General Questions

TringMe is a web based telephony service. It allows your website visitors, friends and customers to call or leave a voicemail to you - directly from the web. You can instantly receive call or voicemail on your existing cell phone, landline, Gtalk or via e-mail.

It is very easy. Just sign up, login and get a HTML snippet for your TringMe widget. Place it wherever you like, whether it is your website, blog or social networking profile. It works with any website, including blogger, eBay, facebook, myspace, typepad, wordpress.

It's very simple. Once you have posted the widget to a website of your choice, visitors to that website can call or leave a voicemail to you.

You can control the device to which the call or voicemails are routed by making the appropriate selection in the "Send my voicemails and calls to" section of your profile.

For example, if you are using TringMe voicemail widget and you have routed the voicemails to a phone (landline or cell), you will receive a call from TringMe as soon as someone leaves a voicemail for you. If you have configured the profile setting to send the voicemails to Gtalk, then a call from TringMe will be made to your Gtalk IM. In both cases, when the connection is established, the voicemail is played back to you.

So in essence, you can easily control which device you want the voicemail notifications to be routed by making apporpriate selection in your profile page. You will also get an e-mail notification of your voicemails. You voicemails will also be available on TringMe website for plating back anytime.

Absolutely not - just provide your phone number and it will work. It works with any phone, including your cell phone and landline phones. You can also receive call on your Gtalk account.

Absolutely not - there are no numbers, no dialing - Just Push & Talk.

Absolutely not. TringMe is web based telephony service which can be used with any of your existing flash enabled browsers (IE, Firefox, Opera etc.).

Absolutely not, your friends do not need TringMe account. They merely need to click on your TringMe widget when they want to reach you.

We have a Facebook application that allows you to add TringMe widget on facebook in one click.

Very simple, just copy and paste TringMe widget code from your TringMe profile into your MySpace profile. See an example here http://www.myspace.com/tringme.

Absolutely not, your friends do not need to to install the TringMe application to reach you. They merely need to click on your TringMe widget on your facebook profile when they want to reach you.

No worries - we will host your TringMe widget, completely free. We provide you a public page with your widget, which anyone can access. Login to your TringMe account to get the link of your public page.

You will never lose your voicemail. In case you are not available on you phone or Gtalk, TringMe delivers instruction to retrieve voicemail to your email address. Your voicemail will be available for you for 48 hours after receiving the call.

TringMe has an intelligent signal-processing algorithm to determine if the voicemail was merely a noise or it was too small to be meaningful (less than three seconds). In either of these cases, your voicemail will discarded.

Add tringme@gmail.com as your friend in Gtalk.

Set correct time zone in your profile.

Yes, we offer custom background for the widget button if you buy phone credits. Sign-in, pay and send us an image, we will setup a custom widget for you. Background image is subject to approval.

Yes, please do get in touch with us.

Very soon! we are currently testing our live telephony system, Yahoo and Skype will be tested for the upcoming releases.

Using TringMe Widget

TringMe widget needs to access the microphone available on your computer. Privacy settings let you specify whether you want TringMe to have such access. Please select "Allow" option so that your TringMe can use your computer's microphone.

Certainly! It's very simple. Just right click on the TringMe widget, click on Settings menu item. In the Settings dialog, please select the "Allow" button and check the "Remember" box.

Usually you do not require to change the microphone device or volume as it will be selected automatically by the TringMe widget. In case you like to change, just right click on the TringMe widget and click on Settings menu item. Now select Microphone icon from the tabs in the bottom and select appropriate device. To change the volume, slide the slider to the desired volume setting.

You have not configured where to forward your calls. Select either 'Phone' or 'Gtalk' option in your profile.