Your first weekend away without the kids and you’re having a blast, right? Not quite. You see, this is their last weekend before mid-terms and you want to make sure they’re cracking the books, not tying up the home phone chatting with friends and significant others.

Easy to do with Phone Tools from Cox. All you need is a computer with Internet access and, after just a handful of clicks, you can look over a real time list of all incoming and outgoing calls on your home phone. Hey, there’s no way your kids’ place on the Honor Roll is going to be lost to a three-hour discussion on who wore what to the cafeteria Friday.

Call Tracking

Call Tracking is just one of many things you can do with Phone Tools. Free for all Cox home phone and high speed Internet subscribers, Phone Tools lets you manage and customize your home phone service from any place you have Internet access. This is an incredibly convenient service for people who are always on the go, and, as you read above, a benefit to parents with kids who’ve reached the “calling” stage. 

Here are three more standout things you can do with Phone Tools.

Get Email Notice of Voice Mail Messages

With Phone Tools, you can set up your voice mail service to send you email alerts – to any email address you want, including your work email – each time a voice mail message is left on your home phone. The email will contain a recorded copy of the original message, allowing you to listen to it and then delete the email after, if you want, without deleting the original message saved on your home phone.

Change Call Forwarding From Anywhere

You had to leave the house on the quick to take your kid to the doctor, but you’re expecting a call from your real estate agent within the hour. Using your web-enabled smartphone, you can sign in to your Phone Tools account and set the Selective Call Forwarding feature to forward only your real estate agent’s call to you and your smartphone at the doctor’s office.

Switch Up Your Voice Mail Greeting

You can easily change your home phone’s voice mail greeting from anywhere online. You can choose one of the greetings you’ve already recorded and saved in your voice mail service or choose from one of five options provided to you by Phone Tools.  The one you choose is the greeting callers will hear when they want to leave you a voice mail.

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