How to share Ringio contacts for first name matching

You can share contacts in the contacts properties screen accessible from your Ringio application when you click the '+' button to add a new contact near the top right corner of your application (top picture).  You can also click Edit after clicking on an existing contact in your contact list in the right-most column (bottom picture).  

Adding a new contact

Editing an existing contact

 Deleting Contacts

See this article.

Sharing contacts

You will see four check boxes, labeled as Coworkers, Friends, Family, and Clients.

When you check the Clients checkbox (above), that contact is shared with other Ringio users in your group. When others in your group click on that client, they will see that it is a contact shared by you (below). If you are the owner of that contact, others can see and edit information for that contact, but only you can delete that contact.

 This article covers how to know if a contact is yours.

Contact Matching

Ringio allows you to greet contacts by first name if you have saved their first name in the Ringio application. First names consisting of more than one word can also be greeted as long as you hyphenated the first name, eg., Ruth-Ann.

Here's an example of how the contact matching system works:

Company XYZ has 2 employees: Ashish and Sam

In the Ringio application, Jon is a personal contact of Ashish.

If Ashish doesn't mark Jon as a client, thereby sharing this contact with his team:
Jon will only hear a greeting with his first name if he calls Ashish's direct number.
If Jon calls the Company XYZ main Ringio line or if Jon calls Sam, he will hear the standard (generic) voice greeting message.

If and when Ashish marks Jon as a client in Ringio application:

Jon will hear his first name in a greeting when he calls the Company XYZ main line or Sam.