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Hosted PBX

Your business phone system in the cloud

‘Hosted PBX’ is used to describe a phone system that is hosted in the cloud (or Internet) and works via VoIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol).
Some benefits of Hosted PBX include being location independent, not needing equipment, and being easy to manage. Add and remove phones when required, with minimal configuration. Hosted PBX offers a significantly richer feature set compared to older on-premise deployments.
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Easy to connect

Use an IP desk phone, smartphone or PC.
Connect from anywhere via the internet.
From your office, from home or overseas.

Self management portal

Configure the call flow via
our intuitive online management portal.
Easy to use - drag and drop web interface.

Flexible pricing

Combine different call plans.
pay only for what you use.
Scale up and down easily.

Hosted PBXThis is how it works

No phone lines There are no phone lines - your number will never be busy again.
Number porting Number porting supported. Keep your existing phone number wherever you go.
Order new numbers

Order new numbers from anywhere in Australia or overseas.
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Configure call flow Configure inbound call flow yourself. Point number to a user, menu, call queue or any other subject.

Our pricing structure is based on the number of people using a hosted phone system. The User Licence allows you to create a 'user object' in the call flow. The User object can then be linked to one or more SIP Devices and to the selected call plan.

This allows users to have multiple devices like their Desk Phone, Smartphone and PC all linked to the same object in the call flow and the same call plan, making it easy for other people to reach you.

Pricing structure

As a user of the system you can have multiple devices linked to your user object. These could be a Desk IP Phone, Smartphone, PC, or a few Desk IP Phones located in different places, such as one in the office and one at home.

Each device requires a Device Licence in our system and allows the flexibility of having one User object with one call plan linked to all devices.

Device licences

We offer various call plans, from basic timed call plans to fully unlimited. Our call plans allow users to make outbound calls at the rates defined in the plan. You can choose different call plans for different users in the system.

Call plans

You can connect any compatible SIP (VoIP) equipment to the system. Each such device requires a Device Licence. These could be Desk IP Phones, Conference phones, Softphones on a PC or Smartphone, ATA adapters and other devices. Please have a look at our Equipment page to view the equipment we offer.

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Flexible pricing structure

PAYG Starter
$9.95
per user/per month
Subscription breakdown:
Australian local phone number
$ 1.05
User licence
$ 4.90
Device licence
$ 4.00
Call plan subscription
$ 0.00
$9.95
Call rates:
Australian local & national calls
9c
per call
Australian mobile calls
4.9c
per min
13 / 1300 calls
22c
per call
Unlimited
Australia Plus
$29.95
per user/ per month
Subscription breakdown:
Australian local phone number
$ 1.05
User licence
$ 4.90
Device licence
$ 4.00
Call plan subscription
$ 20.00
$29.95
Call rates:
Australian local & national calls
Unlimited*
Australian mobile calls
Unlimited*
13 / 1300 calls
Unlimited*
Free calls to 50 + countries
Unlimited*
Prices in AUD inc GST
Critical information summary (CIS)
* Fair use policy applies to all call plans and services
FREE: Activation FREE: Advanced features
Australian based service and support

Optional extras

Webphone Included with the device licence
A phone in your browser.
Calls, phonebook, queue management and more from the comfort of the browser tab.
3rd Party Integrations
$4.40
per user / per month
Connect your phone system to CRM, service management or any other web application. Through the use of APIs, your phone system is an active part of an effective business ecosystem.
Call Recording Storage
Keep call recordings in your personalised cloud storage. Flexibility to customise which calls to store and for how long. Easily search for recordings by multiple parameters. Links to the recordings are also available via webhooks. Call recording to email functionality is included at no extra cost.
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Prices in AUD inc GST

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Features & Benefits of our Hosted PBX system
Hosted PBX

Features & Benefits
of our platform

Designed with ease of use in mind, PBX allows you to have full control of complex call flow scenarios with an easy to understand block diagram. Our billing portal allows you to order phone numbers and licences and get it instantly activated.
You are now in true control of your business communications.

PBX Feature Highlights

Call queue wallboard

Our queue wallboard allows you to monitor the status of your call queues in real time.

You can see how many callers are waiting in each of your call queues, how many agents are on call, the average wait time for each queue, and the number of missed and answered calls.

Our queue wallboard will give your agents live information about call loads and will allow them to adjust their time spent on call.

Management will be able to monitor the performance of agents in real time, and make the necessary changes in the staff allocation to each of the call queues.

As with all of our features, there is nothing extra to pay for this new feature!

Global phone book

Centralised management of phone book directories.

Create global and/or personal phone books, centrally hosted and accessible on various devices.

Manage phone book entries via web portal and combine it with your local device phone book.

Phone auto provisioning

No more manual configuration hassle.

Supporting all Yealink IP handsets.

Simply select your phone model in the cloud PBX graphical web portal, specify phone MAC address and your phone will pick its configuration up automatically.

Call recording storage

Keep call recordings in your personalised cloud storage. Flexibility to customise which calls to store and for how long. Easily search for recordings by multiple parameters. Links to the recordings are also available via webhooks.

CRM integrations

Connect Webphone to CRMs such as HubSpot, Zendesk, Zoho, etc. and get information from CRM directly during calls or in your contact list and call history.

Webphone

App for making and receiving calls with many additional features for advanced telephony. Available in a browser and on any desktop system: Windows, macOS and Linux. Queue management, CRM integrations, quick caller ID change and more.

Web callback

With web callback, your website visitors can contact you via a special widget with ease. The visitor only needs to enter a phone number and click 'Call me' and the system will immediately dial this number using a call plan selected in the PBX. Once a visitor answers a call, it will be routed to the next object in the call flow: User, Queue, Ring group or any other.

Inbound SMS to email

This feature forwards incoming text messages to your email address. *Currently works with Australian mobile numbers only.

REST APIs

REST API is designed for integration with various third-party software packages like CRMs, Ticketing systems, etc..
This will allow third party applications to query our cloud PBX and Billing systems for various type of information.

Webhooks

Webhooks will allow you to configure your hosted PBX to send call event notifications to third party applications. This will allow you to integrate with almost any CRM on the market and enable features like caller contact details pop up, click to call and a whole lot more of cutting-edge features.

Real-time call monitoring

Call monitoring allows you to listen and discreetly speak to your agents in a real-time call. By monitoring calls, supervisors can improve the agents' performance, offering training and supervising their calls to guarantee the best customer experience support.

Call queue wallboard

A call queue wallboard enables you to monitor the status of your call queues in real time. See how many callers are waiting in your call queues, how many agents are on calls, average wait time for each queue, number of missed and answered calls. Your agents will be provided with live information about call loads and will allow them to adjust their time spent on call. Management will be able to monitor performance of agents in real time and to make necessary changes in the staff allocation to each of the call queues.

Queue call-back

Unlike call queue – this feature allows callers to be added to the list with each caller automatically dialled when a User becomes available. Saving waiting time for your callers.

Microsoft 365 – Teams Integration

Allow your Microsoft Teams user the ability to make and receive calls using Direct Routing. Integrate with the PBX for advanced functionality and access unlimited calling plans.

Global phone book

Centralised management of phone book directories. Create global and/or personal phone books, centrally hosted and accessible on various devices. Manage phone book entries via web portal and combine it with your local device phone book.

Phone auto provisioning

Supporting all Yealink IP handsets. Simply select your phone model in the cloud PBX graphical web portal, specify phone MAC address and your phone will pick its configuration up automatically. No more manual configuration hassle.

Call pickup groups

This feature will allow you to configure a group of devices that can pick up inbound calls from each other. If you are in a situation when an inbound call is destined for your colleague who is away from their desk, you can press a predefined key to pick up their call from your device.

Call parking

Place calls in parking lots and allow users to access via a predefined button on their phone. Let the inbound callers listen to advertisement music while they wait and set the time limit and failover destination in case call is not picked up.

DTMF prefix

Allow callers the ability to enter a number of digits that are displayed on the agent’s screen. This is useful for asking for account numbers, order numbers and more.

Secure voice

Enable an extra layer of security to your VoIP calls with SRTP. Your voice will be encrypted within our network which will prevent intruders sniffing your calls.

Video calls

H.264 supported. Place or receive video calls using latest in the video transmission technology.

Custom dial plans

Create and assign custom dial plans to the Users to restrict international dialling.

Reporting

Extract simple and advanced calling metrics for your team and company. See how many missed calls you have had, your most productive users and also a range of call queue statistics.

Inbound number

Instantly order and activate your phone numbers from almost anywhere in the world. Port in existing numbers. Connect your inbound numbers to the PBX and utilise all features to handle your inbound calls. Each number can handle multiple simultaneous inbound calls.

Simultaneous ring

Enable simultaneous ringing from your users to multiple endpoints, SIP devices, Microsoft Teams and external numbers. Take advantage of call confirm for calls diverted to external destinations, to stop the diverted call going to an external voicemail.

Voicemail

Configure your company or personal voicemail to be sent to email or be played back on your physical device. Upload or record your own greeting from the web portal or directly from your device.

Time conditions

Route calls based on time, day, month, year. Create complex patterns combining various time conditions. Configure how calls are handled after hours, during weekends for example.

Ring group

A ring group is a feature that will allow you to assign a set of users or devices that ring simultaneously or in a hunt mode, one after another. The common practice for this feature is for a department such as sales or support, where you want inbound calls to ring on all staff associated to these departments.

Call recording

Have your call recordings sent to email addresses of your choice once the inbound or outbound call has terminated. Every recording emailed will include caller ID, time of the call, user ID and custom subject field. Connect to your CRM to be automatically added to client profiles or store within a custom recording’s mailbox for compliance for years to come.

Announcement

Is a recording you can use anywhere in the call flow. System will play the recording you upload to the caller and will continue to process the call-flow. Could be used if you need to tell something to the caller after some event in the call flow.

Voice menu

An automated attendant can be used to prompt the callers to a range of interactive options which directs to the appropriate department. Press 1 for support, 2 for sales or 3 for accounts. You can create multi-level IVRs using our call-flow block diagram.

Queue

When you are unable to pick up a call immediately the call can be placed in a queue with your customised music on hold. Users can answer the calls when they become available. Configure a range of metrics for timeout clauses, exit codes, periodic announcements and wrap up times.

Conference

Configure virtual conference rooms with unlimited number of participants to collaborate via a voice call. Connect your dial-in number with a PIN for security to organise a dial-in conference. Alternatively call each participant and transfer to a conference room using internal number. Record the conference and add join and exit notifications.

Caller ID prefix

The caller ID prefix will prepend a custom text to the inbound caller ID. This can help you to identify how the call was processed. For example, if the call went via IVR menu and the caller selected 1 for sales, you can prepend the text ‘sales’ as a caller ID prefix.

Caller ID routing

Route inbound calls to specific destinations based on their caller ID. As an example, send calls inbound from a specific location to the local office or branch.

Internal number

Add a short internal number to your call flow for your users to transfer or call internally.

PIN code

Add a PIN code to your inbound call flow for security for applications such as conference rooms, DISA and also to stop callers accessing certain users or groups. As an example, add a PIN code to a ring group for premium support.

Blocklist

Add your problem callers to a blocklist that will automatically terminate inbound calls. A good example of this feature would be to add the caller ID’s of your problem callers so that they get a busy tone every time they attempt to dial your number.

Fax to email

Answer inbound fax calls and convert to a PDF and send to an email address of your choice.

Dial tone access

Dial a number from outside your phone system, enter a PIN and dial as if you are inside the office. Often used to make internal calls using lower call rates available.

Email notification

Send out email notifications when the feature is utilised from within the call flow. When an inbound call is missed send an email to the departmental manager to notify. Or send an email to your on-call users when an out of hours request is logged.

Call diversion

Divert calls to external numbers of your choice. Most commonly used to divert to mobile numbers outside of business hours or after-hours answering services.

SIP Trunk

Integrate with third party platforms, connect to your onsite PBX to make and receive calls. Route calls between onsite and hosted PBX. Connect Microsoft Teams via Direct routing.

Call flow control

Configure manual override using a feature code that can be dialled from any handset to change how your inbound calls are handled. Common use could be a night switch.

Custom caller ID

You can assign the Caller ID of your choice to any User within the system. You can set the same caller ID for multiple users or use a unique caller ID for each user.

Set caller ID

Replace original caller ID in the inbound call to the caller ID of your choice. Can be used during call diversion to identify the call.

Music on hold

Allow your inbound calls the option to listen to music when they are waiting in queues or placed on hold. Whether this is your own advertisement music or a bespoke royalty free selection.

Presence

Configure busy lamp fields for your users to highlight who is on a call, available or busy. Pick the ringing call up of the other user from your phone.

Call transfer

Transfer calls using an internal short or extension number or via an external number, such as a mobile number or landline.
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Statistical Call Reports

Inbound Call Reports

You can select a date range and generate a report about all the inbound calls going to your business.

You will see statistics about how many calls were answered or missed and where those calls were coming from by caller ID. You can also save the generated reports as PDF or CSV files for further analysis.

Outbound Call Reports

You can select a date range and generate a report about all the calls made by your business.

You will see statistics about how many calls were made and how many were answered, busy or not answered. You will see statistics regarding destination prefixes (e.g. calls to 613 – Victoria or 612 - NSW etc). You can also save the generated reports as PDF or CSV files for further analysis.

Daily Call Distribution

The daily call distribution report shows you statistics about the number of inbound and outbound calls made on each day of the chosen reporting period. This information includes busy and no answer call statistics, so that you can analyse the busy time periods and identify peak days for your business.

Hour of Day Call Distribution

The hour of day call distribution report shows the number of inbound and outbound calls made on each hour for the selected date period so that you can analyse the busiest time of day for your business, see when you have a shortage of staff to handle calls, and determine when is a quiet time of day for your business.

Monthly Call Volume

The monthly call distribution report reveals statistics about the number of inbound and outbound calls made during each month of the selected reporting period. This data includes busy and no answer call statistics, so that you can analyse the busy time periods and identify peak months for your business.

Hosted PBX

Frequently asked questions

  • What is and how does hosted PBX work?

    PBX stands for Private Branch Exchange and is a telephony system which allows communication internally within the company or externally with the outside world.

    Classic PBX uses copper lines which are limited in capabilities by today's standards and also you become location dependent. Hosted PBX is a next generation of telephony system: effectively it's a set of software and hardware which is hosted in the cloud (data centre) and uses VoIP protocol to transit voice over the Internet.

    Since Hosted PBX needs only the Internet to operate, a company becomes location independent and can move or open new offices without any delay. Also, as hosted PBX is based on software, it has great possibilities unseen before like hundreds of simultaneous calls only to one central number, smart routing of queues, call recording, performance reports, integration with third-party systems and so on with more features to come as software evolves pretty fast.

  • Is it possible to use chat, video or conference calls with hosted PBX?

    Such features are called unified communications. Those can be chat, video calls, screen sharing sessions, conference calls, emails, sending files to each other and using various devices to communicate. With hosted PBX, you will be able to use part of the unified communication tools like video calls, conference calls and email notifications. You can also look at our Microsoft Teams integration option to allow additional unified communication channels like chat, screen sharing, file transfer and more.

  • Can I use my active phone number with hosted PBX?

    Yes, sure. You don’t have to buy a new phone number and lose your active number when switching to a new hosted PBX provider. Almost all Australian telephone numbers can be seamlessly ported into our system and be used without any restrictions. Also, any Australian number that we provide or that was ported into our service can be ported out to another provider as long as that provider is willing to take on the number.

  • Can I use my landline phone with hosted PBX?

    Your older handset can be used with hosted PBX via a special device called ATA (Analog telephone adapter). Adapter will convert analog signals sent by your phone into IP traffic that can be transmitted over the Internet. However, we recommend using modern VoIP phones like Yealink that support HD voice quality and allow you to use the full range of features of the Hosted PBX.

  • How fast Internet connection is needed for good Hosted PBX operation?

    You only need a tiny amount of bandwidth (connection speed) in order to use hosted PBX effectively. Each channel (one call) requires only 80Kbps (0.08 Mbps), or using compressed codec even smaller – 0.03 Mbps. So even with 24 Mbps Internet speed it will be able to perform at least 300 simultaneous calls. However, quality of calls will highly depend on the reliability of your internet connection, so it does not have to be very fast but it must be reliable and stable.

  • What happens if my Internet goes down?

    We have multiple solutions that can make sure you can continue to receive calls even when your Internet goes down. For example, you can have calls diverted to your mobile phone if you are offline, this way you can continue to receive calls without any Internet connection.

  • How does hosted PBX quality compare to traditional phone lines?

    Traditional phone lines are using G.711 codec, while hosted PBX can support codecs up to G.722. The difference between them is that G.722 uses a wider speech bandwidth of 50–7000 Hz compared to 300–3400 Hz of G.711 which allows to achieve HD quality of calls.

  • My business relies on phones being available at all times. Can you guarantee that my phones will always work?

    We guarantee 99.9% SLA backed uptime on all our systems. All parts of the hosted PBX are fully redundant, meaning that there is no single point of failure. We use an independent monitoring company called hyperspin.com to monitor our server uptime. Visit our system uptime page.

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Connect phone numbers from over 50 countries around the world. Make it easier for your overseas customers to reach you.

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