# Auto Attendant

> A business phone number with a simple auto attendant menu that rings the right person's mobile. Flat $29 a month, no seats, no contract, nothing to install.

English pages are below. The core pages are also in French under https://autoattendant.io/fr/ and the whole site in Spanish under https://autoattendant.io/es/; each page links its translations with hreflang. Contact: hello@autoattendant.io, (510) 288-6288.

## Product and buying

- [Auto Attendant — business number that rings the right mobile](https://autoattendant.io/): A business phone number with a simple auto attendant menu that rings the right person's mobile. Flat $29 a month, no seats, no contract, nothing to install.
- [How it works](https://autoattendant.io/how-it-works/): What happens between a customer dialling your business number and a real person on your team answering on the mobile already in their pocket.
- [What you receive: voicemail emails and the dashboard](https://autoattendant.io/what-you-get/): Sample, fictional examples of the voicemail email and its transcript from an Auto Attendant line, and what the dashboard shows about your number and calls.
- [Example setup for a five-person trade business](https://autoattendant.io/example-setup/): A worked example, with a fictional business, of the menu, routing, business hours and voicemail that a five-person trade business sets up on Auto Attendant.
- [Call routing and menu design](https://autoattendant.io/call-routing/): How many options to offer, which phones each option rings and in what order, what callers hear after hours, and the menu mistakes that send callers in circles.
- [Pricing: $29 a month for the whole company](https://autoattendant.io/pricing/): $29 a month flat for the whole company, with no per-person charge. What is included, how billing works, and why per-seat pricing gets expensive as teams grow.
- [Get started](https://autoattendant.io/get-started/): Put an auto attendant on the number your customers already call, or on a new local or toll-free one. Set it up in the app; $29 a month for the whole company.
- [Auto Attendant FAQ: porting, privacy, after hours, pricing](https://autoattendant.io/faq/): Straight answers on hardware, porting your number, privacy, after hours, voicemail, 911, toll-free numbers, contracts, and how this differs from Google Voice.
- [Auto attendant for Canadian businesses](https://autoattendant.io/canada/): Local and toll-free numbers across Canada, menus in English, French, Spanish, one price in USD, and what 9-1-1, porting and privacy rules mean.
- [Contact](https://autoattendant.io/contact/): Reach Auto Attendant at hello@autoattendant.io or (510) 288-6288: get started in the app, port a number, ask a question, change an account or flag an error.

## Trust and policies

- [Trust and reliability](https://autoattendant.io/trust/): A plain account of the data used to route calls, what happens when a mobile does not answer, number portability and emergency-calling limits.
- [Emergency calling: 911 and 9-1-1 rules in the US and Canada](https://autoattendant.io/emergency-calling/): What US and Canadian rules require for 911 and 9-1-1: Kari's Law, RAY BAUM'S Act, the CRTC's VoIP 9-1-1 obligations and NG9-1-1, and this service's limits.
- [Port your business number: US and Canadian rules](https://autoattendant.io/port-your-number/): What number porting involves, the FCC and CRTC porting intervals, the data a carrier may require, why ports get rejected, and the one mistake to avoid.
- [Privacy notice](https://autoattendant.io/privacy/): What Auto Attendant collects for the website, your account, your line, calls and voicemail, who processes it, how long it is kept and how to ask for it.
- [Terms of service](https://autoattendant.io/terms/): Plain terms for Auto Attendant: $29 USD a month per line plus tax, cancellation, keeping or porting your number, acceptable use and emergency-calling limits.

## Guides and reference

- [Guides and reference](https://autoattendant.io/guides/): Cited reference pages and every long-form article on business phone numbers, by topic: menus and routing, missed calls, porting, spam labels, comparisons.
- [Small-team business phone setup: the decisions in order](https://autoattendant.io/phone-system-setup/): Setting up a business phone for a small team, in order: the number, area code, shared or direct lines, porting, menu script, routing, capacity, after hours.
- [Missed calls and after-hours cover for small businesses](https://autoattendant.io/missed-calls/): What an unanswered call costs, whether missed-call text-back is worth its compliance work, how to run an on-call rota, and when to pay someone to answer.
- [What is an auto attendant? Definition and how it differs](https://autoattendant.io/what-is-an-auto-attendant/): The recorded menu that answers a business line and routes the caller: what it is, how it differs from an IVR and an ACD, and where the press-1 menu came from.
- [Local vs toll-free business numbers: how toll-free works](https://autoattendant.io/toll-free-numbers/): What a toll-free number is, the codes in use, who administers them, how they move between providers as a RespOrg change, and which one a small business needs.
- [Auto attendant guides by industry](https://autoattendant.io/industries/): Practical phone menu examples for 24 kinds of small business, including sample greetings, routing choices, after-hours plans and common mistakes.
- [Call-flow templates and phone greeting scripts](https://autoattendant.io/call-flow-templates/): Original phone greeting scripts for business menus, after-hours calls, voicemail, urgent routes and more, with diagrams, keypress counts and timing estimates.
- [US and Canadian area codes](https://autoattendant.io/area-codes/): In-service geographic area codes for all 50 US states, DC and every Canadian province and territory, with overlays, toll-free codes and source links.
- [Business phone glossary: 110 key terms](https://autoattendant.io/glossary/): Plain definitions of business phone, routing, numbering, porting, emergency calling and caller ID terms, with primary sources for formal rules.
- [Business telephony research and analysis](https://autoattendant.io/research/): Sourced analysis of where business phone service is going: vendors, caller ID trust, the copper sunset, NG911, AI voice agents and phone menu design.

## Optional

- [Compare business phone services](https://autoattendant.io/compare/): Fourteen sourced business phone comparisons with a $29/month inbound auto attendant, plus guides to Google Voice, VoIP and answering services.
- [Auto Attendant vs Google Voice — a fair comparison (2026)](https://autoattendant.io/vs-google-voice/): Built from Google's own documentation: what each Google Voice tier costs, which include an auto attendant, when Workspace is required, and the flat alternative.
- [Auto Attendant vs RingCentral, Nextiva and Ooma (2026)](https://autoattendant.io/vs-voip-platforms/): Compared against the main business VoIP platforms using each vendor's own pricing page, annual and monthly prices shown apart, unverifiable figures flagged.
- [Auto attendant vs answering service: which do you need?](https://autoattendant.io/vs-answering-service/): An answering service pays people to speak to your customers; an auto attendant routes calls to your own team. Different products, very different prices.
- [Twilio guides: IVR, numbers and production to-dos](https://autoattendant.io/twilio/): How to build an auto attendant on Twilio Programmable Voice, buy and register numbers in the US and Canada, and the production to-dos most tutorials leave out.
- [Asterisk in depth: architecture, IVR dialplan, security](https://autoattendant.io/asterisk/): Asterisk explained for people who will run it: architecture and PJSIP, auto attendant dialplans, SIP trunks, security against toll fraud, and operations.
- [Open-source VoIP: Kazoo, OpenSIPS and Kamailio](https://autoattendant.io/open-source-voip/): In-depth guides to the open-source telephony stack: 2600Hz Kazoo, OpenSIPS and Kamailio SIP servers, and how they compare with Asterisk and FreeSWITCH.
- [Media kit: logo, icon and brand assets](https://autoattendant.io/media/): Download the Auto Attendant logo, icon and social card, with brand colours, typeface, usage rules and ready-to-use descriptions of the company and product.
- [Article catalog](https://autoattendant.io/articles/llms.txt): The published long-form articles under /articles/, listed by the articles app.
- [Sitemap](https://autoattendant.io/sitemap.xml): Every page of this site in all three languages.