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With Live Answering and Virtual Receptionist
easyinbound Live Answering and Virtual Receptionist services provide your callers with a real person to speak to when your staff members are unavailable.
Our Live Answering and Virtual Receptionists are available to answer your calls 24/7/365, and are based in Australia and New Zealand.
As an easyinbound customer, you can divert calls to our Live Answering and Virtual Receptionists any time you need, such as over-flow during business hours, to cover lunch breaks and staff meeting / training sessions, or simply after hours and during public holidays.
Both our Live Answering and Virtual Receptionist plans are perfect for teams as well as sole operators. In a team environment, calls or messages can be directed to the appropriate team or department, making sure the right calls and messages are directed to the right part of your business.
What’s the difference between Live Answering and Virtual Reception?
Live Answering
Live Answering is a simplistic message-taking service. When your office phones are busy or you’re unavailable, Live Answering operators will answer your phone call in your business name and explain that you or the appropriate department are currently unavailable, and a call-back message will be sent through to you or the appropriate team for a callback.
Live Answering operators can answer basic questions about your business, such as your office locations, website, email & email address etc.
By default, 3 parts of information is included in each message including the callers full name, contact phone number and reason for call. For an additional fee per call, additional pieces of information can be gathered.
Live Answering is best suited to an overflow, missed-call or out-of-hours messaging solution.
Virtual Receptionist
Virtual Reception builds on the foundation of our Live Answering product but adds the functionality of call transfers to the appropriate person or department. If the appropriate person or department is currently unavailable, a message will be taken and sent for a callback similar to the Live Answering process.
Virtual Receptionist operators can also answer basic questions about your business such as your office locations, website & email address etc.
Calls can also be handled differently out-of-hours so you’re not disturbed by a sales enquiry from a different timezone while you’re trying to sleep or enjoy family time.
By default, 3 parts of information is included in each message including the callers full name, contact phone number and reason for call. For an additional fee per call, additional pieces of information can be gathered.
Virtual Receptionist is best suited to scenarios such as after-hours call handling (eg in a hotel environment where a guest has locked themselves out of a room), or where you need calls answered and appropriately forwarded to the correct department or team member to handle that type of call.