A landline number,
without the landline.
A virtual landline gives your business a geographic UK number — 0161, 020, 0117 — that rings wherever you actually are, rather than a socket in a building. There is no line rental and no installation, and because the number is not tied to a premises you can keep it if you move, or hold a number for a city you do not have an office in.
What Auricall gives you.
Category pages tend to describe the category. This is what the thing actually does in this product.
- Any UK area code
- Rings the right people
- Voicemail you can read
- Keeps your mobile private
Any UK area code
Pick the code that matches where your customers are, whether or not you have an address there.
Rings the right people
One number can ring a whole team, follow an IVR menu, or change route by time of day.
Voicemail you can read
Missed calls arrive as transcribed text in a shared inbox rather than as audio nobody plays.
Keeps your mobile private
Outbound calls from the app show the business number, not a personal one.
What to check,
whoever you buy from.
Ask these of us and of everyone else on your list. If a vendor cannot answer one of them plainly, that is the answer.
- Is it a real geographic number, or a redirect that shows the wrong caller ID?
- Can more than one person answer it at the same time?
- Is there line rental on top of the subscription?
- Can you port the number away again later if you leave?
- Does voicemail come back as text, or only as audio?
Virtual landline number
No. UK geographic numbers are no longer tied to a physical line, so you can hold a number for any area code.
No. There is a per-user monthly subscription and per-minute call charges, with no separate rental for the line.
Yes, and porting is free for UK geographic numbers. The number keeps working until the cutover.
Yes, through the Auricall Voice app on iOS and Android, alongside the browser.
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