Lockport's mix of storefronts in the canal district and shops along 159th Street mostly runs on the same thing: an old landline and a cell phone number on the truck. It works until it doesn't, a missed call from a new customer, a voicemail found three days late.
815 Voice moves your business to hosted phone service without changing how you work. Your number stays the same. Your desk phone still sits on the desk if you want it. What changes: calls ring your cell too, voicemails land in your email as text, and an AI receptionist can answer anything you can't, 24/7, taking a complete message every time.
Local company, month-to-month, and pricing a small business can actually run the math on.
Lockport splits between the historic downtown businesses and the newer commercial along Route 7, and the phone situations are genuinely different. Downtown, we are usually replacing something old. On the newer side, we are usually replacing a bundle nobody ever renegotiated.
The trades working out of Lockport have the same problem as the rest of Will County: the call comes in while you are on a job, and a homeowner calling three contractors hires whoever answers. That is the entire pitch for the AI receptionist, and it costs less than one lost job a year.
If your business still runs on copper, the shutoff is coming and Lockport is not exempt. Porting the number ahead of time is free and takes a week or two, and doing it on your schedule beats doing it on a deadline.
Every 815 Voice plan in Lockport includes
- Free porting of your current Lockport number
- Lines that ring desk phone, cell, and computer together
- Voicemail transcribed to email, business texting
- Optional 24/7 AI receptionist, every call answered, every lead texted to you
- Month-to-month, no contract
Everything we set up in Lockport
Business VoIP · Desk Phones & Hardware · Call Center & Queues · Menus & Call Routing · Business Texting · Call Recording · Voicemail to Email · AI Answering Service · everything else we do
All of this is included at that price
- Custom phone trees & call routing
- Call center queues & ring groups
- Desk phone, cell app and computer on one number
- Texting from your main business number
- Voicemail to email, transcribed
- Call recording
- Multiple locations on one system
- Free porting, you keep your number
- Copper and POTS line replacement
Also available
- AI receptionist, from $99/mo
- Desk, cordless and conference phones
- Toll-free and vanity numbers
- Online fax and fax lines
- Overhead paging, intercom, door phones
- SIP trunking for a system you already own
- Moving off One Talk or a legacy system
If your current system does something that is not on this list, we can almost certainly do it too. Ask and we will tell you straight.