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RingCentral unified your communications.

Comma unifies your compliance.

Calls, voicemail, and fax through RingCentral carry the same SEC Rule 17a-4 and FINRA Rule 4511 recordkeeping obligations as email. Comma captures every business communication across RingCentral's surfaces and stores it in a tamper-proof, exam-ready archive alongside your other channels.

RingCentral RingEX replaced the desk phone for over 600,000 businesses. For regulated firms, that migration created a compliance gap: calls that used to flow through recorded lines now route through RingCentral, and most archiving programs haven’t kept up. Voicemail and fax — both subject to recordkeeping obligations — are often missed entirely.

SEC Rule 17a-4 and FINRA Rule 4511 don’t distinguish between a desk phone and a cloud UCaaS platform. If your advisors, bankers, or client-facing staff use RingCentral for business, those communications need to be in the archive.

Choose exactly which RingCentral surfaces to archive — calls, recordings, voicemail, and fax.
RingCentral capture settings in Comma showing all four surfaces enabled: Calls, Call recordings, Voicemail, and Fax.

What Comma captures from RingCentral

Comma connects to RingCentral at the organization level and captures across four surfaces. Call metadata is captured for every call regardless of recording settings; audio is captured only where RingCentral’s call recording is enabled.

Calls — metadata for every call made or received: participants, direction, timestamps, and duration. No call recording required.

Call recordings — audio for any call your RingCentral workspace records. Captured automatically when recording is enabled; no changes to how employees make calls.

Voicemail — audio and transcript for every voicemail left in the system. Voicemail related to business activity is subject to the same SEC Rule 17a-4 and FINRA Rule 4511 retention requirements as other communications — and is often overlooked in archiving programs.

Fax — documents sent and received via RingCentral Fax. Captured and stored with the same Write Once, Read Many (WORM)-grade immutability as your calls and messages.

All four surfaces land in the same archive as your messaging, email, and other channels. One review queue, one export path, one place for an examiner request.

How it connects

Setup takes about five minutes and involves two people: a Comma admin and a RingCentral admin.

  1. Comma admin creates a named connection in the Comma dashboard, chooses which surfaces to capture, and generates a one-time authorization link.
  2. RingCentral admin clicks the link, signs in to RingCentral, and approves Comma’s access via RingCentral’s standard OAuth consent screen. No configuration is needed inside RingCentral beyond the authorization.
  3. Capture begins automatically. No per-user setup, no device changes, no impact on how employees use RingCentral.

RingCentral admin access is required for the authorization step. Comma admin access is required on the Comma side. See the setup guide →

Why it matters by role

For your compliance team

  • Four surfaces, one archive

    Calls, recordings, voicemail, and fax land alongside your WhatsApp, Signal, email, and other channels — same supervision workflow, same export path.

  • Voicemail and fax included by default

    Most archiving programs focus on call recordings and skip voicemail and fax entirely. Comma captures all four surfaces, so nothing falls through the gap at exam time.

For your IT team

  • Organization-level connection

    Comma connects to RingCentral once at the account level. No per-user setup, no device configuration, no changes to how RingCentral is deployed.

  • Granular capture controls

    Enable or disable each surface independently — calls, call recordings, voicemail, and fax — from the Comma dashboard. Adjust at any time without reconnecting.

For your employees

  • RingCentral works exactly as it does today

    No workflow change for anyone on the team. Employees make calls, receive voicemail, and send faxes normally. Archiving happens automatically on the compliance side.

  • Personal lines stay personal

    Comma captures at the organization level within your RingCentral workspace. Personal calls outside the workspace are not captured.

FAQ about RingCentral compliance archiving

Are RingCentral calls subject to SEC and FINRA recordkeeping?
Yes. SEC Rule 17a-4 and FINRA Rule 4511 require broker-dealers to retain records of all business communications regardless of the platform. A client conversation over RingCentral carries the same retention and production obligations as an email or a text message. FINRA Rule 3110 additionally requires firms to supervise those communications.
Do I need call recording enabled in RingCentral to use Comma?
Not for all surfaces. Call metadata (who called, when, duration, direction) is captured without any recording enabled. Call recording audio requires RingCentral's call recording feature to be active. Voicemail and fax are captured independently of call recording settings. See the RingCentral setup guide for step-by-step instructions.
What happens if an employee deletes a call or voicemail in RingCentral?
Nothing. Records are written to WORM-grade storage at the moment of capture. Deletion in RingCentral has no effect on the compliance archive.
Does this go into the same archive as our other channels?
Yes. RingCentral records land in the same archive as your messaging, email, and other channels — searchable and exportable through the same interface you use for everything else.
Can we connect multiple RingCentral accounts?
Yes. Each Comma connection maps to one RingCentral account. If your organization operates multiple RingCentral accounts, create a separate named connection for each one — each with its own capture settings.

Your team is already on RingCentral.

Make sure your archive is too — calls, recordings, voicemail, and fax in one tamper-proof, exam-ready record.

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