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title: "Shared SMS Inbox — one phone number your whole team can use"
description: "Get a company phone number and receive its texts in a shared inbox your team can open. Stop sending login codes to one employee’s personal phone. $49/month per number."
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# One phone number for your whole team

> Get a company phone number and receive its texts in a shared inbox your team can open. Stop sending login codes to one employee’s personal phone. $49/month per number.

Receive company login texts and other SMS in one shared inbox, instead of sending them to someone’s personal phone.

- [Get your number](https://app.sharedsmsinbox.com)
- [Create free account](https://app.sharedsmsinbox.com)

_No credit card required. Pay only when you choose a number._

## Stop asking “Who has the phone?”

Somebody tries to log in to a company account. A text is sent. It goes to one employee. Everyone else waits.

- **“Sarah’s on annual leave.”** — The code for the company account goes to her phone, and she is on a beach with her notifications off. The invoice run waits until she checks her messages.
- **“It’s 3am where James is.”** — Your team is in three time zones and the one phone that receives the code is asleep in one of them. Someone stays up, or the work waits until tomorrow.
- **“Priya left in March.”** — The advertising account still texts her old number. Nobody can log in, nobody can change the number on the account, and the account is effectively locked.
- **“Can you forward me the code again?”** — The same colleague is asked three times a week to read out a code, and the codes end up pasted into a group chat where they sit for months.

## Give the number to the company, not to one employee

Your company gets its own phone number. You invite the people who need access. The messages arrive in one place.

When a company account sends a text to your number, it lands in a shared inbox rather than on a handset. Everyone you have invited and approved can open it, at the same time, from a browser.

Because the number belongs to the company account and not to a person, it stays with you when someone goes on leave, changes role or leaves altogether. **Nobody has to ask who has the phone.**

Each teammate signs in as themselves, so you can see who has access and remove one person without changing anything for anyone else.

## Four steps, and no technical setup

From nothing to a working shared inbox in a few minutes. There is nothing to install and nobody to talk to.

1. **Create your account** — Sign up with your work email. It takes a minute. _(Free. No credit card.)_
2. **Get your number** — Choose an available phone number for your company. _(This is where the $49/month starts.)_
3. **Invite your team** — Add the colleagues who need to see the messages. Each gets their own login. _(No shared password.)_
4. **Receive your SMS** — Put the number on the company account. Its texts arrive in your shared inbox. _(Everyone approved can read them.)_

## Built for the accounts a team shares

Any company account that texts a code to one person is a candidate. These are the teams who hit the problem most.

- **Finance teams** — Receive texts for company finance and accounting services without depending on one employee’s phone.
- **Marketing teams** — Share access to advertising, social media and other marketing accounts across the people who run them.
- **Operations teams** — Keep important company accounts reachable when colleagues are away, off shift or in another time zone.
- **Agencies** — Let the right people on each account team see the texts connected to the client accounts they manage.
- **Administration and HR** — Keep company services tied to a number the company controls, rather than to whoever happened to set the account up.
- **Small and distributed teams** — When there are five of you across three countries, “ask the person with the phone” is not a plan.

## Why not just use someone’s personal phone?

It works right up until the day it does not. Here is the difference in practice.

| Personal phone | Shared company SMS inbox |
| --- | --- |
| One person receives the message. | Every approved team member can receive it. |
| Access depends on that person being awake, online and available. | The team can open the inbox whenever they need it. |
| The number may leave with the employee. | The number belongs to the company account. |
| Codes get read out, screenshotted and forwarded by hand. | Messages appear directly in the inbox. |
| A shared password is often needed to work around it. | Each teammate has their own login. |
| Nobody can tell who saw what, or when. | The inbox records activity, so access is accountable. |

## Share the messages without sharing a password

These messages matter, so it should be obvious who can read them — and easy to change your mind.

- **Every teammate gets their own account** — Nobody logs in as “the team”. There is no shared password to circulate, and none to change when the team changes.
- **Administrators decide who has access** — Being invited to your team is not the same as being able to read a number’s messages. You grant that separately, per person.
- **Access can be removed when someone leaves** — An administrator removes their access and they can no longer open the messages. Nothing else has to be reset.
- **Messages are visible only to approved team members** — Someone without access to a number does not see its messages anywhere in the product.
- **Activity is recorded** — The inbox keeps a record of who opened which message, so “who saw that code?” has an answer.

## $49/month. One number. Your whole team.

Create your account for free. Pay only when you're ready to get your number.

**$49/month. One number. Your whole team.**

- One dedicated phone number
- Unlimited team members
- Shared SMS inbox
- Incoming text messages
- Message history
- A separate login for every teammate
- Team invitations
- Access controls — you choose who sees the number
- Activity history

## Common questions

The things people ask before they sign up. If yours is not here, the help page has more.

### What is a shared SMS inbox?

A shared SMS inbox lets several approved team members read the text messages sent to one company phone number. Instead of arriving on one employee’s personal phone, the messages appear in a web inbox that your colleagues open with their own logins. Teams most often use it for the login and verification codes that shared company accounts send.

### How can multiple people receive SMS sent to one number?

The number belongs to your company account rather than to a handset, so messages sent to it arrive in an inbox instead of on a phone. Everyone you invite and approve can open that inbox in a browser and read the same message. Nobody has to forward anything, and nobody needs to be holding a particular phone.

### Can my whole team see the same SMS?

Yes. Every teammate you invite and give access to sees the messages that arrive at your company number, at the same time, in the same inbox. You decide who that is. Anyone who has not been given access to the number cannot see its messages at all.

### Do my teammates need to share a password?

No. Each teammate signs in with their own account, so there is no shared password to pass around or change when somebody leaves. It also means you can see exactly who has access, and remove one person without disturbing anyone else on the team.

### Can I remove someone’s access?

Yes. An administrator can remove a person’s access at any time, and they stop being able to open the number’s messages. Because everyone signs in as themselves rather than sharing one login, removing one teammate changes nothing for the rest of the team and no password needs to be reset.

### Can I use the number for login codes?

Yes — that is the most common reason teams get one. You give your company number to the account that sends the code, and the code arrives in the shared inbox where approved teammates can read it. Whether a particular service accepts the number is decided by that service, so test it before you rely on it.

### Will the number work with every website?

No. Some services accept only certain kinds of phone number, and many accept only numbers from their own country. That decision belongs to the service sending the message, not to us, and it can change without notice. Before you depend on the number for an important account, add it there and send yourself a test message.

### Can I send SMS from the number?

No. This is a receive-only service: the number takes text messages in and does not send any out. It is built for teams who need to receive codes and notices for shared company accounts, not for messaging customers, running campaigns or replying to people.

### Is this an inbound-only number?

Yes. Receiving text messages is all the number does, there is nothing to configure to keep it that way, and no teammate can text somebody by accident. If your team also needs to send messages — to customers, candidates or suppliers — this is not the right tool for that job.

### When do I have to pay?

You pay when you choose and activate your phone number. Creating an account, looking around and inviting colleagues costs nothing and asks for no payment details. Billing starts at the moment the number becomes yours, at ${PRICE.perMonth} for that number, and stops when you cancel it.

### Do I need a credit card to sign up?

No. You can create your account and invite your team without entering any payment details. You are asked to pay at one point only: when you pick your phone number. That is also the point at which the ${PRICE.display} monthly charge starts.

### How much does it cost?

$49 a month per phone number. That covers the number itself, the shared inbox, unlimited teammates with their own individual logins, message history and access controls. There is no setup fee, no annual contract, no per-user charge and no minimum team size. A second number is another $49 a month.

### Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. There is no contract and no minimum term — you cancel from your account settings and the monthly charge stops. Before you do, move any company account that still uses the number across to a different one: a phone number you have given up should not be relied on to come back.

### What happens if an employee leaves?

Nothing breaks. The number belongs to the company account rather than to the person, so it does not leave with them. An administrator removes their access, and everyone else keeps receiving messages exactly as before. There is no shared password to change and no account to reconfigure in a hurry.

### Is this better than using an employee’s personal number?

For an account a team genuinely shares, usually yes: the company keeps the number, and several people can read the message. It is not an upgrade to the security of SMS itself. Where a service offers each employee their own login, or supports an authenticator app, that is normally the better choice.

## Learn how teams handle this

- [How it works](https://sharedsmsinbox.com/how-it-works) — The four steps in detail, and what to do on the day you set it up.
- [What a shared SMS inbox is](https://sharedsmsinbox.com/shared-sms-inbox) — A plain explanation of the category, and who it suits.
- [Shared phone number for teams](https://sharedsmsinbox.com/shared-phone-number-for-teams) — How a company-owned number differs from a personal one.
- [Login codes for teams](https://sharedsmsinbox.com/login-codes-for-teams) — The specific problem of verification texts going to one phone.
- [Security and access](https://sharedsmsinbox.com/security) — Who can read your messages, and how you change that.
- [Guides](https://sharedsmsinbox.com/blog) — Longer reads, including how we compare to the alternatives.

## Stop sending company texts to someone’s personal phone

Get one number your team can access together. It takes a few minutes, and nobody has to ask who has the phone again.

- [Get your number](https://app.sharedsmsinbox.com)

_$49/month. No credit card required. Pay only when you choose your number._

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