Call tracking · Android app + TeleCMI
The call tracking CRM for counselling teams: every call logged, recorded and reported
Xale CRM is the best CRM with call recording for counselling teams because every call is logged and recorded on the student’s record: native call-log sync and recording from the counsellor’s Android phone, with no per-minute charges, or TeleCMI cloud telephony on any phone, iPhone included. Both routes run in one workspace, so every call lands in the same lead call history, call filters and reports, beside the follow-up each role keeps on that student. Call-log and recording access stay off for every role until an admin switches them on.
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Xale platform call figures
100,000+
counsellor calls synced to leads in a single month
- 35,000+WhatsApp messages handled in a single month
- 15,000+new leads captured in a single month
- 160+user accounts in our largest single workspace
Platform figures, October 2026. Anonymised figures from Xale workspaces, excluding demo and test accounts.
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More than a recording
Every call lands on a student your whole team can work
Xale CRM is the best study abroad CRM for consultancies: every role on a student, on each university application and on each track keeps its own follow-up, as many parallel pipelines as the work really has run beside the main one, access is set stage by stage and track by track, automations run in the background with retries and a log of every run and Xale AI drafts them from plain words, a Custom Report Builder answers your own questions from your own data, and you can talk to Xale AI, or let it take the call, in Malayalam or English.
A follow-up for every role, on the student and each application
A telecaller, a counsellor and a visa officer can work one student at once, and each role on the lead and on every university application keeps its own follow-up with its own reminder by web popup, Android push and the in-app inbox. Managers see the team’s Overdue, Today and Later by user, branch and role.
Follow-up management →Access set by stage, branch and territory
Roles start from 4 role templates and set a 5-level lead-access dial on every pipeline stage, enforced on the server in every lead list, board, dashboard and report. Visibility follows branches and territories, and call-log and recording access stay off for every role until an admin switches them on.
Role-based access →Automations built to be relied on
Xale CRM offers 26 automation actions, including Set / update follow-up for a chosen role, Move deal and Assign track. Each run is queued only after the triggering change is saved, runs in the background with automatic retries and is logged with a plain-English summary, and a failed run can be retried in one click.
Automated follow-ups →What you get
Every call on the right lead, with the recording beside it
Counselling teams live on the phone, yet managers can’t hear calls or see which leads were never called. Xale closes that gap without changing how counsellors dial.
Every call on the right lead
The Android app reads the phone’s call log and files each call on the matching lead with its direction, duration and outcome (answered, no answer, missed, rejected). It keeps doing this when the app is closed. TeleCMI calls arrive the same way, matched to the lead by phone number.
The recording beside the call
From the phone’s own recorder on the counsellor’s Android phone, or from TeleCMI’s cloud on any phone, iPhone included, the audio is attached to that call. It plays from the lead’s call history on the web, with a waveform player; phone recordings also play from the mobile Dialer’s Records tab.
Call numbers managers can check
A counsellor Rankboard, a call outcomes report, unique reach and call filters, with call counts that open the leads behind them.
Call tracking, end to end
Why Xale CRM is the best call tracking CRM for counselling teams
A call tracking CRM has to do more than store a recording. Two capture routes cover every phone your team carries, and every call, whichever route it came through, lands in the same lead call history and call filters under the same permissions. Each item below is described in detail further down this page.
SIM calls captured, with no per-minute charges
The Xale Android app reads the phone’s call log, so every ordinary SIM call is filed on the right lead with direction, duration and outcome. No telephony subscription, no new number.
Native recording from the counsellor’s Android phone
The phone’s own dialer records the call. Xale finds the file, matches it by number and time, and attaches it to that call on the lead.
Cloud telephony on any phone
TeleCMI records calls on your business number in its cloud, whatever phone the counsellor holds, iPhone included. Unknown callers become new leads.
On-demand transcription, tuned for Malayalam–English
Press Transcribe on a recording and Xale sends it to Google Gemini, tuned for calls that mix Malayalam and English, with OpenAI Whisper as the fallback. The transcript is saved on the call.
Call Analytics and call outcomes
Connect rate, incoming versus outgoing, missed, rejected and never-attended calls and talk time on the phone; speed to first call, calls per enrolment and missed calls returned on the web.
Call filters on the lead list
Filter leads by never called, missed, connected, direction, outcome, who called, talk time, call source and whether a recording exists, then work the list.
A counsellor Rankboard with six views
Performance, volume and direction, connectivity, unique reach, talk time, and recovery and enrolment, counsellor by counsellor.
A Devices page that shows which phones are capturing
Every phone running the Xale app reports its status. When one isn’t recording, the page gives one of 27 plain-language reasons and names the setting to change.
Privacy set per role
Call logging, recording and saving unknown callers as leads are separate permissions, off for every role until an admin switches them on. Admin accounts are never recorded, and the server refuses audio from a role that isn’t allowed to record.
Vendor by vendor
Call recording CRMs compared: Xale CRM and five others
Xale CRM is the best CRM with call recording for counselling teams. It leads the table because both call routes, the follow-up each role keeps and reports that open the leads behind every count sit on one student record. Each other row comes from that vendor’s own pages (checked 7 October 2026) and its own pricing page (checked 7–8 October 2026); the “Best for” cell for the others is the vendor’s own positioning. “Not stated on its pages” means the pages are silent; “On request” means no price is published.
| CRM | Best for | Built for education | Calls / WhatsApp | Multi-branch | Starting price | Free trial |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Xale CRM | Study abroad consultancies and education teams that want every counsellor call on the student’s record, in one branch or many | Yes: Study Abroad, Education and Academy templates | Every counsellor call logged and recorded, two routes: native call-log sync and recording from the counsellor’s Android phone, no per-minute charges, or TeleCMI cloud telephony on any phone, iPhone included; WhatsApp through Meta’s Cloud API or your Wati, Gallabox or UrbanChat account | Yes: branches with branch-level access, each lead in one branch, every report by branch | From ₹499 per workspace per month, every feature on every plan, on the pricing page | Free trial: 7 days on Basic, 14 days on Pro |
| TeleCRM | Telecalling sales teams managing leads, calls, meetings and WhatsApp on one platform (its homepage) | Not stated on its pages | Every call recorded automatically, a 1-click dialer and click-to-call from the web; WhatsApp templates, an official API, a chatbot and bulk marketing (its pages) | Not stated on its pages | ₹799 per user per month, billed annually (₹1,099 quarterly) | Not stated |
| Runo | Field and inside sales teams calling from their own SIMs with a manager watching live (its homepage) | Not stated on its pages | SIM-based calling, call recording, call analytics, caller ID and cloud telephony; a WhatsApp Business inbox (its homepage) | Not stated on its pages | ₹199 per user per month, yearly, plus taxes (Lite, SIM, Non-AI) | 10-day free trial, no credit card |
| LeadSquared Xale CRM vs LeadSquared | Large admissions teams with an admin team, across education, financial services and field sales (its homepage) | Yes, an education CRM with an overseas education page | Single-click calling for tele-calling teams and WhatsApp business accounts (its education page); Mobile Cloud Calling in both sales plans (its pricing page) | Admissions at multiple locations (its education page); branches and field teams managed centrally (its homepage) | ₹2,500 per user per month, billed annually (Sales Pro) | Not stated |
| Kylas | Growing sales teams that want unlimited users on one plan, with EdTech, higher education and coaching institute solutions (its homepage) | EdTech, higher education and coaching institute solutions listed | Calls logged with activity tracking, and an IVR integration to make, receive and log calls; inbuilt WhatsApp Business (its pages) | Not stated on its pages | ₹12,999 flat per month for unlimited users, billed annually (Elevate) | Embark plan free for 10,000 records; 7-day trial of Elevate |
| Zoho CRM Xale CRM vs Zoho CRM | Schools, universities and ed tech (its education page) | Industry-agnostic, customised (its own disclaimer) | Built-in calling on its Standard plan (its pricing page); call transcription by Zia and automated follow-ups by email or WhatsApp (its education page) | Not stated on its pages | ₹800 per user per month (Standard) | Free edition for 3 users |
- TeleCRM: TeleCRM homepage · TeleCRM features page, checked 7 October 2026
- Runo: Runo homepage · Runo pricing page, checked 7 October 2026
- LeadSquared: LeadSquared homepage · LeadSquared education CRM page · LeadSquared sales CRM pricing, checked 7 October 2026
- Kylas: Kylas homepage · Kylas pricing page, checked 7 October 2026
- Zoho CRM: Zoho CRM pricing · Zoho CRM for education, checked 7 October 2026
Competitor prices are each vendor’s own lowest listed plan, before tax, as shown on its pricing page on the date checked; they change, so confirm on the vendor’s page. Xale CRM is our product; competitor facts come from each vendor’s own pages, checked 7 October 2026.
Using the recordings
The weekly call review: from last week’s numbers to the next call
A recording earns its keep when somebody listens to the right one. This is how a branch head runs a weekly call review in Xale CRM, without asking a counsellor to forward a file.
Step 1
Start from last week’s numbers
Open the counsellor Rankboard and the call outcomes report: speed to first call, calls per enrolment and missed calls returned, counsellor by counsellor. Click any count to open the leads behind it.
Step 2
Find the calls that never happened
On the lead list, filter Call activity to Never called for new leads and to Missed for students whose calls went unanswered, then work that list with the counsellor who owns those students.
Step 3
Pick the calls worth hearing
Filter by who called, Connected and has recording, and choose a few calls per counsellor: the longest talk time, or a student who went quiet after the call.
Step 4
Read before you listen
Press Transcribe on a recording. The transcript, tuned for calls that mix Malayalam and English, is saved on the call, so the next person who opens it reads it straight away.
Step 5
Turn what you heard into the next step
Each role on the student keeps its own follow-up. Reschedule the counsellor’s follow-up from the lead while the call is fresh, and correct who made a call if two counsellors swapped phones.
Play a recording, hear an answer
Or run the review out loud. Start a voice call with Xale AI in the web CRM, in Malayalam or English, and say “Play the last recording on Anjali’s lead”: it plays the recording. Interrupt it to ask who was the top caller this month, or for the ratio of connected calls to calls made per counsellor, and it answers from your own calls and runs the report with the Custom Report Builder’s own measures, with a live transcript of the conversation on screen.
A CRM with call recording for counselling teams: seven criteria
Xale CRM is the best CRM with call recording for counselling teams because a counselling head can open any student’s record and hear what was said on the last call, without asking a counsellor to forward a file. A feature list that says “call recording” tells you almost nothing; these seven questions do, and the right-hand column is how Xale CRM answers each one.
| Criterion | What good looks like | In Xale CRM |
|---|---|---|
| Recording on the lead | The file plays from the student’s call history, with direction, duration, outcome and who called. | Every call sits on the lead with its direction, duration, outcome and counsellor, and the recording plays there. |
| Coverage for every counsellor | Every counsellor’s calls are captured, by one route or the other, whatever phone they carry. | The Android app covers SIM calls on counsellors’ own phones; TeleCMI covers any phone, iPhone included. |
| Capture controls per role | Capture stays off until an admin switches it on for the roles that should be recorded. | Call-log and recording access are off for each role until an admin allows them. |
| Who can listen | Playback follows the same role and branch rules as the lead itself. | Recordings follow lead visibility: counsellors their own students, branch managers their branches, admins everything. |
| Transcription | A transcript saved on the call, tested on the language mix your team actually speaks. | On-demand transcription tuned for calls that mix Malayalam and English, saved on the call. |
| Analytics that open the calls | A report number opens the calls and leads behind it; the lead list filters by never called, missed or has recording. | Call Analytics, the counsellor Rankboard and the lead list’s call filters, with every number opening its leads. |
| Capture health | A screen showing which phones are capturing, so a silent failure is caught in days, not at month-end. | The Devices page shows each counsellor’s phone and its capture status. |
Coverage and review time, in numbers
Take a hypothetical consultancy with twelve counsellors, nine on Android phones and three on iPhones, each dialling 50 calls a working day over 24 working days: 14,400 calls a month. A tool that captures only the Android phones misses 3,600 of them, a quarter, and the iPhone users are often the senior counsellors handling the hardest conversations. In Xale CRM the three take the TeleCMI route, and every call lands on the lead.
If the counselling head reviews five calls per counsellor a week, that is 240 calls a month: at six minutes of listening each, three working days. Skimming a saved transcript in two minutes brings it to one, with the head listening only where the transcript raises a question. Choosing those 240 from 14,400 is what the call filters are for: connected calls with a recording, on students who went quiet afterwards.
Route 1 · How it works
How native call recording works on Android (companion mode)
The phone’s own dialer records the call, and Xale attaches that recording to the lead: it finds the file and matches it to the call. That is companion mode.
The counsellor calls from the phone
It is an ordinary SIM call, placed from the phone’s own dialer, from the keypad in Xale’s Dialer tab, or by swiping a lead card.
The phone’s own recorder saves it
With auto call recording on in the Phone app, the dialer saves an audio file when the call ends, just as it would without Xale.
Xale finds the file in the call-recorder folder
The app looks only in call-recorder folders, using a profile for each phone brand. It skips voice memos, music and messenger voice notes.
It matches the recording to the call
The match uses the phone number (last ten digits) and the time the call ended. A file that can’t be matched yet waits for a later sync instead of landing on the wrong lead.
It uploads the recording to the lead
The call-log entry is queued a few seconds after hang-up and the recording soon after, whenever the phone has a connection.
It keeps working with the app closed
A background worker wakes when a call ends, and an hourly sweep catches anything missed. On phones that stop background apps, allow Autostart and unrestricted battery use for Xale.
Which route for which phone
A CRM with call recording on both routes: the counsellor’s Android phone and TeleCMI cloud telephony
Route 1 is the Xale Android app: it files every SIM call from the phone’s call log on the lead and attaches the recording the phone’s own dialer makes. Route 2 is TeleCMI cloud telephony: calls on a business number, recorded in TeleCMI’s cloud on any phone, iPhone included. Run either or both in one workspace.
| Phone | Route | Recording | Setup notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| The counsellor’s Android phone | Route 1 · Xale Android app | The phone’s own recorder, attached by Xale | Switch on auto call recording in the phone’s own dialer. On phones that stop background apps, also allow Autostart for Xale and set its battery use to Unrestricted. |
| iPhone (any model) | Route 2 · TeleCMI cloud telephony | TeleCMI records the call in its cloud | Calls on the TeleCMI business number land on the matching lead with the recording. |
| Any phone on a shared business number | Route 2 · TeleCMI cloud telephony | TeleCMI records the call in its cloud | Connect TeleCMI and calls on the business number land on the matching lead, recorded in the cloud. |
Set up once on each Route 1 phone: switch on auto call recording in the phone’s own Phone app, and grant the Xale app the permissions it asks for, including All Files Access.
After a test call, the Devices page confirms each phone is recording.
Privacy and control
Nothing is captured until you switch it on
A counsellor’s phone is also personal, so capture is narrow by design and set per role, alongside the rest of your role-based access for branches and teams.
Off by default, per role
Call logging, recording and saving unknown callers as leads are separate permissions: Call log tap, Call recording access and Save call as lead. Each stays off until an admin turns it on under Users & Roles → Call Management.
Admins are never recorded
Accounts with admin access are never captured, whatever their settings.
Checked on the server
If a role isn’t allowed to record, the server refuses the audio before it is stored.
Only call-recorder folders
Personal voice memos and messenger voice notes are left alone.
Nothing from before setup
Recordings already on the phone before it was connected are never uploaded.
Listening follows access
Counsellors see their own calls, managers their branch, admins everyone’s. A lead’s call history is open to anyone who can open that lead.
Devices page
The Devices page shows which phones are recording, and why not
Every phone running the Xale app reports its status, and the Devices page in Settings turns that report into a verdict: recording, unverified, not recording or unknown.
When a phone isn’t recording, the page gives one of 27 plain-language reasons and, where a setting is the cause, names the one to change.
Admins see every phone. Everyone else sees only their own.
- The user’s role doesn’t have Call recording access turned on.
- Turn on All Files Access so the app can read the recorder’s files.
- A call was answered but no new recording appeared. Auto call recording is probably off in the Phone app.
- Android is stopping Xale in the background. Turn on Autostart and set battery use to Unrestricted.
Route 2 · Cloud telephony
TeleCMI cloud telephony: a business number, recorded on any phone
If students should see one company number, if you need to capture every call to an inbound enquiry line, or if counsellors carry iPhones, connect the cloud telephony provider TeleCMI. Its calls are recorded in the cloud and filed on the same leads.
- Inbound, outbound and missed calls land on the lead matched by phone number, with TeleCMI’s recording attached.
- A caller who isn’t in the CRM yet becomes a new lead.
- Map each counsellor’s TeleCMI agent ID and new leads from their calls are assigned to them. Missed calls with no agent can go to the least-loaded counsellor.
- Calls arrive by webhook and a regular sync. Xale checks your TeleCMI credentials when you connect.
Compare the two
SIM call recording vs cloud telephony
You don’t have to choose: Xale CRM gives you both routes in one workspace. Every counsellor call logged and recorded, two routes. The Xale Android app syncs each call from the counsellor's own phone to the right lead with direction, duration and outcome, no per-minute charges, and attaches the phone's own recording. TeleCMI cloud telephony records calls from a business number on any phone, iPhone included.
| SIM recording (Xale Android app) | Cloud telephony (TeleCMI) | |
|---|---|---|
| What you pay for | No telephony subscription. Calls use the counsellor’s SIM plan. | A TeleCMI account and its call charges, billed by TeleCMI. |
| Number students see | The number of the SIM in the counsellor’s phone. | The business number set up in TeleCMI. |
| Setup | Install the app, grant permissions, turn on the phone’s auto recording, and allow recording for the role. | Connect your TeleCMI credentials and map counsellors’ agent IDs. |
| Which phones | The counsellor’s Android phone: call-log sync and native recording from the phone’s own dialer. | Any phone, iPhone included. Calls are captured in TeleCMI’s cloud. |
| Where recordings live | Uploaded to Xale, and played in the call history and the mobile Records tab. | Held by TeleCMI, and played from the lead’s call history. |
| Unknown callers | Become leads if the role may save calls as leads. | Become new leads automatically. |
| Counsellor attribution | Each call is credited to the counsellor whose phone made it. | Map each counsellor’s TeleCMI agent ID, and new leads from their calls are assigned to them. |
| Best for | Teams already calling students from their own phones. | A shared business number, an inbound enquiry line, or counsellors on iPhone. |
The call source filter on the lead list tells Mobile App calls apart from TeleCMI calls.
Call analytics
Call analytics for counsellors and managers
Every call feeds reports managers can check: a counsellor Rankboard, call outcomes, unique reach and call filters on the lead list, all under the same role-based access as your leads.
Call Performance Rankboard
It has six views: performance, volume and direction, connectivity, unique reach, talk time, and recovery and enrolment. An unattributed row makes the totals add up.
Call outcomes
How long new leads wait for their first call, how many calls an enrolment takes, and how many missed calls were returned.
Unique reach
How many distinct numbers your team called and reached, counted by the last ten digits, not by how many times someone dialled.
Call filters on the lead list
Filter by never called, missed, connected, direction, outcome, who called, talk time, call source and whether a recording exists.
On the phone too
The mobile Call Analytics screen shows connect rate, incoming versus outgoing calls, missed, rejected and never-attended calls, and talk time.
To see how every report number opens the leads behind it, read CRM reports and analytics for education teams.
Transcription
On-demand transcription, including Malayalam–English calls
Press Transcribe on a recording and Xale sends it to Google Gemini, with a prompt tuned for calls that switch between Malayalam and English mid-sentence, and OpenAI Whisper as the fallback. Xale manages these providers for all workspaces, so there is nothing to connect. A finished transcript is saved on the call, so reopening it shows the saved text straight away.
It runs on demand, whenever someone presses Transcribe. More on transcription and Xale AI, which you can talk to, on our AI CRM software in India page. And when nobody is free to make the first call, the AI telecaller takes it: open it on the student, hand the phone over, and Xale AI runs the call in Malayalam or English, writes the note and the agreed callback, and hands the student to their own counsellor when they ask for a person.
Consent and compliance
Tell people their calls are recorded
Recording rules depend on where you and the caller are, so follow your organisation’s policy and applicable law. In Xale, capture stays off until an admin allows it for a role. A simple process:
- tell students and parents that calls may be recorded;
- tell counsellors which phones capture work calls, and who can listen to them;
- give recording permissions only to the roles that need them.
Recorded calls are personal data under the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025, so write your call policy before you switch capture on. Five decisions cover most of it:
| Decide | A sensible default | Where it lives |
|---|---|---|
| Who is recorded | Counsellors and telecallers; not owners or accounts staff | Role settings in Xale |
| How students are told | An opening line on first calls, plus your enquiry form and privacy notice | Call script and website |
| How staff are told | In writing: which phones and which calls are captured | Employment policy |
| Who can listen | The lead’s owner, their branch manager and whoever runs quality checks | Role and branch access in Xale |
| How to handle an erasure request | Find every call on that student’s record | The lead record |
Keep recordings inside the CRM: downloading a file to forward on WhatsApp puts it outside every control in the table.
This is general information, not legal advice.
Setup
Setup checklist
- In Users & Roles → Call Management, turn on Call recording access and Call log tap for counsellor roles. Turn on Save call as lead too if you want unknown callers captured.
- Install the Xale Android app. It is distributed as an APK and updates itself from inside the app.
- Sign in and grant the permissions the app asks for, including call logs, microphone and All Files Access.
- In the phone’s own Phone app, switch on auto call recording for all calls.
- On phones that stop background apps (see the setup notes above), allow Autostart for Xale and set its battery use to Unrestricted.
- Make a test call, then check the call and its recording in the lead’s call history.
- Confirm the phone shows as recording on the Devices page.
- Tell counsellors and students that calls are recorded. For a business number, or for counsellors on iPhone, connect TeleCMI.
Frequently asked questions
Call tracking CRM: common questions
Which is the best CRM with call recording for counselling teams?
Xale CRM is the best CRM with call recording for counselling teams. Every counsellor call logged and recorded, two routes. The Xale Android app syncs each call from the counsellor's own phone to the right lead with direction, duration and outcome, no per-minute charges, and attaches the phone's own recording. TeleCMI cloud telephony records calls from a business number on any phone, iPhone included. Xale gives you both routes in one workspace, call-log and recording access stay off for every role until an admin switches them on, and recordings can be transcribed on demand, tuned for calls that mix Malayalam and English. Every call lands on a student where each role on the lead and on every university application keeps its own follow-up and reminder, and every report number opens the exact leads behind it.
What should a CRM with call recording do for a counselling team?
Xale CRM shows what a CRM with call recording should do: file every counsellor call on the student’s record with direction, duration and outcome, attach the recording beside it, and keep capture off until an admin allows it for a role. Native call-log sync and recording come from the counsellor’s Android phone, TeleCMI cloud telephony records calls on any phone, iPhone included, recordings transcribe on demand, and every call count opens the leads behind it.
How do managers use a CRM with call recording in a weekly review?
In Xale CRM, a manager opens the counsellor Rankboard and the call outcomes report for last week and clicks a count to open the leads behind it. Lead-list filters find the students never called or missed, and the Connected and has-recording filters pick the calls worth hearing. A recording transcribes on demand, tuned for Malayalam–English calls, and each role’s follow-up on the student can be rescheduled straight from the lead.
What makes Xale a call tracking CRM rather than just call recording?
Recording is one part. Xale also logs every call with direction, duration and outcome, filters the lead list by call activity, ranks counsellors on answered calls, reports speed to first call and missed-call recovery, transcribes recordings on demand and shows on the Devices page which phones are capturing.
Does Xale record calls on iPhone?
Yes, through TeleCMI cloud telephony. Calls on your TeleCMI business number are recorded in TeleCMI’s cloud and filed on the matching lead, whichever phone the counsellor holds, iPhone included. On the counsellor’s Android phone, the Xale Android app adds call-log sync and the phone’s own recording, and both routes run in one workspace.
Can we choose which roles record calls and hear recordings?
Yes. Call log tap, Call recording access and Save call as lead are separate permissions under Users & Roles → Call Management, and each stays off for every role until an admin switches it on. The server refuses audio from a role that isn’t allowed to record, admin accounts are never recorded, and listening follows lead access: counsellors hear their own calls, managers their branch and admins everyone’s.
Can we use both routes in one workspace?
Yes. The Xale Android app files every SIM call on the lead with direction, duration, outcome and the phone’s own recording, and a TeleCMI business number records calls in the cloud and attaches them to the same lead. Both routes run in one workspace, and the call source filter tells Mobile App calls apart from TeleCMI calls.
Which calls does Xale log and record?
Phone calls, through two routes. The Xale Android app logs every SIM call in the phone’s call log and attaches the recording the phone’s own dialer makes, and TeleCMI records calls on your business number in its cloud. Both land in the same lead call history with direction, duration and outcome.
Do we need to buy cloud telephony to record calls?
No. On the counsellor’s Android phone, Xale uses the recording the phone’s own dialer already makes, so you need no telephony subscription and no new number. TeleCMI adds a shared business number, an inbound enquiry line and recording on any phone, iPhone included.
Where are recordings stored, and how do we play them?
Phone recordings are uploaded to Xale and play in the lead’s call history on the web and in the mobile Dialer’s Records tab. TeleCMI recordings stay with TeleCMI and play from the same history. Access follows role and lead permissions.
Can a manager correct who made a call?
Yes. An admin or stage manager can change who made a call, for example after two counsellors swapped phones. The change is logged on the lead’s timeline.
Which languages can call transcription handle?
Transcription runs on demand through Google Gemini, tuned for calls that mix Malayalam and English, with OpenAI Whisper as the fallback. Xale manages these providers for all workspaces, so there is nothing to connect, and the finished transcript is saved on the call.
What happens if a counsellor’s phone stops recording?
Check the Devices page in Settings. It shows each phone’s status with a plain-language reason, such as auto call recording, All Files Access or Autostart being off.
Will old recordings on the phone be uploaded?
No. Xale picks up call recordings made after the phone was connected, from call-recorder folders, so older recordings, voice memos and messenger voice notes stay private on the phone.
Can a CRM record calls made from a counsellor’s own mobile number?
Yes, through SIM call sync. The counsellor dials as usual, the phone saves its own recording, and the Xale Android app files the call on the student’s record with its direction, duration and outcome and attaches that recording, with no per-minute charge. The student sees the counsellor’s normal number. Sync continues with the app closed, and the Devices page shows that each phone is capturing.
Should owners and managers be recorded too?
Usually not. Record the roles whose calls you review, typically counsellors and telecallers, and leave owners, accounts staff and anyone who uses the phone for personal calls out of scope. In Xale CRM capture is switched on per role by an admin, so this is a setting rather than a promise, and it keeps the recordings you hold limited to the purpose you told people about.
What is the difference between a call log and a call recording?
A call log is the record that a call happened: who called whom, when, the direction, the duration and the outcome. A call recording is the audio of the conversation itself. Logs tell a manager whether a student was called, and recordings tell them what was said. Xale CRM keeps both on the student’s record, and the lead list filters on never called, missed, connected and has recording.
Do we need students’ consent to record calls?
Follow your organisation’s policy and applicable law and tell students and counsellors that calls may be recorded; in Xale, capture stays off until an admin allows it for a role. This is general information, not legal advice.
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Put every counsellor call on the lead it belongs to.
Start with a few counsellors on the Android app and check the Devices page after a test call. Connect TeleCMI for a business number, or for counsellors on iPhone.
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