Monday, January 14, 2008

Virtual Phone System

We just changed our business phone system to a company called RingCentral. It is a virtual phone system for professionals and small businesses. We have a toll free 800 number that is used as our phone and fax. When someone calls, we set up a message that allows people to choose from seven different extensions depending on their question. On the backside of the system, you control how the call gets routed when someone presses a particular extension. If you want it to go straight to voicemail (like me), you can set it up that way. The voice mail is emailed to whatever email address you want in a WAV file. You can have each extension forwarded to a different phone # and each voice mail emailed to a different email address. Faxes arrive via email in a PDF. There are other functions that RingCentral offers, we are just in the beginning phases of learning to use this business tool to its fullest.

And guess what...all this for the low price of $29.99.