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Call Queues · No more engaged tones

Callers held professionally, never turned away.

Queues with position announcements, overflow rules and callbacks — the difference between a surge handled and customers lost.

An engaged tone is a customer dialling your competitor.
Queues turn your busiest hour into your best hour.

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Tell us how many people, how many sites and what frustrates you about the current system. A UK engineer designs the call flow, picks the handsets and quotes it, with your numbers ported.

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Telexico handsets: Yealink and Grandstream desk phones, DECT and touch-screen models
The handsetsYealink and Grandstream desk phones, DECT and touch-screen models, pre-provisioned by Telexico and shipped ready to plug in.
What happens on a call

From the first ring to the recording.

The same cloud phone system routes every call the way your business works, then keeps a record of it.

A customer callsYour existing number, ported acrossLandline, mobile or a tracked campaign number
Auto attendant“Press 1 for sales, 2 for support”Opening hours, holidays and overflow rules
Ring group or queueRings the right people in the right orderPosition announcements and music on hold
Answered anywhereDesk phone: Yealink or Grandstream, pre-provisionedTelexico Mobile App: your extension on your mobileTelexico Web UC: the phone in a browser tab
Nothing lostUnanswered calls go to voicemail-to-emailEvery call recorded and searchable, with a CRM screen-pop

No more engaged tone

Callers queue with music and messages instead of hitting busy or ringing out.

Fair, smart distribution

Ring all, ring in order, longest-idle-first — calls spread across the team the way you choose.

Queue announcements

Position-in-queue and custom messages keep callers informed (and can promote your services while they wait).

Overflow that saves the call

Waits too long? Route to mobiles, another team, voicemail-to-email or the AI receptionist — never to a dead end.

Every seat, fully loaded.

Frequently asked questions

How long will callers actually wait?

That's up to your rules — you set maximum wait times and what happens next (overflow to mobiles, callback, voicemail or AI answering).

Can different teams have different queues?

Yes — sales, support and accounts can each have their own queue, hours, music and overflow behaviour.

Can we see queue performance?

Yes — call reporting shows calls offered, answered, abandoned and wait times per queue, so staffing decisions are based on data.

Do queues work with mobile apps?

Yes — queue calls ring your team wherever they are: desk phone, desktop app or mobile.

Want call queues on your phones?

It's included with Telexico cloud phone systems — we'll set it up around how your business works.

Telexico, in use

Every seat, fully loaded.

  • Call recording, the Telexico Mobile App and Telexico Web UC included
  • Handsets pre-provisioned and shipped ready to plug in
  • Moves, adds and changes from the portal, no engineer visit
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