Toll-Free Numbers
Toll-free is a different arrangement, not a local line with a friendlier prefix. An 800, 888 or 877 reaches a whole country from nowhere in particular, and the leg the caller is not paying for is the leg you are.
Toll-free beside local
the caller's legHow it works.
The economics run the other way
On a local line the caller covers their own way to you. On toll-free that leg is yours, which is why inbound toll-free minutes are rated from a table of their own rather than counted in with your local numbers.
National, with no address behind it
Toll-free belongs to no city and no state, so one number serves the country. Filter the inventory to toll-free and every result is national, which is why there is no area code to weigh up and no local presence to justify.
Priced as its own type
The monthly fee is set per country and per number type, so toll-free carries its own rate and a plan can hold a different one. The wallet, the cycle and the renewal work exactly as they do for a local number.
Texting is verified separately
A toll-free number that will carry messages goes through toll-free verification, a different submission from the one a local US number makes. Clearing it is not a licence: the use cases barred from A2P messaging stay barred.
One moment in every call.
Every call passes through the same seven. Toll-Free Numbers is the lit one, and everything either side of it is a different page in this category.
- 01Number
the line it arrives on or leaves from
- 02Route
where the call is sent and to whom
- 03Dial
placing it, and how many at once
- 04Connect
the moment a person picks up
- 05Talk
while the conversation is happening
- 06Wrap
the code, the notes, the next step
- 07Record
what is kept, and where it is kept
The specifics.
8 facts- Reach
- National rather than tied to an area code or a city
- Who pays
- The caller is not charged for reaching you; the inbound leg is metered to you
- Metering
- Inbound toll-free minutes rate from their own table, apart from local numbers
- Pricing
- Monthly fee set per country and per number type, with an optional per-plan rate
- Routing
- As local: one published flow or one user, the same queues, the same hours
- Texting
- Toll-free verification is its own path, separate from 10DLC registration
- Restrictions
- Verification is not permission: barred A2P use cases stay barred on toll-free
- Finding one
- Filter the inventory to toll-free, or enter a toll-free prefix as the area code
Where the call goes next.
A call is a chain of decisions, and this is one link in it. These are the ones either side.
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Organisation, team and personal mailboxes with their own access rules and greetings, and every message transcribed and attached to the right record.
Reusable weekly schedules and holiday calendars in your own timezone, so out-of-hours routing is a setting rather than a flow you rebuild each December.
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Upload a recording, record one in the browser, or generate it from text in a chosen brand voice - then use it in any flow, queue or mailbox.
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