If your phone system is Unitel, you can keep your existing number and your existing setup — Verbu just becomes one of the destinations Unitel can route calls to.Documentation Index
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What you’ll set up
A rule in Unitel that says: “When a call comes in on this number, send it to Verbu.” That’s all. The number stays yours. Your existing phones still work. If you ever want to switch the agent off again, you just flip the rule back in Unitel.Before you start
You need:- Access to your Unitel admin panel (or the contact details for whoever manages it on your behalf)
- The phone number you want the agent to answer on
- The SIP endpoint from Verbu — you’ll find it in the dashboard under Phone numbers → Connect existing number
Steps
Open your Unitel admin panel
Sign in at your Unitel admin URL. If you don’t have an admin account, your IT person or Unitel reseller will have one.
Find the incoming number
Locate the phone number you want the agent to handle. It will be listed under your numbers or DIDs.
Change the routing
Set the call routing for that number to forward to a SIP URI (sometimes called “SIP trunk” or “external SIP destination”). Paste the Verbu SIP endpoint as the destination.
Optional: hand off to humans during business hours
A common setup is “Verbu answers when nobody is around, and rings the team during business hours”. You can do this two ways:- In Unitel — set a time-of-day rule so calls during business hours go to your team and after-hours calls go to Verbu.
- In Verbu — let the agent take every call and use Forwarding on the agent to transfer to a human when needed (lunch break, complex case, VIP customer, etc.).
Common scenarios
Calls go through but the agent says nothing
Calls go through but the agent says nothing
The call arrived but the audio isn’t flowing. Nine times out of ten this is a SIP codec mismatch. Ask Unitel to allow
PCMU and PCMA (also called G.711 µ-law and A-law) on the trunk to Verbu.Callers hear a busy tone
Callers hear a busy tone
The forwarding rule didn’t save, or the SIP endpoint was typed with a typo. Go back to Unitel, open the rule, and verify the destination matches the SIP endpoint Verbu gave you exactly.
The agent picks up but immediately drops
The agent picks up but immediately drops
Usually a firewall or session-border-controller issue between Unitel and Verbu. Send a sample call ID to Verbu support and they’ll match it against the logs on our side.
I want to undo this and go back to the old setup
I want to undo this and go back to the old setup
In Unitel, change the routing for the number back to where it was before — usually a queue or a hunt group. Calls will go straight back to your team the moment you save.
Next steps
- Make sure your agent is ready: Building your first agent
- Set up Forwarding under your agent so the agent can hand off to a colleague when needed
- If Unitel isn’t your PBX, see Most PBX solutions for the general pattern