Playvox vs. Zendesk Suite

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
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
Zendesk Suite
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
Zendesk is a customer support solution with built-in ticketing, conversational messaging, and live chat, designed to help businesses of all sizes and industries deliver personalized service at scale. Zendesk's AI agents are trained in CX to help Service teams resolve customer issues faster and more accurately while still providing a human-centered experience. Zendesk ultimately aims to help businesses improve time to value, reduce effort per ticket, and keep costs low.
$69
per month per agent
Pricing
PlayvoxZendesk Suite
Editions & Modules
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Suite Team
$69
per month per agent
Suite Growth
$115
per month per agent
Suite Professional
$149
per month per agent
Suite Enterprise
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
PlayvoxZendesk Suite
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details20% discount available with annual pricing.
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Community Pulse
PlayvoxZendesk Suite
Considered Both Products
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 …
Zendesk Suite
Chose Zendesk Suite
I haven't really used other services of this kind for some time now, but that is simply because Zendesk Suite has provided us with everything that we have needed, and have also continue improving a developing new features through time.
Chose Zendesk Suite
Hands down winner. Not even a competition.
Chose Zendesk Suite
Zendesk Suite seemed to have a lot more customization and flexibility. We have multiple "brands" that need to follow different flows and have different needs and Zendesk Suite allowed us to easily do that. We also had strong needs for a help center and liked how their worked …
Chose Zendesk Suite
We appreciated the app features and the overall features so we decided to stay with Zendesk Suite for our business needs
Chose Zendesk Suite
Although Zendesk Suites has a higher value when it comes to it's pricing, Zendesk offers more features and functionality also Zendesk Suites has already established it's name and is trusted by many businesses and organizations. Other similar products maybe cheaper and simple …
Chose Zendesk Suite
Just a simpler experience that doesn't need all the bells and whistles of a fully ITIL based platform.
Chose Zendesk Suite
Zendesk Suite is very similar to the companies we listed, but, in my opinion, there are a lot of things that these companies do right that Zendesk Suite fails at. Particularly reporting and phone systems. We have looked into Five9 in great detail to replace our current phone …
Chose Zendesk Suite
Zendesk Suite comes with a complete package. Right from receiving customer calls to responding emails. Managing tickets and following up with customers for required information. This tool feels like the place where you can Manage more of the things
Chose Zendesk Suite
Zendesk Suite ultimately is very capable and highly configurable. When you really get to know what options exist, there are a lot of workflows you can build for your support operation that can improve agent efficiency, and lead to higher CSAT.
Chose Zendesk Suite
Create mobile-friendly, personalized support request forms with Formstack’s easy-to-use builder ,Auto-add new support tickets to Zendesk CRM and alert your first available team member Build better customer relationships by storing everything in one, secure place and improving …
Chose Zendesk Suite
Zendesk Suite is way less complicated than Salesforce. The response from the team is prompt if the company is in need. It's all in one place. Commercial friendly as well. Cost effective to what we pay. Used by MNC's hence better clarity of the suite even brand wise. Zendesk …
Chose Zendesk Suite
Netsuite has basic case management suits and it lacks essential features for CX purposes. From reporting prospective, it lacks basic requirements. Zendesk Suite, however, comes with feature rich cx experience for the team as well as users. On the self help portal, users have …
Chose Zendesk Suite
Gorgias is easier to set-up and use on a basic level, however doesn't offer as many customizations. Zendesk Suite is a better choice for our scale, and the needs of reporting.
Chose Zendesk Suite
The customisable reporting every time. Our leadership reply on me to run my team and want to know what customers are telling us so they can elevate our products. We have extensive custom reports that tie up all aspects of our product and customer journeys. I've not found …
Chose Zendesk Suite
Zendesk Suite provides a unified agent workspace and advanced AI agents, flow builders, customer intent as well as triggers, automations and rules that drive efficacy unlike Freshdesk.
Chose Zendesk Suite
Zendesk Suite is exceptionally user friendly and highly customisable. Free training for all levels and roles of users which is easy to follow and engaging for users is particularly helpful along with the added support behind the scenes from Zendesk support and the Zendesk …
Chose Zendesk Suite
We used Zendesk Suite initially to bring live support to our customers and it was a success, however we have since migrated away from Zendesk Suite in favour of Genesys Cloud CX. Our IT team had previous experience with this platform for our phone system and it offers many …
Chose Zendesk Suite
Zendesk was the most organized, integrateable option between the other options I've used before.
Chose Zendesk Suite
Zendesk is above and beyond better than Goldmine. We still use it for historical purposes, but for all new trouble tickets it's definitely Zendesk Suite all the way. The only advantage goldmine has over Zendesk Suites is that our sales people can access information about …
Chose Zendesk Suite
The fact that Zendesk will allow us to integrate a lot of apps by our own, to create rules, triggers, automation and severall other features by our own was a great opportunity. - even in the situation we are, that we are not having the people available to adjust the support …
Chose Zendesk Suite
Freshdesk lacks the integration across channels. Their chat and email experience feels disconnected. Their reporting lacks customizability and some data is just not available.
For agents pulling in external information is more complex due to it's lack of fully integrated apps …
Chose Zendesk Suite
Zendesk suite provides assistance; you can chat, email, call, keep track of all the business SLAs, productivity, and customer messages, and send and share links to easily access our website. It is very important in rearranging our workflow, minimizing breaching tickets, and …
Chose Zendesk Suite
Although these newcomers have great UIs and are excellent products (particularly Intercoms AI Fin agent), Zendesk still offers a robust stability I find more secure to use, particularly for companies with strong ISO compliances to cater to and uphold. Zendesk is still in a …
Chose Zendesk Suite
we have chosen to use Zendesk because we have read reviews from other companies, we have researched so we would exactly how it works and what benefits it would bring to our business to better our customer's experience without any hassles or difficulties and without delaying the …
Chose Zendesk Suite
In my opinion, comparing with intercom Zendesk Suite is far superior in every customization, automation and escalation aspect
Features
PlayvoxZendesk Suite
Incident and problem management
Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
Playvox
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Ratings
Zendesk Suite
8.8
Ratings
9% above category average
Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings9.20 Ratings
Expert directory00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings8.40 Ratings
Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings9.30 Ratings
Ticket response00 Ratings9.30 Ratings
Self Help Community
Comparison of Self Help Community features of Product A and Product B
Playvox
-
Ratings
Zendesk Suite
8.5
Ratings
8% above category average
External knowledge base00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Internal knowledge base00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Multi-Channel Help
Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Product A and Product B
Playvox
-
Ratings
Zendesk Suite
9.0
Ratings
15% above category average
Customer portal00 Ratings9.20 Ratings
IVR00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Social integration00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Email support00 Ratings9.40 Ratings
Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings9.20 Ratings
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Score 9.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
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Score 10.0 out of 10
Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)
Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)
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Calabrio WFM
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SysAid
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User Ratings
PlayvoxZendesk Suite
Likelihood to Recommend
1.0
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9.0
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Likelihood to Renew
8.5
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10.0
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Usability
2.0
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8.9
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Availability
9.1
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8.6
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Performance
-
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8.0
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Support Rating
3.8
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5.5
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In-Person Training
-
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10.0
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Online Training
-
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7.9
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Implementation Rating
8.5
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9.0
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Configurability
6.4
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9.3
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Product Scalability
6.4
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Vendor post-sale
8.1
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Vendor pre-sale
9.0
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User Testimonials
PlayvoxZendesk Suite
Likelihood to Recommend
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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Benefits of Zendesk Suite:
Support across channels In the case of a retail company with chat, email, WhatsApp and social DMs all piling up together, agents do not have to change tabs - everything comes into one screen in the Suite.
An example could be a representative for this e-commerce company on a sale weekend when they have live chat up, and also must deal with emails and complaints on social. Zendesk Suite handled all of this interaction seamlessly.
Knowledge base + self service: A SaaS platform receiving constant flow of "how do I reset my password" questions. You set up a help centre once, and are able to deflect hundreds of tickets for months and years.
Even better when combining with Answer Bot, where the bot begins suggesting articles without even a human interacting with the tickets.
Scaling customer service teams: A startup that has just expanded from 5 customer service representatives to 50 customer service representatives. Zendesk Suite automates routing, SLAs, macros, and analytics, when it could never work with Google Workspace + sticky notes.
This is especially helpful when managers want to be able to report or analyze ticketing conversations to see trends in perhaps their backlog, or a customer service representative is running into consistent workflows.
Globalization: A company with support teams that are spread across time zones and languages. Zendesk Suite enables for business hours, language packs, and localized help centers. It even comes with routing either by skill or region
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Pros
  • 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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  • UI/UX; mature macros and automations, slick and well thought out UI.
  • Reporting, reporting, reporting. With user, org, and ticket level tags, we can track every aspect of our ticket flow.
  • Extensibility; the app marketplace is a great resource for expanding functionality from the baseline offering.
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Cons
  • 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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  • The development of messaging out of the earlier Chat module is clunky and still has limitations for multi language flows.
  • When creating queries in Explore, you can't search for 'or' conditions, only 'And', meaning you have to build multiple queries and manually add them.
  • You can't download the charts in the reports, they come down as tables and then you have to make your own charts.
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Likelihood to Renew
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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Zendesk is super easy to use and navigate. I really enjoy the sleek layout, the ability to tailor tickets, the macro option, and the quick key guide they have to make your use of time even more effective. My whole team loves working with Zendesk and rarely ever has problems.
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Usability
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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I used to work without a ticketing service, and everything was handled on an email provider, this made it very difficult to track, no integrations to the software complicating the use of internal tools or other software like Guru, Zendesk Suite wasn't hard to learn, in fact it was very easy, very straightforward, and I was an admin learning to use several tools at the same time.
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Reliability and Availability
I don't think I've encountered software problems before
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In the past year, I'd say I have only noticed maybe two hours total of downtime in my own usage. Very minimal.
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Performance
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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There has been minor performance degradation on a very few days out of the two years I have been using the product.
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Support Rating
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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We rarely need to contact their support team, but when we do they are responsive. However there have been notable times when communication between myself and the support rep was challenging despite me providing clear explanation of the issue, screenshots, and a thorough explanation of the goal we hope to achieve. It took several back and forth attempt, on a few occasions, to get resolution on an otherwise simple request
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Online Training
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Zendesk has tons of available material for training - videos, webinars, articles, etc. The only reason this is not a 10 is because it can be hard to figure out how to navigate to these things and find what you are looking for.
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Implementation Rating
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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There is not a lot of implementation, it's all setup and you just start using it. We did do some email to ticket setup and that worked really well. The only thing that didn't work for us was the Salesforce integration, maybe your mileage will vary.
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Alternatives Considered
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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Even these two have a ticketing system but that I also used previously but Zendesk Suite has a very clear ticketing system - it does not take much time to understand and use it, the interface is easy and the automation system also works up to the expectation, it is not just easy for the users but for us from the backed support as well, it is so user-friendly.
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Scalability
I think it is the best rating based on my experience
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WHY we will use Zendesk in HR and PD internally
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Return on Investment
  • 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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  • Customer Success looks at ticket resolution surveys as part of their CSAT scores and either thanks their customer for a positive review or reaches out if it's a negative review.
  • Sales uses Zendesk to make sure their new prospects are getting POCs properly set up quickly and fix any issues while they do a trial of our tool.
  • Onboarding uses Zendesk to quickly make sure new customers implementations and user access are set up to help them start implementation faster.
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ScreenShots

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.

Zendesk Suite Screenshots

Screenshot of the Zendesk Agent WorkspaceScreenshot of Omnichannel MessagingScreenshot of Zendesk TicketingScreenshot of Bots powered by Zendesk AIScreenshot of Tone shift with Zendesk AIScreenshot of Zendesk ticketing side conversations