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Zoom's enterprise phone software is the scalable cloud phone solution for businesses of all sizes. Explore the Zoom Community's Recent Activity below to join the Phone System conversation and connect with other members. If you're still looking for support, browse our Zoom Phone System support articles or start a new discussion below!

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Does anyone else find Zoom Phone just not very good?

We migrated to Zoom phone last year and it's never worked properly. We've had calls going silent both ends, just us going silent but still bale to hear the other caller, and the latest one is that the phone rings and then when we try to answer it say... Show more

We migrated to Zoom phone last year and it's never worked properly. We've had calls going silent both ends, just us going silent but still bale to hear the other caller, and the latest one is that the phone rings and then when we try to answer it says the call has already been answered. We even had one client told by the system to hang up. I invited Zoom support to call me so they could experience the issues for themselves and they just never did, even though they said they did. Eventually they just closed the ticket because I didn't respond over the Christmas break. I'm on the verge of switching to another provider but I would like to know if it's just me.


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Going to voicemail if no one answers

Is it possible to set it up to where if no one answers it will go to voicemail? We have it setup to where if it will ring to person one, then if one doesn't answer it goes to person two then if two doesn't answer it goes to person three. If person th... Show more

Is it possible to set it up to where if no one answers it will go to voicemail? We have it setup to where if it will ring to person one, then if one doesn't answer it goes to person two then if two doesn't answer it goes to person three. If person three doesn't answer we want it to go to voicemail but instead it circles back to person one. Anyway to fix this? Thanks!


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Using an ATA with an Analog Phone

Why is it that we can't connect an analog phone to an ATA and use it with Zoom Phone but we can use an ATA for fax? That's what I was told by the sales rep.

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Zoom Certified vs. Zoom Compatible

Is there an article explaining the difference between Zoom Certified Phones and Zoom Compatible Phones? We bought the Cisco 8865 thinking we would be able to use it for video calls/meetings but I've recently discovered that is not the case. Thanks! Show more

Is there an article explaining the difference between Zoom Certified Phones and Zoom Compatible Phones? We bought the Cisco 8865 thinking we would be able to use it for video calls/meetings but I've recently discovered that is not the case. Thanks!


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How Long to Verify Emergency Address?

Hi. We have added a new site to our portal and have added a new emergency address. How long does verification take?

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Adding a ring before IVR

Is it possible to add a single ring when someone before it goes to IVR/Auto Receptionist? Thanks!

Voicemail Automatically Deletes

In the desktop Zoom client, my voicemails have recently starting automatically deleting without even playing when I click the play button. Any advice would be welcome.

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Zoom Phone User Region

Majority of our users are in the USA.One of our Zoom Phone Users is in Philippines, Is there anything i can do to change user's region on his account to improve call quality? Or Zoom Phone adjusts it automatically based on where the app is used from? Show more

Majority of our users are in the USA.

One of our Zoom Phone Users is in Philippines, Is there anything i can do to change user's region on his account to improve call quality? Or Zoom Phone adjusts it automatically based on where the app is used from?


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Ease of use - updating a personal voice mail greeting

The process of using Zoom.us to update a personal voice mail greeting feels unnecessarily cumbersome. Once logged in to the site the user has to remember if they are supposed to update Greeting & Menu: Connect to operator or leave voicemail or are th... Show more

The process of using Zoom.us to update a personal voice mail greeting feels unnecessarily cumbersome.  Once logged in to the site the user has to remember if they are supposed to update Greeting & Menu: Connect to operator or leave voicemail  or are they supposed to update Leave voicemail instruction?

 

Once in the correct section it's 7 additional clicks to get to the point they can re-record their greeting.  

I'll ignore the fact that I can't prevent users from using the Zoom text to speech feature or at least eliminate the terribly unprofessional voice options.

 

It's too much for some users.  To that end I've considered having them use *86 to simply record over their previous greeting.  Doing so mimics traditional phone systems.  Without having to remember *86 or use the Zoom.us process, how can a user gain access to their mailbox setup?  I can't create a contact since *86 is an invalid phone number format.  

 

Any suggestions?


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A series of shortfalls: Paging, Call Queues, Ring Tones, Greeting

We are new to Zoom Phone as of this week. We had been with Ring Central a few years prior. I am very surprised to find that Zoom is missing the most basic of things for the phone functions. Paging - we have Polycom VVX 350 desk phones. The Keys & But... Show more

We are new to Zoom Phone as of this week. We had been with Ring Central a few years prior. 

 

I am very surprised to find that Zoom is missing the most basic of things for the phone functions. 

 

  • Paging - we have Polycom VVX 350 desk phones. The Keys & Buttons setting does not work for "Paging - Line". When applied to the user, it never appears as an option on their phone soft keys. Broken. 
  • Paging - You can get around this at least, by picking up the hand set and entering the Extension number assigned to a Paging group. But when you do, it still does not work right at all. Instead of hearing a Page across all the phone speakers, it makes the phones RING. If a person does not pick up the phone, they miss the page. For us, this is a major safety issue. We use phone paging for critical announcements, and calls to other staff for assistance if a client is in crisis at the desk
  • Call Queues - I had written about an issue with this, and then suddenly an hour after I posted this, all the Queues started to work correctly to show all calls and what status calls were - very odd. 
  • Ring Tones - while you can pick a ring tone in your app, you have no way to ever play it / test it. You have no idea what your ring tone is until it actually has a call come through. 
  • Greeting - You cannot change your greeting in the app. You have to go into the website portal, log in there, click on phone, then click your settings, then scroll way down, then go to Add Audio to finally get to a spot where you can record a new greeting. That is extremely convoluted and cumbersome when people tend to change their Greeting a couple of times a day to inform callers of their availability. In other cloud phone services I have worked with, you can record a greeting right out of the desktop app with 2 clicks! 

I cannot find anywhere in the Zoom community system, any kind of list of Features being worked on, or a voting system for features. I have found a number of posts about these issues above, but they all died for further replies many months (in some cases years) ago. So these are not new queries on my part - people have been asking about this stuff for a few years already. But there seems to be no updates or follow up by zoom on these things? 

 

aIs there some secret place I have not found yet? 


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