Edit and enable Emergency Phones Fallback

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Overview

In case of emergencies or when you need your customer service representatives (CSRs) to work from home and take calls, you can forward all your calls from all tracking numbers in ServiceTitan to multiple numbers. This ensures that your team can continue supporting your business and customers from remote locations.


Who uses this feature

  • Administrators and office employees

Things to know

  • Unanswered incoming calls are forwarded to the company voicemail after a set ring duration.

  • If a CSR's mobile phone is turned off or in an area of poor reception, incoming calls can go directly to their personal voicemail. To avoid this, have CSRs temporarily disable their voicemail.

Edit Emergency Phones Fallback preferences

Before enabling Emergency Phones Fallback, edit your preferences:

  1. Go to the top toolbar and click Settings A simple icon representing a settings gear. .

  2. In the side panel, click Phones > Emergency Fallback.

  3. In Phone Numbers, click Add number. You can add up to 10 mobile phone numbers to forward all your calls. Adding mobile phone numbers ensures your customer service representatives can be reached at their remote locations. Input field for adding phone numbers to forward calls simultaneously for customer service.

  4. In Ring Duration, click and adjust the timeline to select how long the CSR's phone rings before the call is sent to voicemail. Settings for call ring duration before going to voicemail, adjustable between 30 seconds and 2 minutes.

  5. In Voicemail, you can add a custom greeting that plays when a representative is unavailable. If you don't want to add a greeting, leave the selection blank. To add a greeting, click the dropdown and select Custom GreetingVoicemail settings with options for custom greetings when agents are unavailable.A pop-up opens. You can add an audio file from your computer or import a file from a URL. When done, click UploadInterface for setting a custom greeting with file upload options and email input.Once you've edited your preferences, enable this feature.

Enable Emergency Phones Fallback

When you enable Emergency Phones Fallback, all incoming calls are routed to the phone numbers you added in your preferences:

  1. At the top of the Emergency Fallback screen, click the Emergency Phones Fallback toggle to Enable FallbackSettings for emergency phone fallback, ring duration, and voicemail options displayed.

  2. Click Confirm to continue. Confirmation dialog for enabling Emergency Phones Fallback feature with Cancel and Confirm options.

To restore your phones to your normal settings, click the Emergency Phones Fallback toggle to the off position.

Temporarily disable personal voicemail

If a CSR's mobile phone is turned off or has poor reception, incoming calls will go directly to their personal voicemail instead of an available CSR or the company voicemail.

To avoid incoming calls from going to personal voicemail, have your CSRs contact their mobile phone service provider's customer support to temporarily disable their personal voicemail:

  • AT&T—(800) 331-0500 (611 from their mobile phone)

  • Sprint—1 (888) 211-4727 (*2 from their mobile phone)

  • T-Mobile—611 from their mobile phone

  • Verizon—(800) 922-0204

CSRs can use the same number to re-enable their voicemail.

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