not an advanced CRM used for digital approaches. It is strictly a churn and burn call center CRM for me. It is a dialer.
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Overall, it's a decent product for the price. It has the basic features our company needed when it was brand new and was not overly difficult to set up. As we've grown, it's become increasingly difficult to build out the features we want to implement within the PBX, and customer support can be less than helpful. Many of the more advanced features (dial plans, queues, etc.) take a lot of research to understand how to implement. Some of the features we paid for weren't even available when we were attempting to set them up.
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Reliability and Availability
We have had minimal downtime due to system outages since it was implemented.
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I have never experienced or heard of unplanned outages when it comes to GoTo Connect. Most of the time the unplanned outage is always local power at a site or internet service provider having an unplanned outage. GoTo's service has never failed any of our orgs yet that I know of.
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Performance
The system's performance is great. Page loads quickly. Reports are generated quickly and sent to our email or FTP. The integration did not impact the performance of our other applications. We have not seen any drop in the performance of either applications since we performed the integration.
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There is no lag in phone calls. There is no background noise or static/fuzz. Calls are crystal clear. With other dialers and phone systems, I have experienced delays between dialogue or delays with the caller picking up the phone and then being able to hear you. We do not experience this with Go To Connect.
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Support Rating
Five9's Customer Support team is also based in Manila Philippines, thus turnaround email response times for our reported issues are great for our requirements. Their CS agents also facilitate mobile calls to followup on outstanding issues and operate on a 24/7 schedule. We've also had experience working with the senior tech agents to investigate recurring issues to completion.
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Support used to be great when it was Jive support out of Utah. Now that they've offshored support it can be difficult to get a response. Our most common issues are least cost routing, and we run into support pushing back in stead of just figuring out which upstream carrier is having an issue like they used to. We often have to get our account manager involved, who is pretty strong.
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Online Training
I took the certification course for administrator and also received some tips while working with the developer during implementation. The UI was very intuitive, so I was able to figure out how things worked when I configured the users, skills, campaigns, IVR scripts. I worked with the Five9 AI team to beta test Agent Assist.
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The training videos could be more in-depth. This would help our user base so that they can feel impowered to look up information that they need without having to ask our admins every time they have a question about the system. Online training videos are also inferior to an actual person explaining systems.
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Implementation Rating
The implementation team that was assigned to us was great. The project manager was very helpful and managed the timeline very efficiently. The developer was very helpful and provided insights while helping us configure the system.
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The biggest challenge from implementation was deconstructing the mess that was our old system's config. After doing so, I believe there were primarily some methods that have worked better in the long run to implement up front, such as separating menus into separate dial plans for simpler updates, routing/re-routing.
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Alternatives Considered
We use Five9 as a tool to make and receive calls from various departments such as Customer Care, Underwriting, Claims, and others. These departments have experienced issues primarily from supervisor consoles because they sometimes lose access without making significant changes to the admin console. Although it's a tool that has helped us complete various tasks to contact our customers, it has also allowed us to replace Zoom Phone, as it makes it easier to assign new contact numbers to agents, while Zoom Phone only allows reusing numbers.

A good tool with an easy interface for new users.

They need a more minimalist look.

They need to improve the supervisor console because it's very basic.

New agents aren't receiving calls from previous agents because they don't reuse numbers.

The user group license is cheaper than the Zoom Phone license, which allows for a better ROI.
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I have nothing personal against Broadvoice and found their team pleasant to work with. The greatest difference has been the administrative portals. Where Broadvoice was confusing and I still hadn't really been able to figure it out over a period of years past some basic functions, I still had to call to get support just to provision or update phones. With GoTo, I had a functional understanding within a week and a couple years in, it is smooth sailing and no angst when needing to update or troubleshoot an issue and I have access to everything without a phone call. It is true freedom to meet my company's needs.
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Scalability
It was very easy to add additional licenses. Once we placed the order, it was activated the following day. Since it's web-based, it's very quick to deploy across multiple sites.
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Its not readily apparent to me, other than cost, where you would run into any issues with larger scale deployments. When we went live on the product, the Jive team was always willing to do mass updates for us on our extensions, users, etc. in the system, so we didn't have to do too much manual one-by-one updates.
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Return on Investment
  • ROI was not as anticipated due to lacking reporting functionality - Negative
  • Allowed us to develop a geographically dispersed call center workforce in response to the pandemic - Positive
  • Provided true omnichannel capability that we lacked in the past (Voice/Voicemail/Chat). Positive
  • CRM integration (with Salesforce) was not as expected. Negative
  • Bang for the Buck just was not where it needed to be. High cost solution. Negative.
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  • We stopped losing calls due to poor routing or not being able to make them.
  • It has helped us to be able to answer calls at any time or place, even outside of company hours.
  • We have the possibility to access these conversations from our CRM system.
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ScreenShots

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GoTo Connect Screenshots

Screenshot of GoTo App - contact center general settingsScreenshot of GoTo App - meeting chat (in-session)Screenshot of simple setupScreenshot of mobile app - ongoing callScreenshot of session controlsScreenshot of call menu