Hi,
I have checked a few options like kall8 and vonage. We need a 1-800 number with the following features:

- Talk on a PC with a headset and a microphone.

- Custom recorded welcome message when someone calls our number.

- Voice mail.

- Redirect calls to multiple phone numbers in order and then to voicemail. (Say we have 2 phone numbers, ring the first one 4 times, then the second one 4 times and then forward to voicemail if no one picks up.)

- Redirect faxes to email as pdf.

- Should be available to Montreal, Canada.

Which provider do you recommend ?

check iconnecthere.com

Their website doesn't say much about features included. Is this a 800 number ? What about faxes, voicemail, etc ?

how about vonage ?

Vonage looked interresting but I just called them and to have the line ring at 3 locations, we would need to buy 3 business accounts + 3x the softphone addon (10$ each per month) which would bring the total cost to 165$ per month. At that price we would better get our own pbx system.

Basically, we just need to be able to forward calls to 3 voip terminations (we could then use a softphone client to get the calls on our PCs).

Up to now, the best solution I have found is to buy 3 basic iconnecthere.com voip accounts and get a basic 1-800 number with forwarding and redirect teh calls to the iconnecthere numbers. But we would then need to pay the per minute fees of both iconnecthere and the 1-800 number.

Any other alternatives ?

BTW, thanks to those who replied.

are you US based illogix?

No, we are based in Montreal, Canada. All of our customers are local to us, so a local phone number (in the 514 area could do as well). We are 3 staff members, we would like the line to ring on both of our 3 PCs and that the first one to pick up gets the phone. Those are the major features we need.

FreedomVoice.com

ringcentral.com. The PC part will have be worked out but it will do the rest. Do you have a voice modem in the PC?

Check GotVmail.com. We've used them for a long time and couldn't be happier and I am pretty sure they offer most of the stuff you asked.

Ringcentral is only available to US customers. As for Gotvmail, it looks good however I can't find any VoIP stuff on their website. I have emailed Kall8.com and it looks like it could work if I take the VoIP addon.

Sorry bout that. Spaced it on the "Canada".

Try iax.cc :)

They have an IAX server for VoIP in Chicago and have some pretty good rates for Canada toll free.

broadvoice and Asterisk. 1 line, 1 toll free, great rates, and you can control whatever you want it to do... i.e. ring multiple extensions, first one to pick up gets it, etc...

check it out :)

I'm also running that kind of system! :)

So many systems and possibilities are out there!