Phone numbers
Search, buy, and manage real local numbers in-app — $10/mo each, billed as their own Stripe subscription, tagged for voice and/or texting, released cleanly on cancel.
View as MarkdownNumbers are bought inside the app — search by area code, pick one, and it's live on the receptionist or SMS service in about a minute. Each number is $10/mo, billed as its own Stripe subscription.
Buying a number
- 1SearchIn the receptionist (or SMS) service — or via the MCP tool
search_phone_numbers— search by area code or region. - 2BuyCheckout runs through Stripe. The number attaches to the business and appears in its numbers list with voice/texting tags.
- 3AssignPoint it at a service: the receptionist answers its voice, the SMS service handles its texts. One number can do both.
Lifecycle
| Event | What happens |
|---|---|
| Subscription renews | Nothing to do — the number just keeps working. |
| Payment fails | The number is marked past due; service continues while Stripe retries. You're warned before anything is taken away. |
| Subscription canceled | The number is released at period end — no manual cleanup, no zombie billing. |
Renewals, dunning, and release timing are all driven by Stripe's webhooks — there is no separate timer to drift out of sync with your invoice.
Your existing number
You don't port anything to start. Keep the business's number where it is and use the *71 missed-call redirect to roll unanswered calls to the AI number — see AI receptionist. Porting is a later decision, made after the AI has proven itself on the calls you were losing anyway.