Are there any costs at all for this service?

In order for conference participants to reach our service, each one must call a telephone number. For Reservationless Standard and Web-Scheduled Standard conferences this number may be local or long distance, depending on their location. The only costs for these type of conference calls are whatever long distance rates are charged by each individual conference participant's long distance carrier (Sprint, MCI, AT&T, etc.). We do not require the use of any specific carrier, nor do we know what rates you pay on your calling plan.

For Web-Scheduled Premium 800 conference calls the dial-in number will be a toll-free number.  The conference Organizer will pay $0.10 per minute for each Participant in the conference.  Since the Participants in the conference will use a toll-free number they will not pay anything to use our service.

For further information please refer to our Services chart for a detailed comparison of our 3 conference products. 
Do you place a surcharge on the call?  Will anything extra appear on my phone bill?
No. There are absolutely no surcharges.  For Reservationless Standard and Web-Scheduled Standard conferences nothing extra will appear on your bill other than the call itself, billed at your normal long distance rate.  For Web-Scheduled Premium 800 conference calls nothing will appear on your phone bill whatsoever.  Instead, we will bill your credit card for the total amount of time each participant is present in the conference call, at the rate of $0.10 per minute per caller. Why would I want to pay $0.10 per minute for toll-free if I can use the standard services for free? Many of our users want to host conference calls for their clients or guests and don't want their participants to have to pay long distance charges to access the conference.  Also, it may be more convenient to put the cost of the conference call onto a single credit card bill rather than paying via separate long distance bills for each caller.  Many people have found our low per minute rate to be even cheaper than the rates they would pay for regular long distance.

In addition, our Premium800 conference offering has a larger maximum conference size (150), versus 100 for the Standard conference.  We now offer Conference Recording, Computer Download and Transcription services with our Premium800 services (learn more).  Other benefits will be added shortly.  For further information please refer to our Services chart for a detailed comparison of our 3 conference products.