In addition to the Church Sound Systems which K T Electronics continue to install, we have, for many years, installed telephone systems, usually into commercial offices and factories.
In recent years we have tailored a small system to the church / clergy home situation.
This small system will allow up to 3 (most use only 1) outside lines to be directed to up to 8 extensions.
Larger systems are available
Typical system description:
1 extension in the parish office.
1 (or more) extensions in the presbytery.
1 extension in the parish hall. (which probably would receive calls but, with the exception of 999 calls, could not dial out).
1 extension in the sacristy / vestry (in usual setup would not ring for incoming calls but available for emergency calls)
Importantly, 1 extension dedicated to automatically “giving out” Mass times.
Maybe 1 extension dedicated to a fax machine.
How does it work?
Callers would be greeted with: “Thank you for calling the parish office, if you wish to know the Mass times (or times of Services), please press 1, otherwise press 2 to speak to the Parish office or 3 to speak to the Parish Priest” This would be tailored to suit your specific parish needs
Please Note: Our experience suggests that callers will use 1 layer of decision making but dislike further layers. Our systems only use 1 layer (although they are capable of more)
Often, though not publicised, pressing (maybe) 5 would ring the priest’s private home phone allowing trusted friends and family evening access whilst directing other callers to an answering machine.
System advantages:
In recent years we have tailored a small system to the church / clergy home situation.
This small system will allow up to 3 (most use only 1) outside lines to be directed to up to 8 extensions.
Larger systems are available
Typical system description:
1 extension in the parish office.
1 (or more) extensions in the presbytery.
1 extension in the parish hall. (which probably would receive calls but, with the exception of 999 calls, could not dial out).
1 extension in the sacristy / vestry (in usual setup would not ring for incoming calls but available for emergency calls)
Importantly, 1 extension dedicated to automatically “giving out” Mass times.
Maybe 1 extension dedicated to a fax machine.
How does it work?
Callers would be greeted with: “Thank you for calling the parish office, if you wish to know the Mass times (or times of Services), please press 1, otherwise press 2 to speak to the Parish office or 3 to speak to the Parish Priest” This would be tailored to suit your specific parish needs
Please Note: Our experience suggests that callers will use 1 layer of decision making but dislike further layers. Our systems only use 1 layer (although they are capable of more)
Often, though not publicised, pressing (maybe) 5 would ring the priest’s private home phone allowing trusted friends and family evening access whilst directing other callers to an answering machine.
System advantages:
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Cost saving – 1 line can be used for office, private, hall, fax and broadband.
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Privacy – it is impossible for others to “listen in” to your conversations.
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Free of charge conversations between extensions.
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Ability to transfer call from one extension to another.
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Service / Mass times recorded on dedicated unit which is easily alterable.
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(Some clergy change their message weekly to give details of funerals etc.)
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Automatic Fax detection and routing.
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Ability to bar certain extensions from making outside calls.
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Cost:
Whilst this varies from office to office, typical cost would be £600 plus vat to include the PBX system, 1 system phone, “Mass times” message player and installation to mostly existing wiring.
Additional facilities could include calling number display (CLI) to handsets and individual Voice Mail for each extension.
“Hello Father, what time is Midnight Mass?”