Quick-buy guide
How to Buy a 1300 Number: The Short Version
Five steps, no hardware: search the pool, choose your digits, match a plan from $10 a month, connect it to a phone you own, and test it before you advertise it.
- Standard numbers from $10/month
- Phonewords from $40/month
- Port instead if you already have one
The five steps
Buy a 1300 number in five steps
Search the live pool
The available-numbers search lists every 1300 number free to connect right now — the only numbers actually for sale.
Choose your digits
Standard numbers ride on regular plans; phonewords that spell your brand are a premium tier from $40 a month, sourced by auction when scarce.
Match a plan to your volume
Entry Prepaid is $10 a month with $5 call credit; cap plans at $39, $79 and $99 include call value for busier lines.
Connect an answer point
Give the number the mobile or landline you already answer. Add routing rules now or later — time-based, overflow, IVR.
Test before you advertise
Dial the number from another phone, confirm where it lands, then put it on the website, signage and invoices.
Buying questions
What does it cost to buy a 1300 number?
A standard number attaches to a plan from $10 a month with $5 call credit included. Premium phonewords are separate, from $40 a month. Call charges beyond inclusions are per second.
Can I buy a number someone else already holds?
No — allocated numbers are not for sale. If your exact digits are taken, the practical options are the closest available pattern or a phoneword.
I already have a 1300 number — do I buy a new one?
Usually not. Porting brings your existing number onto a new plan, which beats reprinting every place the old digits appear. Buying suits new numbers only.
How fast is the number live?
Because the number is virtual, connection means pointing it at an answer point on your account — then a test call confirms it. There is no hardware or installation step.
Buying a 1300 number is a five-step process with one decision in the middle. The steps below are the short version — the fuller purchase guide, including the plan-by-plan comparisons, sits at buy a 1300 number.
The five steps
- Search the live pool. The available numbers search lists every 1300 number free to connect — the only numbers actually for sale. Searching reserves nothing, so shortlist fast.
- Choose your digits. A standard number rides on the regular plan ladder. If your brand word fits the keypad, phonewords are the premium memorability play — from $40 a month, and scarce spellings are sourced by auction over a couple of weeks.
- Match a plan to your expected volume. Prepaid at $10 with $5 call credit for quiet lines; the Cap39 tier at $39 for steady traffic; Cap79 and High Volume above that. Cap inclusions absorb the first slice of call time at a flat fee — the details are on the pricing page.
- Connect an answer point. The mobile or landline you already answer. The number is virtual, so this is configuration, not installation — and routing rules (time-based, overflow, IVR) attach whenever you are ready.
- Test, then advertise. Dial the number from another phone and confirm it lands where you expect. Only then does it go on the van, the website and the invoices — after which you will want it ported, never replaced.
The one decision: new number or port?
If your business already advertises a 1300 number, buying new means reprinting everything that carries the old digits. Porting moves the existing number onto your chosen plan instead — the digits stay, the provider changes. Buying is for new numbers; porting is for numbers the world already knows.
What to check before paying anyone
- The monthly fee and the per-second call rates by origin, in writing.
- What the caller pays — the answer should be "up to the local call rate".
- Portability — the number must leave with you if you ever go.
- Which features are included rather than priced separately.
We publish all four on the pricing page, and the product behind the number is at 1300 numbers.
Start the five steps
Buy your 1300 number today
Search the pool, pick a plan from $10 a month, and be answering on it this week.