Voicemail Boxes
A mailbox is where a call goes when nobody is going to answer it. The organization has one, so do teams, roles and each person, and every one of them decides separately who is allowed to listen to what is in it.
Voicemail boxes
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- Busyorganization default
- Unavailablesupport-away.wav
Product figures from the platform’s own defaults - not customer averages
How it works.
Four kinds of mailbox
Organization, team, role and personal. A personal box takes the user's own extension as its number, and team, role and shared boxes each draw from their own block, so the number tells you which kind you are looking at.
Who can listen is a list
A personal box is the owner's, and their team manager's. A team box opens to that team and its manager, a role box to whoever holds the role. A shared box is open to the whole tenant or to named users, teams and roles.
Three greetings, not one
Main, busy and unavailable are separate slots on every box, and a box that fills none of them falls back to the organization's own. A person changing their away message does not touch what the shared line says.
The message keeps its context
A message stores the call it came from and the queue or menu that sent it there, so who the caller was trying to reach is written on the message rather than inferred from the number they dialed.
Two moments in every call.
Every call passes through the same seven. Voicemail Boxes is the lit ones, and everything either side of it is a different page in this category.
- 01Number
the line it arrives on or leaves from
- 02Route
where the call is sent and to whom
- 03Dial
placing it, and how many at once
- 04Connect
the moment a person picks up
- 05Talk
while the conversation is happening
- 06Wrap
the code, the notes, the next step
- 07Record
what is kept, and where it is kept
The specifics.
8 facts- Types
- Organization, team, role and personal, each numbered from its own block
- Access
- Owner, team, role holders, named users, or everyone in the tenant. Set per box
- Greetings
- Three slots per box: main, busy and unavailable, with organization defaults behind
- Length
- Message length is a per-box setting, between 10 and 600 seconds
- Transcription
- Off until switched on for the tenant, then per message, automatic or on request
- Notification
- Email per box, or a digest carrying the transcript. No SMS, no desk-phone light
- Playback
- Listening follows the box's access list; downloading the file is owner and admin
- States
- New, read or archived. There is no automatic deletion and no retention sweep
Where the call goes next.
A call is a chain of decisions, and this is one link in it. These are the ones either side.
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