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Top 20 Virtual receptionist software companies based in the United Kingdom

RevenueBase identified 80 virtual receptionist software companies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 593 professional contacts across them, including 81 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.

This list covers virtual receptionist software companies headquartered in the United Kingdom, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 29, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

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593Contacts tracked
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The 20 largest virtual receptionist software companies based in the United Kingdom

Ranked by team size
Top 20 of 80 virtual receptionist software companies based in the United Kingdom, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 29, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to virtual receptionist software companies: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
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1Indirect evidenceNottingham, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 29, 202651-20057 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Founded in 2004 by the ICS Group Ltd, Answer4u is one of the UK’s fastest-growing 24/7 telephone answering services, trusted by more than businesses nationwide.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
2Strong evidenceFerndown, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 29, 202651-20057 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Message Direct has been one of the UK’s leading 24/7 telephone answering and virtual receptionist services, trusted by thousands of businesses to make sure every call and every…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
3Partial evidenceWare, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 29, 202611-5019 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Best Reception was established in 2006 and offers Virtual Reception services for businesses and organisations of all sizes.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
4Indirect evidenceLowestoft, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 29, 202611-5016 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Professional Telephone Answering Service, Fully Managed Live Chat & Business VoIP Phone System”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
5Indirect evidencePlymouth, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 29, 202611-5015 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Everything we do at Telebizz is informed by our original founding values-a commitment to excellence.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
6Indirect evidenceColchester, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 29, 202611-5014 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“MyRuby provides customer engagement solutions to companies all over the UK.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
7Partial evidenceRuncorn, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 29, 202611-5012 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Your Office & PA offers telephone answering, virtual reception and PA services to businesses.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
8Indirect evidenceBrighton, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 29, 202611-508 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Customer enquiries don’t just come through phone calls anymore.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
9Indirect evidenceNewbury, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 29, 202611-508 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Call Answering and Web Chat from The Phone Answering Specialists.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
10Indirect evidenceCambridge, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 29, 202611-508 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Established in Zoom Answer Call is a Telephone Answering Service genuinely dedicated to providing the highest level of Customer Service in the industry.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
11Indirect evidenceHighworth, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 29, 202611-507 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Whatever your business, we’ve got you covered.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
12Partial evidenceCambridge, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 29, 20261-107 contacts →

Partial evidence

“For 27 years, The Answering Service Ltd has been connecting businesses to their customers with reliable, virtual answering services worldwide.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
13Indirect evidenceEdinburgh, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 29, 202611-506 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Connect offer telephone answering services to small, medium and large companies.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
14Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 29, 202611-504 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Telephone Answering - Call Handling - Virtual Receptionist - Virtual Switchboard - Virtual Offices - Serviced Offices - Meeting Room Hire - Nationwide Business Address”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
15Partial evidenceBasingstoke, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 29, 2026201-5003 contacts →

Partial evidence

“ReceptionHQ is a premium provider of Virtual Reception and Call Answering Services to clients ranging from sole traders and professionals to small business, government…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
16Indirect evidenceAndover, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 29, 202611-503 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Forest Call Handling has a wealth of experience within the telephone answering and telecommunications industries.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
17Partial evidenceHull, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 29, 20261-102 contacts →

Partial evidence

“We provide a bespoke call answering/virtual reception service, tailored to your individual needs, which is available on a full time or adhoc basis.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
18Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 29, 20261-102 contacts →

Partial evidence

“nSolve are the proud developers of nCall - the comprehensive Telephone Answering Service software package.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
19Indirect evidenceCirencester, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 29, 20261-101 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“We provide an online booking system for small service based businesses.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
20Indirect evidenceHarrogate, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 29, 20261-101 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“3R Call Management is an independent call management service based in Yorkshire.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026

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Virtual receptionist software companies based in the United Kingdom at a glance

As of Sep 29, 2026
13.7%Verified-email coverage
7.4Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
22.5%Largest-city concentration · London
Sep 29, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
46
11-50
23
51-200
7
201-500
2
1,001-5,000
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Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 80 companies.

How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among virtual receptionist software companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source
The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies
Companies headquartered in the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “virtual receptionist software companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names virtual receptionist software companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude
Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among virtual receptionist software companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality
In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking
Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification
Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 81 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh
This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 29, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections
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Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase Smart Search?

RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names virtual receptionist software companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.

How many virtual receptionist software companies are there based in the United Kingdom?

RevenueBase identified 80 virtual receptionist software companies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.

What is the largest company on this list?

Answer4u, headquartered in Nottingham, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most virtual receptionist software companies?

London leads with 18 headquartered companies, followed by Colchester (3) and Basingstoke (2).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 81 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 80 companies.

How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 29, 2026.

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About this data

RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.