About Answering Service Compare
UK telephone answering and virtual receptionist services, compared on how you are actually charged, what hours are covered, who answers the phone and how long you are tied in.
What is on this site
One question, "best answering service", answered with a comparison that works on the page with no account, 3 guides on the questions around it, a data table you can cite (the figures and their method), and the sources every figure rests on.
- What a UK telephone answering service costs: Published UK answering service prices from £19.20 a month, the four charging models in use, and the arithmetic that decides which one is cheapest for your call volume.
- Virtual receptionist or answering service: the difference: Message taking, call handling, virtual reception and outsourced contact centre are four different products sold under overlapping names. What each actually does.
- Ten questions to ask a UK answering service: What counts as a call, where the agents actually sit, who owns the number, how the script gets updated, and the other questions that decide whether this works out.
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Answering Service Compare is an independent site operated by Ellul Solutions Ltd. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to any answering service or provider named here, and nothing on it is legal or contractual advice. We take no commission from any provider in this comparison and carry no paid placements. Prices, hours and terms change without notice: every figure carries the date we read it on the provider's own page, and the details that decide your bill, notably what counts as a chargeable call, are set by the contract rather than the website.