When we get you a toll free number we give you free temporary service for the first 30 days or 100 minutes. If you don’t transfer your toll free number, the free temporary service will expire but you won’t lose the number. We give you free parking for 1 year, just waiting for you to transfer it to whatever company you want to use it with.
It’s really not very hard or complicated to transfer a toll free number. All you need to do is get a transfer form, usually called a responsible organization change form, or LOA (for Letter of Authorization) from the new company you want to transfer the number to. Fill that out and send it back to the new company with the Toll Free Birth Certificate™ that we send you in the toll free manual, which we can also resend to you if you need, by the way.
Our toll free manual comes via email usually within 24 hours of activating your number. It includes your proof of ownership and explains the transfer process. It also includes a couple of the best options that are probably cheaper, and quicker and easer than almost anyone else. We’re trying to empower you to be able to go anywhere but also to make it as easy as possible for people that don’t know where to go to.
Can I leave it with you if I don’t need it right away?
We give you free parking for a year. After that it’s $18.95 a year and if that’s not paid after two years it can be considered abandoned and may have to be dropped if we don’t have any communication. People who usually ask this are imagining that it will cost them a lot of money to have the toll free number active and they want to avoid this until they launch their advertising. They are forgetting that will probably get calls along the way and that a toll free number is one of the best tools to fake it till you make it.
With a toll free number you basically just pay for the amount of calls you get, so when you’re not advertising it, it costs you almost nothing, maybe a couple bucks per month. If it was a more significant fixed fee waiting till the last minute would make sense. But since it costs so little to have it ready and there’s also a much higher downside of waiting till the last minute than most people realize too.
That’s why I always recommend that everyone move their toll free number to a regular carrier right away. I know it’s easy to procrastinate but even if you are sure you’re not going to need it, you’re still better off transferring it now because the cost of waiting is much higher than people usually realize and is well worth the couple bucks it’ll cost you in the mean time. If your local phone company often charges more (they usually do which is one of the reasons we recommend using a more competitive carrier) try one of the cheaper ones we recommend. You really are better off just taking just a couple minutes and getting it up and working with a good company now so you have one less thing to worry about or have issues with down the road.
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