Archive for October, 2007
Features
October 23, 2007You never miss an important call…
October 16, 2007RingCentral puts businesses and professionals In Touch and In Control(TM) by unifying and intelligently managing all their phone, mobile, fax and email communications with a single phone number and an easy-to-use online control center. The company is leveling the playing field for small businesses by offering voice communications capabilities available only to large corporations until recently. RingCentral combines a toll-free or local number with advanced call management, PBX, voicemail and Internet fax, enabling customers to set up multiple extensions with voicemail, automatically screen, forward and place calls, take voicemail, send and receive faxes, and receive message alerts. With RingCentral, businesses never miss an important call, or waste time on unwanted calls. RingCentral is headquartered in Redwood City, Calif., and is funded by Sequoia Capital and Khosla Ventures. For more information visit www.ringcentral.com.
DigitalLine™ VoIP service
October 10, 2007RingCentral DigitalLine VoIP service upgrades your RingCentral virtual phone system into a complete business communication solution, allowing you to place and receive calls using your broadband Internet connection. DigitalLine offers three economical plans to suit your calling needs. Whether you call a lot or just occasionally, DigitalLine will save you money over a traditional phone service.
RingCentral DigitalLine seamlessly integrates with your RingCentral virtual phone system, and enhances it with additional time-saving features. You can assign DigitalLine to any extension in your account and use answering rules to route calls to your DigitalLine phones according to day, time and Caller ID. The unified Call Log keeps track of all incoming and outgoing calls. You can answer and place DigitalLine calls from:
* RingCentral’s Call Controller with SoftPhone, which lets you answer and place calls directly from your PC, in addition to conferencing and recording calls.
* Your existing analog telephone with an ATA adapter
* A digital IP phone that connects directly to your network connection
* Any SIP-compatible device
RingCentral’s DigitalLine allows you to be even more productive and responsive to your customers while saving money.
Select your optional DigitalLine plan during the RingCentral Online registration process.
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Features from RingCentral and Your Company looks like a big business
October 2, 2007RingCentral also has lots of features to make your company look like a big business with a name-brand IP PBX. Features include everything from dial by name, on-hold music, call screening, auto attendant, professionally recorded custom greetings and toll-free numbers. You can even get vanity 800 numbers that incorporate your company name or whatever you want.
Such capabilities are more important than the cost savings of Internet VoIP, RingCentral believes. “The things that keep a small business from growing are not that their phone bills are too high,” said the company’s business development VP Jay Blazensky. “Their struggle is, ‘How do I look bigger in this brief window when I’m trying to get my business off the ground?’”
On the other hand, because RingCentral doesn’t offer outbound calling except click-to-call through Microsoft Outlook, its customers have to pay for local and long-distance phone service. Given that RingCentral packages starts at $10 per month, though, the combined burden needn’t be oppressive.
Either way, because RingCentral delivers calls over the PSTN but does everything else, including delivering voice mail, over the Internet, it’s ideal for those who like the idea of VoIP but don’t yet feel confident with Internet telephony. Though small-business Internet VoIP provider 8×8 Inc., to name the leader, has a good reputation, even it can’t promise the call quality and reliability of AT&T.