Stay professional on the move: diverting your business landline to your mobile

In business, flexibility is everything. Whether you're heading to a meeting or working from a coffee shop, you want to be reachable for your customers at all times. Diverting your business landline to your mobile is the perfect way to do that. With this feature you're not tied to your office, and you'll never miss an important call or a business opportunity again.

In this article we take a closer look at the benefits of call diversion, how it works, and why it's a smart move for freelancers and small business owners who are often on the go. That way you stay professionally reachable on your mobile, wherever you are.

Diverting your business landline to your mobile comes with several benefits. It boosts how reachable you are, without costing you your work-life balance:

• Reachable wherever you are. Whether you're on the move, working from home or away on holiday, call diversion keeps you reachable. You won't miss important calls, because your business landline rings straight through to your mobile.
• A professional impression, kept up. Even when you're out of the office, a proper business number keeps your professional image intact. Customers ring your business number, and you simply pick up on your mobile. A landline number makes a professional impression and builds trust.
• Work and personal, easily kept apart. Call diversion helps you keep work and personal life properly separate. You use one mobile for both business and personal calls, but with different numbers — so you always know when a call is for work, and you can even use your business number on WhatsApp Business. Smart features protect your work-life balance: set business hours on your business number so you're not disturbed in your own time, and divert calls to several numbers for when you're not available.

You can't just divert any business landline to your mobile out of nowhere. First you need a business landline, and an external provider that can divert the number to your mobile. Rinkel is one such provider: you get a business landline from us and have it diverted to your mobile. So how does that actually work?

Rinkel handles the diversion entirely for you. All you have to do is pick a plan — we'll take care of the rest.

You might be wondering how the diversion works exactly. Let me explain it as simply as I can. Rinkel uses the mobile network — the same system as when you call from your own mobile — but Rinkel operates independently of your mobile provider. Here's how it works:

1. Someone rings your business landline, which is set to divert to your personal mobile.
2. The call arrives on the Rinkel network. Our system checks which number the call should divert to.
3. Rinkel rings your personal mobile and connects the two calls.

1. The Rinkel app sends a signal to Rinkel when you want to start a call.
2. Rinkel rings your personal mobile.
3. As soon as you pick up, Rinkel rings the number you want to reach.
4. Once the other person picks up too, Rinkel connects the two calls.

Rinkel works as a kind of go-between for the two calls.

Diverting to your mobile gives you flexibility, but it also comes with a range of handy features that make the experience even better. Here are a few Rinkel features you can use to get the most out of call diversion:

• Call forwarding. With the forwarding feature you build your own unique call plan. When someone rings your business number, which mobile should the call divert to? You can put several mobiles in the forwarding chain and decide whether they ring all at once or one after another.
• Business hours. Set when your business number is reachable and decide what happens to a call that comes in outside those hours. Protect your own time by setting when your business landline is available.
• Call menu. A call menu points your callers straight to the right person or colleague. Link different mobiles to the different options in your menu.
• Caller ID. With caller ID you always know whether an incoming call is for business or personal. It helps you manage your calls better and give a better service.

Like the sound of this? There's plenty more. See all the features here.

Diverting your business landline to your mobile brings no end of benefits, especially for freelancers and small business owners who are often on the move. With Rinkel you manage your business calls easily, without being tied to your office. Whether you're after flexibility, want to keep work and personal apart, or simply want to be reachable at all times — diverting to your mobile is the answer. See for yourself how easily you can manage your business calls, wherever you are.