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Share Tweet Share Blog Features Case Studies Pricing Downloads Help and Support FAQ Help Center Contact Us Important Changes to Room Calls for Unregistered Users Starting February 13 January 16, 2020 / Announcements / By Kate Making video communications simple worldwide. — Gruveo’s mission statement We launched in 2013 with the mission to make video calling simple for everyone. Over the past 7 years, Gruveo has evolved into a business solution helping companies around the world serve their customers better with an enhanced video calling experience. In May last year, we announced our team management feature which enables our customers to manage their accounts event more efficiently. In order to optimize our resources and continue providing the top service our customers have grown accustomed to, we’re making important changes to how unregistered users can use Gruveo starting on February 13. What is changing? Starting on February 13, all calls in Gruveo rooms will require a Gruveo subscriber (“call organizer”) to get connected. A room call will not get established until the call organizer joins. Any invited callers waiting for a connection will see a “Waiting for call organizer to join” message. If the call organizer disconnects from a room call and doesn’t return, any invited callers will stay connected for another 10 minutes, after which the call will end. Calls on direct Gruveo links will work as before. Legacy free account removal With the February 13 update, we will also be removing legacy free Gruveo accounts created before October 2017. If you want to keep your account and Gruveo handle, please contact us so we can help you migrate to a Gruveo subscription. If you have any questions about the upcoming changes, please don’t hesitate to get in touch . New Feature: Per-Handle Branding January 14, 2020 / Announcements / By Kate We have expanded Gruveo’s branding capabilities to let you set different branding images for each of your Gruveo handles. Here is how it works: You specify the default branding that applies to all of your handles by default. You then override the branding images for handles as necessary. As an example, suppose that your sales team has the gruveo.com/@acme.sales link assigned, and then Mike Smith from Sales is also reachable via his personal link at gruveo.com/@acme.smith . It makes sense to include your company logo in the default branding so that’s what will be shown when someone calls gruveo.com/@acme.sales : Default branding is shown to callers on gruveo.com/@acme.sales . You can then override the branding for Mike’s personal handle to show Mike’s photo instead of the company logo. That way, anyone calling gruveo.com/@acme.smith will see this: Mike’s photo overrides the default logo on a call on gruveo.com/@acme.smith . Please see our Help Center for the details on how to set your default branding and then override it for individual handles. Happy branding! Announcing Call Queueing December 12, 2019 / Announcements / By Kate We are happy to announce the arrival of the call queueing functionality to Gruveo. It has been one of our most-requested features for a long time, and now it’s available at no additional cost to all team-enabled Gruveo accounts. What Is Call Queueing? Call queueing puts your callers in a waiting queue until the next representative becomes available to answer the call. Before today’s update, a customer calling your Gruveo link would get a “User unavailable” message if all of your operators were busy with other calls. Not anymore! Customers calling your Gruveo link are now placed in a queue to wait until the next representative becomes available. The caller gets shown their position in the queue, updated in real time. If they decide not to wait and hang up, they will still be invited to leave you a message (requires the Text Mail feature to be enabled in your account). Likewise, your operators get to see the number of callers currently in the queue. Do I Need to Enable Call Queueing in My Account? Call queueing is automatically available to all team-enabled Gruveo accounts. To check if your account is team-enabled, do the following: Log into your account on www.gruveo.com Click your name in the upper right corner, then Settings Check if there is the “Users” item in the menu to the left. If it is, then your account is team-enabled and call queueing will work for you. If your Gruveo account is not team-enabled, please get in touch so we can help you with the upgrade. We are super excited to be launching this new feature and can’t wait to hear your feedback! Case Study: Increasing Legal Access to Rural Communities in South Carolina with Gruveo September 3, 2019 / Case Studies / By Kate We’re really honored to be a part of the “Reaching Rural” project with The South Carolina Victim Assistance Network to increase legal access to the rural community in South Carolina. The South Carolina Victim Assistance Network is a non-profit that advocates for all crime victims and those who serve them to ensure they have the help and resources they need. We jumped on a call with Katie Coleman, an attorney at SCVAN to learn more about how they are using Gruveo to provide legal services to crime victims in South Carolina. “It helps us increase legal access in a simple, safe, and effective way. We really love Gruveo and think it is a phenomenal product.” ​- Katie Coleman, Attorney at SCVAN Read the full case study here . A Gruveo Guide: Video Conferencing Made Simple for the Modern Era – Free Download August 28, 2019 / Announcements / By Kate The adoption of video conferencing continues to expand globally. As more businesses are using video to communicate with their customers remotely and realizing the importance of improving their customer experience, it is more critical than ever for video communication to be as simple as possible. This is why more and more teams today are choosing Gruveo so that callers do not need to download or install any application to connect instantaneously. We talked to our customers to learn about their experiences and more importantly, how Gruveo has helped them in the day-to-day workflow and customer experience in terms of simplifying video meetings. To learn more about how one-click connect can enhance your caller experience in this modern era, check out this guide from Gruveo. Case Study: Modernizing Legal Services Remotely with QCI Law August 6, 2019 / Case Studies / By Kate Queen City Immigration Law is a law firm in Charlotte, NC that focuses on immigration law in the United States. We jumped on a call with Dinh Tran, founding attorney at QCI Law, to learn about how his firm is using Gruveo to provide remote legal services outside of Charlotte, NC. “The fact that our client does not have to download anything is why we love Gruveo.” – Dinh, Founding Partner of QCI Law Read the full case study here . Case Study: Providing a Video Chat Service for Students with Gruveo July 22, 2019 / Case Studies / By Kate Italy Made Easy specializes in teaching English speakers to learn, practice and master the Italian language. We jumped on a call with Manu, founder of Italy Made Easy, to learn how using Gruveo has enabled Italy Made Easy to expand its service offerings to deliver lessons to their students. “Our students can jump on a call with Gruveo immediately and start their video sessions with us.” – Manu, Founder of Italy Made Easy Read the full case study here . Case Study: Bringing The Bridge Group Closer to Their Clients with Gruveo June 26, 2019 / Case Studies / By Kate The Bridge Group is an award winning, mid-size licensed executive search firm headquartered in Azabu-Dai, Tokyo with offices in Manila and Singapore. We contacted Timothy Kazuya Ondo, President of the Bridge Group to learn how Gruveo is helping them in their recruiting process to bring them closer to the clients. We liked how easy it was to implement and get going with Gruveo. It made a great impact in our business. – Timothy Kazuya...