RingCentral Online is offering a free trial of it’s web-based telephone and fax service for home based professionals and small businesses. Ring Central provides toll free or local phone numbera as well as voice mail, dial by name directory, multiple extensions, click to call, call forwarding, virtual PBX, and Outlook integration for small businesses that can’t afford a high dollar phone system.

The Wall Street Journal featured RingCentral in the spring of this year as a way small companies can have a big company feel without spending the big budget cost of an expensive PBX.

Callers to Mr. Leavens’s company, Plush Puffs, can dial “9″ for a company directory, hit “8″ to hear the firm’s mailing address and even punch zero to be transferred to “customer service.” Never mind that Plush Puffs has just four total employees, three of them part-time.

RingCentral Phone Plans 

RingCentral offers a range of different plans that should meet the needs of the smallest business and can also accomodate the demands of a larger office.  The entry level Professional Package starts at $9.99 a month and the Business Premium Plan, with 25 times more minutes and 20 times more extensions than Professional Package, is still only $99 a month.

RingCentral Features

Ring Central’s toll free or local number for voice & fax allow you to answer calls to one number from any phone and create virtual offices with local numbers.  Should you miss a call, the voicemail system can deliver your voicemail into your email inbox and can send an alert to your cell phone.  If you know you’ll be away from your desk the call forwarding & answering rules let you direct calls to multiple phones and route calls by date, time and Caller ID.

The Internet faxing capability comes with free fax software that lets you send and receive faxes from Windows, email, & the Web.  RingCentral’s software allows you to create cover pages, edit, and sign faxes.

Another cool feature is the “RingMe” Click-to-call option where visitors worldwide can call you toll free with a click on your website or on your email signature.  The dial by name directory is another nice feature that certainly gives the impression you’re a sizeable company.

Try RingCentral for Free

With no upfront costs and almost-instant activation, there’s no good reason not to take advantage of the RingCentral free trial to see if the service is right for your small business. 

If it’s a good fit, RingCental is even offering 25% off the first month of service.  Click here to give RingCentral a try.