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Small Office Home Office VoIP

Small offices and home offices (SOHO) can gain the most from switching to VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol). Super-small businesses can save money and increase efficiency and productivity with small office/home office VoIP and the VoIP features available with SOHO VoIP.

Even if your small business or home office already has VoIP, it's worth looking into the options below. Small office/home office VoIP is an extremely competitive market - take advantage of that competition. Or, learn more about phone systems with SOHO VoIP.

Plan Long Dist. Monthly Fees Setup Fees User Rating

Nextiva Office
  • Unlimited calling
  • US-based support
  • No contracts
 0¢/min $21.95 $0.00
4.597295

PBX Unlimited Extension
  • Unlimited local and long distance
  • Company Call Record, Voicemail to email transcription
  • No contracts, no setup or installation fees
 0¢/min $24.99 $0.00
4.782855

OnSIP Business Phone Service
  • Reliable, affordable, and easily deployable
  • Fortune 500 features at low cost. Perfect for businesses of 20+ employees
  • If you can set up email, you can set up OnSIP. Free 30-day trial.
 3¢/min $16.78 $0.00
4.56

Virtual Office
  • Unlimited Calling (US and Canada)
  • Includes a softphone and mobile app
  • No contracts
 0¢/min $24.99 $0.00
4.245505

Jive PBX
  • Industry-leading reliability
  • Free Long Distance
  • No Contracts or Hidden Fees
 0¢/min $21.95 $0.00
4.82055

RingCentral Office
  • Unlimited Calling and Faxing (US & Canada)
  • No Commitment, No Setup Fees, No Installation
  • Price for 20+ users
 0¢/min $24.99 $0.00
4.3

Business VoIP Unlimited
  • Unlimited local and long distance (US & Canada)
  • No contract required
  • Award-winning solution
 0¢/min $24.99 $0.00
4.585715

Hosted Cloud PBX
  • Free equipment
  • Unlimited extensions
  • Toll free number included
 N/A $29.00
4.8

Class A DLS Hosted PBX
  • Super-powered PBX
  • Ultra-low flat-rate Pricing
  • Use ANY phone
 0¢/min $15.00 $0.00
4.88

Rates shown do not include taxes, e911 charges, and other taxes and surcharges.

VoIP Phone System for the Small Office/Home Office

Small offices and home offices used to be in a bad spot because phone systems used to be really expensive; VoIP and hosted VoIP has completely changed that.

Check out prices above: $30ish a month is all you need for a one-person business phone system (there are a few associated taxes and fees).

That's much better than the cost of an IP PBX phone system, which can cost, at the very least, $200 - and that's not to mention the cost of phones and service!

A SOHO VoIP phone system allows your business to use many great features. These VoIP features, listed below, enhance your company image while increasing producitvity:

Auto Attendant

An auto attendant is a message that greets your callers. In addition to being a recorded greeting (use it project the correct image), an auto attendant prevents busy calls: calls that can't be taken are sent to voicemail automatically.

Voicemail to Email

Receive an email every time you get a voicemail, with the contact information, time of the voicemail, and a file attachment.

Find Me/Follow Me

Find Me: Set call forwarding rules to ensure you can always get a call.

Follow Me: Forward calls to any of your phone numbers - even during the call.

  • Auto attendant
  • Voicemail to Email
  • Find Me/Follow Me

Most hosted VoIP plans come with either monthly no-contract payments or cheaper yearly contracts, and many of the plans differ on the amount of minutes available each month.

Offices that do not make frequent calls would be better off with one of the more limited plans for a lower price: these offices still get all of the enterprise-quality features you'd expect from hosted VoIP plans. The flexibility in these VoIP plans has brought a valuable, new, and inexpensive tool to the SOHO market.

Competition in the Small Office Home Office Market

Many VoIP providers are now aggressively marketing towards small business, and SOHO is part of this. VoIP providers have lowered their prices and increased the perks and flexibility of their plans in order to entice small businesses to go with their services. Again, check out the offers above.

Save money with softphones

VoIP Equipment can be really expensive. If you don't have or don't want to expend capital on new phones, you can use a softphone.

A softphone is a software phone, usually free from your VoIP service provider. A softphone can run on a computer or a smartphone and it allows you to take VoIP and office calls wherever the device can get an Internet connection.

Free Long Distance

Most business VoIP providers don't charge extra for long distance calls; sometimes a certain number of international calls a month are free. Other times, you can get free, unlimited calls to another country; Canada/US calls are the most common.

Last Updated: 05/23/2012 09:05 PM