FONcall®

FONcall® is a plug-in for the Firefox web browser which turns any phone number on any web site into a click-to-call link. Click the link and your phone will automatically dial — it’s that simple. FONcall will even take your Aastra off-hook so the whole experience is hands-free. Use FONcall with CRM software for instant productivity gains.

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 and holidays (new!), with different options for your callers to choose from. Use Fonality’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!

Night Mode

Have a small office that opens when your first employee arrives and closes when your last employee leaves? Night mode is a feature for companies that want to "turn on" their phone system in the morning with a few key presses and put it to night mode at the end of the day with a few key presses.

BLF (Busy Lamp Field)

Want to glance quickly at your phone and view the status of employees’ extensions? Fonality now has BLF with Aastra phones. From the company directory in the User Control Panel, you can now set and sort the employees that you would like to appear on your BLF buttons.

Auto-Attendant (IVR)

Fonality’s most powerful feature is its Auto-Attendant. This is the feature that lets callers "Press 1 for Support" or "Press 2 for Sales". Fonality’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.

Voicemail: 1000 Hours

Your Fonality system comes with over 1000 hours of voicemail storage, and 4 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.

Voicemail-to-Email

Receive your voicemails as emails! Your Fonality System comes preconfigured to send each employee an email notifying them of new voicemail messages. Or, with a click of the mouse, configure your extension to attach the actual voicemail (as a .wav file) to the email. No POP3, SMTP, IMAP, or Exchange configuration required!

Hot Desk

Have more employees than you do desks and phones? No problem! Use Fonality’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.

Music-on-Hold

Music On Hold (MOH) is as simple as uploading MP3 files using the web-based administration panel. Fonality Small Office comes with 2 playlists, Enterprise and Call Center come with unlimited playlists, giving you the ability to play different audio tracks for calls coming into different departments or queues. Use MOH creatively to highlight promotions to new customers, up sell current customers, or assuage angry customers calling your support team.

Custom CTI (AGI)

On the surface, Fonality is the world’s easiest-to-use enterprise PBX. Under the hood, Fonality can do all sorts of custom tasks such as database dips, CTI integration, Internet look-ups (RSS feeds), text-to-speech, and more.

Analog & IP Phones

Fonality is the most flexible phone system on the market today, supporting all analog phones and numerous IP phones including Aastra and Polycom. Fonality 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 Fonality helps keeps your cost of ownership down.

Ring-All (Blast Group)

Each Fonality System 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 enjoy peace and quiet!

Call Forwarding

Users can use their personal Web Control Panel to enable call forwarding to an internal extension or external number.

Name Directory

Fonality comes pre-configured with a professional "spell-by-last-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. Your Fonality System administrator can easily exclude specific extensions.

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!

VoIP-Ready (Unlimited)

Fonality comes VoIP ready – with a couple of clicks of the mouse you can connect the Fonality System to an unlimited number of VoIP Providers (SIP or IAX). Not ready to make the VoIP plunge yet? No problem. With Fonality VoIP Phone System, 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 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!

PSTN Fallback

Fonality 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. Fonality System detects poor (or zero) Internet quality and immediately steps your system into PSTN mode. Seamless – just the way you need it to be! Note: Fonality System also runs in PSTN-only mode if desired. This means that you can use Fonality without any external VoIP!

Telecommuters

Telecommuting is the wave of the future — proven to increase employee satisfaction and enhance their effectiveness. You’ll be glad to know that Fonality was built with telecommuting in mind. In fact, our telecommuting technology is so effective that it’s patented! Employees can travel outside the office or between offices with an IP phone (or softphone) and keep their same extension numbers. Never again will you have to leave the message, “I am out of the office today.” Answer your extension from home, the hotel, or even your cell phone as if you’re still glued to your cubicle!

Branch Office Support

Purchase a low cost Fonality server for each office, then with a few clicks in the control panel, link your servers to take advantage of free office-to-office calling via VoIP, four-digit dialing between any employee, and call forwarding to any extension in your linked Fonality server network.

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 Fonality remotely.

·         A user panel for individual users, allowing them to manage their personal configurations (such as listen to voicemail, set up call forwarding, enable FindMe, and much more) from anywhere in the world!

Powerful Reporting

From the Fonality 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 Fonality Web User Panel, individual users can look at their call logs - and return calls with the click of a mouse!

FindMe®

Allow callers to find you wherever you are: on your cell phone, at home, or at a branch office based on rules you create. Make FindMe work for you with various features such as: a scheduler, simultaneous ringing, and privileged lists. Our new FindMe feature is even smart enough to sense when you have walked away from your desk and thereby ring you on your cell phone.

Boomerang®  Mobile

Welcome to our trademark Boomerang Mobile Integration feature. Used in conjunction with FindMe, Boomerang Mobile Integration allows you to send a call that has been forwarded to your cell phone right back to any extension. Simply press a few keys on your mobile phone and... presto... that call is redirected to your assistant or back to your own desk. You can even record calls on your mobile using Boomerang!

Call Screening

Call screening allows you to talk to who you want, when you want. When you enable FindMe® on your extension, you can optionally use call screening to screen the calls that are forwarded to your mobile, home, or other phone numbers. Before the call is forwarded, the voice prompt will ask the caller to record their name, and that recording will be played to you before you accept the incoming call. Fonality takes call screening to the next level!

Music-on-Hold (Unlimited)

Music On Hold (MOH) is as simple as uploading MP3 files using the web-based administration panel. Fonality Enterprise and Call Center comes with unlimited playlists, giving you the ability to play different audio tracks for calls coming into different departments or queues. Use MOH creatively to highlight promotions to new customers, up sell current customers, or calm angry customers calling your support team.

Conference Bridges

Conference bridges were once thought to be unaffordable. Now, Fonality Enterprise comes preconfigured with 3 conference bridges, and Fonality Call Center with 5! Each bridge supports an unlimited number of internal participants and as many external participants as you have phone lines.

Extension Groups

Your organization may not be flat - meaning that some employees have responsibilities that others do not. Well, your Fonality System understands this too. Our new "groups" system allows you to build extension groups and then assign permissions to those groups. Examples of Fonality permissions are:

·         Zone Paging/Intercom

·         ACD - Record other’s queue calls

·         ACD - View queue reports

·         ACD - Agent login / logout

·         Call Forwarding

·         Check Voicemail

·         Barge

·         Call Privacy (who’s talking to who)

·         Block call "stealing"

·         Record my calls

·         Dozens more!

Multiple Auto-Attendants

Your business may have several numbers for different departments. With Fonality’s multiple Auto-Attendants, you can direct calls to a different call menu based on the inbound number.

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!

Intercom / Zone Intercom

Many companies offer Intercom, but do you know any others that offer Zone Intercom? Now with Fonality you can dial a zone and have an ad-hoc conference with everyone in that zone!

Voicemail Groups

Want to send a voice message to multiple people? Use our Voicemail Group feature to easily build groups of people. Then just dial the number of your group and leave a message. Seconds later everyone in the group gets a new voicemail!

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 creative IVR trees to meet the needs of your business.

Call Return

When listening to their voicemail, your employees can press a key to call the person right back. This feature can be enabled or disabled on a per-employee basis.

Call Out

When accessing Fonality’s voicemail system, your employees can make outgoing calls. 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.

Report Exporting (.csv)

Extend Fonality’s powerful reporting engine to create .csv files that you can import into applications such as Excel and Access.

Custom Caller-IDs

Fonality Business Phone System lets you customize the inbound Caller-ID name/number to each department and lets you change your outbound Caller-ID on a per-extension basis. This allows you to block, reveal, or change the Caller-ID of every extension in your office! Note: Fonality can *not* change your outbound Caller-ID if you are using POTS lines. For 911 reasons, POTS outbound CallerID is always controlled by your carrier.

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.

SMS/Pager Voicemail Notify

This feature gives you the ability to enter an SMS or pager email address in order to receive voicemail notifications on 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 receive similtaneous email alerts (including optional audio attachments) to one email address and SMS/pager notifications to another address.

Upload Voice Prompts

This feature gives you the ability to upload highly professional prerecorded voice prompts when simple recordings from your phone just won’t do.

Trunks Status Pages

View the real-time status of trunks in the administration control panel to ensure that your digital and analog PSTN interfaces are operating correctly. Here you can quickly see whether your cards are connected, determine whether they have alarms, view the PRI status, and more.

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.

·         And much more!

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 least recently called.

·         Ring user with the fewest calls.

·         Ring a random person.

Skills-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 fewer leads to your underperformers. Fonality Business Phone System 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.

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 for your call center!

Agent Call Recording

Choose an agent, and select how many of their calls you want to record. Fonality Phone System 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.

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.

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!

Real-time 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 Fonality web GUI answers all of these questions, helping you to manage your queues with real-time stats.