| The Travel Industry is known for a heavy call volumes and a desperate need to deliver exceptional customer service. However, with all of the mergers and acquisitions in the Travel Services industry over the last several years, many firms are faced with a complex array of different phone systems, wide area networks, voice mail systems, and communication equipment. These inherited networks may not be compatible with existing networks, creating problems with call routing and phone service. Smoothstone’s solutions remove the busy signals from your lines and help you deliver best-in-class service to your base of clients.
That’s why Smoothstone provides:
- Smart Network — Our private, secure network replaces all local, long distance, and inter-office voice circuits—as well as all internet access and WAN connection—with a single highly-efficient, IP-based connection.
- One Bill, One Solution — With Smoothstone as your sole communications vendor, you receive only one bill for all your communication needs and have only one number to call when problems arise.
- Integrated Call Records — With Smoothstone’s proprietary Call Reporting platform, VoiceStalk™, financial agencies can monitor their total calling activity—local and long distance, inbound and outbound, internal and external. Data is categorized by individual DID and summarizes the cost and minutes of every received and placed call to and from each DID. You can even analyze the information down to the individual call.
- Disaster Recovery — Outages based on weather, power interruptions, or other causes are automatically accommodated with predefined back-up call routing. Calls can be rerouted automatically to other locations, including cell phones, home phones, PC-based SOFTPHONES, or directly to voicemail (which can then be delivered as an email). Most importantly, no call ever receives a busy signal!
- Remote Agents — Remote/home-based agents connect into the same secure and robust network, providing the same access to all company functionality, applications and phone services, as if they were on-site.
- Toll-Free Connection to Other Smoothstone Travel Agency Clients — Through their private connections to the same nationwide, private, IP over MPLS network, all Smoothstone clients can communicate with each other, toll-free. Integrate or share reservation and transaction applications or contract with each other to handle after hours/ emergency services and overflow calls.
Additionally, Smoothstone also offers unparalleled control of your communications platform, through proprietary solutions like ICC (Intelligent Call Control), which helps you provide prompt call answering and effectively route incoming calls where you need it most. This flexible, fully-user controlled isn’t hardware—it’s software, which can change and grow as your business needs change. With ICC, you can base call routing rules on:
- Date and time,
- DID availability,
- Call volume,
- Origin of incoming calls,
- Queue length,
- And much more.
Bottom line, ICC enhances productivity and increases your responsiveness to your clients.
For a FREE, no obligation evaluation of your current communication system—or if you have questions about Smoothstone — please contact us. |