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Customer Calls
The SurfLocal business number receives the incoming call and opens the communication record.
Phone + Office + AI
One organized business system
Your Business Phone Should Start the Work.
Your business number comes ready to work—and there is an online office behind it. Answer calls, exchange text messages, capture leads and manage appointment requests with SurfLocal Phone. Use SurfLocal Office for customers, estimates, invoices, employee paperwork and everyday files. Add customized AI when you want help with customer conversations, orders and the next steps in your business.
PhoneOfficeCustomized AICalling & TextingAppointmentsClients & LeadsBilling & FilesCustomer History
SurfLocal Business EnginePhone → Office → AI-assisted action
Example workflow
Incoming Customer CallPurpose is identified and routed
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Keypad, speech or customized AI workflow
SurfLocal Communication Center● Activity organized
CallsHistory updated
LeadsOpportunity captured
ApptsRequest organized
From ring to result
From the first conversation to the next step.
A customer calls or texts. You have a place to keep the conversation, recognize the customer and follow up. Your online office supports the daily work around that relationship, and customized AI can help with additional steps when configured for your business.
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Need Identified
A menu or customized AI identifies whether the customer needs a person, callback, lead, appointment, information, message, order or another workflow.
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System Routes
The call moves into the correct live-transfer or information-capture workflow.
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Activity Captured
Calls, leads, appointment requests and messages become organized business records.
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Work Continues
Phone preserves the interaction, Office gives the business a place to work it, and AI can initiate approved next actions when configured.
Three parts of a working business
A phone that works. An office that organizes. AI that helps.
Connect with customers through SurfLocal Phone. Manage daily business in SurfLocal Office. Expand into customized AI for the conversations and tasks you want help handling.
SurfLocal Phone
Your business number comes ready to work. Give customers a professional way to reach you—with call answering, live transfers, text messaging, voicemail and appointment requests. Keep conversations, recordings and customer history together in your private communication dashboard.
Business calling, texting and live transfersVoicemail, transcription, leads and appointment requestsCustomer history, alerts and saved communications
Explore Phone
SurfLocal Office
Your everyday business tools. One private online office. Keep customer files, photos and documents organized. Track leads, prepare estimates, send invoices and manage employee paperwork and payroll records. Send email, publish business offers, create QR codes and share your screen—all from your SurfLocal Office.
Customer records, leads, documents and filesEstimates, invoices, payroll and employee onboardingEmail, webpages, QR codes and screen sharing
Explore Office
SurfLocal AI
Give your business an assistant configured for the job. Add customized AI that uses your business information and follows your instructions to answer questions, gather details, qualify leads and support appointment scheduling. Expand into order capture and fulfillment workflows as the necessary systems are connected.
Customer conversations and business-specific answersLead qualification, appointment intake and customer serviceOrder capture, approved actions and human handoffs
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Ready to see which SurfLocal level fits your business?Start with Phone, add Office, or talk with us about a customized AI workflow.
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Inside SurfLocal Phone
More than a phone system.
Answer and route calls, capture customer requests, preserve messages and keep follow-up organized. These Phone capabilities give your business a communication history it can return to and use.
Text & Save
Continue the conversation and keep the communication that matters.
Business Text Messaging
Send and receive customer text messages from your business communication workspace. Keep the conversation with the business instead of scattered across personal phones.
Continue the customer conversation
Communications Library
Save important text messages, conversations and supported call recordings for future reference. Return to the customer communication you chose to keep.
Keep important details close at hand
Intentional Call Recording
Authorized users can deliberately record supported calls and save important recordings to the Communications Library. Recording depends on the call workflow and applicable consent requirements.
Preserve the conversation when appropriate
Answer & Route
Move the caller to the right destination or workflow.
Intelligent Call Routing
Callers can choose what they need instead of being pushed into one generic voicemail box. SurfLocal Phone recognizes the menu choice and begins the correct business workflow.
The call starts organized
Live Transfer
When a caller needs a person, the system can connect them to the business's active transfer destination. If the transfer cannot be completed, the call can fall back to voicemail instead of ending with a dead end.
Connect people without publishing a personal number
Transfer Destination Manager
Save multiple people or destinations, label them, enable or disable live transfer, and choose which saved number receives live calls as staffing needs change.
Change routing without rebuilding the phone system
Optional Spoken Assistance
When enabled for the business, supported speech interaction can listen to a caller's request and attempt a brief response. When it cannot answer confidently, the workflow can move the caller toward human follow-up.
A more natural caller experience when configured
Capture & Organize
Turn what the customer says into something the business can work with.
Sales Lead Capture
A sales call should become more than a missed-call notification. SurfLocal Phone can create a dedicated sales lead so the opportunity stays visible and can be followed up separately from ordinary calls.
Important opportunities do not disappear into voicemail
Appointment Requests
Customers can begin the scheduling process by phone. The system creates an appointment request that can be reviewed, completed with date, time, location and details, and managed by the business.
Turn a phone request into structured work
Recorded Voicemail
Customer messages are stored as communication records with caller information, recording duration and status. The business can return to the customer's original message rather than depending on memory or handwritten notes.
Preserve what the customer actually said
Message Transcription
Recorded voicemail can move through the transcription workflow, giving the business a readable version of the customer's message alongside the recording.
Listen when needed. Read when faster.
Know the Customer
Build context around the person behind the phone number.
Caller Profiles
A phone number can become a useful customer record. The business can assign a display name and maintain permanent notes about the caller for future reference.
Turn an unknown number into recognizable history
Complete Call History
Incoming calls are logged with caller, time, status, routing intent and other communication details so the business knows who called and what happened. A call-history entry is separate from an audio recording.
Keep business history with the business
Unified Caller Timeline
From the caller view, the business can see calls, voicemails, appointment activity and sales leads associated with the same telephone number in one place.
See the relationship, not isolated events
Activity Organization
Calls, messages, leads and appointments can be starred, marked reviewed or unread, archived, restored, moved to trash and brought back when needed.
Keep today's work visible without losing yesterday
Manage the Work
Put appointments, alerts and phone settings under business control.
Appointment Management
Appointment records can hold customer name, phone number, date, time, location, request details, status and internal notes. The system can also identify nearby scheduling conflicts before approval.
Move from request to managed appointment
Business Calendar
The private dashboard includes upcoming appointments and a calendar view so scheduled customer work becomes part of the operating day instead of remaining buried in voicemail.
See phone-generated work on the calendar
Email Alerts & Reminders
The business can choose email notifications for new voicemail, sales leads and appointment activity, and can configure appointment reminders for upcoming scheduled work.
Important activity can come to you
Business-Specific Phone Setup
Each account can maintain its own assigned number, transfer settings and notification preferences, while the broader system supports business-specific greeting, menu, voice, language, website and booking configuration.
Configure the system around the business
Private customer workspace
Everything the call created. One place to manage it.
The telephone is only the front door. Behind it is the SurfLocal Communication Center—a private business dashboard that turns customer activity into organized work.
See what needs attentionSales leads and appointment requests remain visible instead of disappearing into a general inbox.
Work from one communication historyCalls, messages, appointments and customer activity stay connected to the business.
Manage your phone from your dashboardChoose where calls transfer and how you receive notifications from the SurfLocal interface.
SCommunication Dashboard
● Phone system active24Calls
6Appointments
8Messages
4Sales Leads
Recent customer activityView history →
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New sales leadCustomer requested pricing information
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Appointment requestRequested Tuesday · 2:30 PM
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New voicemailRecording and transcription available
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Live transfer completedConnected to active destination
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A simple caller experience
One menu. Many possible business outcomes.
The five examples below show one configuration—not a rigid product. Buttons and AI routes can be customized so the caller reaches the workflow your business actually needs.
The marketplace has changed
A voicemail box is not a business workflow.
“You had a call.”
A missed-call screen or voicemail still leaves the business to reconstruct what the customer wanted, decide who owns the follow-up and hope somebody remembers before the customer moves on.
“Here is what the customer needs—and what happens next.”
Answer the call or continue by text. Keep the message and customer history. Work the lead, manage the appointment and use your online office for the customer records, files and billing that follow. Add customized AI for the conversations and approved tasks you want help handling.
SurfLocal Office
Your everyday business tools. One private online office.
Keep customer files, photos and documents organized. Track leads, prepare estimates, send invoices and manage employee paperwork and payroll records. Send email, publish business offers, create QR codes and share your screen—all from your SurfLocal Office. From the first customer inquiry to the paperwork that follows, you have a place to get the work done.
Client Management
Lead Management
Billing
Payroll + Packets
Business Email
Web Programs
QR Generator
Screen Share
Inside SurfLocal Office
A place to get the daily work done.
Your office is useful throughout the working day. Open the tool you need to organize files, follow up with a prospect, prepare customer paperwork or share your next business offer.
Keep customer files together
Upload photos, PDFs and other files. Organize them into folders, rename items and preview supported files when you need to find the details.
Find the paperwork when you need it
Keep the next customer moving
Search and sort leads, review opportunities and update their status so you can see which prospects need attention.
Know who needs a follow-up
Prepare the estimate. Send the invoice.
Create estimates, invoices and quick bills. Save a draft, email a document, convert an estimate into an invoice and track billing status.
Keep customer billing organized
Organize employee paperwork
Keep onboarding documents and employee information in an organized workspace. Use payroll tools to prepare calculations and review payroll records and reports.
Keep employee records together
Put your next offer online
Create a customer-facing business page, preview it and publish it. Add offer details and a contact form, then create a QR code to help people reach it.
Give your offer a place to live
Email customers. Work together live.
Use email tools for follow-up and attachments. Start a screen-sharing session when a customer or colleague needs you to walk through something together.
Keep the conversation moving
AI order fulfillment & custom automation
Show us how your business works. We will map what AI can do.
Order fulfillment is not one-size-fits-all. SurfLocal AI can collect the order, apply approved rules and move the request into Office or another connected workflow. Deeper automation depends on the ordering, inventory, payment, scheduling, delivery or fulfillment systems your business actually uses.
Understand your current processWe map how orders, appointments, leads or service requests move through your business today.
Identify automation opportunitiesWe identify where AI can gather details, apply your rules, create records, send notifications or hand work to a person.
Review required connectionsWe identify the systems or integrations required for deeper fulfillment automation.
Keep humans where they matterThe workflow can escalate or transfer whenever your business rules require a person.
Included for AI fulfillment prospects
FREE
1 HOUR
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Meet with a member of our development team so we can assess what your business needs and what should be connected or built.
How Order Fulfillment WorksTalk to SurfLocal
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