RingCentral
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Business Phone System Features for Businesses of All Sizes
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Features
112 features across 14 categories
AI(5)
See AI-generated key phrases, next steps, and follow-up items. Coming in Q3, 2023
Provide concise and easy to understand AI-generated synopsis of calls. Coming in Q3, 2023
Catch up quickly with recordings that include meeting summaries, topics and keywords, video highlight reels, keywords, and transcripts
Industry-leading proprietary AI/ML, industry tracebacks, and the STIR/SHAKEN framework to stop fraudulent robocalls and spam attacks from reaching your employee phones
Detect the emotional tone of a phone conversation. Coming in Q3, 2023
Administration(6)
Enables customer service through intelligent call routing to the right resources
Maximize uptime, call quality, flexibility, scalability, and safeguard your data
Staff can be reached anywhere, on any of their devices when callers find them in your dial-by-name directory
Users and departments can customize their extensions with their choice of music, messages, and voicemail greetings
Extend Auto-Receptionist capabilities with connections to the Dial-By-Name Directory, system extensions, voicemail, or even external business phone numbers
Choose hold music and messages to play based on time, day, and caller ID information
Analytics(5)
Get the most out of your investment with detailed, user-level usage metrics across your entire platform
Comprehensive and flexible call analytics designed to help you make confident business decisions, every time
Integrate analytics into critical systems with developer access to your communications data
Monitor queue and agent performance through fully customizable, real-time dashboards with Live Reports
Real-time, at-a-glance views of your global system's health with interactive analysis that cover your network, endpoints, devices, and rooms
Audio(1)
Remove all unwanted background noise automatically from your business calls
Fax(9)
Block numbers that start with a specific area code, start with 1-800, or are identified as spam numbers
Customize fax cover pages or choose from existing templates to send faxes online through the app
Send a fax directly from your email account
Choose a date and time to send out your fax
Send eFaxes to up to 50 recipients at a time or enable Fax Broadcasting in case you need to send more
Receive instant fax alerts by the RingCentral app, SMS, or email
Select a printer in the RingCentral app and print all incoming faxes automatically
Send a fax just as you would print a document
Automatically attach a scanned document to the RingCentral app from your scanner or a multi-function printer and send it as an eFax
Messaging(1)
Streamline your followup with access to text, fax, and voicemail — all in one place
Phone(27)
Route calls to your local numbers anywhere, worldwide, using robust answering rules
Enable automatic recordings for one or many users
Delegates can call on behalf, hold, pick up within the group, share a line, and join calls
Assign up to 10 assistants to an executive or up to 10 executives to an assistant
Transfer calls from one device (mobile) to another (desktop) effortlessly
Forward calls to any extension, phone number, group, or department simultaneously or sequentially
Plug in a headset or use your computer's speakers and microphone to turn any computer into a softphone and call controller
Park up to 50 calls simultaneously, both inbound calls and outbound calls
Caller ID displays before the incoming call ever connects, giving you some reference to decide how you want to respond to the call
Caller ID information is displayed for all incoming calls on all devices
Choose through hundreds of state-of-the-art voice over internet protocol (VoIP) phones or bring your current devices in our BYOD program
Use extensions to play announcements, eliminating the need to answer the telephone system for commonly requested information, such as hours of operation
View up to 100 user extensions' real-time presence status on desktop or mobile
Allows employees to access their own extensions, profiles, voicemail, and other cloud-based phone system features during remote work or while sitting at desks working in different offices
Easily create a call menu that directs callers automatically to the right service or department
Customize call menus through an easy-to-understand, drag-and-drop interface
Select local telephone numbers in any location and establish yourself as a local business
Simple-to-set-up audio collaboration for three or more parties, no bridges or special equipment needed, and no minutes restrictions
Native dialing and voicemail mean no extra software to disrupt normal workflows
Just like automatic replies on emails, the user can also schedule a time period when the incoming calls should be forwarded
Make announcements from your desk phone, desktop, or mobile
From your desk phone, you can see who's available, on do not disturb, already on a call, holding, or has a call ringing
Make voice calls directly from within any app by highlighting any number on your computer and click RingOut to dial
Share calls and lines among traditional phone systems, and pick up an incoming call on any phone
Transfer or create new dedicated 800 or vanity numbers for different marketing and business needs
Preview your voicemail messages in text when you can't listen to voicemails
Get email and SMS notifications of voicemail transcriptions, received faxes, missed calls, fax transmission results, etc
Push to Talk(2)
Voice messages play automatically in real-time on locked and unlocked devices
Enable secure and clear voice communication over the cloud, enhancing employee- or company-owned smartphones and tablets with walkie-talkie
Rooms(6)
Directly join other 3rd party meetings (such as Zoom and Webex video meetings) from the room
Move your meeting from your mobile device to a nearby room, with just one click
Pair and control room settings directly with your mobile phone
Share content wirelessly from your desktop computer directly to the room
Use your Rooms system to place phone calls, using the room controller as a touch display (requires Rooms Phone Line license)
Say 'Hi RingCentral, join meeting' to the room controller to start a scheduled meeting
SMS(9)
Use powerful search capability to search through text trails by looking up keywords
Login and send SMS & MMS in seconds. Switch between desktop and cell phone anytime to pick up where you left off
Designed to help improve deliverability, stay carrier compliant and deter some of the new fees now associated with business SMS
Send a text message to multiple people, either separately or as a group text
Send and receive images, audio files, videos, emojis, and other file attachments
Create automatic replies to inbound SMS' for after hours, when you're on vacation, or to respond to commonly asked questions
Automate processes and accelerate revenue when you integrate RingCentral SMS capabilities into your CRM, scheduling, marketing, and other business tools
Send and receive texts across all your devices, including VoIP phone systems, smartphones, tablets, and PC
SMS outreach from your business number to maintain professional and secure communications
Security(7)
RingCentral delivers less than 6 minutes of downtime every year, making good on our reliability promises and maintaining the highest uptime among industry leaders
Block calls and faxes with no caller ID, and allow or block numbers that start with a specific area code — plus more advanced phone service options
Fully compliant with RAY BAUM's Act and Kari's Law to keep your employees safe with enhanced nomadic location awareness
With our RingCentral for Microsoft Intune (iOS, Android) integration we make it easy for IT to monitor and enforce security policies across company-owned and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) environments
Make outbound business calls using your personal number, but mask it with your RingCentral number to maintain confidentiality
Secure identity management with any identity provider (IdP) that supports SAML 2.0, such as Okta, OneLogin, Microsoft, Google, and more
Call encryption prevents eavesdropping on all RingCentral endpoints, such as desk phones, the desktop app, and the mobile app
Team Messaging(15)
Bring your everyday business apps into the RingCentral app
Add or remove users, create or manage channels on all corporate devices instantly to ensure secure access
Connect your Microsoft, Google, or device calendar to your RingCentral app to schedule, view, and join upcoming meetings right in the app
Reorder the tabs in the left navigation bar on the RingCentral app to get quick access to your favorite advanced features
Compatible with iOS, Android and multi-modal devices with no special installation needed
Attach files like documents, images, or videos to a message from your computer or cloud storage services
Create channels with up to 200 people
Save an important message for yourself and your team members or leave comments right on a file
Toggle between channels or choose your default channel to connect immediately to your team
Document information you'd like to refer back to later. Add notes directly into direct messages, groups, and teams
Categorize your conversations based on names and colors
Check who is online or offline at the click of a button
In-app Resource Center for onboarding, feature discovery, help, support, and feedback
Prevent data leakage and compromised devices in the field with integrated Microsoft inTune
Create tasks for yourself or other people. Add them to a direct message, group, or team conversation
Video(10)
Easily split up a larger meeting into smaller groups for effective brainstorming sessions
Join video meetings straight from web browsers—all with the exact same look and feel
Capture notes during your video meetings, and share them in recordings or team chats
Flip from mobile to desktop and back again with one tap, without ever leaving your meeting
Bring teams together for exciting collaborative sessions with a digital whiteboard that makes room for everyone's ideas
Add another layer of security to video conferencing sessions when needed — with the ability to dynamically turn on or off with a click of a button
Keep a record of who-said-what with automatic voice transcription, complete with speaker identification
Remotely control another participant's mouse, touchpad, and keyboard while screen sharing
Share a live back camera view from your mobile device during a meeting
Host ongoing meetings that allow colleagues to come and go as they please — kind of like a virtual team room
Webinar(9)
Hosts can prepare backstage before a webinar and after a webinar is over to debrief
Add company branding and colors with simple drag-and-drop functionality
Customize and send automated reminder and follow-up emails to registrants and attendees
Attendees can join from the RingCentral desktop/mobile apps, Rooms, or even from their favorite browser
Integrate and sync webinar data with your marketing automation platforms, such as Marketo
Pre-configure or create polls on the fly to better engage with and understand attendees
Engage directly with attendees by answering questions through the Q&A tab
Set up and configure all of your webinar settings, directly from the RingCentral app
Hosts can view engagement metrics via the host panel, and admins can view quality of service data of the webinar
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Build vs Buy
Should you build a RingCentral alternative or buy the subscription? Estimate based on 112 features.
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Buying RingCentral saves ~$203,280 over 3 years vs building.
Estimates based on 112 features and a BuildScore of 3/5. Actual costs vary.
Integrations
10 known integrations