Turn Selectively Accept Calls on and off

Use the Selectively Accept Calls feature to choose incoming calls to reject based on the phone number or a schedule. If you only answered calls from certain numbers, you could define those, and the other calls would not ring.

Turn on Selectively Accept Calls

1. Click the Call Settings tab. 
   
   The Incoming Calls tab opens.

1. From the Every Day All Day list, do one of the following:
   
   
   • Select Every Day All Day if you want the schedule to apply all day during every day.
     
     
   • Select AUTOATTENDANT-BUSINESS-HOURS if you want the schedule to apply to the auto attendant during business hours.

1. Click Add Schedule. 
   

1. In the And section, from the Calls from list, do one of the following:
   
   
   • Select Any Phone Number if you want all calls to follow the schedule.
     
     
   • Select Select Phone Numbers if you want certain calls to follow the schedule, then do any of the following:
     
     
     • Select the Any Private Number checkbox for all private numbers to follow the schedule.
       
       
     • Select the Any Unavailable Number checkbox for calls without caller ID to follow the schedule.
       
       
     • In the Set Number field, type individual numbers you want to follow the schedule.

1. In the Then section, do one of the following:
   
   
   • Select the Notify me radio button if you want to be notified.
     
     
   • Select the Don't notify me radio button if you don’t need to be notified.

Turn off Selectively Accept Calls

1. Click the Call Settings tab. 
   
   The Incoming Calls tab opens.

1. Click Save.