Set up your receptionist

1. Get your phone number

Your receptionist answers calls on this number. Setup costs $4.00 (number, setup fee, and first month). Your balance: $0.00.

Preferred area code (optional)

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Your number

Call it to hear your receptionist.

Balance

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Calls cost a minute. Your number costs a month, taken from this balance.

Forward your business calls here

Keep your current business number. Set it to forward to when you don't pick up, and your receptionist answers instead.

iPhone

Settings, then Phone, then Call Forwarding. Turn it on and enter . This forwards every call. To forward only unanswered calls, use the carrier codes below.

Android

Open the Phone app, then the menu, then Settings, then Calls, then Call forwarding. Choose When unanswered (and When busy), and enter .

Carrier codes (dial from your phone)

When unanswered: AT&T or T-Mobile, dial **61*#. Verizon, dial *71.
All calls: AT&T or T-Mobile, dial **21*#. Verizon and many landlines, dial *72.
Turn forwarding off: AT&T or T-Mobile, dial ##002#. Verizon, dial *73.

Codes vary by carrier. If one doesn't work, check your carrier's call forwarding help.

Office phone system or landline

Ask your provider, or check your phone system's settings, to forward unanswered or after-hours calls to .

Then call your business number from another phone and let it ring, to test it.

3. Connect Muse

On your phone, open Muse, go to Connectors, choose BotPhone, and tap Connect. Then ask Muse: "Who called today?"

Set up your receptionist

1. Get your phone number

Add credit

Your number

Balance

Add credit

2. Tell it about your business

Forward your business calls here

3. Connect Muse