Create a RingPool of local (U.S. and Canada) phone numbers, letting you capture individualized marketing data from each visitor’s call.A RingPool is a group of phone numbers in your account served uniquely to your customers, letting you capture individualized marketing data from their calls. This article covers creating a RingPool using local (U.S. and Canada) phone numbers.
Creating a local number RingPool
- Log in to your Invoca account, click Campaigns, then select Manage Campaigns. Select the campaign where you want to create your new RingPool.
- Click the RingPools tab, then click Add New RingPool.
- In the Name field, name your RingPool — this appears in your Invoca reports in the Promo Number Description column.
- In the Number Session Lifetime dropdown, choose how long to reserve a phone number for each unique visitor. A shorter time supports more unique visitors with fewer numbers; a longer time improves accuracy.
- In the overflow settings section, choose how to handle visitors beyond the size of your RingPool.
- Under Number Type, select Local, then click Next.
- In the Target Area for Local Number field, enter a city, area code, area code and local prefix, or zip code.
- To limit results by distance, check Restrict search and enter a radius in miles, then click Next.
- If your target area spans more than one area code, you’ll see a list you can drag and reorder — Invoca fills your RingPool from each area code in the order you set.
- To exclude an area code entirely, hover over it, click its menu button, and select Delete a Number.
- To see where an area code is located, hover over it, click its menu button, and select View area code on a map.
- A yellow caution icon next to an area code means Invoca doesn’t currently have enough numbers there to fill your RingPool. Choose whether to wait for local numbers or use toll-free numbers in the meantime — Invoca always shows local numbers to visitors first when both are available.
- Click Next when finished.
- If you use Marketing Data, enable “Use Marketing Data for attribution,” or enter up to 10 URL parameters or cookies to track with this RingPool instead. Click Save & Next — your RingPool API URL also appears here if you use the RingPool API.