With a properly installed and pinned smrtPhone Chrome extension, you can:
Answer an incoming call from any browser tab
Place a call from any tab (don’t have to be inside Salesforce)
Send an SMS/text message from any tab
Install the smrtPhone Chrome Extension
To install the smrtPhone Chrome Extension, follow these easy steps:
Visit the Chrome Web Store at this link 🔗
Click the blue Add to Chrome button
At the prompt, confirm you would like to Add Extension
When prompted by your Chrome Browser, grant access to your microphone
Once the extension is installed, pin it to your browser window for maximum efficiency. Click the Chrome Extension puzzle piece icon 🧩 in the upper right corner of your browser window to display a list of your installed extensions
Click the white pin 📌 next to smrtPhone - Chrome Dialer so it turns blue. This will pin the extension to your visible Extensions’ menu
Now that the smrtPhone Chrome Extension is installed, pinned, and has access to your microphone for talking on your phone calls, you need to log in.
Log into your Chrome Extension
For the current version of smrtPhone for Salesforce, you must log in to the Chrome Extension using your smrtPhone credentials or with Salesforce credentials.
Once you are logged in to the smrtPhone Chrome Extension, adjust the Settings to suit your needs.
🛠️ Adjust smrtPhone Chrome Extension's Settings
Open the Chrome Extension by clicking on the smrtPhone triangle icon in your extension’s menu.
On the top right of the window is the Settings tab, where you will find the following:
🟢🔴 Available/Unavailable
This toggle switch determines whether the Chrome Extension will ring (drop a small incoming call banner) when there is an incoming call.
If you turn yourself unavailable on the Chrome Extension, your smrtPhone phone numbers may ring anywhere else you are set available/online, such as inside Salesforce, inside the smrtPhone Web App, or through the smrtPhone Mobile App. If you want to be unreachable, you must set yourself as unavailable on all dialers.
🔚 Logout
You can log out of the Chrome Extension at any time by selecting the Logout button.
🔄️ Switch Account
If you have multiple smrtPhone accounts, you can switch accounts without having to log out and log back in.
🎨 Theme
You can choose to have a white background or go into dark mode, which turns the dialer black with white lettering. If you log out, it will remember your last setting for when you log back in.
📱 Click-to-Call
You can ignore this setting. Because Salesforce users have a smrtPhone dialer inside your Salesforce window (the CTI dialer), you do not need to worry about the Click to Call toggle. (For other CRMs, this is where a user decides whether clicking a phone number will dial in the smrtPhone Web App or Chrome Extension.)
🎧 Audio Settings
You can choose various settings for how your Dialer rings and which speakers to engage when in a phone conversation.
There are two important Audio Settings:
Ringing Device - the system to ring when the call happens
Output Device - the microphone and audio that you'd like to use for the call
These are separate settings for a useful reason: You may want the ringing set in a way that you can never miss, but you want to use a different audio/microphone for the actual call. For example, you may want smrtPhone to ring on your computer speakers so you always hear it, but you might want to take the call on a headset.
To use the smrtPhone Chrome Extension, you must have previously purchased a smrtPhone number. The same principle applies to Mobile Apps.
