Stage in a call · ANSWER

Answer, greet, and send the call to the right place.

The recorded menu that answers your main number. Press one for sales, two for service. It sounds simple and it is, until the menu has to know about Christmas Day, half-day Fridays, and what to do when nobody is logged in.

What the call does

  1. inCall arrives
  2. step 1Greeting
  3. step 2Menu choice
  4. answeredSales queue
Auto attendant: Call arrives → Greeting → Menu choice → Sales queue.

The schedule is part of the flow, not a separate module

Business hours appear on the call flow diagram as a node with two exits, open and closed. You can see at a glance which greeting plays at 8pm on a Sunday, because the path is drawn.

Hours and holidays are shared objects

You define "Main office hours" and "Public holidays" once, per site, and every attendant that needs them refers to the same one. Change the hours for the season and every menu follows.

  • A holiday set overrides the weekly schedule, and the interface says so on the node rather than in a help article
  • Multiple attendants can share one schedule without duplicating it
  • A schedule change shows you which flows it affects before you save

Start from a flow that works

A new number is never a blank canvas. It arrives with a working flow — straight to one person, ring the team then voicemail, open and closed with a greeting, a small menu, or a queue with overflow — and you edit from there.

Two modes

Simple by default, detailed when you ask

Most people never open the second column. It is one click away rather than spread across the first.

Simple mode

  • Record or upload a greeting, then pick a destination for each key
  • Open and closed greetings, with the hours attached to the site
  • A preview that reads the menu back to you as a caller would hear it

Advanced mode

  • Digit collection and branching on a collected value
  • Direct extension dialling from the menu, and a dial-by-name directory
  • Multi-level menus, with the nesting shown on the same canvas

Where auto attendant stops

  • Speech recognition is not part of the first release. Callers press keys.
  • We do not generate synthetic voice greetings for you. Record one, or upload audio you own.