I have a great announcement to make today: We are officially launching a new service offering for our clients: free virtual office phone service, including toll free numbers (including extensions!) courtesy of Phone.com.
So how does this virtual office phone service work? Like a regular office phone number, but with a twist: instead of ringing a certain phone (like the phone on your office desk), the number forwards to an existing phone.
By way of example, take the Grassroots.org toll free number? It’s a Phone.com number. So if someone calls my phone number (800-252-0015 x152), it rings my cell. I can chose to pick it up, or let it go to my Phone.com voicemail box. (In fact, I can configure it so that it automatically goes to my voicemail in lieu of my cell, but I prefer to answer my phone).
There are even more options. You can opt for the "follow me" service that will ring a string of numbers until you pick up (cell, then office, then home), you can change voicemail settings so that voicemail is captured and emailed to you, saved on Phone.com, or just left on your regular voicemail for which ever phone you choose.
For us, the Phone.com 800 number has been a perfect fit. Our staff is scattered around the country...with this number we can all have the same “office” number. It simplifies things. It allows our nonprofit clients to call us, toll free. It helps us look more legitimate to funders.
Thanks to CEO Ari Rabban and the great folks at Phone.com, we are now able to offer the same service that has worked so well for us to our nonprofit members. We’re excited to know what you think!
Check out the details on free virtual office phone service
