Built for a crowd
Up to 150 callers at once on Congregation. Organization plans are arranged for larger audiences.
CommonLine for town halls and events
Hold a town hall anyone can join by phone.
Neighborhood associations, school updates, public meetings: when the audience includes people without internet, a phone number reaches them. Publish one number, and callers dial in to listen, raise a hand and ask a question.
How it works
- Choose your number. Pick a local US or Canadian number. It stays yours while you're subscribed.
- Share it. People save it like any contact. There's no access code to join.
- Gather. Callers dial in, and you run the room from your keypad or the web dashboard.
What town halls get
Questions with raised hands
Press *6 to mute everyone on the line. Callers press *2 to raise a hand, and the host unmutes them one at a time from the dashboard.
Co-hosts to moderate
Panelists and moderators join as co-hosts, with host controls on their own phones.
Opens at start time
Set the line to open just before the event, with a message for anyone who calls early.
Share it afterwards Growth and up
Record the meeting and download it within 7 days to post for people who missed it. Everyone hears that the call is being recorded.
Any phone works
Callers dial a normal phone number from a landline, a flip phone or a smartphone. There's nothing to download, no account to create and no access code to type.
Ring everyone Coming soon
One button rings every member, and whoever answers joins the room.
Join from a browser Coming soon
A link for members who'd rather join from a computer, into the same room as the phone callers.
How town halls use it
- Neighborhood associations Monthly meetings that every resident can join.
- School and parent updates Reach families who don't check email.
- Public health and safety updates Accessible updates for people without internet.
- Lectures and Q&A Audio events with questions from the audience.
The plan that usually fits
Congregation, $199 a month
Congregation fits public events: 150 callers at once and as many co-hosts as you need. Talk to us about an Organization plan for bigger audiences.
For example, a monthly hour-long town hall with 80 callers uses about 4,800 participant-minutes a month, within the 7,000 that Congregation includes.
Congregation
$199 a month
or $1,990 a year, two months free
- Your own local number and conference room
- 7,000 participant-minutes a month
- Up to 150 callers at once
- Unlimited co-hosts
- Overage 2.5ยข a minute
- Recordings, downloadable for 7 days
- Attendance insights
- A second US or Canadian number, $5 a month
- International numbers, $12 a month (coming soon)
- SMS reminders (coming soon)
- Ringing members into the room (coming soon)
- Joining from a browser (coming soon)
Questions
How do callers ask questions?
They press *2 to raise a hand. The host sees who's waiting and unmutes them one at a time.
Can we stop people talking over the speakers?
Yes. The host presses *6 to mute everyone on the line, and can mute or remove any one caller from the dashboard.
Does CommonLine call people, or do they call in?
Callers dial in to your number. Ringing your member list at once is coming soon.
Give your community a number.
Plans from $39 a month. No app, no access codes.
Get your number