Is a Hunt Group?

A hunt group is a service that providers, like Dialpad, make available to their clients. It allows organizations to distribute calls to a group of people in a company. The incoming calls are made to a single phone number and can then be re-routed to multiple phone lines.

How do hunt groups work?

A hunt group is a feature in a phone system that distributes calls from a single phone number to a group of numbers in a company. Simply put, when callers ring your company phone number, the group will route the call to a group of members so they can answer the call. People in a group are called members.

What does group hunt mean?

In telephony, line hunting (or hunt group) is the method of distributing phone calls from a single telephone number to a group of several phone lines. Specifically, it refers to the process or algorithm used to select which line will receive the call. Hunt groups are supported by some PBX phone systems.