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What is the best way to have calls answered by a live person vs going right to queue?
I hope there are changes in the future that help resolve this as I have a number of clients that prefer to have a live person answer the phone and not have any kind of automated message first. While the 1st option would work, it would then go to this one users mailbox and we'd either have to give others the ability to access it or wait until they did. In addition it would mean the person at reception would have to be set up with the main company voicemail greeting and wouldn't have their own mailbox - or would need two phones.
While I realize a LOT of companies these days answer their phones with greetings and automated messages first, the majority of small to medium businesses that I deal with prefer to have a live person answer first and only go to an automated system if they do not answer. In addition having the ability to have others answer the calls if the receptionist is on the phone already would be a big plus.
- Mohammed Anas ShaikhMar 06, 2017
Microsoft
I learnt that even today you have the ability to select the default Queue time out setting to another Queue. You have to do it however using PowerShell as this is not available in the GUI. SO with that I am hoping you would be able to achieve what you are after If you still feel that having the company main number directed straight to the receptionist is not a good idea than you can use a Call Queue for that too and just have one agent (receptionist in that call queue) then set the queue time to another queue