Toll free phone number services

RingCentral gives a full log (caller ID number, time/date, length of call, etc...) of all calls that come in. I believe that Grasshopper and most other services do as well - it should be a fairly easy thing to get from any provider. I don't know of any provider that makes a note when a caller has called before - I'd just throw the call history into Excel & find duplicates that way.
 


I've been using Ringcentral but not happy with them. First of all I can't seem to record phone conversations. Secondly the phone numbers called from are inaccurate most of the time. Looking for alternative provider
 
I highly recommend Toktumi.com. $14.95/month gets you most of the features that other companies have, however you also get unlimited minutes. The downside is each additional number is $14.95.
 
mjesq said:
I highly recommend Toktumi.com. $14.95/month gets you most of the features that other companies have, however you also get unlimited minutes. The downside is each additional number is $14.95.
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They look awesome. Has anyone else used this service? It seems extremely cheap for unlimited calling.
 
allcelldeals said:
They look awesome. Has anyone else used this service? It seems extremely cheap for unlimited calling.
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If you read their terms and conditions you'll find that unlimited is not quite unlimited. However, for me, it works out perfectly. I consider having a toll free number a 'trust mark' that adds authority to my site. If call volume ever hits their limits I'll just add another line of service -- and smile all the way to the bank.


Usage of the toktumi service is governed by the toktumi "Fair Usage Policy." Your toktumi account shall be used as a normal business phone account, and shall not be employed for mass telemarketing, internet access, or other non-standard uses. It shall not be used in conjunction with a telemarketing system, autodialer, lead generation vendor, chat room, party line, call forwarding service, or any system that results in network usage of multiple simultaneous calls for a sustained period of time. If more than 5,000 minutes of inbound calls per month are forwarded to an outside number, toktumi reserves the right to terminate your account or charge you 2c/minute for calls in excess of the limit until the start of your next month. If your account has multiple extensions, the total fair use limit is 5000 times the number of lines. For example, if you have one main line with two extensions, up to 15,000 minutes can be forwarded via one or any of the lines before you reach the fair use limit. The fair use limit for free trials is 2,000 minutes. Beyond that, toktumi reserves the right to end the free trial or charge 2c/minute for minutes beyond the fair use limit.

Free trials are limited to 2,000 minutes or 30 days, whichever comes first.
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Go to Vitelity. Get an 800 number. Then go to Lylix and get yourself a fully setup Trixbox VPS server. Plenty depending on how many concurrent calls you need. But I doubt you'd exceed it. Spend 20 mins on the phone with Vitelity tweaking settings and handle it all yourself. Then you can forward, record, have tons of numbers, IVR's or whatever. Trixbox has a very nice interface and is free.

inbound 800 from vitelity 2.4 cents a min.
Lylix box 35$ a month.

Can use a soft phone, sip phone or forward to a cell. Also has call hunting. If you're going to have it forward it needs outbound mins which are 1.2 cent/min through vitelity.

Total about 3.6 cents a min. And you have a full blown VOIP phone system. Can probably set it up in an afternoon of screwing around.

Have fun.
 
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smaxor said:
Go to Vitelity. Get an 800 number. Then go to Lylix and get yourself a fully setup Trixbox VPS server. [snip]

inbound 800 from vitelity 2.4 cents a min.
Lylix box 35$ a month.

Can use a soft phone, sip phone or forward to a cell. Also has call hunting. If you're going to have it forward it needs outbound mins which are 1.2 cent/min through vitelity.

Total about 3.6 cents a min. And you have a full blown VOIP phone system. Can probably set it up in an afternoon of screwing around.

Have fun.
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If anyone is interested in sharing a Lyrix VPS give me a PM. If I can get two other low volume users to go in with me, we could each pay $12 per month, plus whatever our individual Vitelity account charges would be. The more takers the lower the cost, although I can't see going above ten. Coordinating the admin overhead would get to be more hassle than it's worth.
 
marfarma said:
If anyone is interested in sharing a Lyrix VPS give me a PM. If I can get two other low volume users to go in with me, we could each pay $12 per month, plus whatever our individual Vitelity account charges would be. The more takers the lower the cost, although I can't see going above ten. Coordinating the admin overhead would get to be more hassle than it's worth.
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I dont wanna like a dick, cause Im not trying to go there.. but are you doing this to save a couple dollars only?

$35 is not a lot if you are truly making enough in your biz to justify a 1800 number/IPX system. If your doing it for some other reason, then I can understand, but if it is purely for the $35 then you might wanna rethink the 1800 number/IPX system. I use grasshopper and only pay like $14 a month.
 
Some great information in here guys .. I am currently looking for international toll free numbers - has anyone had any experience finding a solution for Europe, LATAM etc?

Tollfreeforwarding seems to be the best option Ive found so far.
 
good info

I've heard nothing but good things about Kall8. I'm looking into them for a project and one of the needed features is a) click to call ability, but b) geolocation handling. They can supposedly easily alter behaviors for various locations ringing to another number, playing a vmail recording etc.
 
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