Navigating the world of communication has never been easier, thanks to our state-of-the-art Android Softphone application. Designed with both simplicity and functionality in mind, our softphone app transforms your Android device into a powerful communication tool, enabling you to connect with colleagues, clients, and friends with unparalleled ease.
A softphone is a software application that allows you to make and receive calls using your mobile device, rather than relying on traditional desk phones. With our Android Softphone app, your device becomes a versatile VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) phone, allowing you to harness the power of modern communication technologies at your fingertips.
Our guide is designed for ease of use, allowing you to find the information you need quickly:
Whether you’re a first-time user or looking to leverage more advanced features of your softphone, our user guide is designed to support you at every step. The “Getting Started” section is your gateway to unlocking all the potential that the Android Softphone app has to offer.
To start using the mobile application on your Android device,
you need to:
When you open the app for the first time, to log in, you would need to enter the authentication credentials stated in the email which you received from the PBX Admin.
After the Domain and Proxy settings you need to enter the rest of your login credentials into the fields described below:
To use a QR code that you received in an email from your PBX Administrator:
After you’ve logged into the app, you’ll see a user interface as shown on a screenshot below:
The Navigation bar of the mobile app has following tabs:
Menu. Here you can find all the app settings, including your profile and presence status selection.
Contacts. This is where you can find your colleagues and all your business contacts.
Chats. Here you can chat with your team, share files, photos, etc., and send SMS to your external contacts (only if SMS feature is enabled for your account in the admin portal).
Calls. Here is where you can dial a phone number to make a call and view the history of all the calls you’ve made.
Speed dial. In this tab, you or your PBX administrator can add phone numbers, emergency contacts, and buttons for quick access to various PBX features.
The ‘Contacts’ Tab is where you can find contacts of all your colleagues and clients.
All your colleagues will be displayed in the ‘My team’ section together with their presence statuses.
To create a new contact, tap on the icon.
Then fill the name of the contact and add additional details by tapping on the ‘Add details’ button.
To import a contact from your android device into the mobile app:
A Contact’s Profile contains all the details regarding a person or an organization, including the history of communication with your company.
To open a contact’s profile, simply tap on a contact from your contacts list, or select a ‘Contact Info’ option from a dropdown menu on a chat screen.
To edit a contact tap on the menu icon in the contact’s profile and choose ‘Edit’ from a dropdown menu.
To delete a contact:
To add a contact to favorites, open the profile of a contact and tap on the icon.
To share a contact with your colleagues:
There are several ways to initiate an outgoing call from the mobile app:
To call a phone number that is in your device’s contacts list and is not imported into the mobile app:
To transfer a call:
To add a participant to a call:
During a call, if you need to make an outgoing call while putting the current call on hold:
When you make dozens of calls every day, it is very hard to remember the details of every single call. By filling a call subject and adding some comments, you can highlight the most important parts of your conversation and easily find it later, when you’ll need it.
When you open the ‘Call details’ panel, you can view and edit a subject of a call and write out some important parts of a conversation in the ‘Comments’ section.
After you finished editing the Call Details, tap on the icon to confirm, or on the icon to discard the changes.
Specifying a subject of a call can help you easily find that call any time later. To find a call by its subject, simply type a subject you want to find in the Chat Search field and press the ‘Search’ button.
When you record a call using your mobile or desktop app, this call recording get synchronized between all your devices. It means that you can listen to the recording of a call on your mobile device, even if it was recorded from your desktop application.
Using the mobile app, you can send a text message to a colleague directly via ‘Personal’ chat or to a group of colleagues using a ‘Group’ chat.
The ‘Chats’ tab is where all of your chat conversations, all the messages you’ve sent and received, are displayed.
It is also where you can create a new ‘Personal’, ‘Group’ or ‘SMS’ chat.
You can initiate a chat with a colleague using one of the following options:
To send a text message to another app user:
To send a voice message to your colleagues who are using the app:
To send a SMS message to a contact or a phone number:
To send a file, photo or your current location:
To copy to a specific message in a chat:
To share a message with other applications:
To reply to a specific message in a chat:
To transfer a message to another colleague(s):
To create a new chat:
In the App Settings you can set Call Forwarding, Voicemail and some other features according to your needs. To open the App Settings, you need to switch to the Menu tab and select the Settings menu item.
Here you can set the following options:
Autoload photos/images. This feature allows the app to preload all the images in your personal and group chats.
Announce incoming call number. If you have a headset connected to this device and this feature is turned on, you will hear a caller’s phone number when receiving an incoming call.
Call settings is where you can setup Call forwarding and your personal Voicemail.
Report an issue. While we are trying our best to make the perfect app, there may be times when you will encounter an issue or a ‘bug’. For those time, please use this feature and send us an information about the issue you’ve experienced. Our support team will do our absolute best to find the resolution as soon as possible.
Version. Here is where you can find the version of the app you are using right now.
For various cases when you can’t pick up the call in the app, you can set the following Call Forwarding rules.
Those rules will help automatically forward calls to the external phone numbers you specify.
Forward all calls. This feature will forward all your incoming calls to a phone number specified in a ‘forward to’ field below.
Forward when offline will forward your calls to a specified phone number only in case the app loses connection with your server.
Forward when busy. This rule will only apply during the time when you have an active call.
Forward when no answer. You can turn this feature on if you want to forward calls you do not answer during the time set in the ‘Waiting time’ parameter below.
Voice mail.* This checkbox turns your voicemail feature on/off. To record or change your voicemail greeting, tap on the ‘Prompt’ link.
Check the ‘Recording’ feature to enable total call recording for all your calls. **
Call waiting feature allows to suspend an existing phone call to answer a second call. This feature is required for putting a call on hold, transferring a call, and creating a conference call.
*This feature is only enabled in specific scenarios on your system By default, this check box will not do anything, as your voicemail will be managed by your PBX, not the app.
**Please check the availability of this feature with your PBX Administrator.