Five9 is cloud contact center software for enterprise service, sales and collections teams, joining voice, digital channels and AI agents. Sold by quote.
Five9 routes a company's customer calls and digital conversations to the right agent, human or AI, from a contact center that runs in the cloud. It is built by Five9, Inc., an independent company in San Ramon, California, that has worked on cloud contact centers since 2001. The platform is aimed at operations where each interaction matters, and Five9 Core is the layer responsible for its reliability, security and control. Five9 Engage handles inbound and outbound requests across voice, web chat, SMS, email, WhatsApp and video, with AI agents resolving routine work. Inbound calls move through a visual IVR into Genius Routing, which matches each customer to the best-suited agent by skill. Agents work in Agent Desktop with Agent Call Scripting, real-time transcription from Agent Assist and AI Summaries after each call. Five9 Orchestrate covers routing, GenAI Studio and agentic workflow automation, while Five9 Optimize groups Agentic Quality Management, AI Insights and Workforce Management behind OneVUE dashboards. Five9 Genius AI coordinates the AI across the platform and lets a team switch models without losing its context or guardrails. Five9 suits enterprise and large contact centers that run high volumes of service, sales or collections work. Its customers include hotels, retailers, healthcare providers, financial services firms and real estate companies. Supervisors get Supervisor Tools to listen in, coach an agent silently and step into a call when quality slips. Outbound teams in regulated markets run predictive dialing with controls for TCPA, FDCPA and GDPR. Buyers reach the platform through Five9's sales team, which quotes each configuration. A service floor uses Five9 to answer calls and messages, pass a conversation from an AI agent to a person with its context intact, and watch queues on live dashboards. Sales and collections teams run dialing campaigns and follow each agent's results in OneVUE. Agents working in Salesforce, ServiceNow, Microsoft Dynamics, Oracle or Zendesk get screen pops and click-to-dial, so the customer record opens with the call. A company with an existing PBX can add Five9 for CTI, IVR, ACD and predictive dialing without replacing its phone system. That is the job Five9 is hired for: keeping a large, blended inbound and outbound operation running from one cloud platform.
Features
- Included: Interactive voice response menus
- Included: Automatic call distribution queues
- Included: Skills-based call routing
- Not included: Call recording with playback
- Included: Queue callback option
- Included: Listen, whisper and barge monitoring
- Included: Power and predictive dialers
- Included: Click-to-call from CRM records
- Included: Real-time queue wallboard
- Not included: Business hours and holiday routing
- Included: Warm transfer and conferencing
- Not included: Voicemail with transcription
- Not included: Call tagging and dispositions
- Included: Call scripts for agents
- Included: SMS and messaging from call center numbers
- Included: Call history and agent performance reports
- Included: AI call transcripts and summaries
- Not included: Softphone in browser and desktop apps
Additional Features
- Genius Routing AI skills-based matching
- Visual app-like IVR for mobile callers
- Web Callback Service
- Agent Call Scripting
- Predictive dialing with TCPA, FDCPA and GDPR controls
- Supervisor Tools command center
- Call Quality Monitoring with whisper coaching and barge-in
- Call Center Statistics dashboards and alerts
Best for
- Enterprise contact centers running high call volumes
- Service teams handling voice, chat, SMS, email and WhatsApp together
- Outbound sales and collections teams dialing under TCPA and FDCPA rules
- Supervisors who coach agents live on the floor
- Teams adding AI agents beside human agents
- Companies running Salesforce, ServiceNow, Microsoft Dynamics, Oracle or Zendesk
- Hospitality, retail, healthcare, financial services and real estate contact centers
- Operations keeping an existing PBX while adding cloud contact center tools
- Organizations that buy through a sales-led quote rather than a self-serve signup
Use cases
- routing inbound callers to the best-suited agent by skill
- running predictive dialing campaigns for sales or collections
- letting website visitors request an immediate or scheduled callback
- coaching agents with whisper and barge during live calls
- summarizing each call with generative AI
- answering routine requests with AI agents across voice and chat
- watching queues, agents and service level in real time
- giving agents a consistent script for each type of call
- forecasting and staffing the floor with Workforce Management
- reviewing interaction quality with Agentic Quality Management
- spotting emerging issues from recurring conversation topics
- handling SMS and WhatsApp conversations alongside calls
- adding cloud contact center features to an existing PBX
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