CallClerk Help Overview

CallClerk reports and logs your incoming calls, it also can assist you in making outgoing calls.

With CallClerk you may report incoming calls via a Display windowthat shows you caller id information plus a picture customizable for each caller, a computerized Voice, E-Mail, and/or play a default or distinctive ring for each caller.  CallClerk can also launch your internet browser through to a reverse phone number lookup service.  If you use Microsoft Outlook, CallClerk can pop-up the caller's Outlook contact card as a call is received.  If you subscribe to a web hosting service that supports FTP, and if you have your own domain name, you can use CallClerk to create your own web page listing all received and/or placed calls.

CallClerk can work as answering machine machine as well.  It can play default and distinctive messages and record messages from callers.  It can even email you the message left by the caller.  Messages can be retrieved remotely through the use of a touch tone phone.

You can also use CallClerk as a fax machine to send and receive faxes.

You may also use CallClerk to block and/or hang up on unwanted calls.

CallClerk can also play the Standard Intercept Tone to fool some telemarketers into believing your phone number is no longer used.  It can also play a 'Take me off your calling list' message for blocked callers.

CallClerk maintains a directory of callers as well as a history of calls.   You can change how CallClerk displays the names and numbers it receives; for example instead of displaying the name the phone company reports for your parents you may have CallClerk report “Uncle Joe”. You can also customize the call display window with a picture for each caller.  

Calls will be automatically logged in the CallClerk database, and optionally in the Windows Applications Log (for Windows 2000 and XP users).

The information from the directory and the call history can be printed.

CallClerk facilitates the dialing of out going calls based contents you have copied into your PC's clipboard, the phone numbers of previous callers, or the numbers you key in. If you are browsing the internet using Microsoft Internet Explorer you can select a phone number on a web page and have CallClerk dial it. CallClerk also supports a speed dial list.

CallClerk can work on a single PC (workstation) or over a network.  When CallClerk works over a network it can report calls received on one workstation on the network to other workstations on the same network, even if the other workstations do not have modems attached to them.

In order for CallClerk to work you must subscribe to the Caller ID service from your local phone company and have a modem, or similar device, that reports Caller ID information connected to either a single workstation or at least one workstation on the network. 

CallClerk supports modems through the use of TAPI or AT commands.  TAPI  based modems offer the greatest functionality.

How the program behaves can be tailored to your personal preferences through the Settings window.

CallClerk was written by Rob Latour and is being distributed as Shareware.