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Migrating from Five9 to managed VICIdial

Move from Five9 CCaaS to managed VICIdial — schema, workflow, change management.

Migrating from Five9 to VICIdial is a real project. Different software, different concept of campaigns, no automatic export. Here's the path teams use.

Why teams move

The pricing math. A 50-agent Five9 shop pays $7,500-10,000/mo. A 50-agent VICIdial shop on VICIfast pays $129-199/mo. That's $90-100K/year in difference, which funds a lot of integration work.

What stays the same

  • Your SIP carrier (BYO on us)
  • Your DIDs
  • Your agent skill sets (training delta is small)
  • Your CRM

What changes

  • Software: Five9 proprietary → VICIdial open source
  • CRM integration: Five9's native CTI → webhook-based
  • Reporting: Five9 BI tool → VICIdial reports + your CRM/BI
  • WFM: Five9 native → BYO (NICE WFM, Calabrio, Verint)
  • Speech analytics: Five9 add-on → BYO (we recommend Observe.ai or CallMiner)

Schema migration

Five9 doesn't expose a clean export of campaign data. Approach:

  1. Lists: Export contacts from Five9 (the data is exportable from your CRM, where it should live anyway). Import to VICIdial as standard CSVs.
  2. Dispositions: Map Five9 disposition codes to VICIdial. Usually a 1:1 with light renaming.
  3. Agent users: Recreate in VICIdial. Same logins are fine; new passwords required.
  4. Campaigns: Rebuild — Five9's "campaign" concept is similar but settings don't transfer programmatically.
  5. Recordings: Five9 stores recordings on their cloud. Export via their API or download bulk before cancellation. Plan storage on VICIdial side.

Cutover strategy

Soft cutover is the right call. 2-3 week parallel-run:

  • Week 1: New agents trained on VICIdial; pilot one non-critical campaign
  • Week 2: Migrate priority campaigns one-by-one; existing campaigns stay on Five9
  • Week 3: Final cutover, cancel Five9 (after their notice period)

We help free during the migration. Contact us.

Cost comparison

| Component | Five9 (50 agents) | VICIfast | | ----------------- | ----------------- | -------------- | | Software | $7,500-10K/mo | $129/mo Pro | | Integration / dev | One-time setup | One-time setup | | Total Year 1 | ~$120K | ~$2K |

The migration ROI is fast.