Inexpensive 800-number?

I am looking for an inexpensive 800-number. I would like to forward it to my cell phone, but get professional sounding voicemail if I don't pick up. (I could change my voicemail message, worst case.)

My goal is to allow users to easily contact me on the phone, without publishing my cell number.

Any recommendations?

I am not sure what you define as inexpensive.

We use RingCentral for now.

There are other voip providers, but I am not sure if they have toll free numbers.

I use Grasshopper for my own business and RingCentral for my customer's business. They both are fine for what I need but if there was an easy way to move my 800 number to RignCentral I would do that in a heart beat. Grasshopper's portal/dashboard is friggin confusing and real PITA (yes, even the new one!). RingCentral's on the other hand is very intuitive and has lot's of tutorials and walk-throughs.

My advice - go with RingCentral

ANY long distance company can give you an 800 number for about $5-$10 a month. It can ring to any number you tell them, and you can change where it rings (the "Ring To Number," or RTN) whenever you want.

Twilio has a cloud service - $2 / month for toll free - .05 / minute. You could use it in conjunction with openvbx and create whatever type of phone system you want.

We use Grasshopper We've only had it for a couple of months but I've been happy with the service so far.

You can compare toll free service providers to find the inexpensive and suitable service.

• RingCentral
• FreedomVOICE
• Kall8

We've been using OneBox, a virtual PBX, at my startup. It's been working well for us over the past two and a half years. I'm not sure how its features and cost compares to other vendors. I haven't gone comparison shopping lately.