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Phone Systems for Marketing Agencies

Clients reach their account team, not a general voicemail, and every call is transcribed for the next status meeting.

Agency work happens everywhere except at a desk phone. The account manager is in a client meeting, the designer is remote, the strategist is on a flight, and a client calls the main number with a change to tomorrow's launch. It goes to a shared voicemail nobody owns. Three days later, the question is not what the client said, it is who heard it.

Cannon VoIP routes each client to the people who work their account, on whatever device those people are using. Every recorded call is transcribed and summarized, video meetings and team chat sit in the same apps, and the built-in CRM tracks new business from first call to signed retainer. Flat $34 per extension, no contracts, texting and transcription included.

Client calls, approvals, and a team that is never in one place

Agency calls are mostly existing clients: a quick approval, a change, an urgent "the ad is showing the wrong price." Each one belongs to a specific account team, and each one costs goodwill when it lands with the wrong person or nobody at all. New business calls are fewer but worth more, and they deserve a fast, organized answer.

The other problem is memory. Clients approve things on the phone and remember them differently a month later. Teams split between the office, home and travel lose track of who spoke to whom. A phone system that records what was said and puts it where the team can find it settles a lot of arguments before they start.

What we set up for agencies

Clients reach their team
Each account team gets a ring group, and the main menu or a dedicated number sends clients straight to it. Repeat callers to a queue are offered first to the person they spoke with last time.
Calls that remember
Recorded calls are transcribed with each speaker separated and get a short summary, and you can search calls by what was said. Choose all calls, inbound only, outbound only, or none, with the right notice played by state.
Work from anywhere
Everyone takes calls on the Windows desktop app, the mobile app, the browser phone or a desk phone. Presence statuses and follow me keep calls moving when someone is in a meeting or on the road.
Meetings and team chat
Video meetings with a permanent room link and dial-in from any phone, plus team chat with channels, replies and file attachments, in the same apps as the phones. Meetings can be recorded with a banner for everyone.
New business pipeline
The built-in CRM, included in the price, tracks prospects through your own pipeline stages. Website forms and chat create or match leads, and sequences of emails, texts and call tasks stop when the prospect replies.
Webhooks and an API
Webhooks for calls, missed calls, texts, voicemails, recordings, form submissions and more, signed so your tools can trust them. API keys can be limited to the areas a script needs.
Texting from the business
Account managers text clients from the agency number in the app or portal, not their personal cell, so client conversations stay with the agency when people change roles.
Reports by team
Tag extensions by department and run call reports by department or extension over any date range, downloadable as a spreadsheet or PDF.

Why agencies switch to Cannon VoIP

Flat $34 per extension per month, month to month, with texting, transcription and the built-in CRM included and no regulatory fees. Agencies grow and shrink with the client roster, and the phone bill follows it in both directions without a contract to wait out.

If you already live in HubSpot, Zoho or GoHighLevel, contacts sync in and finished calls log to the record automatically. Other CRMs like Salesforce and Dynamics 365 sync contacts so callers show up by name. Details are on our CRM integrations page, and teams on Microsoft or Google can see our Teams and Google Workspace notes.

Most feature requests ship in under four weeks, and simple ones often in under a week, depending on complexity. Agencies tend to have opinions about their tools, and the engineers who built ours are the ones who read them.

What a typical setup looks like

A 15-person agency runs an extension for everyone at $34 each, most on the desktop app with a few desk phones at the front. The main menu offers "new business," "existing clients," and "accounts payable." Existing clients go to a short directory of account team ring groups, and new business rings the growth lead, then a transcribed voicemail that emails the partners.

Client calls are recorded and summarized, new leads land on the CRM pipeline, and with 10 or more users the AI receptionist is free. It answers after hours, takes messages for the right account team, and transfers callers by name.

Common questions from agencies

Can we give a big client their own number?
Yes. Add a number and point it at that account team's ring group, with its own greeting and hours. If the client moves on, repoint or release the number in the portal.
Can we run outbound prospecting from it?
Yes. The power dialer paces calls to available reps and only dials between 8 AM and 9 PM in the lead's local time. You are responsible for consent, the TCPA and stricter state rules; see our TCPA basics.
Is the AI receptionist right for client calls?
For after hours and overflow, yes. It answers only from what you gave it, takes messages, and transfers callers to people by name. Most agencies keep daytime client calls going to people.

Name ring groups after the account team, not the client. Clients move between teams more often than teams change, and repointing one menu option is easier than renaming groups every quarter.

Every client call, to the right team

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