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| PBXtra Features: |
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| Flash Tutorials |
| PBXtra
is the easiest to use phone system in the world. That being said,
it has powerful features you can unlock. We have built some Flash
Tutorials that easily explain how to get the most out of your PBXtra.
Click here
to view the tutorials! |
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| Auto-Attendant |
| PBXtra's
most powerful feature is its Auto-Attendant. This is the feature
that lets callers "Press 1 for Support" or "Press
2 for Sales". PBXtra's Auto-Attendant is as easy as it is powerful.
With simple clicks of the mouse you can manage call flow, build
scheduled responses, forward calls off-site, and more. |
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| Outlook Integration |
When your phone rings, the Caller-ID will be analyzed against your Outlook Contacts. If a match is found you will see the person's name pop-up! |
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Right-click on a contact or email message to call. Your phone rings and you're connected! |
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| HUD (Head’s Up Display) |
Fonality's add-on product, HUD (purchased separately), provides your entire company real-time call control. HUD tells you who is on the phone and to whom they are talking. HUD lets you drag-and-drop new or existing calls to: someone's extension, their voicemail, your own "on-hold area", or the company-wide "parking area".
HUD also has an easy-to-use group permissions system, so you can decide what "rights" to give to an extension. This means the CEO can steal the Janitor's call, but not vice versa! |
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| Unlimited Extensions |
| Create unlimited extensions with just a few clicks of the mouse! Each extension can be customized differently - with dozens of options such as:
• Personal inbound number
• Outbound Caller-ID
• Privacy settings
• Spell-by-name directory
• Voicemail settings
• Much more! |
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| CRM Integration |
CRM
integration has never been so affordable until PBXtra! Now, with
a few simple clicks, you can make your desk phone (hard or soft)
integrate with your web browser.
This means you can make your PC open browser windows
into ticketing or sales force automation systems (e.g. salesforce.com)
in seconds! |
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| Voicemail: 600 hours |
Your
PBXtra comes with over 600 hours of voicemail storage, and four
easy ways to retrieve messages:
• One-touch from your office phone.
• Dial in remotely from any phone.
• Attached to your email as .wav files.
• Listen via our web control panel. |
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| Voicemail to Email |
| Receive
your voicemails as emails! Your PBXtra comes pre-configured to send
each employee an email notifying them of a new voicemail messages.
Or with a click of the mouse, PBXtra will attach
the actual voicemail (as a .wav) to the email. No POP3, SMTP,
IMAP, or Exchange configuration required! |
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| Operator Panel |
Fonality's add-on product, HUD® (purchased separately), provides your organization a full-featured operator panel, with enhanced busy-lamping (BLF).
HUD provides each employee with an unlimited on-hold area and an unlimited parking area - use the mouse to drag-and-drop calls! |
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| Hot Desk |
| Have more employees than you do desks and phones? No problem!
Use PBXtra’s “hot desk” feature. With a couple of clicks of the mouse, your employees will have their extension and voicemails following them from desk to desk! |
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| Music-on-Hold |
Music
on hold is as simple as uploading an MP3 file using the Web Control
Panel. With a click, callers will hear your favorite tune while
on hold.
In fact, each PBXtra Server comes with multiple
audio channels, giving you the ability to play different audio
to different classes of callers. |
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| Scheduler |
| Want
to play different messages to callers at different times of the
day? Or perhaps you want an entirely different Call Menu on weekends,
with different options for your callers to choose from.
Use PBXtra’s intuitive Scheduler to create
and apply schedules that will make your phone system work for
you - even when you have gone home for the day! |
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| Custom CTI (AGI) |
| On
the surface, PBXtra is the world's easiest to use enterprise PBX.
Under the hood, PBXtra can do all sorts of custom things such as
database dips, CTI integration, Internet look-ups (RSS feeds), text-to-speech,
and more.
Want to hear PBXtra's powerful CTI in action?
Call 310-861-4392 and press #2. |
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| Parking (drag & drop) |
| PBXtra
has always allowed for unlimited simultaneous parked calls.
Now, our new add-on product, HUD® (purchased
separately), takes parking to the next level. HUD provides all
employees the ability to view which calls are currently parked,
tag parked calls with reminder notes, and drag calls between their
extension, their on-hold area, and the parking area. |
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| Analog & IP Phones |
| PBXtra
is the most flexible phone system on the market today, supporting
all analog phones and numerous IP phones such as Cisco, Polycom,
Aastra, SwissVoice, and Snom. PBXtra supports MWI (message waiting
indicator) on all IP Phones and utilizes stutter-tone on analog
phones to indicate voicemail waiting. Analog phones support multiple
call appearances via call-waiting flash-hook.
Supporting inexpensive phones - just another way
PBXtra helps keeps your cost of ownership down. |
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| Ring-all (Blast Group) |
| PBXtra
comes with a free Blast Group. A Blast Group takes one inbound call
and rings all phones; the first to pick up gets the call.
Of course you get to choose which phones go into
the Blast Group, and which get to keep their peace and quiet! |
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| Call Forwarding |
| Users
can use their personal Web Control Panel to enable call forwarding
to either an internal extension or to an external number. |
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| Name Directory |
| PBXtra
comes pre-configured with a professional “spell-by-last-name”
or "spell-by-first-name" directory. Callers are simply prompted to “spell the first
three letters of the party’s first or last name” and
then automatically connected to the requested extension.
Don’t want to be in the Name Directory?
No problem. The PBXtra administrator can easily exclude certain
extensions from the Name Directory. |
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| DIDs |
| Have
more employees than you do phone numbers? With one click of the
mouse, you can assign an inbound phone number to an employee. DIDs
have never been so easy! |
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| PSTN Fallback |
| PBXtra
allows VoIP-users a PSTN back-up in case of Internet service interruption.
Virtual PBX products offer no PSTN back-up, and, if your internet
service goes down (there is no 100% guaranteed up-time), your business
telephone line goes down with it - which is unacceptable. Go with
Fonality, where we cover all of your bases for you!
Your PSTN-Fallback is automatic. PBXtra detects
poor (or zero) Internet quality and immediately steps your system
into PSTN mode. Seamless - just the way you need it to be!
Note: PBXtra runs in PSTN only mode if desired.
No VoIP required |
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| Telecommuters (patent-pending) |
Telecommuting
is the wave of the future - proven to increase employee satisfaction
and their effectiveness. You’ll be glad to know that PBXtra
was built with telecommuting in mind.
In fact, our telecommuting technology is so effective that it is
patent-pending
Employees can travel outside the office, or between
offices, with an IP phone (or softphone) and keep their same extension
number.
You’ll never have to leave the message,
“I am out of the office today” again. Answer your
extension from home, the hotel, even your cell phone, as if you
are still glued to your cubicle! |
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| Branch Office Support |
Purchase
a low cost PBXtra server for each office, then with a few clicks
in our control panel, link your servers to take advantage of the
following features:
• Free office-to-office calling via VoIP.
• Call forwarding to any extension in your linked PBXtra server
network
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| Web
Control Panel |
Our
award-winning web interface comes in two flavors:
• An admin panel for administrators, giving them the ability
to manage all aspects of PBXtra remotely.
• A user panel for individual users, allowing them to manage
their personal configurations (such as listen to voicemail, click
to call people back, etc.) from anywhere in the world. |
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| Plug
and Play |
| PBXtra
is truly a plug-and-play device! Each PBXtra is shipped preconfigured,
with extensions already added according to how many phones you order.
We even configure the IP phones and test them in-house
with your system to make sure that your account is up and ready
to go once you plug it in for the first time at your office!
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| Powerful
Reporting |
| From
the PBXtra Web Admin Panel, you can view real-time call logs for all
extensions with powerful search and filter parameters. We also provide
real-time billing (available for those that use our VoIP network)
so that at any snapshot in time, you can see just how much you are
spending, company-wide, on telephone calls.
From the PBXtra Web User Panel, individual users
can look at their call logs - and return calls with the click of
a mouse!
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| Conference
Bridges |
| Conference
bridges were once thought unaffordable, but now PBXtra comes pre-configured
with three on the Professional Edition and five on the Call Center Edition for free! This bridge supports an unlimited number of internal
participants and as many external participants as you have phone lines. |
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| Extension
Groups |
| Your
organization may not be flat - meaning that some employees have responsibilities
that others do not. Well, your PBXtra understands this too. Our new
"groups" system allows you to build extension groups and
then assign permissions to those groups. Examples of PBXtra permissions
are:
• Zone Paging/Intercom
• ACD - Record other's queue calls
• ACD - View queue reports
• ACD - Agent login / logout
• Call Forwarding
• Check Voicemail
• Dozens more!
If you combine our "group permissions"
system with HUD (purchased separately), you get over a dozen additional
HUD-specific "permissions", such as:
• Barge
• Call Privacy (who’s talking to who)
• Block call "stealing"
• Record my calls
• Many more |
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| Multiple
Auto-Attendants |
| Your
business may have several numbers for different departments. With
PBXtra’s multiple Auto-Attendants, direct calls to a different
call menu based off of the inbound number. |
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| Paging
/ Zone Paging |
| Want
to send a page to the whole company or just a certain set of employees?
Simply build a "group", assign that group
an extension number and begin paging them!
Note: Cisco phones cannot receive pages.
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| Intercom
/ Zone Intercom |
| Many
companies offer Intercom, but do you know any others that offer Zone
Intercom? Now with PBXtra you can dial a zone and have an
ad-hoc conference with everyone in that zone!
Note: Cisco phones cannot receive intercoms.
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| Voicemail
Groups |
| Want
to send a voice message to multiple people? Use our Voicemail Group
feature to easily build groups of people (such as your sales team).
Then just dial the number of your group, as you normally would an
extension, and leave a message. Seconds later everyone in the group
gets your new message! |
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| Advanced
Call-Forwarding |
| With
a few clicks of the mouse you can forward an extension to another
extension, a cell phone, or even to another part of your Auto-attendant.
This let's you build very creative IVR trees to meet the needs of
your business. |
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| Call
Return |
| Allow
your employees, when listening to their voicemail, to press a key
to call the person right back.
You can enable or disable this feature on a per-employee
basis
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| Call
Out |
| Allow
your employees, when accessing PBXtra's voicemail system, to make
an outgoing call. This can be a great toll-saver allowing "billable"
calls to be kept within your domain.
You can enable or disable this feature on a per-employee
basis.
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| Report
Exporting (.csv) |
| Extend
PBXtra's powerful reporting engine to create .csv files that you can
import into applications such as Excel, Access and many others. |
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| Custom
Caller-IDs |
| PBXtra
lets you customize the inbound Caller-ID name/number to each department
and let's you change your outbound Caller-ID on a per-extension basis
- allowing you to block, reveal, or change the Caller-ID of every
extension in your office!
Note: PBXtra can *not* change your outbound Caller-ID
if you are using POTS lines. For 911 reasons, POTS outbound Caller-ID
is always controlled by your carrier.
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| IVR
Authentication |
| With
a click of the mouse, you can password protect any part of your Auto-attendant.
Use this feature to protect your Conference Bridge or your priority
queues. |
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| VoIP
ready |
| PBXtra
comes VoIP ready -- with a couple of clicks of the mouse you can connect
PBXtra to VoIP Providers (SIP or IAX).
Not ready to make the VoIP plunge yet? No problem.
With PBXtra, you can keep regular calls going out over POTS / PSTN
and just use VoIP for inter-office or intra-office basis. This way
all organizational communication will be 100% free. This includes
telecommuters!
Switching to VoIP brings other PBXtra benefits,
such as: change outbound caller-ID on a per extension basis, having
more inbound than outbound lines (or vice-versa), ordering virtual
numbers from other area-codes, and more! Get VoIP'd today!
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| SMS/Pager
Voicemail Notify |
| This
feature gives you the ability to enter an SMS or Pager email address
in order to receive voicemail notifications to that device. These
notifications are short in length and do not include the actual audio
attachments.
This feature can be used in conjunction with our
Voicemail-to-Email feature. This means you can both receive email
alerts (including optional audio attachments) to one email address
and at the same time SMS/pager notifications to another address.
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| Upload
Voice Prompts |
| This
feature gives you the ability to upload highly professional pre-recorded
voice prompts when simple recordings from your phone just won't do.
Not available in PBXtra Standard Edition. |
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| Unlimited
Call Queues |
| Each
queue comes with a variety of options: • Personalized audio announcements give your
queue that professional sound.
• “Hold Time” announcement frequency customization.
• User/Agent priorities for more effective call routing.
• Hold time limits so callers do not remain in your queue
for extended periods of time.
• Caller limits for keeping queue call volume to a manageable
level.
• Length of time after fielding a call before the same agent
is called again.
• Much much more!
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| Full
Featured A.C.D. |
| A.C.D.
(Automatic Call Distribution) allows you to route incoming calls to
your Users/Agents in many different ways to facilitate your business
needs:
• Ring all - 1st to pickup gets the call.
• Ring one person at a time in order.
• Ring in order, with memory.
• Ring who was least recently called.
• Ring who has the fewest calls.
• Ring a random person.
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| Skill-based
Routing |
| Assign
each agent a priority, and your queue will distribute calls to them
accordingly. This means you can pass more leads to your star-closer,
or pass less leads to your underperformers.
PBXtra has an additional layer of prioritization
based on agent order. This means you can have similarly skilled
agents who receive calls in an ordered round-robin fashion.
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| Graphical
Queue Reports |
| View
graphical reports on every detail of your queues such as: abandoned
calls, completed calls, hold time, average call length, agent productivity,
and much more. Also view graphs of call volume and call completion
by day, weekday, or even hourly average. These averaged reports are
great tools for proper staffing predictions of your call center! |
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| Agent
Call Recording |
| Choose
an agent, and select how many of their calls you want to record. PBXtra
will then record this specified number of calls and automatically
stop recording when the limit is reached.
Call recordings capture agent name, agent extension,
date, time, Caller-ID, DNIS and file size.
Using our web-based interface, you can then listen
to calls right from your computer speakers, or download them to
your local drive.
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| Agent
Variable Log-off |
| Want
your agents to be automatically logged out of their queues upon missed
calls? Well, you can now decide, on a per-agent basis, how many calls
that agent can miss before they are logged out. |
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| Agents
on Cell Phones |
| Remote
agents on cell phones or analog home phones can now seamlessly participate
in your queues.
This means that callers will never know if the answering
agent is on an IP phone in your office, or on a mobile phone in
another part of the world!
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| On-the-Fly Recording |
Fonality's add-on product, HUD® (purchased separately), provides your employees the ability to record their own calls with the press of a button. Call recordings capture agent name, agent extension, date, time and file size.
HUD also comes with and extnesive permission system - so you decide exactly who can record their own calls and who is allowed to recod other's calls. HUD is critical for quality control withing your company or Call Center |
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| Realtime
Queue Stats |
| Would
you like to know how many callers are in your queues? Need to know
which agents are logged in? Need to know which of your agents is already
on a call? The PBXtra web GUI answers all of these questions, helping
you to manage your queues with real time stats. |
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| Call Barge/Monitor |
Fonality's add-on product HUD® (purchased seperately), provides supervisors the ability to actively barge or passively monitor any inbound or outbound call.
HUD also comes with and extensive permission system - so you can grant a specific group the ability to barge/monitor another specific group. No barging on the CEO! |
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