Lucent Technologies MLX-10, MLX-5 manual Often-Used Features, ÊAccount CodesÊ, ÊAuthorization Codes

ÊAccount CodesÊ

To program:

See Programming Buttons & Settings, p. 17.

In some companies you enter an account code before or during a call to indicate client billing information. You may be required to enter

an account code for all outside calls, or an account code may be optional for incoming and outgoing calls. Check with your system manager for account code operation and account codes.

You can program a button for this feature and label it Acct. See also Auto Dial (p. 11) to program an account code on an outside Auto Dial button.

To enter an account code:

1.Press the button you have programmed,

OR

Press the Feature button and dial 82.

2.Dial the account code and #.

3.Lift the handset or press the Speaker button to make a call. (If necessary, press an outside line, Pool, or SA button.)

4.Dial the outside number (including dial-out code, if required.)

To enter or change an account code during a call (the other party cannot hear your entry) follow Steps 1 and 2. If you enter an account code for an incoming call before it arrives, you cannot change that code during the call.

ÊAuthorization Codes*

To program:

See Programming Buttons & Settings, p. 17.

If your system manager has given you an authorization code, you can pick up someone else’s telephone, enter your authorization code, and make an outside call with your own calling privileges. You must activate the feature and enter your code for each call you make, even when you are adding people to a conference. It is not necessary to use your authorization code for inside calls. Using an authorization code does not affect the button assignments on your own phone or the phone where you enter the code.

Security Alert

Compromise of authorization codes could lead to toll fraud or unauthorized charges.

Memorize your authorization code, and do not share it with anyone.

The way you activate the Authorization Code feature depends upon the type of telephone you are using to make the call.

•If the telephone has a programmed Authorization Code button, press it. The system selects a line and automatically activates the Speaker button (an available line button is selected for you); then continue with Step 3 below.

•On an MLX display telephone, press the Feature button, then select AuthCode [Auth] from the display or dial 80; then continue with Step 3 below.

To enter an authorization code at any type of phone (except a QCC):

1.Lift the handset or press the Speaker button. (You may first select an ICOM, SA, or SSA button.)

2.Dial #80.

3.Dial your authorization code, followed by #.

4.Dial the dial-out code (usually a 9) for an outside call and then dial the phone number.

5.To make another call, repeat Steps 1–4.

* Release 3.0 and later systems only.