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Build the office and rooms
Your Overview page walks you through it: name the office, add every room or signal location, and add departments, the staff groups that can be paged together. Then customize the ready signals, the one-tap alerts your team sends. The presets work out of the box. Never put patient names or information in ReadyMaxer.
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Activate staff and their devices
Add each staff member, assign their department, and send their activation link. They open it on their phone to join the office. Apple Watch and Wear OS work automatically once the paired phone is set up, with nothing extra to activate.
3
Register every computer
Install ReadyMaxer on the computer (macOS or Windows). An office admin opens QR Sign In on their activated phone, scans the setup QR on that screen, names the workstation, and can give it a home room. To use a browser instead, open the ReadyMaxer web app and pair it with a code from Rooms & computers: setup QRs are shown only by the desktop apps.
Assigned to a roomA workstation an admin gave a home room. Best for an operatory or exam room: with nobody signed in it always sends as that room, and anyone who signs in there can send for any room. Several computers may share the same home room.
FlexibleThe same workstation with no home room. Best for the front desk or a shared computer: each person signs in by scanning the on-screen QR with their phone, then confirms the current room before sending.
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Choose how alerts reach each person
Every person can choose sound, vibration, or a watch-first setup. These are device settings, so each person completes this step on their own phone.
Hear ReadyMaxer during workLeave the phone's notification sound on. Create a Work Focus or Mode, allow ReadyMaxer, and let that mode silence the other apps. In the app's settings, pick the alert tone that cuts through your office: Chime, Bell, Blip or Pulse. With the app open on screen, that tone rings and vibrates on iPhone and Android alike, even when the phone is silenced.
Vibration only or watch-firstUse Silent or Vibrate when a sound would be disruptive, and set the app's sound level to Silent so it stays quiet even while it is open. Keep haptics enabled. An Apple Watch in Silent Mode can still tap the wrist, and the alert keeps its On my way and Done actions. Apple delivers each alert to the iPhone or to the watch, never to both.
App open versus backgroundWith the app open on screen, both phones ring the alert tone and vibrate, even on Silent or Vibrate. In the background or closed, each phone follows its own rules. On iPhone, open Settings, Notifications, ReadyMaxer, then turn on Allow Notifications and Time Sensitive Notifications: a background alert passes through an allowed Focus, but it still follows the Ring/Silent switch, so a silenced iPhone shows it without sound. On Android, a background alert is a high-importance notification on the notification volume, so Silent and Vibrate do mute it. Grant Do Not Disturb access from the app's Settings if you want signals to sound through Do Not Disturb. Keep the ringer on and the volume up if you count on background alerts.
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Run one test signal
Send a signal from a workstation with a home room, confirm that the correct phone or watch receives it, tap On my way, and finish with Done. Check every staff member before relying on ReadyMaxer during the workday.