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GoboPhone
A phone system for both families and businesses that runs on real desk phones — and leaves the telephone account in your name, not ours.
If you buy one of our recommended handsets, all you have to do is connect it to your network. We configure it from there.
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One number and one handset on the free plan. Emergency calling and the approved-caller list are on every plan.
The same software, doing two quite different jobs. Everything below serves both — the difference is what it saves you.
A real phone in the kitchen instead of a smartphone for a seven-year-old. It rings, it has buttons, it only accepts calls from people you approve, and it dials 911.
Free for one line. Approved callers and emergency calling are never behind a paywall.
Rinks, arcades, trampoline parks, and any counter where the phone is how bookings arrive. Desk phones at the front, the office and the party room, all managed from one place.
Flat rate per venue. Ten handsets is one plan, not ten seats.
Connect a supported Fanvil to your network and it asks the network for its own configuration. No admin password to find, no web interface to learn. Ringtone, quiet hours, screen title and brand color are set from the GoboPhone dashboard. For a family that means no IT person and no settings to get wrong. For eight phones at a rink it means nobody spends an afternoon configuring them one at a time.
Texts, voicemails and notes from calls, threaded by contact. Someone who leaves a voicemail, texts back, then rings again is one conversation rather than three places to look. Search reads message contents, so “birthday” finds everyone who mentioned one.
Notes are typed by the person who took the call. There is no call recording. A parent sees who has been calling the house. A counter sees the whole history with a customer before picking up, instead of guessing which of three places to look.
An approved-caller list, enforced by the carrier before a call reaches a phone — so it holds even when the handset is unplugged. Mark a number as spam and it is blocked across every number you own. For a family that means a stranger cannot ring the kitchen. For a business it means the booking line stops ringing with spam.
A chain sets ringtone, quiet hours and screen branding once for an entire location, and every phone there follows. A single phone can differ, but only if somebody deliberately overrides it — so “set it once” stays true. Mostly a business concern — a second rink, or a party room that should ring differently from the front counter. A single-venue family or shop never has to think about it.
Every number assigned to a handset needs a registered address, and the dashboard keeps saying so until it has one.
A voip.ms number without a registered address returns a busy signal on 911. A child or customer hears a busy signal as try again.
That is the whole reason this is not a setting, not an upsell, and not switchable off. Emergency calling, the approved-caller list and quiet hours are on every plan including the free one. Paid plans buy scale and convenience — never safety.
One limit you should know before you rely on it. A copper landline drew its power from the phone exchange and kept working when your house went dark. A VoIP phone does not. It needs the handset powered, your modem and router powered, and your internet provider's equipment powered — and that last one is not yours to control. What that means, and what to do about it.
Hosted phone services charge $15–25 a seat and hand you an app. GoboPhone provides the software (both free and paid tiers) and leaves the telephony on your own voip.ms account, where a line runs about $2.60 a month.
Eight lines on your own voip.ms account, plus the software. The same eight seats on a hosted service are $120 or more.
The voip.ms account is in your name and always was. There is nothing to port and nobody to ask permission from.
Telephony is billed by voip.ms directly to you, at their rates. GoboPhone is not a phone company and does not carry calls — voip.ms carries the traffic, GoboPhone manages the account and the phones.
Every plan includes emergency calling, the approved-caller list and quiet hours.
| Home | Family | Pro | Enterprise | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | $10/mo | $35/mo | $100/mo first venue included, then $40 a month per additional venue |
| Phones | 1 | 3 | 10 | Unlimited |
| Numbers | 1 | 3 | 10 | Unlimited |
| Venues | 1 | 1 | 1 | As many as you buy |
Telephony is billed separately by voip.ms, to you, at their rates. Handsets are bought by you — see the models we support.
Every comparable service bills for each person on the system, so ten handsets means ten seats. GoboPhone bills for the venue. At ten handsets that is around $61 a month against $190 to $335 elsewhere — and the gap widens with every phone you add.
One thing that is not coming: there is no call recording, and there is not going to be. California requires all-party consent, and a rink cannot ask that of every caller.
Start free with one number and one handset. Emergency calling and the approved-caller list are there from the first day, the same as on every paid plan. The line itself runs on your own voip.ms account — about $2.60 a month plus usage, which runs less than a penny a minute.