Thinking of expanding your business into Austin, Texas? You need a local phone number with area code 512—and you can get it as part of Dialpad’s unified communications plans. Sign up for a free 14-day trial to get set up with a local number!
Local numbers are useful for both inbound and outbound customer teams—and when you buy them from Dialpad, you’re getting far more than just a VoIP phone number.
All of Dialpad’s paid unified communications plans come with a local number included, in this case a number with your local 512 area code. This is along with unified communications features like phone calls, video conferencing, SMS/MMS messaging and team messages, and more—all from one intuitive, easy-to-use desktop or mobile app:
The lowest plan starts at just $15/user/month, which also includes unlimited calling and texting in the US and Canada!
Next, let’s look at why you might need a 512 area code.
The (512) area code serves Austin, Texas and surrounding areas. Further up north is the 469 area code which serves Dallas. Located in the Central time zone, the 512 prefix was first put into service in 1947.
As well as Austin itself, the area code 512 location includes the major cities of San Marcos, Round Rock, and Cedar Park. It also covers major counties like Bastrop, Hays, and Williamson.
Dialpad’s not just about phone calls—the desktop and mobile app brings all your communication channels together into one app, from video conferencing to SMS and instant messaging, and even a contact center platform if you need it.
Use Dialpad’s desktop and mobile app across iOS, Android, PC, and Mac—or just use your web browser to join a call or video meeting, no downloads needed.
Never miss a call again. Dialpad’s call forwarding feature lets you choose up to five external numbers, so you can have calls automatically forwarded to your cell phone or landline, a colleague, or another department.
Flexible call routing
Smart call routing gets your callers to the right department or person—without you having to lift a finger. With Dialpad, you can easily set your own rules for specific people or departments, have out-of-hours calls sent to voicemail, and make changes to your IVR without any help from IT!
With Dialpad, you can make work calls from your personal cell phone—while showing your 512 area code work number and protecting your privacy.
Dialpad’s built-in AI is built by our own team and integrated directly into the communications platform to transcribe your phone calls and video meetings—in real-time. This way, you don't have to be distracted with note-taking and can give them your full attention (and Dialpad even detects highlights and action items).
When you're in back-to-back meetings all day, you can't always listen to every voicemail. Dialpad's visual voicemail feature transcribes your voicemails into text, so you can quickly read them when it isn't convenient to listen to them. (It even emails the audio and text versions to you!)
Local numbers are a great way to make a small business seem bigger, or for larger enterprises to establish a local presence without real estate. With a 512 area code number for Austin, you can set up a virtual branch out of Bastrop, Round Rock, or Cedar Park without having to rent or buy a physical office space.
Running a marketing campaign that encourages customers to dial your business number? Make it a local one—they’re far more likely to call since they won't have to worry about long-distance charges. And when you call them, they’ll be more inclined to pick up the phone if it's a local Austin TX area code in the caller ID.
Austin is the tenth largest city in the US, with an estimated population of 1 million—that’s a lot of potential customers. But there are other reasons why a Austin Texas area code is an asset. The city was named #1 place to start a business by Inc. in 2020, it has a favorable business tax structure, and there are three Fortune 500 companies (Dell, Oracle, and Tesla) based in the area.
It’s super-easy to look up area codes and add a local number in Dialpad. When you sign up for a free 14-day trial, which takes just a few minutes, you’ll also be set up with a phone number with your area code of choice—in this case, a 512 area code.
Or, if you’re already with Dialpad, it’s easy to add another VoIP number or do an area code lookup too:
Step 1. Navigate to Settings
Step 2. Choose “Add a Number”
Step 3. Check your local licenses and add a business phone line
Step 4. Confirm the new phone number or select it from the Change menu.
That’s it!
$20 USD if billed monthly
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