With technology getting advanced in leaps and bounds, 
so does the complexity of our decision making, when it comes
to choosing the right phone system for your Business type.
Before you rush to select any phone system do take into consideration
certain important factors such as total cost of ownership, up-front cost,
ease of use, productivity and business presentation.
Being an informed shopper can help your business leverage the
most out of your Phone System and will also ensure that you get the best
value for your investment. It is very important to have right phone system
that can enhance your business profits. Setting up right advanced phone
system at the first time itself can help you in avoiding losses.
At the time of selecting phone system, take into consider below mentioned factors:
1. Phone system – The first decision which you should take while deciding
phone system is that what type of business phone system will be suitable for your business type
2. System quality – The most important factor which you should consider while
selecting any phone system for your business is the system’s quality.
3. Cost – One of the strongest factors in buying business phone system is cost. Make sure that you carry out comparison of various quotes, before you settle with any provider. However, this doesn’t mean that you should settle for something cheap or for poor quality phone system. To be precise, it means that you should gauge the value for the money invested by you
4. Customer service – It is quite impossible to find business phone system that never lets you face any problem or downtime at any point of time. For this reason, it is best to choose a provider who is able to give you full guaranteed customer support. Besides this asking around and logging on to several different forum websites will help you in determining the quality of customer support offered by service provider.
5. Contracts – It is suggested that opt for provider who doesn’t make you sign a lock in contract.
Why? As this will allow you to switch to other phone system, in case if you are not satisfied with their services.
6. Interactive Voice Response – This feature is very important to consider especially
in reducing overhead costs for several companies who make use of BPS. It allows firms or companies to interact with customers round the clock. Further, it allows customers to find information about their billings or ask queries that they might be having.
7. Dedicated voice mail box – Your phone system should have dedicated message bank.
It is very important that every extension should have its own message bank. This will avoid
confusion and will also facilitate in better service to your customers by your employees.
Thus, when you follow the above mentioned factors you are sure to get the best phone system.
Author Bio: Irving Mitchell is a chief engineer at local radio station in Sydney. He often writes articles and blogs stating significance of phone system in Sydney and benefits offered by it to by businesses.