Five9 vs. Playvox

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
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
Five9Playvox
Editions & Modules
Core
$119
per month
Digital
$119
per month
Premium
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Ultimate
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Five9Playvox
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 pricing
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Community Pulse
Five9Playvox
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 …
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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.
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
Five9Playvox
Contact Center Software
Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Product A and Product B
Five9
8.0
Ratings
4% below category average
Playvox
-
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
Playvox
-
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
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Five9Playvox
Small Businesses
CloudTalk
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Score 7.2 out of 10
8x8 Contact Center
8x8 Contact Center
Score 7.5 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
CloudTalk
CloudTalk
Score 7.2 out of 10
Eleveo
Eleveo
Score 10.0 out of 10
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Google Cloud Contact Center AI
Google Cloud Contact Center AI
Score 7.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
Five9Playvox
Likelihood to Recommend
6.5
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1.0
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Likelihood to Renew
10.0
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8.5
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Usability
9.0
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2.0
(0 ratings)
Availability
9.0
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9.1
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Performance
8.0
(0 ratings)
-
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Support Rating
9.0
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3.8
(0 ratings)
Online Training
10.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
10.0
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8.5
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Configurability
9.0
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6.4
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Ease of integration
9.0
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-
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Product Scalability
9.0
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6.4
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Vendor post-sale
8.0
(0 ratings)
8.1
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
8.0
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Five9Playvox
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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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
  • 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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  • 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
  • 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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  • 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
Robust product, great reliability and support.
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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
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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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
We have had minimal downtime due to system outages since it was implemented.
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I don't think I've encountered software problems before
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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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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
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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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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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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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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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
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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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 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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I think it is the best rating based on my experience
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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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  • 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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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.