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OpenPhone

OpenPhone is a cloud communications provider offering a virtual business phone system with business VoIP calling, SMS texting, and...
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San Francisco, CA
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The features are great. The interface and ability to share with your team is a huge plus. Easy to setup, easy to use. Customer service response is great. OpenPhone even offers training on how to get the most out of their system for your particular case. The cost model is also very affordable compared to the competition. I left another service to switch to OpenPhone.

Nothing so far. The customer service response time has been quick. Getting access via email or their chat system is quicker than phone help - and in most cases can be more detailed with their thorough responses.

Our biggest issue with our old service was the cost. OpenPhone provides an affordable plan - both of their plan levels are affordable. What is even better is that you get full feature sets with even the lowest level plan. We are starting with that plan, and it not only gives us everything we need for our business, but it also adds a few additional features we did not have access to before with a plan we were paying almost 2x for per year. As a business owner, it's hard to pass up the great features, service, and value.

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Would Recommend: Yes
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Openphone allows me to add coworkers to my line when I am on vacation, access my work phone on any ios device, and makes it possible to work on a computer entirely.

There are a TON of bugs, constant issues with contacts, issues with receiving some calls, and issues with taking control of your line after adding a coworker to the line. Also the only way to get support assistance is via submitting a ticket and then they email you two days later.

I am now able to have a coworker take over my phone when im on vacation so that our clients always have someone they can speak to.

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Would Recommend: Yes
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Nikki S.'s review for OpenPhone

I like how easy it is to distinguish work calls from personal calls on my cell phone. Also, the texting service seems to be reliable and quick so far. I just finished my first week trial.

So far I haven't found a downside - it's exactly what I was looking for at a reasonable price. But, I just finished my first week trial, so if this changes I'll try to update the review.

I am a company of one, so I don't need a big phone system. OpenPhone is a simple solution that gives me a separate business phone but allows me to use the same mobile device. I know many providers offer this... I have tried two others before arriving at OpenPhone. OpenPhone gives me the basics I need (phone calls and texting) at a very affordable price and so far is reliable.

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Would Recommend: Yes
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IM VERY VERY DISPLEASED I'VE BEEN TRYING TO TRY YOU GUYS SERVICES FOR OVER 2 WEEKS NOW ! YOUR COMMUNICATION TO YOUR CUSTOMER SERVICE IS NOT 24/7 LIKE THE OWNER EXPLAINED ON THE LIVE EVENT THAT I JOINED TODAY (JANUARY 17TH,2023) . NONE OF MY MESSAGES EVEN WENT THREW WHEN I JOINED THE EVENT . I FINALLY GOT APPROVED TO START MY ACCOUNT TODAY AND THEN JUST GOT LOCKED OUT AGAIN! IM WAITING ONCE AGAIN TO TRY AND GET THE ISSUE FIXED THREW MY EMAIL THAT WILL HAVE HAD TO ONCE AGAIN WAIT ANOTHER DAY OR TWO OR ANOTHER TWO WEEKS? THERE'S NO LIVE CUSTOMER SUPPORT TO FIX THE SOLUTION . THEY JUST SEND YOU TO MULTIPLE DIFFERENT PEOPLE THROUGHOUT YOUR EMAIL WITH THE SAME MESSAGES .I WOULD HAVE LOVED TO EVEN UPGRADE MY ACCOUNT IF THAT MEANT BETTER COMMUNICATION TO ASSIST WITH MY PROBLEMS I WAS HAVING IT IS VERY FRUSTRATING THE LACK OF CUSTOMER SERVICE PROVIDED TO HELP ASSIST YOU THIS COMPANY NEEDS TO WORK ON THEIR CUSTOMER SUPPORT ASAP !!!

Would Recommend: No
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Marina C.'s review for OpenPhone

We can now operate soley from our laptops. No more transitioning between laptops and cell phones to connect with our employees and those we serve. Our staff also operates remotely so when someone is on vacation or out sick we can share full access to their phone lines with just a few clicks. We used to have to coordinate a phone drop off & pick up, but not any more!

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Pros: OpenPhone allows you to answer calls and texts on multiple platforms, smart phones, tablets and computers. You can also gain acces to your team's phone lines for texting and calls!.
Cons: The initial transition had it's bumps but the team was fantastic in responding to our needs. We've also had soem issues receiving phone calls and photo messages from time to time but they seem to get resolved with time.
Would Recommend: Yes
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Mika P.'s review for OpenPhone

Personal phone was ported very quickly -- Now I can keep my phone number while living abroad!

I like that I can keep the same number and for a cheap price every month. I like that it allows me to have a SIM in my phone for my local location, but the OpenPhone number never changes and can still be accessed.

It is very business-oriented, which is not my goal in using OpenPhone, so I am paying for features I do not need. Extra phone numbers cost money as well -- it's not limitless! Also, it is sad to lose my good deal with my original US carrier, but that can't be helped when moving abroad.

It is solving the problem of having a consistent phone number to keep in contact with people from home. This will also make international shopping and other matters easier.

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Would Recommend: Yes
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They have a great selection of toll free numbers and the ability to add lines for only $5 a month more is amazing. The UI is really user friendly but they also have true call forwarding that works seamlessly.

Conference calling is not an option on the standard plan (I am not sure if it is live yet on the premium plan, but I think it is coming soon if not). Thankfully the true call forwarding allows me to conference call as normal through my phone, but if that were not possible, I would probably have to go elsewhere. I'm glad I don't have to make that choice.

A toll-free number dedicated to customer service (with unlimited minutes!) and a local number for outbound calls to prospects and referrals who have not yet become clients. Those individuals get a "VIP" number directly to me which is my business cell, but I could see a world where I get a third OP # for that too.

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Would Recommend: Yes
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Simple & efficient

I love the simple interface that feels like using a regular phone. Call quality has mostly been great. Ditto with texting. Although I haven't used competing apps, I can tell this Openphone is one of the best apps out there for IP calling.

The world is now a much smaller and well-connected place, and an app like Openphone greatly benefits users like me who have a requirement to call and talk to customers around the world, especially in the US & Europe.

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Pros: None.
Cons: Sometimes, I cannot connect to a number, although my internet connection is good. I've also received a couple of spam texts which could jeopardize the safety of user informaton.
Would Recommend: Yes
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It could be improved though, i think a simpler app will be better suited.

When you get used to the app, is everything OK.

The price is the major factor when it come to competitors. For the price of OpenPhone, there are no competitors. I like it.

I just would love to have some more additional features.

I also want it to have a chrome extension

I would enjoy if you will develop an app, just for dialing, like RingCentral. I don't use RC, but I have observed this on some of my friends. So, please do an update to windows app.

Also, please do some keyboard shortcuts for phone hang-up function.

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Pros: Decent to use app.
Cons: I prefer Simpler apps.
Would Recommend: Yes
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Rahul B.'s review for OpenPhone

We switched to OpenPhone from another provider. The porting process was smooth.

The team management web interface is super slick. So do OpenPhones native mobile apps.

But above all, what we like most is the Slack integration. Our usage is very light, so often, we have more than one person who needs to use an OpenPhone number for, say OTP code via SMS. In the old days, the assigned user for that number was required to forward it to their team member/assistant. Now with OpenPhone, these 2-3 people usually share a Slack channel where such SMS codes automically appear in real-time, reducing friction.

OpenPhone gives us a business phone number, which is easier to use between teams. While there are other solutions in the competing space, none offer ease of use and a long list of impressive features.

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Pros: None.
Cons: Nothing so far. There is a slight hiccup with billing when you replace a team member assigned to the OpenPhone number but dropping a quick message to the support team gets it fixed without any hassle.
Would Recommend: Yes
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Provider Overview

OpenPhone is a cloud communications provider offering a virtual business phone system with business VoIP calling, SMS texting, and internal team chat. OpenPhone provides toll-free and local virtual phone numbers throughout the US and Canada, with unlimited calling inside this area.

In the OpenPhone app–accessible via desktop, browser, and mobile–agents can share phone numbers and inboxes for internal and external multichannel communications. A left-hand menu displays contacts, phone number inboxes, and activity tabs with pings that keep agents organized. OpenPhone simplifies agent workflows with messaging automations and one-click options like scheduled messages, auto-replies, and collaborative threads.

The phone system features basic call routing tools, call recording, monitoring and analytics, and integrations with popular third-party apps like HubSpot and Slack.

OpenPhone offers three phone system plans, ranging from $10 to over $20 monthly per user. Read below to learn more about OpenPhone’s features, pricing, pros and cons.

 

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OpenPhone Key Features

Here are OpenPhone’s key features:

  • Phone System
  • SMS Texting
  • Team Messaging
  • Reporting and Analytics
  • Contact Management and Customer Profiles

 

Phone System

OpenPhone’s cloud-based phone system uses VoIP to call any phone number worldwide–with unlimited calling inside the US and Canada. Purchase local and toll-free numbers throughout continental North America from OpenPhone, or port in your pre-existing business phone numbers in roughly 10 business days.

OpenPhone’s app supports softphone calling on all devices–browser, desktop, and mobile. Agents can use a personal device to make and receive business calls, distinguished from personal calls.

OpenPhone phone system

OpenPhone Phone System Features:

  • Multi-level auto attendant: Create a self-service menu that routes customers to a voicemail, phone number, announcement, or submenu within your phone system. Use audio recording or type-to-talk to create announcements.
  • Business hours: Customize business hours for each phone number, choosing the response to after-hours calls––mute, send to voicemail, or forward to another user
  • Call transfers: Instantly transfer a call to any user, group, or phone number in your phone system
  • User groups: Organize teammates into groups or departments that share call and messaging responsibilities. Choose a simultaneous ring or set a round-robin order, with custom ring duration.
  • Voicemail transcription: All voicemails are transcribed and stored in the corresponding phone number’s conversation history, where any assigned user can access and respond
  • Call recording: Record any call individually, or enable auto-recording
  • Multichannel inbox: An ongoing conversation log with each customer phone number, stored in the scrollable OpenPhone app inbox. This multichannel conversation history logs text messages, calls and recordings, and voicemails with transcription, so agents stay up-to-date across all communication channels.
  • Data forwarding: Send data and notifications–about calls, messages, and voicemails–to your Slack or email

 

Shared Phone Numbers

Every user within your company’s phone system requires a phone number to access OpenPhone’s app. Share phone numbers among unlimited team members, who can simultaneously make calls using the same number.

A user can hold multiple phone numbers–occupying multiple departments or groups–and jump between them within the app dashboard.

OpenPhone phone numbers

 

SMS Texting

OpenPhone’s app makes it easy for agents to send customers SMS and MMS messages, plus videos, files, emojis, and GIFs–on any device, from any local or toll-free number. Send unlimited SMS within the US and Canada, or set up international texting options to send SMS anywhere in the world.

Each phone number’s inbox stores each customer’s conversation history, allowing any assigned agent to gain full context and respond.

All of an agent’s assigned phone number inboxes are organized in the Inboxes tab, with conversations sorted by Open, Done, and Unread. Agents can create customer group-messaging SMS threads with up to nine users, access customer CRM info, and utilize a variety of automations and one-click workflow tools.

OpenPhone SMS

OpenPhone Texting Features:

  • Auto-replies: Set up automatic SMS replies in response to various inbound customer contact conditions–reply to contacts received during or after business hours, to a text or missed call, and to customers who did or didn’t leave a voicemail.
  • Snippets: Create reusable text templates for common messaging scenarios, such as phone call follow-up next steps or thank-you messages. Agents can access snippets right within the texting box and share snippets with teammates.
  • Scheduled messages: After typing a message, schedule a future send time instead of sending the message immediately. View scheduled messages in the conversation inbox, where users can edit the message or send it immediately.
  • Shared inbox messaging: Multiple teammates can simultaneously message a large number of customers from the same business number. Teammates can also work together within a single conversation, viewing when another teammate is actively typing a response.

 

Team Messaging

The OpenPhone app supports 1:1 internal direct messaging, with emoji and file-sharing capabilities. To send a direct message, simply click on a teammate’s name and select Write a message. New inbound messages trigger ping notifications within the app’s left-hand contacts list.

OpenPhone team messaging

 

Shared Inbox Threads

Within a shared multichannel inbox, team-messaging threads allow behind-the-scenes collaboration where teammates can message and tag each other underneath a particular customer voicemail, call recording, or SMS. To initiate a thread, an agent simply highlights a customer message or call activity, clicks the “message” icon, and types an internal comment visible to the team (or tagged members).

 

Reporting and Analytics

The OpenPhone app’s Analytics dashboard, available with the Premium plan, displays agent and customer multichannel usage activity, including graph and chart displays. View metrics and KPIs for specific users, sorted over custom historical timeframes: by the day, week, or month.

OpenPhone reporting and analytics

Analytics Dashboard Reports, Metrics, and KPIs:

  • Activity log: See how active specific team members are on certain dates, weekdays, and hours of the day–with heatmaps displaying the most active times
  • Calls: Total number of calls, outgoing, received, missed calls, and time on the phone
  • Messages: Total number of messages, inbound and outbound messages, and unique conversations

 

Contact Management and Customer Profiles

The OpenPhone app utilizes built-in customer profiles, contact syncing, third-party integrations, and collaboration tools to offer dynamic contact management that mimics a lightweight CRM system.

Import batches of phone numbers via CSV, sync with Google Contacts, or use Zapier to connect OpenPhone triggers with a CRM system you already use. Share contacts among the whole organization, or upload contacts for individual business phone numbers–where every assigned user can view them.

When an agent clicks on a customer’s name or conversation history, the customer’s built-in profile immediately appears on the right of the screen–providing information like their company, role, contact preferences, and notes previously left by teammates.

OpenPhone customer profile

 

OpenPhone Integrations

OpenPhone integrates with email and 6 popular third-party software apps.

  • Email: Sync OpenPhone with your email provider to receive notifications when an assigned number receives a call, message, or voicemail
  • Slack: Share and forward OpenPhone activity–calls, messages, and voicemails–with any Slack user or channel
  • Google Contacts: Sync all OpenPhone contacts with Google Contacts
  • HubSpot: Sync customer profiles, conversation history, and customer journey information with HubSpot. This integration automatically creates and updates. HubSpot tickets upon OpenPhone customer contact, enabling agents to resolve tickets and leave notes within the OpenPhone dashboard.
  • Salesforce: Log all of a contact’s OpenPhone activity into Salesforce, sync Salesforce contacts, or make OpenPhone calls directly from Salesforce
  • Gong: Sync OpenPhone call recordings with Gong for automatic transcription. Use Gong for conversation analysis including common questions and objections, competitor names, call statistics, and more.
  • Zapier: Trigger workflows and create automatic action events–like sending a message or updating contact info–by connecting over 5000 tools to OpenPhone via Zapier. For example, trigger text messages upon customer checkout, appointment booking, payment due date, or cart abandonment.

OpenPhone Slack integration

 

OpenPhone Plans and Pricing

OpenPhone offers 3 pricing plans: Standard, Premium, and Enterprise.

  • The Standard plan includes one business phone number per user, SMS texting, phone number sharing with up to 10 users, unlimited calling within the US and Canada, unlimited teams with 1:1 messaging, and all automation tools
  • The Premium plan adds unlimited users on a shared number, analytics and reports, advanced integrations, and an upgrade to multi-level IVR
  • The Enterprise plan–with custom pricing–adds priority support and a dedicated account manager

OpenPhone Pricing

 

OpenPhone User Experience

OpenPhone offers an intuitive, smooth user experience across all devices, with a slightly different display on desktop and browser, compared to mobile.

OpenPhone user experience

 

Desktop and Browser Apps

The OpenPhone dashboard organizes an agent’s contacts and phone number inboxes in a lefthand menu, where agents can easily jump between numbers, inboxes, and customer conversations.

Within an inbox, agents can access multiple capabilities:

  • Monitor multichannel conversation histories with each customer
  • Tag teammates and initiate threads under any message or call, within any conversation
  • Share communication responsibilities, viewing when a teammate is typing a message to a customer
  • View a customer’s profile side-by-side with the conversation
  • Contact a customer with one click via phone or SMS

 

Mobile App

The OpenPhone mobile app, available on iOS or Android, provides the same collaboration and customer-contact capabilities as the desktop app. Agents can still quickly jump between phone numbers, scroll through each customer’s multichannel conversation history, schedule messages, participate in internal threads, and view when a teammate is actively typing a customer response.

The only difference on the app’s mobile version is that the user can no longer monitor dozens of inboxes and conversations within one screen. Instead, each menu item–assigned phone number inboxes, customer conversation histories, team chat, settings, and the dial pad–takes up the full mobile screen, requiring a few extra clicks to jump between conversations.

 

OpenPhone Pros and Cons

While OpenPhone offers strong collaboration features–like flexible numbers and shared multichannel inboxes–the solution lacks video conferencing and does not offer hold queues, which are a valuable call center feature.

OpenPhone Pros OpenPhone Cons
Shared team inboxes enhance customer-support collaboration No video conferencing
App is easy to use Does not offer internal group chats or channels
Phone numbers offer flexible usage and sharing Cannot create hold queues

 

OpenPhone Customer Support

OpenPhone offers a knowledge base and 24/7 email support on the Standard plan, plus a dedicated account manager with the Enterprise plan.

  • Knowledge base: A searchable article database covering OpenPhone topics, including setup, how-to guides, and troubleshooting steps.
  • 24/7 email support: Email OpenPhone directly or reach out via the website chat widget, for email support at any hour.
  • Dedicated account manager: A dedicated, personal point of contact from the OpenPhone team.

OpenPhone knowledge base

 

Is OpenPhone Right For You?

OpenPhone’s cloud-based phone system works best for small companies and startups based in North America that don’t frequently face overflowing call volumes. The solution’s phone number flexibility is useful for companies whose customer-facing agents handle multiple services–like sales, customer service, and complaints–by allowing them to monitor multiple departments’ phone numbers in one interface.

On the other hand, companies looking to collaborate via video and group-chat messaging should look elsewhere, as OpenPhone does not support these capabilities. Those with many customers outside of the US will quickly rack up international fees using OpenPhone and should consider alternatives with wider calling networks. Finally, companies with large inbound call volumes might prefer an OpenPhone alternative that supports hold queues–a valuable tool for managing customers when agents are busy.

 

FAQs

 

No. OpenPhone’s plans range from $10 to over $20 monthly per user.

Businesses use OpenPhone’s cloud-based phone system to make VoIP calls, send SMS text messages, and enable internal team collaboration when handling multichannel customer conversations.

Yes. OpenPhone can send and receive SMS and MMS messages, including videos and files.


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