Hours of Operation

Set dates & times for receiving business calls.

Hours of operation gives you the power to control when your team is available to accept calls. You can even specify an after hours destination to route incoming calls or play a special closed message. Now you can ensure that all of your after hours callers will be managed correctly.

Set dates & times for receiving business calls

Benefits of Hours of Operation

It’s time to ditch your old-school phone system.

Date & Time Conditions

Date & Time Conditions

Choose when to receive business calls

You may establish specific date & time ranges for when your phones are available to receive calls. This gives you the flexibility to set various operating times for different days of the week.

Note: Hours of operation are open 24/7 by default.

Date & Time Conditions

Multiple Time Slots Per Day

Multiple Time Slots Per Day

Open & close as much as needed

Now you can set multiple open & closed time conditions for the same day.

This option is perfect for businesses that open & close multiple times per day.


After Hours Destinations

After Hours Destinations

Add special call routing rules when closed

Send your callers to other destinations such as a special voice mailbox, phone number, or a different menu of options outside of normal business hours.

Now you can be sure callers are properly taken care of even after hours.

After Hours Destinations

Custom Closed Messages

Custom Closed Messages

Keep your customers informed

Let your customers know you are closed and when you will reopen with a special after hours message.

We recommend combining the closed message with a unique after hours destination for the best results.


Override Hours at Any Time

Override Hours at Any Time

Without changing your normal schedule

Need to stay open late or close early? No problem. You can override your business hours at any time without changing your normal operation settings.

Override Hours at Any Time

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1. Choose a Phone Number

Pick a new phone number or transfer an existing business number to Talkroute.

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2. Download Our Apps

Our desktop & mobile apps are available for MacOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, & Android.

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3. Configure Your Settings

Customize your greetings, menus, extensions, voicemail, hours of operation, & more.

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    Download our apps to begin making business calls from your PC & smartphone today.

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    Send & receive text messages from your business numbers

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    The best way to bring your team together

    Video conferencing with up to 100 team & guest participants.

    Additionally, Talkroute Meetings gives you the power to record meeting sessions, share your screen, chat via team messenger, collaborate using our whiteboard, & share files.

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    Check voicemail by email, browser, & apps

    Never miss a voicemail — Enable email, mobile, & desktop app notifications when receiving a new voice message.

    Customize your voicemail greetings & assign separate mailboxes to your team members, departments, & phone numbers.

    Our mailboxes can be added or removed at anytime & provide unlimited storage capacity.

    Easy to manage voicemail
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    Easily customize your account settings

    Talkroute gives you the power to customize every aspect of your virtual phone service.

    Now you can easily adjust your call routing, customize greetings, edit schedules, and much more in a matter of seconds!

    Try Talkroute today and see why we are considered to be the most flexible phone solution available.

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Hours of Operation FAQ


Your business’s hours of operation are the dates & times when you’re available to receive business phone calls. This functionality gives you the flexibility to have open & closed times on different days of the week.

Outside of your normal hours of operation, there is also the option to route callers to alternative destinations such as voicemail, another phone number, or to a menu of options for callers to choose from after hours.

With Talkroute’s hours of operation feature you will be able to ensure that you only receive calls when you and your team are available to answer them.

Yes. You can add open and close times to your Talkroute system using the Hours of Operations feature.

Yes. You may add as many open and close times as needed to each day of the week.

Yes. Our Scheduled Forwarding feature provides the ability to create open and close times for each of your forwarding phone numbers and users.

This feature operates independently of the Hours of Operation settings.

Yes. Callers may be routed to a voice mailbox, phone number, or menu of options after hours.

Talkroute provides our users with an “override” business hours function in the control panel. This feature allows you to open or close your business outside of the normal operation schedule. You can also select a specific audio file to play and to send the call to voicemail or disconnect.

This special feature allows you to quickly override your operating hours without reconfiguring your global date and time settings.


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