Cafés, lounges and hotels
A phone booth in a café, a members’ lounge, a co-working space or a hotel lobby: people want to make a real call without pulling out their phone, and the venue doesn’t want to keep anyone’s data.
What it does
Section titled “What it does”- Use it as yourself. A guest scans the code on the Lounge phone’s screen and presses the key it flashes. Now their own people are on the keys and their calls ring there. A photo of the code is useless from anywhere else.
- Guests from anywhere. If the venue allows it, people with an account on another Open Lounge Phone server (or the free hub) can sign in too; their own server vouches for them.
- It forgets them. The session ends when they log out, after the venue’s idle time, at the end of the day, or when someone else takes over. The server keeps only who, which phone and when; nothing about the calls.
- Open to chat. Guests can show they’re up for a chat, and idle phones can show who’s here.
- House-line keys. While nobody is signed in, keys can ring the bar, reception or a staff group, first to answer takes it. Or leave it dead until someone signs in (the default). Guests who sign in can call public lines such as a taxi company’s from their own keys.
- Be reachable. The venue can publish its own public line (
bar@your.server) that guests call from anywhere, with a queue and voicemail.
- Get started with a Team or Organization space for the venue.
- Set up a Lounge phone on a tablet in the booth, choose the session length and turn on guests if you want them.
- Under Lounge settings → When nobody is signed in, choose the house-line keys (or leave them off). Bigger venues can add extensions and ring groups.
Lounge phone hardware uses the same board as every other phone: see Build the hardware.