Single User VoIP

Time of day routing

One of the features that's often missed by other business VoIP providers is the ability to have an alternative routing plan in place when your business is closed.

With Soho66 out of hours routing, you can define a special routing plan that executes when your business is closed.

You specify the routing you want, and enter your normal operating hours and our system does the rest for you.

Typically, customers will play a message to their caller, letting them know that they are closed and what their opening hours are. You aren't restricted in this routing though, and many customers route to an on call support number or other destination.

Our out of hours routing wizard also has all of the public holidays as published by the DTI already programmed in.

We also include holiday zones (England & Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) to account for differences in public holidays.

Call delivery assurance

Often, when forwarding a call to many different destinations; either at the same time using multi-route or one after the other, it is possible that the call may be answered by a voicemail system on one of the numbers forwarded to.

Call delivery assurance is a feature that ensures that a call, when forwarded, is answered by a real person before the call is connected.

When you switch on call delivery assurance, when a call is answered, our system plays a short prompt to the answering party, asking them to confirm that they want to accept the call.

If the answering party fails to accept the call then the call is taken back and the next step in your routing is attempted instead.

Call delivery assurance is a valuable feature when you want to ensure the call gets answered by a real person.

Call delivery assurance can also be used if you want to give yourself the choice of accepting a Soho66 call when forwarding to a destination where you may not know it's a Soho66 call before picking it up.

Music whilst ringing

As well as music while on hold, you can configure your Soho66 VoIP numbers to play music to your caller instead of them hearing a ringing tone.

The music available is the same selection as our hold music.

We generally recommend to our customers that they configure their routing to play a message to their caller before routing to music whilst ringing; this can reassure your caller that they've come through to the right place.

Line display name

Line display name is a key feature if you want to find out which of your Soho66 number a call has arrived on.

Our customers very often establish more than one number with us, where those numbers all ring on a single VoIP phone.

Examples of this include numbers for marketing campaigns, businesses that may want many numbers in different area codes or serial entrepreneurs.

The line display name feature allows you to define a display name that will show on your VoIP phone when a call arrives - making sure that you know exactly which line the call came in on.

Call Whisper

Many of our customers may have more than one established business that they want us to provide numbering for, or need to acquire numbers in many different area codes that they serve.

With a single Soho66, business VoIP account, you can add multiple VoIP Solo numbers in any area code you choose, without any restrictions.

Our whisper facility allows you to define a recording to be played when a call is connected to you. You specify the recording on each of your numbers - so you'll always know where the call came from.

Only you will hear the whispered recording. Your caller continues to hear ringing while the short audio file is played to you.

Audio Announcements

With a Soho66 number you can take advantage of the ability to upload an introductory audio message to play to your callers prior to a call being connected. Doing so gives your caller the reassurance that they've called the right number and that they're dealing with a reputable company.

If you choose, you can also configure music to play while they are waiting for their call to be answered: all the time adding to your professional image.

Call forwarding

With a Soho66 number, you can forward your calls to any destination you want:

• A Soho66 VoIP phone
• Another provider's VoIP phone (provided they provide a SIP URI)
• ​A UK landline
• ​A UK mobile
• An overseas landline or mobile

Our forwarding system is very flexible and forwarding can be defined as for all calls, or only calls that don't get answered after x seconds.

You can create multiple forwarding rules to keep attempting to forward the call to different places in order to connect a call.

You can even forward to multiple destinations at the same time (see our multi route feature).

Forwarding rules can be updated in real time on your control panel.

Call transfer

Being able to transfer a call to a colleague is essential in most business environments. We support attended transfer and blind transfer.

Attended transfer

When transferring a call on to another person, it is common to speak with them prior to connecting the customer. You might want to consult with them or let them know who you are transferring and why.

Attended transfer is typically done by calling the third party on a second line on your VoIP phone and when you've spoken with them, pressing the transfer button and selecting the line that your original caller is on.

Blind transfer

In some situations, you might want to transfer your caller on to a colleague or third party without waiting for the colleague to answer. This is a called a blind transfer.

Usually, you can accomplish a blind transfer by pressing the transfer button on your phone and then dialling the number you want to transfer your caller to.

Both blind transfers and attended transfers can be done using either external telephone numbers or to internal extensions.

Music on hold

It doesn't present a very professional image when you hear the person in the company you've called shouting across the room for information.

We provide professional quality music on hold when you place your customers on hold. We have a selection of music that we use.

On most VoIP phones, when on a call, press the hold key on your VoIP phone to place a caller on hold - they will hear hold music. To return them from hold, press the line key that the call is on.

Caller ID

We provide inbound caller ID display as well as the facility to show or hide your caller ID on outbound calls.

You can show or hide your caller ID globally or on a call by call basis (prefix your called number with 141).

We can even display an alternative caller ID, so long as you can verify ownership of the number in question.

With inbound caller ID, we will present the caller ID of the original calling party, regardless of if the call has been forwarded.

Call waiting

Call waiting is a service that most of us are familiar with.

Call waiting in the VoIP world really reveals the key differences between fixed line installations and a VoIP based service.

In the fixed line world, when you have a call waiting, as you only have one line, you only hear a beep in your ear.

With call waiting on a VoIP based system, your second line light on your VoIP phone will flash, telling you exactly who is calling and which line they called in on.

Picking up a waiting call is as simple as pressing the second line button and hey presto - you can easily switch between your current call, waiting call and back again.

3 Way calling

Three way calling lets you set up and ad hoc conference with you and two others parties on your phone.

You may be speaking with one party while keeping another on hold. With three way calling, you can connect all three of you together in a mini telephone conference.

Three way calling is invaluable for quick consultations.

Hunt groups

With our routing wizard in your control panel, you can set up hunt groups to ring an incoming call on multiple VoIP phones at the same time.

Wherever the call is picked up first, it gets connected.

VoIP can really add flexibility to this more traditional feature, allowing you to define hunt groups across multiple locations - so anyone in your organisation can answer a call; whether they are working from the office, from home or anywhere else in the world that they have an Internet connection.

Voicemail

Dial by URL

Do you have a call management or other external application that you'd like to integrate with our service?

If so, then our Dial by URL feature may be of interest to you.

Dial by URL is a simple feature that allows you to specify a number to dial through a web URL.

When we receive a dial request, we will ring the IP telephone you've specified to place the call from. As soon as you pick up the ringing device, we'll place an outbound call to the number specified in your Dial by URL request.

Dial by URL is free with any Soho66 number, simple to use, easy to understand and technology independent.

Please contact our sales team for more information on this feature.

Multi route

Multi route is a feature unique to us. It allows you to forward your Soho66 number to multiple destinations at the same time.

Multi route is similar to hunt groups, except you can also include external mobile or landline numbers as well as your Soho66 VoIP phone.

With multi route, for example, you can have your incoming call ring on your VoIP telephone and your mobile at the same time. That way you can pick the call up wherever you are.

Inbound Call Filtering

None of us enjoy continuously being hassled by nuisance numbers or anonymous callers, least of all when you’re at work or trying to run a business.

Soho66’s Inbound Call Filtering facility lets you block those unwanted calls so nuisance callers no longer disturb you as you go about your day-to-day tasks.

It’s all handled very easily in your online control panel, by inputting numbers and using drop-down lists to setup which numbers you want to block from reaching any number you have with us.

Additionally, you can also configure for any caller ringing anonymously to be blocked from reaching any number on your account, or across all numbers if you have multiple numbers with us.

As it’s setup and managed entirely online in your account, you can simply dip in and out wherever you are in the world to add or remove numbers from your lists.