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What You Need to Know
One of the biggest problems that you as a small- to medium-sized business will face is that you’ll eventually outgrow your communications system because you have become too big for your phone system!!

With PiaTel you’ll never have to worry about having a costly upgrade to your communications system. You’ll never have to worry about your system becoming obsolete. You‘ll never have to worry about these because our telephone system is as modular as it is advanced, we are constantly developing and constantly changing to meet the needs of our customers! What does this really mean? It means our system grows as you need it to, when you need it to!

PiaTel has the right solution for ANY business or organisation, from 1 to 99 employees. Whether you have a small office or your people are spread across the country, we’ll keep you in touch without breaking the bank.

Virtual Business Office Package
The Virtual Business Office Package is very robust as it’s based on a modular structure, taking the existing features of our popular individual packages to the next level, Business Services. Whilst each individual PiaTel is a system in it’s own right, and functions perfectly on its own, the PiaTel Virtual Business Office Package will literally connect several individual PiaTel systems together into one group under the control of a PiaTel Master Controller. This is similar to creating virtual private computer networks. This seamless connectivity creates a fully integrated set of services for small- to medium-size businesses, or for organisations from 1 to 99 people. The members of the organisation can be in the same physical office or in any number of different locations anywhere in the UK, or even the world. As your business grows you just keep on adding modules to the network as required. Having low start-up costs make the Virtual Business Office the low-risk choice for your company.  

In today’s fast-paced business environment, many of the small- to medium-sized organisations are made up of dynamic individuals in many locations. These individuals work using hot-desk offices, from homes or from offices located across the country. The PiaTel Virtual Business Office allows any business or organisation, whether you’re a one-man Marketer or a 90-man specialist firm, to present a single, professional face when their clients and customers call.

No matter how spread-out the group, the PiaTel Virtual Business Office brings the members of the group together so that callers always know how to reach whomever they need. One number or multiple local numbers can bring callers into the same central switchboard. A group based in London can have  ‘offices’ in Manchester, Glasgow or even New York, all at the same time!

And because the office is ‘virtual’, there is no need for additional equipment other than a landline or mobile phone. This eliminates the cost of installation, maintenance and eventual replacement of equipment.  Even fax machines can be eliminated as you can send faxes from your own computer! The great benefit of our system is that you only need one line coming in to every location, no matter how many calls are coming in. And because of our enhanced system technology you never lose quality either!

PiaTel Virtual Business Office Features
 
•    Transfer Calls
•    Screen Calls
•    Follow Me
•    Receive Faxes
•    Receive Voice Messages
•    Conference Calls
•    Message Notification
•    Messages & Faxes to Email
•    VoiceGrams
•    Fax-o-Grams
•    Call-Back Messaging
•    Multiple Phone Books
•    Virtual Merchant & PiaCard


Click here to view all Virtual Business features.

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The users in the Virtual Business Office Package, apart from having all the features and functions that are listed above, also gain additional features that are unique to this level of business package and that are not found in the BusyLife Business Package. Additional features include centralised billing and centralised switchboard, as well as the Announcement and Fax-On-Demand capabilities of the group system.

Virtual Business Office structure
The Virtual Business Office consists of five different types of component ‘boxes’. The Virtual Business Office Package starts with one of each of these box types.  Apart from the Switchboard and Master PiaTel Controller, additional boxes of each type may be added, up to a total of 99 boxes.
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1.    Switchboard — The Switchboard is the central place into which most calls will come.  There is only one Switchboard in any Virtual Business Office Package, regardless of how many members the organisation has. The Switchboard comes with at least one Local Access Number assigned to it, though extra numbers can be added.  Callers to the Switchboard number(s) hear a greeting such as “Thank you for calling.  You have reached the office of UK Plc,” followed by a list of names and extension numbers. 
 


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Teleconference with up to 10 people plus!


2.    Master Controller — The Virtual Business Office has one and only one MASTER CONTROLLER. Typically, the Master Controller is assigned to one specific person, say the business owner or head of the organisation. The Master Controller, whilst having all the features of a single PiaTel, also controls the content of the Announcement and Fax-On-Demand boxes, the creation of General boxes, and owns the billing information for the entire Virtual Business Office group.

3.    General PiaTel Office  —  Each Virtual Business Office can have between 1 and 99 single PiaTel systems or boxes. One for each user. Each PiaTel comes with its own full features.

4.     Announcements — Each Virtual Business Office can have one or more Announcement boxes.  The Announcement box contains a voice recording, changeable at any time, which can be used to convey any message the organisation desires.  Possibilities include directions to the business location, description of a special sales offer, opening hours and dates of trading, etc.

5.    Faxes-On-Demand — Each Virtual Business Office can have one or more automated Fax-On-Demand boxes.  The Fax-On-Demand box enables you to automatically distribute brochures, price lists or any other printed material as a fax that callers can demand at anytime, day or night, 365 days a year. The caller can request that the document be sent immediately to him (if they are calling from a fax machine) or sent to any outside fax number the caller supplies. A fax can be uploaded at any time from any fax machine, with a description, which can be recorded from any phone. 
 

Compared to a PBX
The Virtual Business Office shares many features and capabilities with a traditional office-installed Private Branch Exchange (PBX), but avoids many of the limitations associated with PBXs.



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Virtual Business Office Benefits

Make your Best ‘First Impression’
Maximise the image of your business with a professional switchboard, audio presentations, Fax-On-Demand, and much more, 24 hours a day, every day of the year. Give every member of your staff their own direct telephone number, voicemail, fax and email — regardless of whether they work in your office, from their home, or on the road anywhere in the UK. No more lost paper, no fax machine queues, and no more prying eyes on confidential faxes.

Be Prepared for Disaster with RECOVERY
Whether or not you already have a messaging system, the Virtual Business Office can act as a key component in your company’s disaster recovery strategy. The PiaTel accounts in your Virtual Business Office can be your back-up to receive or dispatch information should the worst happen. As the Virtual Business Office is a ‘virtual office’, every member of your staff can have their own communications centre right from their own home or mobile phone. We can work with you to integrate your company message systems with the Virtual Business Office.  When disaster strikes, all incoming messages can be routed to the Virtual Business Office. You and your staff can then answer calls and access messages from home, mobile phones, on the road or from anywhere they’re located.

Keep Secure Backups
Need to keep track of communications? The Virtual Business Office can send up to three copies of each fax, voicemail or any other message, via email, to any email address you like. These can be kept and ordered at a fraction of the cost of a voice and fax storage system.

Case Study: The Wentworth Medical Practice
The Wentworth Medical Practice has four GP’s and six office staff. They not only use the Virtual Business Office to give their doctors a secure, fast and cheap total communications package, but they also use the Virtual Business Office Disaster Recovery scheme. This reserves an entire set of PiaTel accounts including fax, voicemail and phone numbers for the exclusive use of the Medical Practice, should their disaster recovery contingency plan ever be invoked. Compared to the cost of a separate facility the savings are immense.

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 PiaTel Virtual Business Package (all prices inclusive of VAT)
 
Start-up Costs (charged at the end of 30-day trial)
One-off activation fee
Calling time
First month service fee
 
Total sign-up cost   
£10.99
  £5.99
£17.99

£34.97
   
Monthly Pricing
Monthly Service Fee (includes the following):
•    One main Switchboard Number
•    Four Personal Access Numbers (local and freephone)
•    Personal Information Assistant (Pia) 
•    Multiple Lines, Call waiting, Caller ID, Call Diversion.
•    Unlimited On System Messaging: Receive or Send
•    Unlimited Fax Reception + Fax Line
•    Messages and Faxes to Email
•    Messages/faxes/email address online at PiaTel.co.uk
•    Call Follow Me + Message Notification
•    Broadcast VoiceGrams and Fax-O-Grams
•    2 Mailboxes
•    1 Switchboard
•    1 Fax-on-demand document
•    1 Audio announcement
•    1 Operator Box
•    PiaXpress Paging
•    Virtual Merchant
£17.99
   
Optional  One-Off and Monthly Charges
Additional access number(s) one off Activation Fee
Additional UK access number(s) per month
Additional Intnl. access number(s) per month
Additional single user PiaTel Unit (2 numbers + mailbox)
Additional Fax-On-Demand documents
Additional Audio announcements
£2.99
£2.99
£2.99
£5.99
£2.99
£2.99
   
Feature Pricing
All Landline calls to area codes beginning 01,02
Calls to Mobile phones(O2,Orange,T-Mobile,Virgin,Vodafone)
0800/0808 Freephone calls (calls made to you)
Message Notification to phone
Retrieve Fax document to fax machine
Follow-Me (non mobile calls)
Follow-Me (mobile calls)
Local Public Access calls
Page or pager notification
Call-back Message  notification
PiaTel to PiaTel Messaging
Message Retrievals (globally)
Conferencing (1-10 people)
VoiceGrams (off system messaging)
Fax-O-Grams (fax broadcast)
International Calls
Virtual Merchant charges are 3-5% (dependent on volume) of transaction value
1.25p/min
12p/min
1p/min
1.8p/min
1.8p/min
1p/min
12p /min
1.8p/min
FREE!
FREE!
FREE!
FREE!
3p/min
3.8p/min
3.8p/min
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Default recharge increment for calling time is £5
Full price list is available on request

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