Voicemail/auto attendant for one man office?

[newzguy]

I have a one man office that I would like to have an auto attendant feature and voicemail. If I am on my main phone..it should send the caller to voicemail. Ideally it would show the caller id of the incoming call so I could have the choice of interupting my present call and picking up that call. Is there a phone with these features or a small system that I could connect to a few phones? I have read about the "voice pro" but the lack of support has me concerned.

 

[MetroMan]

The VoicePro company went belly up a looooooong time ago, I use the TalkSwitch in one office of the same type as yours and it works great....

Metroman.

 

[Bobg1]

You local telco may be able to offer you the features you need. Which could be less expensive and less hassle.

 

[vaoldschl]

Buy a nice cordless telephone with a built in answering machine and caller id/call waiting id. It will be easy for you to setup and won't break the bank.

 

[RLHarris]

You may be interested in my configuration.

I have a multi extension mailbox from the phone company. I have paging set up on one mailbox which is labeled as the urgent message option.

I also have FSK - Visual message waiting indicator, caller ID and Call Waiting Caller ID from the phone company.

The analog set I have is a feature set from Radio Shack that is compatible with the FSK Message waiting, and the flash key supports the call waiting caller ID.

I also looked into Voice Pro and chose the telco service instead. Many of the features come as a bundle so it is relatively inexpensive.

Robert Harris

http://www.communicationsadvantage.com

 

[jacktops]

I suggest that you Buy a Voice Pro unit it is the best thing out. for the money $. By the way Voice Logic did go out of Bussiness, But are now being imported and supported by a new Co. in Grand Rapids, MI. Called American Business Communications they have been in Business for a Loooong Time, email amerbiz.com contact someone by the name of Galen Walter. He is the best when it comes to the Voice Pro Units.

 

[orypecos]

I have a 1872 Lucent answering machine for home use. It doesn't have caller id but there are similiar cheap consumer phones that do. Mine has two lines input available. If u have the first line rollover to the sencond then u can check with the caller id to see if u want to pick it up. I actually don't use the sencond line, I just pay the phone company to forward my calls to my cell phone, it costs me $2.00. Then I just look at the cell phone caller id to see if I want to take the call.
The answering machine as capability for more than one mailbox, so i have this set up for a auto attdt like menu, it even has a priority function that will send the call on though if people know the code.
The other option is something like Ringcentral, a PC based system that U can set up autoattd.