Help Voicemail Question

[Jimbo_Slice]

Good evening!

I have a company cell phone, which I would like to forward to my personal cell phone so I dont have to carry 2 phones. Problem is, I need business callers to receive the business voicemail and not my personal one, if I miss a call.

Is this possible?

 

[Clementine_3]

Google Voice can do that, you can set it up for custom greetings. The trick is getting the groups set...do you know all the numbers for the business line? Random numbers may mess you up, you'd need to decide what to do with those.

You could get a GV number, forward work to that, have caller ID show the GV number and create a greeting that way. But. You won't know exactly who is calling, just business. (Actually, hmmm, not sure if the GV number would show in that scenario).

 

[Jimbo_Slice]

I wont know all the #'s calling on the business line.... that is the issue. I may not have any other options but to carry both phones, but figured I would ask here first.

 

[Clementine_3]

I think that if you forward your work number to GV you can get it to mostly work. It would show as your GV number though, not the actual number. Not sure if that's an issue or not. But then you could set up voicemail the way you want.

 

[Jimbo_Slice]

Okay, so I signed up for Google Voice, then forwarded my business # to that. Then forwarded the GV # to my personal cell. I attempted to call it, the first time it did, I got the prompt "please wait while we locate the google subscriber" then it rang, showed up as my GV # and went to the VM I set in GV.

Tested it again from my wife's phone (called the business #), it rang my personal cell phone, showed up as my wife call (assuming because she is a contact in my phone) and then gave the GV voicemail I left.

So this will work perfect, so long as its not prompting "please wait while we locate the google subscriber" etc.