Buy once, buy right
1300 Number Purchase: What You Are Actually Buying
A 1300 number purchase is three decisions stacked: the number itself, the plan that hosts it, and the routing that points it at your phones. Here is each decision with its price tag, in the order you will meet them.
- Three decisions, priced
- Standard numbers from $10/mo
- Existing numbers can port
Purchase questions
Do I buy a 1300 number outright?
No — you lease the right to use the number, hosted on a monthly plan. Standard numbers start at $10 a month; phonewords carry an additional premium lease. If the plan lapses, the number eventually returns to the pool.
How long does connection take?
A number drawn from the availability pool is usually connected promptly once the plan is in place; routing to your answer points is configuration, not construction. Porting an existing number takes longer and depends on the losing carrier.
What if the number I want is not in the pool?
Try pattern variants — prefixes, repeated digits, near-words — or consider a 1800 number instead, which draws on a separate pool. A premium word owned by someone else is sometimes available by lease rather than search.
Purchasing a 1300 number is smaller than it looks from the outside: three decisions, each with a visible price, and no hardware at any step. This page is the purchase in order — what you choose, what you pay and where the honest trade-offs sit — so the checkout holds no surprises.
Decision 1: the number
The number comes first, and there are two tiers:
- Standard numbers — ordinary digit patterns, searchable free in the live pool, hosted from $10 a month. For most small businesses this is the right buy; callers do not need a word to dial you.
- Phonewords — digit patterns spelling a word, leased at a premium from $40 a month on top of the plan, scaling with how commercial the word is. The strongest patterns pass through auctions. The mechanics are in smart numbers.
The pool moves as businesses surrender numbers and leases lapse, so search rather than browse a list: available numbers. Pattern-selection tactics — including the over-dialling trick for near-miss words — narrow the field further.
Decision 2: the plan
The plan hosts the number: routing, reporting and the feature set ride on it. Call charges apply per second against per-minute rates once calls arrive, and optional add-ons — call tracking, IVR menus, recording — price separately. The full rate table is on the pricing page, and the day-to-day cost picture is in what does a 1300 number cost. The honest budgeting rule: the plan fee is the floor, call charges scale with your volume, and add-ons should each earn their keep.
Decision 3: the routing
Routing is where the number earns its keep, and it is configuration you control: point the number at a landline, a mobile or a team, with time-based, location-based, overflow and round-robin patterns available. Set it once, adjust it as staffing changes, and never reprint your advertising. How the pieces work together is on the 1300 numbers product guide.
The special case: you already own a number
If you hold a 1300 number with another carrier, purchase looks different — you are buying the hosting, not the number. Porting brings the existing number across so callers notice nothing; the steps and the paperwork are in how to get a 1300 number.
The purchase, compressed
Search the pool, pick the tier that matches your budget, choose a plan, point the routing at your phones. That is the whole transaction — and because the number is virtual, every later change is configuration rather than a new purchase.
Start at the search
Search the live 1300 pool free
See every number available to connect right now, with lease prices where they apply.