Attendant, use this option to forward calls to a Remote Extension for emergency purposes or direct callers to a voice mailbox.
If the caller selects ‘1’, ‘2’, ‘3’, ‘4’ or ‘5’ then:
TalkSwitch can perform one of several actions in the table below at the selected Auto Attendant.
perform no action | If you don’t want to use a particular option, |
| set it to perform no action. |
go to voice mailbox | You can configure any single digit option to |
| send a caller immediately to voicemail. Select |
| the appropriate mailbox. |
go to local extension | You can provide a |
| particular extension, as opposed to 3 digits. |
go to remote ext. | You can provide a |
| particular remote extension, as opposed to 3 |
| digits (3 for Ring Group 300). |
go to ring group | you can provide a |
| an Extension Ring Group. |
go to auto attendant | TalkSwitch can direct callers to multiple levels |
| of auto attendants. For example, you might |
| want to use your main auto attendant to |
| provide language options like “press 1 for |
| English, 2 for Spanish.” Then you configure |
| option 1 to go to auto attendant 2 (English |
| version) and option 2 to go to auto attendant |
| 3 (Spanish version). |
queue at ring group | This directs calls to a group of Extensions and |
| keeps callers on hold until a member of the |
| ring group is free to take the call, similar to |
| Uniform Call Distribution. |
play announcement | You can set any unused voicemail to ‘play |
| announcement only’. Announcements are |
| useful for providing directions, business hours |
| and/or other information. Inform callers that |
| they can press * to return to the Auto |
| Attendant. |
go to directory | If you want to enable callers to locate |
| employee extension numbers by last name, |
| select this option. |
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