Place a Call

Your Polycom VVX400 series phone has the ability to dial other people as long as it has an internet connection and power.

You can place a call using the following methods:

• Dial someone using the phone's dial pad.
• Press a speed dial or BLF key configured on your phone.
• Call a contact from your Directories and Call Lists.
• Redial a person you recently called.

Dial a Person

Do one of the following:

• Pick up the handset, press the speakerphone button, or press the headset button. Dial a phone number or extension number and press the Send soft key.
• Enter the phone number or extension number and press the Dial soft key. Pick up the handset, press the speakerphone button, or press the headset button.
• Press a Line key, dial a phone number or extension number, and press the Send soft key.
• Press the New Call soft key, dial a phone number or extension number, and press the Send soft key.

Use a Speed Dial or BLF

If you have configured speed dial and BLF keys on your Polycom VVX phone, you can use them to quickly dial people. This can be done while the phone is Idle or on an active call.

While on the Lines screen of your Idle phone, you can press a Speed Dial/BLF key to quickly contact someone. 

If you are in the middle of an active call, press the Lines soft key and then press the Speed Dial/BLF key you wish to use. Doing so will place your first caller on hold while you speak with the second person.

Call a Contact

Press the Home button and select Directories to call a contact from your Contact Directory, Recent Calls, or Favorites lists.

You can also press the directional buttons to view your different Call Lists, which can be used to call your different contacts. 

• Press the Down directional button to view your Missed Calls list.
• Press the Left directional button to view your Received Calls list.
• Press the Right directional button to view your Placed Calls list.

Redial a Caller

If needed, you can quickly redial a person you recently placed a call to. To redial someone, press the Right directional button twice.

Handle an Incoming Call

Whenever there is an incoming call to your Polycom phone, you can perform the following actions:

• Answer the call.
• Forward the call to a different destination.
• Ignore the call by having it silently ring.
• Reject the call.

Answer a Call

When you have an incoming call, you have the option to answer the call using either the speakerphone, the handset, or a headset.

Depending on how you would like to talk to your caller, do one of the following:

• To talk over speakerphone, press the Answer soft key or press the speakerphone button.
• To use the handset for the call, simply pick up the phone's handset.
• If you are using a connected headset, press the headset button to answer the call.

Forward a Call

If you are currently not available to take an incoming call, or if you want to handle a call on a cellphone, you can forward the call. 

To forward a call…

1. Press the Forward soft key.
2. Do one of the following:
   • Dial the phone number or extension number to forward the call to.
   • Select a recent contact from the list using the directional keys.
   • Press the Directory soft key and select a contact to send the call to.
   • Press the Home button and press the speed dial or BLF key of someone to forward the call to.

Ignore a Call

When there is a call ringing on your Polycom VVX phone, you can press More → Silence to have the call ring silently. 

This can be a discrete alternative to rejecting an incoming call. 

Once the call times out, the caller will either be sent to your voicemailbox or the destination you set for an active Busy Forward.

Reject a Call

If you are not available to take a call, you can press the Reject soft key to reject the call. 

Doing so will either send the caller to your voicemailbox or forward the caller to the destination you set for an active Busy Forward.

Handle Multiple Calls

As long as you have multiple line keys, your Polycom VVX series phone is able to handle one active call and multiple held calls at once. The number of line keys your phone has determines how many calls can be hosted on your phone at once. 

When you have multiple calls on your Polycom phone, you can do the following actions:

• Swap calls whenever necessary.
• Merge calls into a conference call.
• End one call at a time.

Swap Between Calls

While you are handling multiple calls at once, you can easily switch between them using your line keys or the Calls screen. 

To do so, do one of the following:

• Press the Line Key button that is holding the call.
• On the Calls screen, highlight a call using the up and down directional buttons and press the Resume soft key.

When you swap calls, the caller you were originally speaking to will be placed on hold automatically.

Merge Calls

While you have multiple calls active and held on your phone, you can merge the calls together. To merge your calls into one conference call, press the Join soft key on the Calls screen.

End One Call

On the Calls screen, you can end one of the calls you are handling at any time. 

To hang up one call on your phone…

1. Select the call to end by doing one of the following: 
   • Press the Line Key button that is holding the call.
   • On the Calls screen, highlight a call using the up and down directional buttons and press the Resume soft key.
2. On the active call, do one of the following:
   • Press the End Call soft key.
   • If you are using the handset, hang the handset up on the hook switch.
   • If you are on speakerphone, press the speakerphone button.

Active Call Features

While you are handling an active call, you can do the following actions:

• Mute your microphone.
• Place a caller on hold or resume a held call.
• Perform a blind or consultative transfer.
• Host a conference call.
• End a call.

Mute Yourself

If you would like to prevent a caller from hearing you while still being able to hear the caller, you can mute your phone's microphone.

• To mute yourself, press the Mute button. 
• To unmute yourself when you are ready, press the Mute button again.

Place a Caller on Hold

You can have multiple calls on hold and resume a call at any time. 

To hold a call, highlight the call using the directional buttons and press Hold or press the Hold button. 

To resume a held call, highlight the call using the directional buttons and press Resume or press the Hold button again. 

Transfer a Call

While you are handling a call, you may find it necessary to send your caller to a different destination.
There are four different ways you can transfer calls to users:

1. Blind Transferring
2. Consultative (Attended) Transferring
3. Transferring to Voicemail (for internal users)

Perform a Blind Transfer

If you need to transfer call to someone else, you have the option to send the call straight to that other person without speaking to them using a blind transfer.

To perform a blind, or cold, transfer…

1. During an active call, press the Transfer soft key or the Transfer button.
2. Press the Blind soft key.
3. Do one of the following:
   • Dial the phone number or extension number of the person.
   • Select a recent contact from the list.
   • Press Directory and select a contact.
   • Press the BLF or speed dial key for the person.
4. If needed, press Consultative to perform an attended/consultative transfer instead.
5. Press the Send soft key.

Perform a Consultative Transfer

If you would like to speak with the person you will be transferring a call to, you can use a consultative transfer. 

To perform a consultative, or attended, transfer…

1. During an active call, press the Transfer soft key or the Transfer button.
2. Do one of the following:
   • Dial the phone number or extension number of the person.
   • Select a recent contact from the list.
   • Press the Directory soft key and select a contact.
   • Press a BLF or speed dial key for the person.
3. Press the Send soft key.

Transfer to a User's Voicemailbox

During an active call, you can transfer a caller to another user's voicemailbox. This can be useful when you know that user is out of the office, or if the caller only wants to leave that user a voicemail.

To transfer a call to the voicemailbox of an internal user…

1. During an active call, press the Transfer soft key or the Transfer button.
2. Press the Blind soft key.
3. Dial the mailbox code for the other user and press Send.
   • For Stratus users, dial 03 and the extension number of the user.
   • For Enswitch users, dial the feature code associated with the mailbox.
     

     Quick Tip: Most accounts use 1+EXT (e.g., 1103 for dialing extension 103's mailbox) as the code for dialing into the mailboxes of other users. 

     Find Your Mailbox's Dialable Code

     If you are not sure what your mailbox's feature code is, you can check this and the other feature codes you are set as the Owner for by logging into the ES web portal as a basic user.

     To find your mailbox's feature code…

     1. Log into the ES web portal.
     2. Navigate to Features → Feature codes.
     3. Take note of the Feature Code shown that is marked for your extension's Mailbox. 
     

      

      

     Reference the Feature Codes for Your Users as an Admin

     Admins of the ES web portal can check the Feature Codes shown for all of their users using the web portal. 

     To check the feature codes for the whole account…

     1. Log into the ES web portal.
     2. Navigate to Features → Feature codes.
     3. View and take note of the feature codes for your users.
     
     4. If needed, click the Export as .csv button to download this list of feature codes as a spreadsheet that you can keep record of and share with your team.
     

      

      

     If you do not have access to the ES web portal, feel free to contact our technical support team to learn more about the dialable codes you can use. You can also read this article to learn how you can create a code for dialing a mailbox.

      

Conference Calling

Whenever you need to, you can host a conference call your Polycom VVX400 series phone's conferencing features.

Initiate a Conference Call

A Polycom VVX400 series phone can host a conference with up to 3 participants.

To start a conference, you can do so by either…

• Invite participants.
• Merge multiple calls together.

Invite Participants

If preferred, a conference call can be started by merging other calls into an already active call.

To do so…

1. Call a contact by either dialing them or using your Directory.
2. While on the active call, press More → Confrnc.
   

   Note: Pressing the Confrnc soft key on an active call will place the first caller on hold until the conference call is started.

    
3. Do any of the following:
   • Dial the participant.
   • Select a contact from your Directory.
   • Press the Home button to view the Lines screen so that you can press a Speed Dial or BLF key to contact another participant.
4. Press the Send soft key.
5. When the second person answers, press More → Confrnc again to merge the calls.

Merge a Held Call into a Conference

While you have multiple calls active and held on your phone, you can merge the calls together. To merge your calls into one conference call, press the Join soft key on the Calls screen.

Manage Conference Participants

After a conference call has been initiated, you can manage all participants or a certain participant. This “management” can range from viewing a participant's information to placing all participants on hold and more.

Manage All Participants

If you need to pause a conference call, you can place every participant on hold. While the conference is on hold, other participants will not hear each other until the held conference call is resumed. They will instead hear your organization's music on hold.

On the Conference Call screen, do any of the following when needed:

• Press the Hold soft key or the Hold button to put all participants on hold.
• Press the Resume soft key or the Hold button again to take the participants off hold.
• Press the Mute soft key or the Mute button to mute all participants. Press the Mute soft key again to allow participants to speak.

Manage Individual Participants

Individual participants can also be managed in a conference call. 

1. Highlight a participant using the directional keys and press Manage.
2. Do any of the following:
   • Press the Far Mute soft key to mute this participant.
   • Press the Hold soft key to place only this participant on hold.
   • Press the Remove soft key to start a separate call with this individual.
   • Press the Information soft key to view the participant's call information, such as their name and contact number.

End a Conference Call

Once you are finished with a conference call, you have the option to either…

• End the conference call for everyone.
• Split the conference call into separate calls.

End the Whole Conference Call

At any time, you can end a conference call by pressing the End Call soft key. This will terminate the conference your every participant.

Split a Conference Call

As an alternative to ending the conference call for every participant, you can press the Split soft key to place each participant on hold in their own call. 

From there, you can highlight a call and press Resume or press the Hold button to resume a call, talk with the caller, and end the call when you are ready.

End a Call

While on an active call, you can end the call at any time. 

To end a single call, do one of the following:

• Place the handset on the hook.
• Press the End Call soft key.
• Press the speakerphone button.