Fastcall vs PhoneSuite CTI Client

Fastcall is a Salesforce-native communications platform for voice, messaging, and automatic activity logging. It handles inbound and outbound calls, click-to-dial, list dialing, voicemail drop, recording, and transcription. Users can send and receive SMS, MMS, and WhatsApp messages from Salesforce, with activity logged there. Fastcall also logs calls made through the Salesforce mobile interface. Its documented integrations include Agentforce, Sales Engagement, Einstein Conversation Insights, Einstein Generative AI, Omni-Channel, and Einstein Bots; Agentforce can use it for calls, messages, and IVR interactions inside Salesforce. A Subscriber API is available through Apex, Salesforce Flows, and Salesforce REST API actions. Fastcall connects to Twilio, using a Twilio subaccount for phone-number allocation and pay-as-you-go minutes. An active Salesforce subscription is required, and the advertised trial lasts 14 days. Essential costs $30 a month and Pro costs $60 a month, each per user with a 10-user minimum and monthly usage charges. The listed starting rate is $24/user/mo (annual).

PhoneSuite CTI Client is an on-premises Windows application for computer-assisted telephony with existing contacts and phone systems. It supports dialing, answering, transferring, holding, conferencing and call logging, depending on the phone or TAPI driver. Screen pop, click-to-dial and in-call controls are included. Contact sources can include Outlook, Google Contacts, CardDAV, ODBC databases, LDAP, CSV, Lotus Notes and ACT!, with availability varying by edition. Connectors cover Asterisk, FRITZ!Box, Android smartphones and listed phone families such as snom, Yealink, Mitel/Aastra, Fanvil, Gigaset DX and Auerswald COMfortel. Classic Outlook is supported, but the maker says New Outlook (2025) is not. Professional adds CTI Server speed-dial panels, presence management and one-to-one TeamChat; server access and presence licences may also be needed. A 30-day trial exposes the full Professional feature set. A freeware 2.2 light edition has limited calling, phone-book, journal and hotkey functions. Standard is listed at €33,003,927.19, paid once and Professional at €42,004,998.19, paid once.