How it works & features

Set up your business phone system in four steps.

Get a local or toll-free number, forward calls to your mobile or team, and manage texts and voicemails in one inbox. Add extensions, teammates, Slack, WhatsApp, and connected AI agents when you need them.

No per-user pricing·No long-term contracts·Free support
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Step 1

Get a toll-free or local number

Every account starts with one business number. Pick a fresh one or bring the number your customers already know.

Which business number should you choose?
Choose your number
Local
212415617305773any area code
Toll-free
800833888and more
Already have one
Number features included
Local numbers

A number in the area code your customers know. Search by city or area code.

Toll-free numbers

An 800-series number that reads national, for customers anywhere.

Port your number

Move the number your customers already have saved. It keeps working the whole time the transfer completes, and nothing changes for callers.

Additional numbers

Add numbers for a second location or a campaign. They share the same extensions, inbox, and settings.

Vanity numbers

A number that spells a word, toll-free or local, that customers remember from one hearing.

SMS registration status

Follow your number’s carrier text-messaging registration, so you know exactly when business texting is live.

Step 2

Create your main greeting & extensions

Record what callers hear first, then give them somewhere to go - “press 1 for Sales, 2 for Support” - or dial a person directly. Each extension rings wherever you point it.

Caller hears your menu
1SalesBob’s mobile
2SupportIntake agent · AI
101BobBob’s mobile
Greeting & extension features included
Main greeting

What callers hear first during business hours: your welcome and menu options.

After-hours greeting

A different message for evenings, weekends, and closed days.

Department extensions

Sales, Support, Billing - each one rings the right mobiles.

Holiday & away dates

Set dates ahead of time; the right greeting plays automatically.

AI voice generation

Type the words; the audio is generated in your chosen AI voice and saved as a recording. Nothing is synthesized live on calls.

Preview & listen

Play the greeting before callers hear it; regenerate until it sounds right.

Your own voice

Prefer the personal touch? Record a greeting yourself, or upload audio you already have.

Editable greeting text

Change the words anytime; saving renders a fresh recording.

Employee extensions

Direct lines for people: Bob is 101, dialable from the menu anytime.

Step 3

Set up call forwarding to your mobile or AI agent

Each extension forwards to a person or a connected AI agent. Ring one phone, several people, or a mix - in order, all at once, or on a schedule - or let an agent from your AI provider answer that extension. Your personal number always stays private.

Where calls ring
Your mobileRings first, with business caller ID
Teammates’ mobilesRing next, in the order you set
New customer intakeAI agent · Vapi. Answers the Sales extension
After hoursVoicemail, an on-call mobile, or an agent you already connected
Forwarding features included
Forward to any phone number

Destinations are ordinary phones: mobiles, an existing business phone, a landline.

Ring one-by-one or all at once

With call announce enabled, the first person to press 1 takes the call, and the other phones stop ringing. Ring all at once is included on Grow and Max. See a complete call routing example ›

Business hours on the number

During business hours calls ring the team. After hours the number follows its own after-hours rules.

Forward to the Numberline app

Ring teammates in the mobile app, with business caller ID.

Compatible SIP phones

Register a desk phone to an extension: plug into ethernet and it rings.

Send an extension to an AI agent

Choose a connected agent to answer Sales, to pick up when your team cannot answer, or to cover after hours. How connected AI agents work ›

Call Announce

Hear which extension the call is for before you accept, so you always answer as the business.

Step 4

Get voicemails emailed & posted to Slack

Every voicemail a caller leaves is recorded and transcribed, then emailed where you'll actually see it. Grow and Max add an AI summary and Slack notifications.

2:14
New voicemail · Sales · (415) 555-0182 · 0:24 Inbox
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Numberlineto me · 2:14 PM

Summary: Water heater is leaking - wants a callback this afternoon for an emergency visit.

“Hi, this is Priya. Our water heater is leaking pretty badly - can someone call me back this afternoon? I think it's an emergency.”

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Call back from Numberline
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NumberlineAPP2:14 PM

New voicemail on Sales from (415) 555-0182 · 0:24

Open Numberline to listen, read the transcript, and call back.
Grow & Max
Voicemail features included
Transcripts

Read voicemail transcripts in Numberline or email. Get voicemail notifications in Slack on Grow and Max.

Voicemail to email

Every voicemail is transcribed and emailed to the addresses you choose. The transcript is in the body, so you read it before you call back. How voicemail transcription works ›

Voicemail notifications in Slack

Get voicemail notifications in the channel you choose. Open Numberline to read the message and call back. Grow and Max. Learn more ›

Call history

Every answered, outgoing, and missed call on the business number, in one list.

Missed calls

See who you missed, with the voicemail and transcript attached to the same entry.

AI summaries

A two-line summary of what the caller wants and when they need a callback.

Search

Find any call or voicemail by name, number, or what was said.

MP3 recording attached

The recording arrives as an MP3 attachment you can play, forward, or file anywhere.

Delivery by extension

Sales voicemails go to different people than Support. Each extension has its own recipients.

Your business line is ready. Here’s what else you can do.

Outbound calling, shared messaging, and integrations are there when you want them. None of it is required to start.

Call out as your business

The Numberline app puts your business line on the phone you already carry, iPhone or Android. Dial out and customers see your business caller ID - your personal number stays private.

Call from your iPhone using your business number
Calling back from the app
You call Miguel backStraight from his voicemail in the app
He sees (212) 555-0182Your business number, not your cell
Your personal number stays privateWork and personal never mix
Calling features included
Numberline mobile app

Calls, texts, voicemails, and settings on the phone already in your pocket. No new hardware.

Business caller ID on outbound calls

Dial out or return a call and customers see your business number, never your cell.

Tap to call back

Return a voicemail or text from its transcript, straight from the business number.

Work stays separate

Business calls ring the app; your personal line and number stay untouched.

Get texts & WhatsApp messages in one shared inbox

Customers message your business number and every conversation lands in one shared inbox - the history stays with the company, not one person's phone.

Shared inbox(212) 555-0182 · SMS & WhatsApp
Dana M.Hi! Can someone come look at a slow drain tomorrow?
You · Reyes PlumbingAbsolutely - we have 9am or 1pm open. Which works?
Dana M.1pm is perfect, thanks!
3 teammates can replyBM+1
Messaging features included
Shared team inbox

Texts and WhatsApp messages land in one inbox the whole team can see, not on one person's phone.

Assign to users

Give a conversation an owner so nothing falls through; everyone sees who has it.

Reply from the business number

Answers go back over the same channel the customer wrote, always from the business.

Connect Slack, WhatsApp, webhooks & AI agents

Connect your AI provider, choose an agent, and decide which calls it answers. Get missed-call, voicemail, and new-text notifications in Slack, add WhatsApp to the shared inbox, and send events to your own software with webhooks.

Point each extension anywhere
SalesExt 1Intake agent · Vapi
SupportExt 2Support agent · Retell
After hoursClosed daysAfter-hours agent
Slack WhatsApp Webhooks
Integrations included

Slack

Post new texts, missed calls, and voicemails into the channels your team already watches. More →

WhatsApp

Let customers message your business number on WhatsApp. Conversations appear alongside SMS in the shared Numberline inbox. More →

AI agentsPlanned for launch

Connect Vapi, Retell, or ElevenLabs, choose an agent, and assign it to an extension, to calls your team cannot answer, or to after hours. 1 agent on Lite, 3 on Grow, unlimited on Max. More →

Custom AI agentsSIP

An agent you host on another platform, added as a custom destination with its SIP address. Counts toward the connected-agent allowance.

WebhooksMax plan

Send call and message events to your own software in real time.

ZapierComing soon

Connect Numberline to other apps with no-code automations.

Numberline manages the business number, extensions, and routing, and adds AI-voiced greetings, voicemail transcripts, and, on Grow and Max, AI voicemail summaries. Agents that answer calls come from your AI provider; you choose which calls each one takes. How connected AI agents work →

Add a SIP desk phone if you want one.

Connect a compatible SIP desk phone: plug it into ethernet and it registers to your business number and extensions, no server needed. Optional, the mobile app does everything.

Plug into ethernet, no server

See what each plan includes.

Unlimited users on every plan. Plans vary by numbers, extensions, outbound minutes, connected AI agents, and advanced features.

No per-userpricing!

Get a business number & phone system that grows with you.

Start by ringing your mobile. Add extensions, teammates, Slack, WhatsApp, and connected AI agents when you need them.

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