Get a Virtual Phone Number for Business
Ready to expand your business? With CloudTalk, you can buy virtual phone numbers for 160+ countries from just $6/month. Reach more leads and improve answer rates with local area codes from anywhere in the world.
Types of Virtual Phone Numbers You Can Get with CloudTalk
The type of virtual business phone number you choose sets how customers reach your business (or the other way round).
How to Get a Virtual Phone Number with CloudTalk
Here’s a simple step-by-step guide to help you buy and activate your virtual phone number in just a few steps:
What Is a Virtual Phone Number?
A virtual phone number for business gives you all the power of a regular line—only smarter. Because it’s cloud-based, your team can handle business calls from anywhere, with no SIM cards, office space, or hardware required.
Your Shortcut to Local Presence
When customers see a local area code, they’re more likely to trust and answer. CloudTalk lets your business look and sound local—even if your team’s based abroad or fully remote.
Your Key to Business Growth
Virtual telephone numbers are your key to rapid market entry, real cost savings, and always-on reach across time zones—all on one all-around VoIP platform.
After a quick verification and fast setup, your virtual local number lets you connect with local prospects—and scale your business wherever without limits.
Quick Gains
Why Choose a Virtual Number for your Business?
Establish a Local Presence
Appear as a true local business wherever you are, no office needed. A virtual phone number service signals trust, professionalism, and makes your brand more familiar to customers.
Improve Connection Rates
Your customers are much more likely to answer calls from a local caller ID. That recognition builds trust, improves engagement, and helps your team win more leads & deals.
Cut Global Comms Costs
Our VoIP tech routes calls over the internet, cutting roaming and long-distance charges. Reach your audience from anywhere—while enjoying crystal-clear, cost-effective calls.
VoIP Benefits
Why Growing Businesses Trust Virtual Numbers from CloudTalk?
Here’s what makes CloudTalk the best virtual number provider for growing teams:
Scales with Your Growth
CloudTalk offers more than numbers. It’s a fully integrated virtual call center that grows with you. Add new users, numbers, or departments across regions quickly, without complex setup or hidden costs.
Built for Global Teams
Whether your teams are in Tokyo, Dubai, London, or the US, CloudTalk lets you connect with customers easily, always showing your business as local, trusted, and professional, no matter where you call from.
Smarter International Calls
From smart routing and AI analytics to seamless CRM integration, CloudTalk turns every interaction with your prospects into a business opportunity. Spend more time closing deals and less on manual admin.
What real users are saying
The inside scoop from actual CloudTalk customers.
From 20-Minute Waits to 3-Minute Service
“With CloudTalk, we dropped our missed calls from 80% to 16% and cut wait times by over 85%, while scaling from 2 to 20+ agents.”
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40% Lift in Call Connections
“With CloudTalk, our pre-sales team stopped wasting time on dropped calls and started having more of the right ones.”
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20% More Efficient Call Handling
“We replaced personal phones and manual processes with a scalable VoIP solution and saw a 20% jump in team productivity.”
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40% Fewer Missed Calls
“We replaced personal phones and manual processes with a scalable VoIP solution and saw a 20% jump in team productivity.”
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From 3 Phone Systems to One Source of Truth
“Before CloudTalk, our data was scattered. Now, everything lives in HubSpot — connected, visible, and fully unified.”
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66% More Capacity Without Hiring
“CloudTalk made it easy to scale support fast: we cut handle time by 33% and now handle 66% more calls per agent.”
Read case studyLearn More About Virtual Phone Numbers for Business
A virtual phone number (also known as a VoIP phone number) works just like any regular number, but you make and receive calls online, not through landlines or SIM cards. And as these online phone numbers exist in the cloud, your sales and support teams can connect with leads customers from anywhere, whether working from the office or fully remote.
Key characteristics of virtual phone numbers:
- Online calling: Cut domestic and international calling costs.
- Device flexibility: Use any desktop, laptop, or CloudTalk’s mobile app.
- Scale instantly: Add or remove users and numbers as your business grows.
- Local caller identity: Show a familiar caller ID your contacts trust.
Virtual numbers providers like CloudTalk help you enter or expand into your target market faster, cut comms costs, and boost answer rates (often by as much as 400%).
With the right virtual number provider, getting a virtual phone number is quick and only requires standard business documentation.
Steps to get a virtual phone number:
- Choose a VoIP provider: Choose CloudTalk for reliable online numbers with deep CRM and helpdesk integrations.
- Select your number type: Choose from local, national, toll-free, or mobile digital phone numbers.
- Submit documents: Depending on the selected number type, provide company registration, address, and ID.
- Activate the number: All virtual numbers you can get through CloudTalk are ready instantly after documents are approved.
- Configure features: Learn how to set up your virtual phone number with call routing, IVR, or voicemail in your CloudTalk dashboard.
Note: You don’t always have to provide business documentation when buying a virtual number for a specific country. For example, providers like CloudTalk offer US
There are several types of virtual numbers for different business needs—from building a local presence to running nationwide lines.
Basic types of virtual phone numbers:
- Local or Geographic Numbers: International virtual phone numbers are trusted for building a local presence in major cities.
- Toll-Free Numbers (0800): Thanks to these, customers can call you free of charge, which is perfect for support or countrywide campaigns.
- Mobile Numbers: Virtual mobile numbers let you call and text (domestic only) your target audience, ideal for flexible, mobile-first sales or support.
- National Numbers: Not tied to a city, national numbers are ideal for distributed teams or serving customers countrywide.
- Vanity Numbers (0800-YOURBIZ): Custom, easy-to-remember numbers for brand campaigns.
- Shared Cost or Premium Numbers (0180, 0900): Used for special paid services or info lines.
CloudTalk provides the most reliable options for businesses who want to expand: local, national, toll-free, and mobile—fully compliant with telecom requirements.
A virtual number is ideal for businesses entering or scaling up in the internationally competitive market.
Common use cases for virtual business phone numbers:
- Market entry: Build instant trust with a local virtual business number.
- Customer support: Offer free inbound hotlines.
- Remote sales: Let global teams call customers as if they’re local.
- Marketing: Assign unique numbers to track campaigns and conversions.
A remote virtual phone number helps your business look credible, cuts costs, and lets you engage with more customers with ease.
Key business benefits of having a virtual number for business:
- Local trust: Your customers are more likely to answer calls from a familiar number.
- Lower costs: Cloud-based VoIP eliminates international calling and roaming fees.
- CRM integration: Every call, note, and recording syncs automatically with your business tools.
- Compliance: All CloudTalk numbers comply with international telecom regulations.
- Scalability: Add or remove users and numbers as your team grows.
- 24/7 coverage: Use routing, IVR, or virtual receptionist tools to stay available across time zones.
CloudTalk enhances these advantages with AI-powered analytics, smart routing, and automation tools, such as AI Voice Agents, designed for growing teams.
Standard CloudTalk numbers are not WhatsApp-enabled by default. Only mobile numbers provisioned via Twilio through CloudTalk’s Carrier Ops are eligible for WhatsApp onboarding.
To request a WhatsApp-enabled number, you’ll need:
- A CloudTalk Expert plan
- A new Twilio-provisioned mobile number
- A verified Meta Business Account
- Completion of CloudTalk’s WhatsApp onboarding and template approval process
Meta verification and CloudTalk Carrier Ops approval are required. Setup typically takes several weeks.
Looking for a virtual number for SMS? CloudTalk’s mobile numbers for the select countries support both calling and SMS (two-way or international not always available). Other number types like local or toll-free numbers also support
If your workflows require SMS, choose a mobile number type. For international SMS, consider CRM-integrated messaging tools or supported countries.
While many VoIP providers offer local phone numbers for business, CloudTalk stands out for its reliability, scalability, and full-featured communication platform—especially for fast‑growing SMBs.
With CloudTalk, you benefit from:
- Access to numbers from 160+ countries
- Quick activation for fully verified local numbers
- Advanced AI-powered call analytics and automation
- Effortless integrations with your CRM and helpdesk tools
- Strong, direct connections with licensed carriers
- Robust, secure, and regulation-compliant infrastructure
CloudTalk enables your team to reach customers faster, present a trusted local image, and confidently expand your business.
With CloudTalk, you can buy virtual phone numbers for 160countries, starting at as low as $6/number/month (virtual number pricing depends on the selected country and number type).
With most countries, you can choose from multiple virtual number types, such as local, toll-free, mobile, national, or even shared-cost numbers.
Examples of countries you can get virtual numbers for:
- United States – local or toll-free US virtual numbers
- United Arab Emirates – toll-free UAE virtual numbers
- United Kingdom – local, toll-free, national, and mobile UK virtual numbers
- Australia – local, toll-free, shared-cost, and mobile Australia virtual numbers
- Germany – local, toll-free, national, and mobile German virtual numbers
- Japan – local, toll-free, and national Japanese virtual numbers
- France – local, toll-free, national, and mobile French virtual numbers
- Canada – local and toll-free Canadian virtual numbers
- Ireland – local, toll-free, national, and mobile Irish virtual numbers
- Italy – local, toll-free, and mobile Italian virtual numbers
- Singapore – local, toll-free, national, and mobile Singaporean virtual numbers
- South Korea – local, toll-free, and national Korean virtual numbers
- China – local and shared-cost Chinese virtual numbers
- Spain – local, toll-free, shared-cost, and national Spanish virtual numbers
- Netherlands – local, toll-free, national, and mobile Dutch virtual numbers
For virtual number types availability in more countries, check out the country coverage page.
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Features
Call Center Features That Maximize Your Virtual Business Number Potential
Smart Call Routing
Send every inbound call to the right person from the start. Smart routing ensures your customers always reach the right agent fast, cutting delays and improving CX.
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AI Sales Dialer
Reach more leads in less time. With Power, Smart, and Parallel dialing modes, your team spends less time dialing and more time building relationships that drive revenue.
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AI Voice Agents
Put routine tasks on autopilot. Solve call spikes, answer FAQs, book meetings, qualify leads, and offer 24/7 support so your agents can focus on complex calls that need a human.
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Virtual Caller ID
Display a trusted local number on every call, even if your agents are from abroad. Your customers are more likely to answer your calls when they see a familiar, local area code.
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Integrate Your Virtual Number with Your Stack
Connect your virtual number to your CRM, helpdesk, or sales platforms in minutes. Calls and customer data sync automatically, so your reps have enough context and your calls stay organized and easy to track. This way, your team can focus on winning deals, not admin or call history.
Frequently Asked Questions
All you need to know about virtual phone numbers for business.
Yes. Virtual numbers can be traced by carriers or legal authorities if necessary. CloudTalk ensures full security, privacy, and regulatory compliance for all customer data.
Yes. You can get a virtual phone number to text from. These numbers are internet-based (VoIP) and look like a regular number. You can get one by choosing a provider like CloudTalk, and choose from hundreds of local numbers.
You can get area codes for any of the 160+ countries on this list, including multiple local area codes for the US, UK, London and many more.
Yes, virtual phone numbers are safe and legitimate when you use trusted providers like CloudTalk, which offer secure services, encryption, and compliance like GDPR and HIPAA.
Yes you can have toll free virtual phone numbers. These are just like regular toll-free numbers, but they operate over the internet (VoIP) instead of through a physical phone line. These numbers come with providers like CloudTalk which offer full integration for managing calls, texts, voicemail and CRMs.
Depends. Virtual numbers are not automatically and universally free. It depends on the provider that you choose. With CloudTalk, incoming calls are included and free, as well as internal calls between CloudTalk users. Depending on your region and plan, outbound local calls may be free as well.
Yes. Virtual phone numbers are fully legal for business use, provided you comply with the country’s telecom regulations. All virtual numbers offered by CloudTalk are fully compliant and safe to use.
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