Built-in Auto Attendant

Answers incoming calls and directs them to other telephones in the system.

Eight Selectable Greetings

You can set the auto attendant to give up to eight different greeting according to the user's input.

This feature is useful for giving specific recorded information to callers, such as hours of operation or directions.

Remote Access

Allows you to call in to listen to received messages.

Transfer Direct to Voice Mail

Allows callers to leave message directly in a person's voice mail, without first ringing the extiension.

Digital Message Recording

Allows callers to leave message directly in a person's voice mail, without first ringing the extension.

Night Message Greeting

A night message can be set to play during specific hours.

Line Specific Greetings

You can assign separate greeting to different lines, which is useful for personal and business  lines, or for two separate business that share a system.

Answering System Lamp

Flashes to indicate at least one new message, lights steady to indicate that the answering system is on.

Message Auto Save

All message are automatically saved after your review them, until you deliberately erase them.

Message Grouping

When you review your message, the voice will announce the number of new and saved messages, them will play all new messages, followed by all the saved messages.

Save as New

If you play a message that should be heard by someone else besides you, you may press the "Save as New" button, so that voice mail lamp will continue to flash, and this message will be played along with any other new messages.

Erase

At any time while listening to a message, you may press this button to erase it . Press this button after all messages have been played to erase all messages.

Screen Calls

If you wish you may listen as callers are leaving you a message. At any time you can pick up the call if you wish.

Skip/Repeat

Use these buttons to jump to the next message, or to go back to the beginning of the current message.

Back/Forward

Press these button to jump 2 seconds backward or forward in the currently playing message. This is useful for getting a telephone number you may have missed part of, or to skip through an unimportant part of a message.

Variable Speed Message Playback

Your may increase or decrease the speed of the message playback, without altering the voice pitch.

Record Memo/Conversation

With the press of this button, you can record a memo or your current telephone conversation. Your recording will be saved along with the other messages.

Pause

Use this button to momentarily pause message playback.

Centre Auto Attendant

The EP-4500 has a built-in Centrex Auto Attendant, which makes it ideal for everything form the small business to the large Enterprise that uses Centrex.