Getting a local number was never this easy. Sitting in a different city altogether and having your phone ring when a call is made to the city’s local number is quite possible with Callika now. For at Callika, you get an option of local numbers where in you can choose a local number from a city of your choice but have its calls forward to you on a different location and in a different city altogether. This is primarily designed to work as a business feature where you can establish contacts with prospective clients in a city by opting for a local number in that city. This would mean that when your clients call you, they do so at a local number that you have provided to them. However, their calls get forwarded to you via a network of your choice to a completely different location in a different city altogether. So basically the number that is dialled by your client would be completely different form the number that you are receiving calls on. This feature is provided by us at Callika.

Here is a brief insight into how the Local Number works for better understanding of our potential and prospective clients:

1. STEP 1: Virtual Local Numbers- You can browse our database for the list of virtual local number available with us. We have local numbers from more than 2000 cities all ready to be chosen by you. Once that you have chosen your number, you might as well give it your friends, family and business connections in the city to which the local number belongs.
2. STEP 2: Set up your smart phones/tablets etc.- After you are done with choosing a local number for yourself, all you have to do is set up your smart phone, tablet or any other device that you would be using to receive your forwarded calls. 
3. STEP 3: Automated attendant- once that you are done with setting up your device for receiving the calls being forwarded by us, you can choose to forward your calls via the automated attendant or you can opt for a simple forwarding of your messages. The only difference being that the Automated Attendant is going to make it sound much more professional. It would entail an electronic voice guiding the caller while the call is directed to you or else the voice would prompt him to leave a message on your voice mail. This would definitely leave a very good impression on your callers about your company being a big one with the most updated features at your disposal.
4. STEP 4: Call Forward- You get a chance to plan the entire setup on your own. This implies that by a mere alteration of the setting you can easily program our system to forward calls made to a particular number to any other number of your choice.
5. STEP 5: Routing Calls- You can not only forward calls to any personal number, rather you can also route calls to your assistant who will pass them on to you if he deems it fit. Moreover, you can also get a number that will be used only for sales related queries and route that number to your sales department where the person calling will be able to get immediate solutions to his problems. This would mean that your organisation is able to work with much more efficiency.
6. STEP 6: Communicating with customers- When you are a part of the business environment, it becomes highly important that you respond to your customers at once. You clear their queries and provide them with instant solutions. This becomes possible with Callika for no matter where you are, your calls get forwarded to you and you are able to the needs of your clients at once.
7. STEP 7: Manage Settings-After you are done with selecting local number and assigning a number to which your calls will be forwarded to, you can customise you account and manage other  settings of your account to suit your needs. 
8. STEP 8: Using VoIP- You can forward the calls to your cell phone as well as to any other VoIP or soft phone. You will be required to pay reduced rates for long distance calls. However, if you choose to get the same via VoIP, you can get it for free. It entails that getting your calls forwarded to you to via VoIP will give you a chance to cut down greatly and reducing your cost of production which will ultimately show itself by ways of increased business profits.
9. STEP 9: No need to maintain any hardware-We at Callika maintain all the possible hardware that you might need. All you have to do is assign us with managing and forwarding your local calls. We have a rich experience at handling local calls for our clients and thus we have the required set up for providing such a service. So all you have to do is concentrate on your core work while we do away with your communication related problems. We will conveniently set up local numbers for you and forward them as per your choice while you concentrate at maximising profits for your business enterprise. 
10. STEP 10: Don’t have to sign contracts- Using our services does not involve the signing up of any contracts. You only sign up with us, set your account features and start using the service right away. You are billed on the basis of the quantum of the service that you use like the minutes of call forwarding etc. There is no contractual price to be paid by you.

This is a brief outline of how our local number service works. Once that you have signed up with us and have started receiving calls from clients in other cities, you will be able to understand the functional aspect of our services even better. It is basically a simple call forwarding facility with the difference being that you can now even forward calls that are made to a different city’s local number without having to set up any sophisticated hardware for the same.