Overview
Video Calls lets you start and join video meetings with your SalesHive team right inside the platform. Start a call now, schedule one for later with a shareable link, or join one with a code. Before you connect, a quick setup screen lets you preview your camera and pick your mic and camera. Inside a call you can share your screen (with or without audio), play gentle background music, chat on the side, turn on a live transcript, switch devices and filter out background noise from a Settings popover, see who is in the room with a connection-quality dot on each person, spotlight someone in your own view, and blur or change your background. Everything runs inside SalesHive, so there is nothing to install. You see the calls you started, and you join calls your SalesHive rep starts by entering the code they share. Scheduled meetings (booked through the website or a personal link) start recording automatically the moment the first participant joins, so you do not need to click Record. When recording is active, every participant sees a consent modal and clicks I Understand to stay (or Leave Call to decline).
How to use this page
Start a video call
Type an optional title in the New video call card and click Start call. A quick setup screen opens first so you can check your camera and mic, then click Join now to enter. Your mic starts on and your camera starts off; click Start video in the control bar to turn your camera on when you are ready.
Join a call with a code
If your SalesHive rep shares a code (like abcd-efg-hij), type it into the Join with a code card and click Join call. A direct link they send can also join you automatically. Either way you land on the setup screen first to check your camera and mic.
Check your camera and mic before joining
After you pick a call, a setup screen opens before you connect, like the green room in Zoom or Meet. You see your own camera preview, and you can choose which microphone and camera to use and whether to start with your mic and camera on. Your mic starts on and your camera starts off by default. Click Join now to enter with those settings, or Cancel to back out.
Schedule a call for later
Use the Schedule for later card to set up a meeting ahead of time without joining in. Type an optional title, pick a date and time, and click Get a meeting link. The call gets a shareable link right away that you can send out before anyone joins. Scheduled calls show up in the Upcoming list below, where you can copy the link or start the call when it is time. The link keeps working even before anyone arrives, so it is safe to share in advance or drop into a calendar invite. Scheduled meetings auto-record the moment the first participant joins, so you do not need to click Record, and each person sees a recording consent modal when they enter.
Use chat, transcript, and the control bar
The control bar at the bottom of the call has Mic, Start video, Background, Share, Music, Settings, Chat, People, Transcript, and Leave. Chat opens a side panel beside the video, and links you paste become clickable. Transcript shows a live, speaker-labeled text of the conversation. Each closes with its button or the X.
Share your screen, a screen with audio, or audio only
Click Share to open a small menu with three modes. Share screen sends just your screen or a window. Share screen + audio also sends the system or tab sound (in the browser dialog, pick a Chrome tab and check Share tab audio so the sound comes through). Share audio only pipes a tab's sound into the call with no video, handy for playing a clip without showing your screen. While you share, it automatically takes over the main stage (the share goes big and everyone's cameras move to a side strip) so the room focuses on what you are showing, unless someone has pinned a person. Click Stop share, or the browser's own Stop sharing bar, to end it and return to the normal grid.
Play background music
Click Music and pick one of the gentle built-in tracks. It loops into the call so it never sits in dead silence, and everyone hears it. Use the volume slider to keep it under voices (it starts low on purpose) and click Stop to end it. No screen share is needed.
Switch your mic, camera, or speaker and cut background noise
Click Settings in the control bar to open a popover. Pick a different microphone, camera, or speaker mid-call (the speaker option only shows on browsers that support it, like Chrome and Edge) and the switch happens live without leaving the call. The same popover has a Noise cancellation toggle. It is on by default and filters fans, background hum, and, on Chrome and other browsers that support voice isolation, keyboard typing from your mic, so the room hears just your voice. Leave it on for normal calls; turn it off if you want raw audio, for example when you are playing music or an instrument.
See who is in the call and spotlight someone
Click People to open a side panel listing everyone in the call with their live mic and camera state and a small connection-quality dot (green is strong, amber is weak, red means their connection dropped). Click the pin on anyone's row to spotlight them: their tile fills your stage and everyone else drops into a filmstrip. That is your own view only and does not change what anyone else sees; click Unpin to go back to the grid.
Blur or change your background
Click Background in the control bar to soften or replace what is behind you. Pick Light or Strong blur, or choose one of the backdrops, or None to clear it. It runs only on your own camera in your browser, so it never affects anyone else's video or the call quality. The button does not appear if your browser cannot support it.
See your active calls
The Active calls list shows your calls that are running right now, each with its title, code, and how many people are connected. Click Join on a row to hop back in.
What the buttons do
- Start call
- Creates a new call with your optional title and opens a quick setup screen to check your camera and mic before you connect.
- Join call
- Joins the call matching the code you entered, opening the setup screen first.
- Join now (setup screen)
- Enters the call with the camera, mic, and devices you picked. Cancel backs out without joining.
- Join (on a call row)
- Jumps into one of your active calls.
- Mic
- Mutes or unmutes your microphone.
- Start video / Stop video
- Turns your camera on or off. Your browser asks permission the first time; if it is blocked you get a clear note on how to allow it.
- Background
- Opens a picker to blur your background (Light or Strong), choose a backdrop, or set it to None. Runs in your browser on your own camera only, so it never affects other people. Hidden on browsers that cannot run it.
- Share
- Opens a menu with three screen-share modes: Share screen (video only), Share screen + audio (screen plus system or tab sound), and Share audio only (a tab's sound with no video). Click again to stop sharing. An active share automatically takes over the main stage (people move to a side strip) unless a person is pinned.
- Music
- Opens a picker to play one of the gentle background tracks into the call, with a live volume slider (starts low) and a Stop button. No screen share needed.
- Settings
- Opens a popover to switch your microphone, camera, or speaker mid-call and to toggle Noise cancellation. The speaker option only appears on browsers that support it.
- Noise cancellation (Settings)
- On by default. Filters fans and background hum from your mic, and on browsers with voice isolation (such as Chrome) also catches keyboard typing, so the room hears just your voice. Turn it off for raw audio, for example when playing music.
- Chat
- Opens or closes the side chat panel. Pasted links are clickable.
- People
- Opens or closes a side panel listing everyone in the call with their live mic and camera state and a connection-quality dot. Each row has a spotlight pin to feature that person in your own view.
- Spotlight / Unpin (a person's row)
- Pins that person's tile to fill your own stage, with everyone else in a filmstrip. It changes only your view; Unpin (or pinning someone else) clears it.
- Transcript
- Opens or closes the live, speaker-labeled transcript of the call.
- Fullscreen
- Top-right toggle that expands the call to full screen.
- Leave
- Leaves the call.
- Get a meeting link
- On the Schedule for later card, creates a meeting for the date and time you picked and gives it a shareable link, without joining you in. The call shows up under Upcoming.
- Copy link / Start (Upcoming)
- On a scheduled call in the Upcoming list: Copy link copies the shareable join link to send out, and Start opens the call when it is time.
- I Understand (recording consent)
- Dismisses the recording consent modal so you can continue in the call. The red Recording bar stays as the ongoing indicator.
- Leave Call (recording consent)
- Declines recording by leaving the call entirely. Shown on the recording consent modal alongside I Understand.