

Ideally, that means your caller will be able to choose from the options easily and navigate straight to the appropriate team member. The role of IVR is to route your call to the right place without the input of an actual human party on the receiver’s end.

If you’ve ever called a phone system or a call center and interacted with an automated message, you’ve encountered an IVR system. If that sounds like something that might remake the way you do business, let’s dig further into the IVR. For all intents and purposes, you’ll only have to answer the phone when you want to. Your IVR can field incoming calls from prospective clients while you block out time at work. With an IVR application in place, your business can gather information while you sleep.

IVR software can collect information on callers, screen out unwanted callers, and give your business a professional presence 24 hours a day.

But when you use an IVR-an interactive voice response system-you’ll only have to pick up the phone when someone’s already up for a chat. Of course, you’ll have to answer your phone at some point. SIP INBAND should not be used unless RFC2833 and SIP INFO are not supported by the PBX or VoIP provider.What if you never had to answer the phones again? Please note that the use of SIP INBAND is highly discouraged as it will not work (reliably) with popular voice compression algorithms (codecs other than g711, ulaw or alaw). The settings in Zoiper have to match the settings configured on the PBX or VoIP provider for this functionality to work. There are 3 popular standards for sending DTMF, these are: Issues with navigating company directories (press 1 for English, 2 for Spanish, 0 to talk to an operator) by pushing numbers on the dialpad are typically due to a misconfiguration in the phone settings. You need to use the one that is located on the in-call menu, as on the example picture below: Zoiper5 comes with two number pads, one for dialling (right above your contact list and one in-call for sending DTMF tone. Make sure first that you are using the proper number pad.
