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We need functionality in the system similar to Shoretel/Mitel Connect's Route Point functionality. We used Shoretel route points as global speed dials. You selected an unused internal extension number (and we had plenty of them) and then provided it an external number to dial and connect to. This was useful as a speed dial, and also fucntioned well for blind transfers to some off system or off premisis resource (remote call center, contract call center, after hours contract support, etc).
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We are coming off from Shoretel/Mitel Connect. All users could log into any phone, even if the phone was already assigned to another user. While the changes we are encountering with RingCentral, like setting up limited use phones or phones that are specifically configured for hot desking, will work, we find ourselves very limited in terms of our staff flexibility to log in at any open desk, even if it is a desk that is usually occupied by another employee. A good example would be that a branch manager, which is a static user, who has a private office that is only occupied by them, goes on vacation or takes an extended abscence. In this situation, another manager or an assistant manager from another location would come to this office, and stand in for the abscent manager. Since they would be working from this new location and in the managers office, in our current environment, they would just assign themselves into the phone that is at that managers desk. When the regular manager is back from leave, the substitute would log out of the desk phone in that office, and their phone presence would go back to the phone in their normal office, and the manager on leave would return to their office with their name and presence on the phone like nothing had ever changed.
The Shoretel manner of handling hot desking and staff using phones that they are not normally assigned to is much more ellegant and much more administrator and user friendly than the structure we see in RingCentral.
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We are moving from an on-prem Shoretel/Mitel Connect system and just discovered desktop pairing in our test environment. One of the biggest issues we have is that we now have to instruct all of our users on how to turn this feature on through the RingCentral desktop app because it is not a user feature that we can control from the admin portal. I see another user has thousands of clients to work with to enable this. We have hundreds, but this should be just one of many desktop app features that we should be able to control on a global basis from the admin portal.
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To be at parity with Shoretel/Mitel Connect system and users that are migrating over to Ring Central because it seems like the "best fit", any desktop pairing of the Ring Central desktop app with a deskphone has to provide functionality that is nearly identical to the Shoretel and Mitel Connect desktop software packages. Checking voicemail from the desktop app, but having that connect through the phone automatically is something that Shoretel supports now and that RingCentral needs to support very soon.
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In Shoretel/Mitel Connect there is a feature called a route point. Route points can be used for designating an internal extension as a "speed dial" to another number inside the system or outside the system. We utilize a couple of external services for 24-hour customer support. Those services are only accessible through a toll free number, however we do not publish the toll free number, we store the toll free number in Shoretel as a route point, give it an internal extension number and then the off-hours auto attendant can be programmed to offer certain button presses to callers which map to the internal extension, which further maps to the toll free number. It provide a seamless experience when transfering callers to those external extensions or if our staff needs to dial to those services but do not know the number.