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An 844 number is a toll-free phone number, meaning it’s free for callers to dial. Your leads, clients, and other stakeholders can speak to you in real time from around the world, without worrying about any calling costs or long-distance charges.
Phone numbers with 844 area codes are accessible for free to callers in all 20 countries included in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP), including the United States, Canada, Bermuda, Jamaica, and Grenada.. So even when your customers are vacationing on a Caribbean cruise, they can reach you for free like they’re back at home.
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Looking to make a strong first impression on your customers with an 844 toll-free number? Here’s more on why companies use them:
Appear larger than your business may currently be and cultivate a professional image with an 844 area code number — even if you’re a team of one.
Toll-free numbers charge your business — not your customers — when they call you. Customers don’t have to worry about call fees when they call your support team. With OpenPhone, you don’t have to pay for incoming calls or worry about monthly inbound call credits like you do with other business VoIP phone systems.
Give your customers a number they’ll actually remember. OpenPhone gives you many toll-free number options so you can create a memorable number like 1-800-FLOWERS.
Use OpenPhone wherever you go — all you need is WiFi. Call and text from the same toll-free number using any computer or cellphone.
Here are a few key reasons thousands of professionals vote OpenPhone as the #1 rated phone solution on G2.
Easily scale your communications with multiple numbers for different teams, departments, and locations. With OpenPhone, you can sign up for as many numbers as you require.
Each member of your OpenPhone workspace is assigned a number when they join. Choose from local US and Canadian numbers and multiple toll-free area codes.
Add additional numbers when you need them. Each user on your plan comes with a phone number. Each additional number is just $5 per number per month.
Make it simpler to handle a high volume of calls when you offer nationwide toll-free customer support. With OpenPhone, you’ll be able to manage your incoming calls with ease.
Give your team the ability to share incoming calls and text messages with shared numbers. Help customers reach the right team members with phone menus (also known as auto attendant or IVR).
Need to transfer a customer on a live call? Give your colleagues some context before you connect them with warm transfers. And if you need to bring in multiple stakeholders on an escalation, that’s what group calls are for.
Work better together as a team with OpenPhone.
Tackle customer questions together with internal threads. Ask a team member for real-time help with tags and mentions. See whether they’re caught up with inbox viewers.
Automate all your repetitive tasks and focus on building customer relationships with OpenPhone.
Reach customers when it’s convenient for them with scheduled messages. Respond to common questions faster with our text templates and automated text flows powered by our Zapier integration.
Your team can review more customer calls faster with automatic call recording, AI call summaries, and transcriptions, so everyone is always on the same page. And with our Salesforce and HubSpot integrations, you’ll be able to automatically log your calls and texts in minutes.
Your team doesn’t always have to be available, thanks to OpenPhone.
Set the right expectations with your customers. Customize your business hours to trigger custom voicemails or auto-replies so they know exactly when you’ll get back to them. Plus, you can set up a backup call forwarding number if you want to route calls to a backup answering service.
Wherever your team goes, OpenPhone can come, too.
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Since the United States and Canada are included in the North American Numbering Plan, toll-free calls are always free for callers in those countries. Your leads and clients won’t have to pay if your team members call them.
Any fees are passed down to your business — though with a VoIP service provider like OpenPhone — which offers free unlimited calling in the US and Canada — you can avoid unnecessary fees altogether.
For callers, dialing a toll-free telephone number is no different than dialing a local number.
The 844 area code isn’t associated with any specific city or region. One of the benefits of having an 844 number is you can appeal to a broad area of North America since it’s free for callers in multiple countries to call that number.
The 844 area code is one of seven toll-free area code numbers. The others are 800, 833, 855, 866, 877, and 888. All phone numbers with these area code prefixes work the same way, allowing callers to reach you for free.
Many businesses opt for 800 and 888 numbers because they were the first toll-free codes introduced by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). This means they’re more recognizable to customers as numbers that are free to call.
However, the benefit of the 844 area code is its availability. 800 numbers have low inventory. Today, less-used numbers like those with 844 and 855 area codes are still widely available. You can choose from a greater variety of digit combinations. This makes it easier to get a vanity number (like 1-844-ACADEMY) that’s easy for callers to memorize.
Toll-free telephone numbers are often associated with scammers and spam SMS messages. Here are a few ways you can stand out:
Collect consent clearly: Give your customers multiple options to opt in to text communications from you. Use website forms or emails, or share a consent request over the phone.
Give customers a heads up: Let customers know in advance over the phone that they can expect a call or text back from your 844 number.
Use a local number: Switch effortlessly between toll-free and local area codes to reach your customers. Use a toll-free number to receive customer support calls and reach out to customers with a local number.
Yes! 844 numbers can be used for two-way text communication.
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