How to Start a Conference Call on Skype Mac

Steps

1. Click the Skype app from your ‘Applications’ folder to launch the application.
2. Sign in using the username and password associated with your account.

   • If you don’t already have a Skype account, click the “Create New Account” button to the right to create one.
3. Click the “+” sign in the top right corner of the application followed by the “New Conversation…” option from the context menu.
4. Click the add contacts icon at the top right of the conversation to add people to your conference call.
5. Select all the contacts you want to add to the call by clicking them and or type the phone number of the person(s) you want to add. To add a phone number manually, include the country code, area code, and phone number with no spaces or hyphens. After adding contacts to the call their name will be grayed out in the list.
6. Click the “Add” button to add the selected contacts to the conversation.
7. Click the green phone icon in the top right corner to place an audio conference call with all the contacts you’ve added. Skype will attempt to connect to and add the contacts to the conversation. If one or more contacts are unavailable, the conversation will continue with the remaining contacts.

   • Alternatively, you can start a video conference call by clicking the green camera icon in the top right corner.
   • You can make free group calls involving up to 25 Skype contacts.