Does your small business need a phone number? Whether it's for a new location or setting up a new employee, you can get a number by signing up for any of Dialpad's affordable unified communications plans. Try it out with a 14-day free trial to see how easy it is!
It's pretty much just as the name suggests: it's basically a phone number that a company uses to call and receive incoming calls from customers, prospects, and any other people on a regular basis. Strictly speaking, there's no difference between a regular phone number and a "small business phone number"—it's not like there's a different number of digits or anything.
You can sometimes get a business number for free when you sign up with a PBX or business VoIP phone system provider. How it usually works is you sign up for a monthly or annual plan, and they'll give you a dedicated business phone line as part of the package.
With a good, modern service provider, you should be able to make calls and send texts using this business number on not only your desk phone, but also your personal cell phone and even computer (usually through a desktop or mobile app, which your provider should also provide).
With so many business VoIP providers, it’s easy to get swept up in the options available. But Dialpad’s small business phone service is designed to give you quality calls around the world and make it easy to scale. But there’s a lot more to it than that…
Most small business owners don't have the luxury of big IT teams that can manage a complicated phone system. With Dialpad, you don't have to worry about that. You can easily manage business numbers, add or remove users, manage other add-ons, and more, right from your online account.
Dialpad isn't just a small business phone number service, or even just a phone system. It's a robust UCaaS platform that gives you phone calls, SMS/MMS text messaging, video conferencing, and more—all in one intuitive app that works across PC, Mac, iPhone, and Android.
With a unique split cloud architecture and worldwide data centers, Dialpad is designed to give you crisp, clear phone calls around the world.
With Dialpad, you get 24/5 web and chat support on the $15/month Standard plan, and full-on 24/7 web, chat, and phone support on the $25/month Pro plan. Not only that, there’s a detailed and thorough online Help Center where you can find answers to common questions, whenever you want.
Never miss a call or make callers wait in long queues again with Dialpad’s call forwarding and call transfer features. You can choose up to five call forwarding numbers—send calls to your colleagues, your personal cell phone, another landline, whatever you want.
Dialpad also has some pretty delightful custom hold music. (You can even Rickroll your online meeting attendees if you want.)
With Dialpad's affordable and customizable pricing plans, you can get a robust unified communications platform that includes a local number for free. Sign up for a 14-day free trial to try it out!
Dialpad comes with virtual receptionist and auto attendant features, which means your callers can automatically route themselves to the right people without your staff lifting a finger. Plus, you can change the call routing options yourself in minutes, right from—you guessed it—your online dashboard.
With Dialpad, you can easily record phone calls with just a tap or click. You can set up automatic recording to make things easier, or if you want to be extra careful with compliance, you can manually turn recording on and off.
From HubSpot to Salesforce to Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, Dialpad integrates with a wide range of business apps to automatically log phone calls and activities, let you make phone calls from right inside your CRM, and more! (Or build, your own custom integrations with Dialpad's API.)
Not only does Dialpad work across desktop and mobile devices, it also has a useful call flip feature that lets you flip a call from your computer to your cell phone (or vice versa) without interrupting or dropping the call. Need to step away from your desk? No problem. Just flip it.
Sometimes, you just don't have time to listen to all your voicemail messages. (Like when you're stuck in back-to-back meetings.) In these situations, Dialpad's visual voicemail feature transcribes your messages so that you can read them quickly instead of having to listen to them—much faster, and much more convenient.
Who wants to carry around two phones all the time? When you make business calls or send texts on Dialpad's app, you can choose which caller ID you want to display. This way, you can shield your personal phone number, even when you're using your personal cell phone for work.
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There are different options of small business phone numbers to choose from, each with slightly different use cases. Each type can receive incoming calls from customers—the main difference is in what they charge, to whom, and what the business phone number looks like.
The most common type of business number is the typical local number. To reach customers in your area, using a local phone number reduces the cost of calls to your standard local call rate. Within Dialpad’s phone plans, a new local number is provided for free with the area code of your choosing, and you get free unlimited calls in your country, the US, and Canada.
Similarly, for businesses across multiple locations, having local numbers for each office or site expands your reach affordably.
To make it easy and free for your customers to get in touch with your sales, customer support or general team, you could use toll-free numbers, which charge the business or person being called instead of the person making the call (in this case, your customer or prospect). Known as a 1-800 number in the US, these numbers begin with a toll-free code (like 1-800 or 1-888) and provide free phone calls for callers.
Also generally using the toll-free prefix, vanity numbers are usually spelled out with letters (corresponding with numbers on the number pad), making them more memorable and ideal for advertising. Vanity numbers tend to be more expensive, but they are more easily recalled by customers.
These tend to include words that link to the business or the business name, emphasizing your number in marketing campaigns, like 1-800-FLOWERS. These can also be made up entirely of numbers in a recognizable pattern or sequence, like 1-888-520-2020.
If you’re growing your small business worldwide, then you probably need an international number. This allows calls to be made to and from your number from anywhere in the world at a standard rate. If you’re regularly taking and making long-distance calls, an international number could save money for both you, your customers, and your suppliers.
See how BNAmericas uses Dialpad to get US numbers, Mexico numbers, Brazilian numbers, and Chilean numbers as part of their sales calling strategy.
Setting up a new business number shouldn’t be hard. And it shouldn’t take days or weeks.
Whether you’re hiring new employees or needing more phone numbers for your sales or customer support team, you can get set up with business phone numbers in minutes with Dialpad.
Even the cheapest Dialpad Voice phone plan comes with unlimited calling in your country, the US, and Canada, and unlimited SMS/MMS messaging in the US and Canada—not to mention a local number included!
Dialpad gives you a versatile unified communications platform with a built-in VoIP phone system, SMS/MMS + instant messaging, video conferencing, and more—all at a low price. Sign up for a 14-day free trial to try it out now! It takes just a few minutes and you’ll be set up with a virtual phone number too.
It's pretty easy, in most cases. Some folks will buy a business number just on its own (like you can do with very basic services like Grasshopper), but it's not usually the most convenient way. With many business VoIP or UCaaS providers, you can just sign up for the business phone system or unified communications software, and you'll be able to pick a local number or port over your existing numbers that are currently linked to your traditional phone system.
With Dialpad, for example, not only do you get unlimited inbound and outbound calls in your country, the US, and Canada with any Talk plan, but you also have the option of buying a vanity number or toll-free number—all conveniently online. From that same dashboard, you and your admins can manage your team phone numbers and lines, and add or remove users too.