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Should your business switch to VoIP?
Should your business switch to VoIP?

Is VoIP the Right Choice for Your Business?

VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) can be a suitable choice for many businesses, but whether it’s the right choice for your specific business depends on various factors. Here are some key considerations to help you determine if VoIP is the right choice for your business:

1. Cost: VoIP often offers cost savings compared to traditional phone systems. It eliminates the need for separate phone lines and reduces long-distance charges. However, it’s essential to evaluate the initial setup costs, ongoing fees, and any additional hardware or software requirements associated with implementing VoIP.

2. Scalability: VoIP systems are highly scalable, allowing you to easily add or remove lines/extensions as your business grows or changes. If your business experiences fluctuations in call volume or has plans for expansion, VoIP can accommodate your needs more flexibly than traditional phone systems.

3. Features and Functionality: VoIP offers a wide range of advanced features such as call forwarding, voicemail-to-email transcription, auto attendants, conference calling, and more. Consider the specific features your business requires and assess if VoIP can provide them effectively.

4. Mobility and Remote Work: VoIP enables mobility and remote work capabilities, as it can be accessed from any location with an internet connection. If your business has a distributed workforce or relies on remote employees, VoIP can offer seamless communication across various devices.

5. Reliability and Call Quality: While VoIP has significantly improved in terms of call quality and reliability over the years, it still depends on the stability and quality of your internet connection. Ensure that you have a reliable internet service with sufficient bandwidth to support VoIP calls without disruptions.

6. Integration with Existing Systems: Consider how well VoIP integrates with your existing business systems, such as customer relationship management (CRM) software or call center solutions. Integration can streamline workflows, enhance productivity, and provide a more seamless experience for your employees and customers.

7. Technical Expertise and Support: Assess your organization’s technical capabilities and resources. VoIP systems typically require some technical knowledge for setup, configuration, and maintenance. If you lack in-house expertise, you may need to consider managed VoIP services or ensure reliable technical support from your provider.

8. Security and Reliability: VoIP systems can be vulnerable to security threats such as hacking, eavesdropping, or denial-of-service attacks. It’s crucial to implement proper security measures, such as encryption and firewalls, to protect your communications and ensure the reliability of your VoIP service.

Overall, VoIP can offer significant benefits for businesses, such as cost savings, scalability, advanced features, and mobility. However, it’s important to carefully assess your specific business needs, technical requirements, and budgetary constraints to determine if VoIP is the right choice for your organization. Consulting with VoIP service providers and considering customer reviews and testimonials can also help you make an informed decision.

One Size Fits All

As we all know one size does not fit all. Especially when it comes to your business needs and requirements. So, even though VoIP ticks all the generic boxes can it be customised to fulfill your business’ individual and specific needs?

Yes, it can. With Mr VoIP tools your VoIP solution can be fully customised to meet your requirements. Custom call reports, wallboard, CRM integration, softphone, call center and more, are all possible with Mr. VoIP.

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Free 3CX APIS by Mr. VoIP
Free 3CX APIS by Mr. VoIP

Forever Free 3CX APIs by Mr. VoIP 

3CX APIs allow you to further customize your 3CX installation to better suit your business. Whether that’s a specific feature or even an integration with an existing system or app, customizing your 3CX will just make it work better for you.

Without in-house development, it’s pretty hard to get reliable APIs for your 3CX installation that don’t require paying a ridiculous amount of money.
Free APIs for 3CX Customers & Resellers

The great news is that we at Mr. VoIP know how important some APIs are for your communications needs and we’ve made them free for you, forever.

  • Make Call
  • Pickup Call
  • Start Call Record
  • Drop Call
  • Add Agent
  • Query Extension
  • Add Queue
  • Update Queue
  • Delete Queue
  • Change Recording Status
  • Disable External Call

It’s super easy and requires no upfront commitment. Simply fill in the form and you’ll receive an email with instructions on setting up and configuring your APIs.

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Protect sensitive data with the new Mr. VoIP Call Recording Encryption tool
Protect sensitive data with the new Mr. VoIP Call Recording Encryption tool

Protect sensitive data with the Call Recording Encryption tool 

We’re introducing a new feature to our VoIP tool range: the Call Recording Encryption tool. This new tool is easy to use and configure, providing you peace of mind knowing that your and your customers’ data are protected from hacks.

Why do you need a Call Recording Encryption tool?

There are 3 main reasons why your business needs a call recording encryption tool:

1. Protect yourself and your customers from hacks

Thousands of attacks occur daily and if you happen to be on the receiving end, can cost your business money and customers. Protecting your intellectual property as well as your customers’ data should be of utmost importance. Up until March 2019, over 14 billion data records were lost or stolen and only 4% of these were encrypted. Many transactions with customers are done over the phone and as these numbers show if left unprotected, they can easily be obtained by hackers.

2. Comply with regulations

Many recordkeeping and data protection regulations already exist (CCPA, NARA, FINRA and MiFID II). By recording your calls, you are complying with these regulations and are avoiding steep penalty fines. Not encrypting your call recordings is evidence that you violated your duty to provide security procedures and practices to protect sensitive information.

3. Trustworthy business

When you’re transparent with your customers and make them aware that you take their privacy seriously by encrypting their calls and data, you’re building trust and as a result, have higher retention. New technology has created a trust crisis with customers and they need to know how their data is being stored – transparency here is a must.

Mr. VoIP Call Recording Encryption/Decryption tool

By implementing a call recording encryption tool like Mr. VoIP’s you’re ensuring that the above points are met and your business and customers are safe from hacks. And in the event that you need to decrypt a recording you can do this easily.

Read the guides:

For more information and to get your tool reach out to our team.

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New 3CX Click2Call Plugin by Mr. VoIP
New 3CX Click2Call Plugin by Mr. VoIP

Dial from your browser or CRM with the latest Click2Call Plugin 

Make it easier to dial numbers directly from your browser or CRM using Mr. VoIP’s Click2Call plugin. The plugin uses 3CX and allows your agents to simply click on a number to easily initiate a call. No more copy and pasting numbers into your dialler or web client.

The Click2Call functionality enables telephone numbers on any webpage or CRM system to be ‘hyperlinked’ allowing a simple click to initiate the call.

See it in action in the video:

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3CX Add-ons support
3CX Add-ons support

3CX Support: Add-ons & Customizations 

3CX recently sent out an email informing resellers and customers that they do not offer support for 3CX installations which use third-party add-ons, customizations and integrations.

This has always been the case, however, we wanted to put your mind at ease and confirm that our customers get support directly from the Cal4Care team.

You get Support from us

If you are using any one of our 3CX Add-ons or customizations by Mr. VoIP or mConnect, we commit to supporting you 100% with your 3CX installation. This includes:

  • Configuration & Setup
  • Management & Maintenance
  • Troubleshooting
  • Security vulnerabilities & Updates

How to open a support ticket

  1. Login to your Cal4Care portal and click on “Support Ticket”- the pink button on the top right menu.
  2. Click on “Create New Ticket” – top right in green.
  3. Fill in the form with as much detail as you can to help us resolve your issue faster. Share any screenshots or files for easier resolution.

Feel free to reach out to any member of our team should you need any clarifications.

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Chat and message from any platform with mConnect - See how in the video
Chat and message from any platform with mConnect - See how in the video

How to Chat and Message from your mConnect dashboard – Video

With mConnect you can truly interact with your customers no matter which platform they’re using. We offer social media and messaging app integrations for the most popular platforms around the world as well as a business SMS feature.

mConnect integrates with:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • Telegram
  • WeChat
  • LINE
  • Business SMS

Find out how you can use this feature in our latest video:

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How to use the email ticketing feature in mConnect
How to use the email ticketing feature in mConnect

Offer Exceptional Customer Service with our Email Ticketing Feature

mConnect offers an email ticketing system as a part of its call center omnichannel solution. From within the dashboard, you can easily respond to tickets, assign tickets to other agents, merge tickets and close tickets.

In addition, you get to see each agent’s performance. How many tickets they’ve been assigned, how many were resolved/closed and so on. 

In our latest video we explain how all the above work and more. Take a look!

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Call pop-ups, wrap-up codes, surveys and more in latest video
Call pop-ups, wrap-up codes, surveys and more in latest video

Your All-in-One Video tutorial for call pop-ups, wrap up codes and reports 

Having the right tools is vital to exceptional customer service. However, even if you’ve got the best call center software available it still needs to be configured to suit your team’s and agents’ personal needs. For example, call wrap-up codes are unique to each business and the type of reports your call center needs could be different from any other.

In our latest video we explain:

  • How the call pop-ups work with a new or existing contact,
  • How to upload a contact list
  • How you can send your callers to take a survey
  • How you can manage and configure your wrap-up and aux codes
  • How you can generate wrap-up and aux codes in a few easy steps

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3CX Webinars July 2022
3CX Webinars July 2022

First Come, First Serve. Reserve your spot for our upcoming 3CX Trainings

With 3CX pushing out quite a few new updates for 3CX V18 and the all-new 3CX StartUP, we found it was time to refresh your 3CX knowledge and know-how and give you the tools your successfully complete your 3CX Certification exams.

Make sure to register and reserve your spot as soon as possible.

We look forward to seeing you there!

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Centralized PBX Extension & Contact Management with Mr. VoIP Tools
Centralized PBX Extension & Contact Management with Mr. VoIP Tools

Centralized PBX Extension & Contact Management with Mr. VoIP Tools 

Use our HTTP API and manage all your 3CX PBX Extensions from one central dashboard. Save on admin time and effort and eliminate manual tasks by managing all your contacts and extensions from one place.

Your CRM, telephone directory as well as PBX extensions and contacts are all automatically synced and updated. Make an update to one and the rest will follow. No need to manually log into different systems and make changes and updates to each one separately.

The API utilizes resource-based URLs, status codes, methods (POST, DELETE, etc.), and JSON for requests and responses. Hence, making it easy to use HTTP clients in your backend for a powerful API interaction.

Add, edit and delete accounts of your PBX extensions. Create, edit and manage PBX extensions from the main console and send manual links, configuration files, and voice mail PINs. Use the softphone to modify auto-generated credentials and keep your customer records up-to-date.

Customize Each Account

Each user has their own unique needs. This tool allows you to customize each user account accordingly. Create unique meeting room names, personalized inbound call numbers, and 3CX meeting links. It’s easy and saves you loads of admin time.

  • Uses predictable, resource-oriented URLs.
  • Uses built-in HTTP capabilities for passing parameters and authentication.
  • Responds with standard HTTP response codes to indicate errors.
  • POST JSON Object/Array.
  • Highest level of security.

Read the manual.

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We develop any customized solution to fit your business needs