RingCentral is offering a new promotion valid through February 28, 2010 that will get you a 10% discount off of the first 3 months of service of RingCentral Office. Combine this with their 30 day money back guarantee and you’ve got a great deal on a complete small business phone system.
RingCentral Office is a complete, hosted business phone and fax system that combines a virtual PBX with advanced voice and fax features, reliable VoIP service with unlimited calling and state of the art IP phones. It’s everything you need to get started all in one package for a flat monthly rate.
It’s simple to get started – Activate your service instantly; set up your service online and just plug in your pre-configured, ready-to-use IP phones provided by RingCentral.
Now you get a truly Unlimited service – Unlimited calls to your toll free and fax numbers. Unlimited inbound and outbound calls. Unlimited extensions. Unlimited. Period. All for just one flat, predictable monthly cost.
Grasshopper recently announced its newest feature—Unlimited Voice to Text. This Voice to Text feature will let you stay connected even if you can’t listen to your voicemail. It will take your voicemail and transcribe it into an email, allowing you to read the transcription of your voicemail on your phone or your computer anytime without having to listen to it. So noisy places or situations aren’t a problem anymore!
The new Unlimited Voice to Text feature is available to all new and existing Grasshopper customers for just $10 a month with a 60 day free trial. The voicemail transcriptions are done digitally to ensure your privacy and a quick turnaround. The option of human transcription is also available and allows for improved accuracy and clarity in your transcription. To date, Grasshopper is the only virtual pbx provider with the option of human transcription available at no additional cost.
We just finished our Review of FreedomVoice. Make sure you check it out for all the details.
We find it a great provider for those looking to be able to customize a virtual pbx to their specific needs. If you have specific requirements that you are having a hard time finding a match for with other virtual pbx providers, then you may want to take a look at FreedomVoice. As FreedomVoice states, there isn’t any customization feature that’s too small or too big for then.
FreedomVoice however may not be a good fit for those that are just looking for a well-rounded virtual pbx system with one flat monthly fee. Some of the features that you will find standard with the other virtual pbx providers, you may end up paying extra for with FreedomVoice. Also if you are going to need a local number along with your toll free number, it will cost you an additional $10/month over the plan price you select. With FreedomVoice you get one toll free number standard with any plan, then to add additional toll free lines is $5/month/each and to add local numbers it is $10/month/each.
We’ve added a new “Quick Compare” grid to our menu that we are calling “Summary”. We designed it to show the most distinquishing features between each of the virtual pbx providers we’ve reviewed. It should give you a good sense for the main differences at a glance. For a more detailed comparison be sure to use our Detailed Compare option, or check out our in-depth Reviews.
We just finished our Review of My1Voice. Make sure you check it out for all the details.
All in all we find it a great basic virtual pbx. It may lack a few of the more advanced features some of the more established virtual pbx providers offer, however it does have all of the main functions most small businesses or home offices would be looking for. We have no complaints about their customer service, as they were very responsive and answered our questions easily when we ran into issues. This seems to be a sentiment shared by their existing customers as well.
My1Voice offers bundled minutes with each plan, ranging from 150 – which admittedly is on the lower end - but then makes up for it with 1,000 minutes on there Best Value plan, and 2,000 on their More Minutes Plan. Their plan pricing is very competitive, with their low end plan coming in at $10 month, with no long term contract required, and their top end More Minutes plan being $50 a month. My1Voice also joins Phone.com and Grasshopper in offering unlimited extensions on all plans.
