Five9 vs. Nextiva Contact Center

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
Nextiva Contact Center
Score 9.6 out of 10
N/A
Nextiva’s cloud contact center solution features voice, digital, AI-driven journey orchestration, customer engagement, workforce management, and analytics. The solution helps boost customer loyalty, enhance employee productivity, and reduce costs.
$129
per month per seat
Pricing
Five9Nextiva Contact Center
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
Essential
$129
per month per seat
Professional
$159
per month per seat
Premium
$199
per month per seat
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Five9Nextiva Contact Center
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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
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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.
Nextiva Contact Center
Chose Nextiva Contact Center
Because of their prices and the multiple call center options they offer.
Chose Nextiva Contact Center
We had a lot of connectivity issues and call drops that occurred daily towards the end of our contract with them. When we switched to Nextiva Contact Center, the call quality was a lot better and reporting and call monitoring was a lot easier to manage. Overall the switch over …
Chose Nextiva Contact Center
Nextiva Contact Center is much cheaper and has a bigger following online. I rarely hear any complaints and so they are the best in the business. They stack up by being number one. Everyone else is trying to compete and be like them but they won't even come close. It's …
Chose Nextiva Contact Center
Nextiva Contact Center was cheaper and more reliable. They are highly rated in fortune 500 companies. Their price and reliability is the reason why. They make it affordable for small businesses because they actually care. Never have I dealt with an organization that had …
Chose Nextiva Contact Center
Nextiva Contact Center had all of the features we needed at a very affordable price. Dialpad had the needed features, but they were locked on a super expensive tier.
Chose Nextiva Contact Center
It isn't just about clear calls- which they have in spades. The features on this platform are like little productivity cheerleaders. We can track calls, analyze performance, and even set up call routing so the right seller gets the right lead
Chose Nextiva Contact Center
We switched to Nextiva because they offered more flexible options than our previous system. Nextiva also offered a lower cost for what we were looking to do. Nextiva also allowed us to expand our contact center as we grew. The contact center allowed us to set up each phone …
Chose Nextiva Contact Center
The overall ease of setup for persons not familar with the technology was there even on weekends. Quick to respond to our needs
Chose Nextiva Contact Center
Nextiva Contact Center's solutions is more robust and have more intuitive features that RCC didn't seem to have or demonstrate.
Chose Nextiva Contact Center
Nextiva Contact Center looks great and feels good compared to some of the other providers I've used. I don't feel as much customization but that could be limited to the level of use we use the system.
Chose Nextiva Contact Center
Nextiva Contact Center has additional features that were useful for this particular business especially in gauging activity and flow to better arrange employees for peak hours.
Chose Nextiva Contact Center
Nextiva provided these contact center features out of the box compared to the other providers we compared with that required either an integration with another third party provider or at a higher cost.
Chose Nextiva Contact Center
We had a lot of trouble with previous provider, we were loosing calls and eventually loosing business and business opportunities. Our customers and prospects always had a complaint that our numbers are either silent or are not being answered. On the other hand, we had almost …
Chose Nextiva Contact Center
more features for less money, overall better service and customer service. Nextiva VoIP Call Center is an all in one software. I am able to manage contacts, fax, SMS, all on one platform instead of needing to pay multiple subscriptions and access multiple platforms. Nextiva …
Chose Nextiva Contact Center
This is the first VolP app I use.
Chose Nextiva Contact Center
we used ring central, switched dues to a support and pricing
Chose Nextiva Contact Center
Compared to Mitel, Nextiva VoIP Call Center provides better quality calls. With Mitel we had daily dropped and garbled calls. With Nextiva VoIP Call Center, we have maybe one dropped call every couple of months, and zero garbled calls. Nextiva VoIP Call Center's mobile and …
Chose Nextiva Contact Center
we chose Nextiva VoIP Call Center due to functionality at the time
Chose Nextiva Contact Center
The customer service is the most outstanding point to reference here. I hope Nextiva keeps this way of treating their customers like priority. In that way they guarantee their customers stay with them for a long. In these days knowing the customers´ needs is most important that …
Chose Nextiva Contact Center
Other Voip phone provider will offer you tons of features that in most cases our business does not really need or use at all, forcing you to sign up for a higher tier.

With Nextiva VoIP Call Center you get what you need for a lesser cost.
Chose Nextiva Contact Center
I will focus my evaluation on their VOIP system, and if I compare it to those providers I've used before. Nextiva is so simple and very helpful and the main reason is actually their pricing. If you are a start up business looking for tools to use in your calling efforts, I …
Chose Nextiva Contact Center
Nextiva is pretty much evenly matched against RingCentral and their phone system; the call quality and voice mail transcription are on par. However, Nextiva's admin portal is more cumbersome to use by comparison and the lack of an SMS feature is a definite drawback considering …
Features
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Contact Center Software
Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Product A and Product B
Five9
8.0
Ratings
4% below category average
Nextiva Contact Center
9.4
Ratings
13% above category average
Agent dashboard7.50 Ratings9.50 Ratings
Validate callers6.20 Ratings9.60 Ratings
Outbound response7.10 Ratings9.70 Ratings
Call forwarding8.10 Ratings9.70 Ratings
Click-to-call (CTC)9.90 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Warm transfer8.00 Ratings9.40 Ratings
Predictive dialing10.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Interactive voice response10.00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
REST APIs8.00 Ratings9.30 Ratings
Call scripts5.10 Ratings9.50 Ratings
Call tracking8.50 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Multichannel integration6.60 Ratings9.20 Ratings
CRM software integration8.50 Ratings9.60 Ratings
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Product A and Product B
Five9
8.6
Ratings
5% above category average
Nextiva Contact Center
9.4
Ratings
14% above category average
Inbound call routing8.50 Ratings9.70 Ratings
Omnichannel inbound routing6.60 Ratings9.20 Ratings
Recording9.00 Ratings9.70 Ratings
Quality management8.00 Ratings9.60 Ratings
Call analytics10.00 Ratings9.60 Ratings
Historical reporting8.50 Ratings9.30 Ratings
Live reporting8.00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Customer interaction analytics10.00 Ratings9.30 Ratings
Customer surveys00 Ratings9.60 Ratings
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Score 7.2 out of 10
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Score 7.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
Five9Nextiva Contact Center
Likelihood to Recommend
6.5
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9.7
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Likelihood to Renew
10.0
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9.7
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Usability
9.0
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8.6
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Availability
9.0
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Performance
8.0
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-
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Support Rating
9.0
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8.0
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Online Training
10.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
10.0
(0 ratings)
-
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Configurability
9.0
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-
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Ease of integration
9.0
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Product Scalability
9.0
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Vendor post-sale
8.0
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Vendor pre-sale
8.0
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User Testimonials
Five9Nextiva Contact Center
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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We have over 50 locations and an in-house call center, so having a united platform to perform customer service duties is absolutely critical. Nextiva Contact Center is a very effective solution for large teams and multi-location businesses. If you need to regularly report on call volume and agent performance, it is extremely helpful. A very small team may not benefit from it as much as a medium to large scale one.
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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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  • Nextiva allows you to set up the Contact Center to fit your exact needs.
  • The Contact Center has a consistency of quality. Dropped calls or interrupted calls are very rare. The voice quality is always great on both ends.
  • The Contact Center allows us to have a Call Center with 50+ numbers to assist our customers and attendees. At the same time, it allows us to have a main line for our Customer Support, Sales, etc...
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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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  • I'd like to be able block numbers globally through the web portal rather than having it done through tech support.
  • Mobile app sometimes continues to ring even though the call has been picked up via the desktop app or physical phone.
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Likelihood to Renew
Robust product, great reliability and support.
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Outside of emails, Nextiva is the only way to contact our customers and their attendees, and the only way that they can contact us. We are a smaller company, but with Nextiva we can operate and manage our contact center easily no matter how much our company grows in the future. Nextiva is a versatile tool that can fit any need
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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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We take advantage of all the options we have with Nextiva to make our customer's experience better and faster than what it used to be; by using the multiple lines, we can talk to more patients and make their time valuable.
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Reliability and Availability
We have had minimal downtime due to system outages since it was implemented.
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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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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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Every single experience with the Nextiva Contact Center has been beyond amazing! The support team is always caring and kind, and they get the problem solved as soon as possible if needed. They always follow up to make sure the issue has been resolved. That's one of the reasons why I have been a customer for so long.
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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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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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It isn't just about clear calls- which they have in spades. The features on this platform are like little productivity cheerleaders. We can track calls, analyze performance, and even set up call routing so the right seller gets the right lead
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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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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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  • With a lot of our employees doing remote work, Nextiva Contact Center phone system supports remote access which has reduced our need for physical office space and associated costs.
  • It has reduced our maintenance and repair costs associated with outdated equipment.
  • The exceptional quality of sound has led to a higher satisfaction during meetings.
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