Phone & VoIP Systems

Eight VoIP services compared on list price, texting and international fees, E911 and number porting, so you can pick a business phone service without surprises.

The honest answer to “how much does a toll-free number cost” is that the number itself can cost as little as a couple of dollars a month, while the service around it can run from about $14 to roughly $100 a month depending on minutes, users, texting and add-ons. That spread is why one provider’s […]

If you are shopping for a toll-free number service, the first thing to know is that “toll-free provider” can mean two very different things. It can be a specialist that sells the number and the tools around it, or a business phone system that happens to include a toll-free number on some plan. Both can […]

Learning how to set up 800.com for an ecommerce store takes less time than most owners expect, and the order you do things in matters more than any single setting. Get the number, forwarding and greeting right on day one, and you can add texting, recording and call tracking over the following weeks without tripping […]

If your personal cell number is also your business number, you already know the problem. A supplier calls during dinner, a customer texts at 11 p.m., and your number ends up on a contact page, a dealer application and a domain record for anyone to find. Getting a second phone number for your business fixes […]

A vanity toll-free number is the kind of thing store owners either obsess over or ignore. Pick well and you get a number customers can remember after hearing it once, like 1-800-FLOWERS. Pick badly and you pay extra for a clever spelling that nobody can dial without asking you to repeat it. This guide covers […]

If you are searching for RingCentral alternatives, you have probably hit one of three walls. The price on the page is not the price on the invoice, the plan you need keeps moving up a tier, or the system does far more than a small store will ever use. All three are common, and none […]

If you are searching for 800.com alternatives, you have probably already looked at the plans and wondered whether a toll-free specialist is the right shape of tool for your store. Sometimes it is. Sometimes you need a team phone app, a flat price for the whole account, or a full business phone suite, and a […]

If you search for a virtual phone number for business, you get a wall of providers that all promise the same thing: a real-looking business number, with no extra phone and no desk line. Under that promise the services are quite different. Some are built for one person with a cell phone, some for a […]

If you searched for a 1800 number for business, or an 800 number for business, you are asking the same question: how do I get a phone number that customers can call for free, and what will it cost me each month? The answer is that a toll-free line is cheap, quick to set up, […]