Hosted PBX providers in South Africa from R32/m
No capital required, free sip trunk, calls from 10c/min, save money, no contracts. Unlimited calls, call recording, fax, for small business, enterprises, auto-attendant, Call Back, Conference, Intercom, Music on Hold, PIN User, Skype, mobile extensions, etc
Ecotel Hosted PBX
Ecotel is the best-hosted PBX service provider in South Africa. Pbx functions include Call Forwarding Virtual Attendant, Time of Day Routing, Call Groups, Voicemail, Voicemail to Email, Fax to Email, Caller ID, Call Transfer, Call Screening, Dial by Name Directory, Extension to Extension Dialing, Music on Hold, Call Tracking, etc
Save Thousands of rands for a business phone by making an easy switch to Hosted PBX. Ecotel Cloud Hosted PBX will offer you all the features and functions that you get from an on-premise system at a fraction of the cost.
Ecotel hosted PBX solution provides a complete and comprehensive platform for businesses to manage, monitor, and control their entire communication needs. This not only reduces the total cost of ownership but also removes the hassle that comes with owning expensive hardware and infrastructure. It is ideal for small and medium-sized businesses or enterprises that do not have the capital to invest in such infrastructure.
No need to hire expensive IT specialists anymore—the Ecotel 24×7 support team will take care of everything. Get a Hosted PBX system up and running in just three easy steps. All Ecotel solutions are scalable so you can switch from one business size to another without wasting any time or money on new installations or re-configurations.
What is a hosted pbx?
A hosted pbx system is the cloud version of the pbx hardware system we know. The difference is, the hosted pbx system is hosted in the cloud while pbx hardware system is hosted at the premises. The hosted pbx requires no installation while the one at the premise needs installation.
How does a hosted pbx system works?
A hosted pbx service provider supplies you with settings to enter into your phones’ settings. With Ecotel hosted pbx you can do it for yourself. And choose from thousands of functions to add to your hosted pbx system for free with easy.
Who needs a hosted pbx?
Every business with an internet connection needs a hosted pbx system. And every company or any individual who needs to make calls using the pbx from any location at cheap voip call rates needs a hosted pbx system. You also enjoy unlimited free calls between extensions irregardless of location or country.
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Hosted pbx prices
5 Extensions
Hosted pbx
- R225 total price
- free sip trunk
- unlimited calls between extensions
10 Extensions
Hosted pbx
- R390 total price
- free sip trunk
- unlimited calls between extensions
25 Extensions
Hosted pbx
- R875 total price
- free sip trunk
- unlimited calls between extensions
50 Extensions
Hosted pbx
- R1600 total price
- free sip trunk
- unlimited calls between extensions
Voip call rates South Africa
Destination | Ecotel | Telkom | U save |
---|---|---|---|
Network – network | 10c | 46c | 36c |
Local | 28c | 46c | 18c |
National | 28c | 46c | 18c |
Mobile | 40c | 130c | 90c |
– Free unlimited calls from other extensions or branches regardless of location or country
– Fast installation
– unlimited custom Music-on-Hold
– unlimited custom Digital Receptionist Recordings
– unlimited custom voicemail messages
– unlimited custom welcome greetings
– unlimited custom voice ads
– Free unlimited calls between branches
– Unlimited integrations e.g crm
– Each user can have a pin access to avoid abuse
– Supports unlimited ring groups
– Supports conference calls regardless of location or country for free
– Supports handset auto provisioning
- Attended Transfer – The call will be transferred after hanging up.
- Auto Attendant – When calls are routed to an auto Attendant, you pbx will play a recording prompting them what options the callers can enter such as “Welcome to Ecotel, press 1 for Sales and press 2 for Technical Support etc”
- Blacklist number – to blacklist from receiving or making calls to a specific number
- Blind Transfer – The call will be transferred after the number is dialed.
- BLF Support – is a light on a phone which tells you whether another extension connected to the same PBX is busy or not
- Call Detail Records – The call Log captures all call details, including call time, caller number, callee number, call type, call duration, etc
- Call Forwarding – manual or automatic call forwarding
- Call Routing – route calls to individual agents or queues based on preestablished criteria such as the time of day that a caller dials a business.
- Call by name – E.g Trevoh Noah
- Call Waiting – if busy on another call and you want the person to wait for you
- Caller ID – identifies and displays the telephone numbers of incoming calls
- Define Business Hours – Define business hours and holidays and set calls to be answered by auto attender, leave voice mail etc
- Dial by Name – E.g Trevoh Noah
- DISA (Direct Inward System Access) – allows someone calling in from outside you PBX to obtain an “internal” system dial tone and make calls as if they were using one of the extensions of your PBX. To use DISA, a user calls a DISA number, which invokes the DISA application. The DISA application in turn requires the user to enter a PIN number, followed by the pound sign (#).
- Distinctive Ringtone – establishes additional telephone numbers on the same line as an existing number, each number ringing with a distinctive ringing pattern
- DNIS – DNIS (Dialed Number Identification Service)
- Do Not Disturb when busy in an important meeting just turn on DND and your extension will be unavailable
- Fax to Email – supports fax to email
- Firewall – to secure your system
- Follow me – to forward incoming calls to your mobile number etc
- IP Blacklist – blacklisting using ip
- LDAP – used as a phone book on your PBX system so that you can search a key word from your IP phone. The key word can be a name, a mobile number, an email or other key words in the phonebook
- IVR (Interactive Voice Response) – auto attendant
- Mobility Extension – when you are not available you can use your mobile phone as an extension etc
- Music on Hold – music playing when a caller is put on hold
- Phone Provisioning – help users to configure the phones and gateways in bulk and easy, which saves time substantially
- PIN User code – to avoid unauthorised users and system abuse and encourage responsible use since all activities and performance are on records
- Call queue – A queue is like a virtual waiting room, in which callers wait in a queue to talk with the available agent. Once the caller reached the queue, he/she will hear hold music/ adverts and prompts, while the queue sends out the call to the logged-in and available agents.
- Ring Group – helps define a group of extensions eg accounts department and set features for each group e.g group auto attendant, intercom, paging announcements, calls ringing at once,
- Skype Integration – connect your pbx system with skype to make/receive video/audio calls using skype
- Spy Functions – for you to monitor your team’s conversation or check if they are answering calls correctly
- Three-way Calling – enables 3 people to chat using voice calls
- Video Calls – supports video calls
- Voicemail – allows callers to leave a voicemail
- Extension name – e.g Taylor Pretorias
- Group name – e.g accounts department
- Voicemail to email – allows voicemail to be sent to email as an attachment
- Web-based control panel – easy adminstration on web just like a facebook account
- Unlimited phone calls between between extensions irregardless of location/ country
- GSM/UMTS/CDMA trunk – to make and receive calls using a sim card as a backup or added feature Automatically route all calls to IVR (the “welcome” prompt) so that a caller can select a department to speak to or get help
- Voicemail Access PIN – to stop unauthorised access
- The voicemail password – for the user to access the voicemail box
- CDR Administrator has the permission to manage call logs and permissions
- Ability to receive and sent voicemail to email
- Pickup Group – enables the whole group’s phones to ring once and any of the group member can pick it
- Max Call Duration – allows admin to set up the maximum call duration for each extension
- Remote user – allows access for users who are on the move or in the field not at the premises
- Unlimited phone book – to store and easy company phone access and use
- Phone book form – Organization, Title, Email, Birthday, First Name, Surname, Sub Number, Notes
- User Web Interface – for call recordings etc
- Direct Dial – enables callers to call extensions directly if they know them
Queue Ring Strategy by-
- Ring All: ring all available agents simultaneously until one answers.
- Least, Recent: ring the agent which was least recently called.
- Fewest Calls: ring the agent with the fewest completed calls.
- Randoml: ring a random Agent.
- RRmemory: Round Robin with Memory, remembers where it left off in the last ring pass.
- Linear: rings agents in the order they are listed in the configuration file
- Failover Destination – Define the failover action. A failover occurs after the user reach the Queue maximum waiting time.
- Intercom – is a feature that allows you to make an announcement to one extension via a phone speaker. The called person does not need to pick up the call
- Paging group – used to make an announcement over the speakerphone to a phone or group of phones. if set to duplex mode all users in the group can talk and be heard by all.
- Conference Calls – increases employee efficiency and productivity, and provide a more cost-effective way to hold meetings
- Voicemail to Email
- One Touch Record – A user may initiate or stop call recording by dialing the code during a call.
- Call Pickup – is a feature that allows one to answer someone else’s call without walking to someone’s desk to pick up the call
- Call Parking – If the called party is not the person who picked up the call, and the desired called person is at an unknown location, the person who picked up the call may park the call and then use the public address system to page the desired called person to pick up the call. Or during a conversation, a person may need to go to another office for some reason (for example, to retrieve an important file); parking the call allows this person to continue the conversation after arriving at the other office.
- Speed Dialing – simply define a shortcut number
- PIN User – A company’s manager visits the warehouse and needs to make an international call to confirm something important with a foreign customer. However, all the extensions assigned to users in factory have no permission to make international calls/ outgoing calls (factory extensions are not selected in the international outbound route). In this case, PIN User feature can help the manager to make international calls from an extension which is not selected on the international outbound route.
- Callback – Callback requires you to enable it on an inbound route. When you call through the inbound route and hang up the call. Ecotel pbx will call you back and direct you to the selected destination on the inbound route. Callback feature could reduces the cost for the users who work out of the office using their own mobile phones. And increases potential customers to call you for business. Business Hours –
- Day/Night Control – This feature enables designated users (usually the company operator or receptionist) to override the normal routing of calls based on the time of day
- Using the day/night control – the receptionist can override this time settings and force all calls to follow the setting as if the office were closed.
- Holidays – You can set up the holidays here. If a time period is configured as both Holidays and office hours, it will be treated as Holiday.
- Security Center – All the security settings including Firewall, Service, Port Settings in your PBX are displayed in Security Center. Users could rapidly check and configure the relevant security settings here.
- Hot Standby – Two PBX could be optimized for use as a failover system which could provide rapid failover in the event of system failure. Once the active server failure is detected, all the telephony would be switched to the standby server automatically