inventory
Inventory Status Interface
The Inventory Status Interface (ISI) is a telephony interface designed to allow users to report item and quantity information to one or more remote servers. Although the original conception was to provide a method for a hotel's housekeeping staff to report usage of items from the guest room mini-bar, the interface has been designed to allow for any type of inventory reporting a user may require.
Features
- PMS integration is not required.
- Mailbox creation and voice mail integration is not required.
- Auto-attendant support is not required (except for providing the telephony interface).
- Unlimited number of user accounts.
- Unlimited number of items.
- Telephony interface supports user language preference.
- Administration interface allows recording item descriptions in any supported language.
- Web interface supports reporting of all item and user changes.
- System supports posting changes simultaneously to as many as five remote servers.
Requirements
ISI is a licensed IVR feature and must be purchased from the manufacturer on a per-site basis.
Configuration
Configure the server
To configure the ISI server, refer to Features | Connectors | Inventory Status Interface in the System Configuration section.
Configure the user interface
The ISI IVR can be assigned to any key within a single digit action (SDA) menu template by entering the text ISI
in the Action field, as shown in the figure below.
ISIRSI
instead.
In this example, ISI has been assigned to menu key 1, and the SD checkbox has also been checked to signify that the 1 key is a single-digit key (meaning it will act immediately when the caller presses 1 instead of waiting for more digits). For more on editing SDA templates, refer to the Mailbox Administration section of this manual.
Record item descriptions
The Inventory Status Interface (ISI) provides an administrator telephony interface for recording item descriptions that is integrated with the standard administrator telephony interface for the voicemail / auto-attendant system. The flowchart below provides a basic overview of how to access and use this interface to record item names or descriptions.
These item description recordings are used within the telephony user interface as confirmation to the user that he or she entered the correct item code. If there is no recording for an item, the system will simply restate the item ID that the user entered. While that is useful for confirming that you entered what you thought you did, playing a recorded name or description further confirms that the ID entered actually is the ID for the intended item.
User Interface
The flowchart below provides an overview of how to use the telephony interface for posting items and quantities to ISI, which the ISI server will then pass on to any registered remote servers.