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What is a cloud call center?

A cloud call center distributes inbound and outbound calls entirely over the internet. Call center agents can talk with customers and leads from any location — even from home. Any company can set up a cloud call center since it requires no physical hardware. Lower your costs with the power of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology.
How does it work?
Unlike traditional call centers that use physical equipment like desk phones and servers, a cloud call center solution uses an internet connection to make and receive calls. Once your agents are signed up on a cloud-based provider like Nextiva, they may use any internet-connected device for customer interactions.
Who is it for?
A cloud call center limits conversations to just voice communication while a contact center handles several digital channels including live chat, email, support tickets, SMS/text messages, and phone calls. If you’re looking to scale phone-based communications, then a VoIP call center might fulfill your needs over an omnichannel contact center solution.
Contact center vs. call center

Are you a large business with hundreds of agents?
If you want to route support tickets and calls based on communication channels, lead information or other CRM-related attributes, a contact center platform is the way to go. Ensure five-star customer service across all channels.

Do your customers mostly reach you over calls?
Let’s say 85% of customers contact you by phone versus just 15% via email. Here, a call center phone system can offer you real-time call analytics, remote functionality for virtual teams, and reliable VoIP telephony.
Customer experience can be your competitive advantage.
Connected agents > multiple apps
- Call Pop: Our call center phone system pulls data from your CRM instantly. Customer information displays on an agent’s screen when the phone rings. From past interactions to customer satisfaction scores, screen pop gives you all the context you need.
- Integrations: With our VoIP and CRM integrations, connect Nextiva’s cloud call center software to your favorite apps. Why switch between business tools, when you can call right out of your CRM!
- The NextivaONE App: Let agents configure their Automatic Call Distribution (ACD) status, sign in or out of call center queues, chat with team members, and take calls on their mobile phones.
Match callers with the right agents at the right time.
- Call routing: Manage the ways you route calls with Nextiva’s call center PBX. Advanced call routing distributes calls to the right agent based on their skills. Set up call routing based on the time of day, caller ID, auto attendant selections, and other criteria.
- Click to call: Click on any phone number in your CRM or the NextivaONE App to initiate phone calls. One-click dialers reduce human errors, speed up callbacks, and let you log more call notes. Goodbye, misdials!
- Advanced IVR: Replace multi-level phone menus with automated call flows using speech recognition. Our Smart Attendant lets you create personalized interactions with callers. Virtual Agents can also handle basic requests while your reps focus on higher-value conversations.
- Call flows: Want your toll-free phone numbers to offer a unique caller experience? Design your call flow on a canvas with drag-and-drop simplicity. Export your call flow and have a record for reference. Get your IVR up and running in minutes.
Robust reporting and supervisor tools
- Call monitoring: Nextiva’s call monitoring dashboard tracks live call center statistics and agent performance metrics. Accessing call queues, DNIS support, call routing policies, and call center thresholds is effortless.
- Call recording: Call recording is one of the best ways to get call insights directly from your cloud call center. Turn this feature on for Quality Assurance (QA) of sales, support, and service teams for ongoing coaching.
- Customer support metrics & KPIs: Make better decisions with call data like Talk Time, Abandoned Calls, Call Volumes, and Agent Availability. Measuring agent performance is easy with scheduled reports and visual call analytics available inside our call center software.
If you care about agent performance,
you won’t just use any cloud call center.
On-premises vs. cloud call center
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- Writing
- Time to market
- PBX Servers
- Extra line installation
- System updates
- Data storage
- Lengthy contracts
- Taxes and fees
- PBX Servers
- Monthly rate per user
- Taxes and fees
Cloud call center: Plans & pricing


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Essential
Start your contact center here
Empower your team to deliver exceptional support across voice and web chat—the channels your customers use most. With built-in journey orchestration, smart automations, and intelligent routing, you’ll resolve issues faster, personalize every interaction, and scale with ease as you grow.
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Maximize productivity by incorporating both inbound and outbound calls to agents’ workflow.
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Build a complete customer journey with drag-and-drop ease. Incorporate IVR, enhanced routing, voice bot-to agent hand-off for a blended AI and human experience.
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Increase productivity when AI takes call notes for you in real time and creates an automatic summary of the conversation.
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Improve first-call resolution by routing callers to best-fit agents equipped to handle interactions specific to area of expertise, language, or demographic.
Professional
For teams ready for more
Built on everything in Essential, this tier adds support for more channels, along with dynamic scripting, intelligent routing, and self-service powered by easy-to-build workflows. Equip supervisors with the insights they need to optimize team performance and deliver consistent, high-impact service as you grow.
- Advanced self-service capabilities
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Improve agent performance and training opportunities by empowering supervisors to monitor both voice and digital interactions, providing instant feedback to agents.
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Built right in, an AI bot ensures PCI-compliant transactions where agents neither see nor hear credit card information.
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Progressive and Predictive Dialing streamline outreach, with Quarterback Mode routing live calls to available agents for efficiency and personalization.
Premium
Premium support without limits
Built on everything in Professional, this tier unlocks unlimited channels, limitless intelligent routing, and secure in-conversation payments. Streamline complex customer journeys with advanced workflows—and give your team everything they need to deliver fast, secure, and seamless experiences at scale.
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Ensure you’re properly staffed by surfacing and analyzing historical data such as volume, wait time, and more.
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Send callers to the best-fit agent based on skills, language, or expertise—helping resolve issues faster on the first try.
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Generate advanced insight on existing data by creating and visualizing customized data drill downs.
Compare plan features
Highlighted Capabilities
Connect with customers across voice, chat, SMS, email, social, messaging, and webforms—all in one seamless, integrated experience.
Seamlessly manage and route incoming customer calls to the right agent for fast, effective support.
Enable agents to easily place calls for sales, follow-ups, or proactive outreach—right from their unified workspace.
Let agents handle both incoming and outgoing calls in a single interface—maximizing productivity and reducing idle time.
Progressive Dialing lets agents preview contact details before each call, enabling more personalized conversations.
Predictive Dialing automates high-volume outreach by dialing multiple contacts on behalf of agents.
Activate Quarterback Mode to further streamline predictive dialing by intelligently routing answered calls to available agents.
Plan, execute, monitor, and optimize specific sales or service campaigns incorporating outbound and inbound strategies.
Automate your workflows by connecting your go-to tools and building smart, seamless processes across systems.
Create consistency by guiding agents through interactions using prompts and flexible scripts.
Let callers reach the right person quickly by typing the first few letters of a name—no receptionist needed.
Gather feedback or qualify leads by sending surveys through SMS, email, or voice prompts—right after an interaction.
Keep customers informed with automated updates, like order status, service alerts, or appointment reminders—before they need to ask.
Track performance instantly with customizable dashboards for agents and supervisors—so you can monitor key metrics as they happen.
During peak call times and after hours, prompt incoming callers to leave a voicemail and receive a call back. Execute an outbound call campaign and leave pre-recorded messages when the call goes unanswered.
Agents and supervisors can connect instantly via internal chat no need to leave the platform.
Let customers get quick answers through automated webchat or SMS bots, with the option to seamlessly transfer to a live agent when needed.
Enable powerful self-service with bots that follow complex rules and pull real-time data from integrated systems.
Connect your data by integrating Nextiva with your favorite tools using REST API.
Create automated processes with a drag-and-drop workflow engine
Send callers to the best-fit agent based on skills, language, or expertise—helping resolve issues faster on the first try.
Keep an encrypted record of voice conversations
Keep every interaction connected with stitched conversations that follow the customer across channels—voice, chat, SMS, and more—so agents always have the full context, no matter where the conversation started.
Maintain a complete view of each customer by syncing with your favorite CRM—or use Nextiva’s built-in contact database to store details, track interaction history, and power personalized service.
Let customers request a call from an agent directly in the chat window—no waiting on hold. Boosts convenience, reduces abandonment, and transitions smoothly from chat to voice.
Offer callers the option to keep their place in line without waiting on hold. ACD automatically calls them back when an agent is available—improving CX and reducing queue frustration.
Enhance training and coaching by capturing and recording an agent’s screen.
Geo-redundant disaster recovery ensures your contact center is up and running despite regional outages or disasters.
Provide customers payment privacy protection by ensuring agents can neither see nor hear credit card details.
Connect agents to supervisors in real time with agent hand raising, screen share, and whisper coaching.
Simplify and optimize scheduling efforts to match workload and business hours, time of day/year, and more
Generate advanced insight on existing data by creating and visualizing customized data drill downs.
Automatically capture the content of voice conversations in real time and create post-call summaries.
Looking for a full-service cloud contact center?
And why Nextiva’s call center?
Fully cloud-based call center
Every feature you need to power your call center.
- Automatic call distribution and forwarding
- Built-in reporting with live dashboards
- Excellent call quality with HD codecs
- Customizable outbound caller ID
Easy and fast account setup
Deploy your call center in record time.
- Professional account onboarding available
- Transfer phone numbers and add more later
- Adjust settings in an elegant online portal
- 24/7 support via phone, chat, and email
Works with your current business apps
Integrate your existing tech stack with Nextiva.
- Close more sales using Salesforce, HubSpot, and Zoho CRM integrations
- Helpdesk integrations enable you to assist more customers via Zendesk and ServiceNow
- Use Nextiva on iPhone, Android, Windows, and macOS
- Compatible with hundreds of Poly, Cisco, and Panasonic VoIP phones
People love Nextiva. See why
“Nextiva is top-notch. Since starting to work with them, I’ve encountered legitimately some of the best customer service in any realm. It’s outstanding.”
Chris Hayes
IT Director, The Conan O’Brien Show, Burbank, CA
Chris Hayes
IT Director, The Conan O’Brien Show, Burbank, CA

“I can’t really say enough about the support. Nextiva is top-notch when it comes to any issues that I have. It is thorough, it is responsive, and it’s professional.”
Rich Sparkman
Director of Technology, Shelby American
Rich Sparkman
Director of Technology, Shelby American

“What I like the most about Nextiva is how scalable it’s been. We started at 400 employees, and we’re at almost 1800 employees now.”
Annie Izquierdo, Leadership & Process Trainer
Titan Solar Power
Annie Izquierdo, Leadership & Process Trainer
Titan Solar Power

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Cloud call center FAQs
How long will it take to set up Nextiva’s call center phone system?
A call center can be added to an existing virtual phone system in a matter of minutes. A wizard takes you through the features that need to be configured, and lets you add agents and supervisors. Additional features or customizations can be added or adjusted within a few minutes.
Can I access your VoIP call center on my browser or mobile device?
Agents can access the call center dashboards and adjust their call center availability from their desktop browser, or using a mobile application. Users can also take calls from the call center using their mobile application.
What happens after I sign up for Nextiva’s call center solution?
Nextiva’s team of advanced account technicians will work with you to understand your needs in a call center and help you design a call flow that best suits your business.
Depending on the size of your business and individualized needs, onboarding can take anywhere between a few days to a few weeks.
The process of porting a phone number from your previous provider typically takes 7-14 business days.
Nextiva’s onboarding provides remote installation with phones from Nextiva.
On-site installation (optional) is available at an additional cost. Phones are shipped by ground unless you request a different shipping method.
Can I keep my existing numbers?
Yes, Nextiva provides companies free porting for all lines of service. All you need is a recent phone bill or proof of ownership of one or more phone numbers.
After you complete an online letter of authorization, Nextiva’s porting specialists will take care of everything to ensure your move to cloud phone service is successful. They’ll inform you of your port-in date, and you’ll be good to go.
See how easy it is to move your phone numbers in this short video:
If you have any questions, let us know so we can help you at every step along the way. Trust us — we’ve seen and heard it all.
Can I set up custom integrations with my cloud call center software?
Nextiva can provide details on API integrations that you or your teams can use for custom workflows. Additionally, Nextiva has integrations with many tools. If you’re not sure, please reach out to a Nextiva support rep.
You can also purchase a custom integration for in-house tools that you would like, but this process can take time to customize and test.
Am I charged per user or per line?
Each user who can place or receive calls is considered one line of service. You are charged for the maximum number of users you can create for your account.
Also, some standard taxes and fees apply to each line of service on an account. For more information or tax details by state, click here.
What is a cloud call center?
A cloud call center is software for running a business call center where the software technology is hosted in the cloud by a third-party vendor. A cloud call center uses the virtually-hosted software to handle inbound and outbound calls between agents and customers or prospective customers.
How does a cloud call center work?
Cloud call centers work by utilizing VoIP (voice over internet protocol) technology to route calls through the internet, rather than traditional phone lines. All calls are routed through the call center software that is hosted in the cloud at your third-party vendor. This type of virtual call center allows your team to work virtually since they can accept phone calls from anywhere with the internet, rather than being bound to a specific desk with a hardwired phone.
What are the benefits of cloud calling?
There are many benefits of cloud calling, one of the top reasons being lower cost and less maintenance for your team. Since the phone lines and call center software are hosted in the cloud by your third-party vendor, you do not have to worry about the maintenance and upkeep of running your own servers. Cloud calling is easy to set up and use since the software is equipped to handle massive amounts of data, which is all housed with the vendor.
Other benefits of cloud calling include:
- Cloud calling is more efficient than on-premises set up
- Easy to scale when you need to add new lines or agents
- Reduced need for office and server space
- Automatic call routing can help manage employee workload
- Security
- Equipped for remote and hybrid work teams
What is the difference between a contact center and a call center?
A call center handles incoming and outbound calls. A contact center, on the other hand, is omnichannel, meaning it handles several types of communication methods including calls, text messages, live chat, email support tickets, and more. Contact centers are becoming increasingly popular as customers prefer to contact businesses in manners beyond phone.
Having your head(set) in the clouds is a good thing
Especially when you’re running a business
When your staff can skip the commute and you can manage everything from routing to productivity from your screen, things start looking up.
A cloud call center opens up opportunities for expanded employment pools, quick scalability, and real-time reporting — all of which help drive smart growth and real profits.
A cloud call center is one that has its technology hosted in the cloud by a third-party vendor. These call centers consist of customer service or sales representatives handling inbound and outbound calls via VoIP (voice over internet protocol). By utilizing cloud-based technology, these agents can work from home, work hybrid, or take calls from anywhere with internet connection.
Why are these companies switching to cloud call centers? For one, you could potentially save up to 70% in operation costs by cutting salaries to manage the physical equipment. A standard call center has overhead expenses such as real estate expenses, higher overhead costs, and higher turnover rates as compared to cloud call centers where agents can be more flexible in work location.
Cloud call centers allow you to drastically reduce costs in the following ways:
- Minimize office real estate expenses since you don’t need server space
- Expand your team with work-from-home staff
- Avoid expensive areas and hire top talent from anywhere
- Lower add-on expenses when you grow and scale your business
- Increase retention due to higher agent satisfaction
A cloud call center solution can also positively improve your customer experience. A study by Oracle shows that 86% of consumers will pay more for a better experience – proof you should invest in efforts to improve your customer experience. A cloud call center is a simple way to invest in improving your customer experience. Here’s how.
You can use automatic call routing to create call queues that send customers to agents who are skilled in handling their type of request. You can improve customer experience by having an agent always available via the routing features and on-the-go capabilities. A cloud call center will also give you access to call analytics and data that can show the complete customer journey and where you might need to make adjustments to improve the customer experience.