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We use the service for our law office, with 4 employees and a front desk/conference room phone. 

 

I managed to set up the Call handling template that rings everyone’s desk phone when an outside caller calls into the office. But, in order to do so, I have one “main” phone line (which is attached to our front desk phone) to handle the routing.

 

The problem then comes whenever I have an internal transfer from another office - going to the front desk - because then the call is routed back into my “ring all” instruction, causing all phones to ring.

 

Is there a way to create a rule for internal transfers that will prioritize the transfer and not “ring all” or is there a way to add another “phone line” that is the main line and carries the “ring all” command but is not connected to a physical phone? 

 

 

should be possible, but honestly your setup is not explicitly clear.
There are 3 kinds of call handling templates

  • User Call handling template
  • Site Call handling template
  • Call queue Call handling template

All of these are just bulk methods for creating custom rules. So you’re saying you created a custom rule under specific extension/s. Please clarify under which extensions. (type of ext. and how many extensions)

You say “ I have one “main” phone line (which is attached to our front desk phone)”.
Are people calling your RC company main number? and you are routing it to the front desk user ext.?
or are people calling the direct number of the front desk user ext.?


You say “internal transfer from another office”. Please confirm if this is a transfer from an extension on your account or if it is a transfer from an external number which is not on your RC account.


I get the feeling that the setup you have configured so far may not be the best way in order to achieve what you want, i.e. you might need to undo some settings?
 


If I had to start from scratch I would do something like this:

  1. Create a call queue with all members in it
  2. Auto-Receptionist > Call Handling > Route calls to the queue
  3. Create a custom rule on the Auto-Receptionist level like this
    • if caller is <enter phone number from the other office>
    • route call to front desk

 


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