Caller ID Software Recommendation

[Raizinman]

I deal with about 50 companies and each company has about 10 to 15 people I interact with. It would be so nice if when the phone rings that a database opens up telling me:

COMPANY: Acme Electronics
NAME: Jim Smith
LOCATION: MUNCIE, IN
WIFES NAME: Mary
KIDS: 3 boys – Tommy, Jimmy & Frank
PERSONALTY: Friendly and likes a good joke
HOBBIES: Softball league, Cub Scout leader

I run a Windows 7 machine with Office 2013. What software is out there that would read Caller ID and then automatically pull up the specific section of an editable data base. Any thoughts?

 

[bruceb]

Try this program:

http://www.callclerk.com/

Most phones now will send the caller ID info out, but it may not always be
readable on a land line phone unless enabled in the telco central office.
I do not know if you can add specifics to caller id or if you would need to
create a file that it can tie into when it sees a number comes in that is in
your file. But at the least, you would get the Phone Number and in some
cases, the Company Name that is calling in.

 

[vailr]

What would be useful is: a stand-alone Caller ID device (with a small LCD display) that includes landline telephone in/out ports, as well as a USB or ethernet port. With enough internal memory and processing power, so that: it could lookup and check against an online data base list of known telemarketing and "robocall" caller ID's.
Sort of like "Call Clerk", but without the need for running PC software.
And with a control button to instantly add to the device's internal data base any caller ID's that aren't already identified in the internet data base.

 

[John Connor]

I have a dedicated netbook in the kitchen for this using PhoneTray by Traysoft. It does have an option to add contact details, but the pop up is just the name and you would have to double click that name to see the Info. This isn't my purpose though. It's to block 1-800 numbers, blank Caller-ID and Telemarketers. I also use Nomorobo.

On this netbook also runs a FTP server who's storge is in a SD card, a Team Speak server and Team Viewer. Which is nice because I can be out and about, use my smartphone with the Team Viewer App and remote into the netbook and see who may have called my land line.

Edit- If you use PhoneTray, buy their Caller-ID capable Dial-Up USB modem.

 

[Mike64]

I deal with about 50 companies and each company has about 10 to 15 people I interact with. It would be so nice if when the phone rings that a database opens up telling me:

COMPANY: Acme Electronics
NAME: Jim Smith
LOCATION: MUNCIE, IN
WIFES NAME: Mary
KIDS: 3 boys – Tommy, Jimmy & Frank
PERSONALTY: Friendly and likes a good joke
HOBBIES: Softball league, Cub Scout leader

I run a Windows 7 machine with Office 2013. What software is out there that would read Caller ID and then automatically pull up the specific section of an editable data base. Any thoughts?

First off, do the people, or the majority of them, call from phone systems that supply "individual" numbers in the first place? Caller IDs from PBX systems not infrequently show up just as (basically irrelevant) "trunk" line numbers, rather than the actual internal "extension" the person is calling from.

 

[Auric]

John Connor, an answering machine such as IVM can block numbers, play SIT, and send calls by email (so remoting in is unnecessary).