To make sure that your Softphone is fully functional let’s do a test a call. You will now see that your account has been enabled and your Softphone is ready to make and receive calls. Now create a password and a display name for your Softphone. Under domain copy and paste your phone extensions domain. Under user ID type in the user name of your extension located here. You can give your account the name of your choice at the top. So once you have both your Xlite Softphone and VoIP Phone extension details displayed in your side by side, click on Account settings on your Xlite Softphone. Now we can start configuring our Xlite Softphone I’ve brought both windows side by side because we are going to need the information from our VoIP phone extension to type into our Xlite Softphone.
Once your phone extension’s status is active. Now you can see that our phone extension is updating. Once your phone extension settings are configured click on save changes. Under caller ID type in the number that you would like displayed when you are making outbound calls and finally under enabled choose true from the drop down menu. Here you can create a phone extension using any digits 3 to 5 numbers in length. Once you are logged in go to Voip Phones in the navigation menu and then click on add new phone extension. So let’s go back to the etollFree portal and login to our dashboard. Now before we can start using this soft phone to make and receive calls, we must first create a Voip phone extension, if you have not done so already. Once you have the Xlite software installed on your computer just open it up like you would any other application. Again the installation is very straight forward for Windows, Mac and any mobile device of your choice. So I’ll start by downloading the X-lite softphone software. The instructions are very similar for both the mac as well as smartphones. However the other operating systems follow a very similar process so there is no need to worry. As you can see here there are 3 different versions of the software to download based on your computer’s operating system.įor this example we will only be showing you how to download and configure the Xlite software for the Mac operating system. Our first step is to go to this URL where you will be able to download the Xlite software.
You can plug a headset to the IP Phone and have your hands free or use the speakerĪt the page bottom click on the Windows or Mac version, save the file and wait for the download to finish.In this video we’ll show you how to configure a Voip phone extension using the Xlite soft phone application.IP Phones are more comfortable to use than computers for calls and don’t use your computer resources while calling.An IP Phone is always turned on and you won’t miss calls because your computer is turned off or rebooting.It’s always better to use an IP Phone for your myPBX phone extension and we strongly suggest it. Using a slow computer for your phone extension will result in low-quality voice calls with a robotic voice or call drops. Your computer has less than 20% hard drive free storage space.You constantly have to wait for your computer to perform tasks.There’s almost no free available RAM memory.We know there are others available, however, we strongly suggest using X-Lite because it’s a reliable software that you can trust.ĭo not use your computer to talk with your phone extension if: You’ll need to install X-Lite if you want to use your computer to connect your myPBX phone extension.