Help center
How the receptionist handles your calls, how to set up your business, and how to send your calls to it and back again.
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Five short pages, in the order you’ll need them.
What happens on a call
What callers hear, and what the receptionist can and can’t do yet.
Set up your business
Your business facts, hours, questions and Google Calendar.
Test your receptionist
Make a test call from the app, then check your forwarding.
Forward your calls
Send calls from the number you have today to the receptionist.
Stop forwarding
Make calls ring only your own phone again.
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- Set up your business
Business facts, hours, questions, your receptionist’s voice and name, notifications, publishing and Google Calendar.
- Test your receptionist
A test call from the app, a real call, and checking your forwarding.
- Forward your calls
Send calls you don’t answer, or every call, to the receptionist.
Your calls
- What happens on a call
What callers hear, and what it can and can’t do.
- Call recording
Calls are transcribed, and audio is not kept. Call recording is Planned.
- Share a call
Send a finished call as a link, and stop it.
- Join a team
What the invite link opens, and what you choose.
- Voicemail
Where a message a caller left shows, and its transcript.
- Home, Inbox, Contacts and Business
What each tab of the app holds, and the names it had before.
- Find a call
Search, filter by what happened, and call back.
- Your contacts
Everyone who has called or texted, and how to find them.
- Notifications
Which calls tell your phone and email, and when they stay quiet.
- Quiet hours
Only urgent calls ring your phone outside business hours.
- Your team and who’s on it
Invite people, and see who is handling a call.
- Analytics
What happened on your calls over the last 7, 30 or 90 days or a year.
- Who can call
Answer anyone, block numbers, and see calls turned away.
- Transfers to your phone
Let a caller reach you on one phone you verified.
- Cancel or move by phone
Let callers cancel or move a booking themselves.
- Teach your receptionist
What it knows, and where you change it.
Plan and billing
- Your plan
Choosing a plan, the payment page, and managing or canceling it.
- Your bill, your trial and how to cancel
The trial, paying, canceling, and a charge that looks wrong.
- What each plan includes
The texts, help answers, transfers and more in each plan.
- When your minutes run out
The notices, what callers hear, and extra minutes.
Pause or turn off
- Pause your receptionist, and turn it off for good
Stop forwarding to pause, and what to do before you cancel.
- Stop forwarding
Turn forwarding off so calls ring only your phone.
When something goes wrong
- Calls still go to voicemail
Or they keep ringing your phone.
- Callers hear a busy signal
Why it happens and what to do.
- A test call isn’t in Inbox
Open Inbox again, then check forwarding.
- The receptionist said something wrong
Check and publish your facts.
- A booking looks wrong
What pending and unknown mean.
- What the Home status means
Setup in progress, live, or unverified.
- Nobody answers, or callers hear an error
Stop forwarding first, then contact us.
- You changed phone, plan or phone company
Check forwarding and test again.
- A forwarding code didn’t work
Use only your phone company’s own steps.
- Notifications not arriving
Check this phone, your email and what you chose.
- Report a problem or suggest something
Write to us about something wrong, or an idea.
Your data
- Download your data
A ZIP of your calls, bookings and settings.
- Deleting call details
How long call details are kept, and deleting a call.
Contact support
- Contact support
What to include when you write to us.
No topics match. Try “forward”, “calendar” or “busy”.
Contact support
A person answers within one business day.
In the app, VoiceDog Agent answers first.
What to include
- Your business name and the email or mobile number you sign in with.
- For a call: its date and time, and the caller’s number.
- What you expected, and what happened.
Never send passwords, verification codes or card numbers.
If callers can’t reach you right now, stop forwarding first. Calls then ring your own phone.
The receptionist and support can’t help in an emergency. If someone is in danger, call your local emergency number.