Setting Up & User Guide

Setting Up A User With VirtualText

• Only one user can be assigned to one phone number in VirtualText. The VirtualText user’s email address syncs with the email address assigned to your user
• Once a user is assigned a phone number, it can be assigned to other users in VirtualText. Contact our support team for assistance with this at this time
• If you need additional plan users to allow more users in VirtualText, please speak with our Services team for pricing

• An admin user in Dash will become an admin user in VirtualText

• Each user can only have one number assigned. Once that is complete, those numbers can be shared with other VirtualText Users

• The maximum length of messages sent from the VirtualText App contains two parts; a maximum word count of 346 and a maximum character count of 2,048. Like all text messaging services, standard text messages are billed in segments of 160 characters.

1. Click on the User Features Box for the user you would like to add VirtualText to

2. Click on the VirtualText Application feature

 

1. Turn on VirtualText Application

2. Select the phone number
1. Please Note: The selectable numbers here will include all numbers on this user and any Main or Auto-Attendant numbers that have not already been assigned to VirtualText. 

3. Save Changes

Sharing A Number In VirtualText

1. Enter the user’s name in the search bar. Or browse the list of users

2. Click View under Action

1. Click on the Number Sharing Tab

2. Click on the box to show the list of other users to share the number to

3. Click on Share Number. Repeat this for any other users you wish to share this number with.

Adding/Importing Contacts

1. Manually enter a single contact, by clicking on New Contact at the top right

2. Upload a .CSV with the following format (Format: Full Name, Phone Number, E-mail Address). Start this by clicking on Import

Texting With VirtualText

1. Click on Conversations on the left menu

2. Click on New Conversations at the top right to start a new conversation. At that point you will be given the option to enter in a new phone number or select an existing conversation.

Canned Responses

1. Auto-Reply to Keyword
1. If you receive an SMS message that matches exactly this, it will auto reply this canned response. This is useful for sending things like an address, hours of operation or other information that the user can request.

2. In the message body, you can use “View Merge Fields”. This will let you customize the canned response to include the respondent’s name.

[title](e.g. Mrs.)[first] (e.g. Jane)[last] (e.g. Doe)[suffix] (e.g. Jr.)Example: “Hi [first]. I am out of the office, I will reply when I have a chance. Thank you.” This response will pull the first name out of the contact and include it in the message. If you only have the number in the contact, then it will fallback and use the number instead.

Adding contacts to VirtualText from your mobile phone.

 

Currently there is no in app way to import your phone’s contacts directly into the VirtualText app. In order to import contacts you will first need to export your contacts from your phone into a .CSV file. Then you can import them via the website interface.

 

The following guides are possible suggestions to explore. VirtualPBX has not tested these methods to verify how well they work with VirtualText. In many cases, you may need to use 3rd party applications or online tools

 

For Android phones, you can check out the following guides

Google contacts - CSV. Probably easiest if you sync your phone’s contacts with your Gmail account.

Android contacts to VCF. You would then need to convert the VCF to a CSV. Journeybytes has a guide using MS Excel

 

For IOS phones you can check out the following guides

Apple Insider Guide

iMobile Guide

Gadget Gone Guide

 

Remember to make your CSV file for import with only 3 columns: Name / Phone Number / Email address