Sign up today and choose a local, toll-free, or vanity number for your business. Or, port your current number!
Turn instant response on or ask your admin to activate on your behalf.
Grasshopper’s instant response is just one of the great features to help you communicate to your customers. When you enable instant response, you get many great features to go with it:
Stay connected with Grasshopper on your desktop, iPhone or Android device.
Provide updates and quick replies via text messaging on your business number.
Route business calls to your personal phone or to another team member.
Get your voicemails transcribed so you can read them without having to listen to the message!
Use your internet connection to make and receive calls when cell reception is poor.
Set up a voicemail for business calls and get MP3s of your messages through email.
Take calls from multiple people at the same time so no one hears a busy signal.
Have incoming faxes delivered as PDF attachments right to your email inbox.
Give employees or departments extensions with their own call forwarding rules.
Record professional messages that welcome your customers when they call in.
Learn more about Custom Greetings »
Screen callers, block calls and set up custom schedules for your business hours.
Place callers on hold and even transfer them to another number when needed.
Keep your finger on the pulse of your business with detailed call reports.
Choose from our inventory of vanity, local, or toll-free numbers. Or port your own for free!
Automatically send a text to new callers when you can’t answer their call.
Live US-based receptionists can help answer your Grasshopper calls!
If you have business texting as part of your Grasshopper plan, there is no additional fee for instant response. If your account does not include business texting, you will be charged an additional fee.
Yes! You will be able to choose which numbers will have instant response enabled. Instant response does not apply to extensions.
Currently, instant response sends texts messages only to new callers or phone numbers.
Yes, you can tailor a different message for each number listed in your account.