Our Microsoft Teams integration can notify your account's Contacts when their visitors or deliveries have arrived.

Clicking the details link in the notification will take you to the visit details page on our site. Here, you can see responses to Visitor Fields filled out by the visitor, find any agreements they signed, and even send your visitor a message if Two-Way Chat is enabled for the button that was used.

Additionally, if you have added Quick Replies to your account, the Microsoft Teams notification message will include buttons for each quick reply that you can send to your visitor without needing to go to the details page.

Any responses visitors send from the iPad used to check-in will be delivered to their employee Contact in Microsoft Teams.

If you'd like to enable this for your organization, read on!

Once the integration is turned on, messaging rules can take 30-60 minutes to appear for your contacts.

Before you set up the Microsoft Teams integration, please ensure the following requirements are met to avoid complications during setup.

Please keep in mind that any changes made to your Microsoft organization's environment (in Azure Portal or Microsoft Teams Admin Center) may take several hours to come into effect. We recommend waiting one day after saving changes before enabling The Receptionist integration for Microsoft Teams.

To authorize our integration, a Global Administrator is needed. You can see if you are a Global Administrator by visiting your Azure Portal's "Roles and Administrators" area. If your role appears as "Global Administrator," you can consent to our integration. If you cannot access this page or are not a Global Administrator, you must find someone else in your organization to enable the integration.

To receive notifications from The Receptionist in Microsoft Teams, our app must be available for installation and uninstallation from the Microsoft Teams App Store. Please have your organization's Teams administrator visit the Microsoft Teams Admin Center, navigate to Teams apps > Manage apps, and click the "Org-wide app settings" button in the upper right. Toggle the "Allow third-party apps" setting to "On" and then click "Save."

In the Microsoft Teams Admin Center, go to Teams apps > Manage apps, search for "The Receptionist" in the table at the bottom, click our app name, and then click the "Allow" button.

Go to Teams Apps > Permission policies, and check each policy covering users who will receive notifications from The Receptionist in Microsoft Teams. Under "Third-party apps," ensure that "Allow all apps" is selected and then click "Save."

Alternatively, your Teams administrator may choose "Allow specific apps and block all others." If so, then make sure to click "Allow apps," search for "The Receptionist" to allow it, and then click "Save."
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Please do not add The Receptionist app to any Teams app setup policy covering users who will receive notifications from The Receptionist in Microsoft Teams. Doing so will prevent our app from uninstalling itself, which is sometimes necessary to set up receiving notifications from The Receptionist.
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To ensure an app setup policy does not exclude The Receptionist, go to Teams apps > Setup policies. For each policy, ensure "The Receptionist" is not on the installed apps list, and then click "Save."
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This integration uses email addresses to match your account's contacts with users in your Microsoft organization. Note that we do not use your Teams users' "User Principal Name," which is the username used to sign into Teams, to match.

If the email address field between a Teams user and their corresponding contact does not match, they will not be able to receive notification from The Receptionist in Teams. You can check that these two fields are the same for any contact with the following process:

For most organizations, setting up our Microsoft Teams integration is as easy as enabling it from your account's Integrations page with the Add button.
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After clicking the Add button, you will be taken to Microsoft's consent page. To connect to your Microsoft organization, a Global Administrator must sign in and click the Accept button.

Once you accept the authorization request, we will install our notification bot and set up a Teams notification preference for each contact we match to someone in your Microsoft organization. We will also send a welcome message when the app is installed to let your contacts know they will receive notifications when visitors and deliveries arrive.
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We've compiled a Frequently Asked Questions article that provides even more detail about this new integration! You can also click on that orange chat button in the lower right corner to livechat with a member of The Receptionist team!