Live Answering Phone Service

A live answering phone service is vital for small business organizations to enable timely management of incoming business calls. This advanced phone answering service endows your small business with a flourishing image.

The major advantage of providing live answering phone service with the support of hosted PBX phone system is that clients can access your organization 24 X7. You can provide the callers with all the advanced functions of telephone, fax and voicemail that are found in luxurious phone systems kept by big companies.

A Range of Superior Call Management Features

The important component of the live answering phone service is the auto attendant. It receives all the calls with professional sounding salutation messages and offers the callers a set of options such as dial by name, dial by extension, zero out to live operator and more. Calls are routed to the appropriate department, live operators or voice mail box based on the option selected by the callers.

Calls to the official numbers can be transferred to your alternate extension phone numbers, including cell numbers. Multiple calls can be handled simultaneously without giving busy signals to the callers.

Unattended calls are redirected to your personal voice mail box, wherein the callers can leave voice messages. These voice messages can be checked and replied to, at a convenient time. The system can forward the voice messages to your email account as audio file attachments. It even notifies the arrival of new messages by forwarding text messages to your cell phone or pager. It also handles fax messages efficiently.

Cost-effective Option

All these sophisticated features can be incorporated into your existing local or toll-free numbers and the expenses involved in maintaining additional telephone lines can be thus avoided. Besides, it is not necessary to buy and install costly equipments at your site. The equipments are maintained at the service provider's site and the PBX services offered through a hosted server through high speed Internet or telephone networks. The services are shared among numerous users, and can therefore be utilized at affordable monthly charges.

Live answering service enables you to operate business from any location in the world. AccessDirect provides answering message service, phone answering service, call answering service and Internet answering service as part of the virtual PBX phone service.