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Missed call Notification

This new module does what it says, Users get an email notification of a missed call on their handset. With this module, either the PBX admin or the user can configure email notifications for whenever they miss a call.

A new menu entry will appear in the Applications menu which lists the Missed Call status for all the users on the system that have an email address defined in User Management.

This free module allows the sending of Missed call notifications to the user’s configured email address, on following events – 

  • Missed Internal call
  • Missed External call
  • Missed from Queue call
  • Missed from Ring Group call.

To change notifications types, the Admin can use User Management where they can edit users notification settings:

Or the user can do this themselves using the UCP, or once set up,

There are also dialable feature codes to enable or disable notifications on a per-extension basis, by default these are set to:
Missed Call Notification Activate *56
Missed Call Notification Deactivate *57
Missed Call Notification Toggle *58

This is a useful addition to FreePBX and can see situations where this would be really useful. Hotel reception desks for example.

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A Web based call management package for small Hotels and Serviced offices

FreeHMS is a web based call management package for small Hotels, Guest Houses and managed offices. It is designed to work with FreePBX and Asterisk.

It allows owners to bill guests or users for the phone usage allowing guests to make calls, setup wakeup calls and access voicemail. Rooms are initially blocked from calling other rooms but can call Admin extensions with out being checked in. When a room is checked in they can make trunk calls and set up wakeup calls. When checking out any wakeup calls are removed and the voicemail is defaulted and all Voicemail messages are deleted.

Setting up the system is simple for Installer with minimal changes to the dialplan which are included in the custom configuration file. The system can be set to any language as all text is from a single configuration file which also includes currency and tax rate for billing. Users are created in FreePBX user admin so are easily changed and added.

Call rates are set using the rates page only available to the Admin users

Administration is simple and password controlled using the ‘User Managment’ module of Freepbx so changes to rates and rooms can only be carried out by the admin users, Reception users can log guests in and out, Create Bills and mark rooms for cleaning as well as set or cancel wakeup calls, The Housekeeping login only allows setting of rooms clean or not*. If a room is not marked as clean then that room cannot be checked in.

The software is fully web based and can be used on PC, Mac, Tablet or even smartphone.

The software is opensource and can be customised to suit most customers.

Features Include:

Checkin /Checkout

Billing : Rates are set by the admin user only, Bill can printed with relevant sales tax added.

Cleaning : Rooms are marked unclean on checkout and can only be checked in when marked as clean by reception or the cleaning staff. A cleaning list can be printed off for stall without a tablet or smartphone.

The software is here to download  and as its released as OSS you can modify and extend it as you wish

If you just want the software its free to download,  Limited email support will be available, All we ask is if you add a feature or make a change let us have it so everyone can benefit from it.

Finally if there is a feature you want let us know how we can work with you to make it come about.

If you do download and like it, maybe think about buying me a coffee