WA.cr

Rent and manage your numbers

Rent a business phone number from WA.cr, see exactly what you'll pay, watch each number's calls, and release a number when you're done.

You can rent a business phone number from WA.cr in a couple of minutes — to connect WhatsApp, and to answer real calls.

Steps

  1. Your first number is usually rented while connecting WhatsApp — in the connect flow, choose to rent a number from WA.cr. For more numbers, open Numbers under Voice and choose Rent a number.
  2. Pick a country and search — by digits the number contains, starts with or ends with.
  3. The checkout shows the exact amount before you confirm: any one-time setup cost, rent up to your plan's renewal date, and GST as its own line. You're never charged an amount you didn't see — if it changes while you're deciding, the checkout asks you again.
  4. Pay from your wallet — top up right in the checkout if you're short. On monthly billing it goes on your bill instead.
  5. The number starts by forwarding WhatsApp's verification call to your mobile. Once that's done, choose how it should answer — a call menu, or an AI voice agent.

What the rent covers

Rent is paid up front and lines up with your plan: the first charge covers up to your plan's renewal date, and after that the rent renews together with the plan — on a yearly plan, a year of rent at a time.

Rent you've already paid isn't refunded if you release the number early — the release screen reminds you before you confirm.

What calls cost

  • Calls are charged per minute, in both directions, at your caller's country's rate — rounded up to the minute, with a one-minute minimum, GST on top, from your wallet. They appear as a Voice calls line on your bill.
  • Unanswered forwarded calls are free.
  • Agent time is a separate per-minute line — see Put an AI voice agent on a number.
  • Recorded calls are transcribed only when your transcription setting is Automatic. Transcription is charged per use within a monthly allowance, and calls longer than two hours aren't transcribed.

Whether WA.cr records calls on a line is your choice, and it starts switched off. When you turn it on, callers are told before recording begins, and recordings are stored in India.

Keeping an eye on a number

The Numbers page shows each number on its own card: whether calling is on, the week's calls — in, out and missed — and quick ways into the number's Call log and Call menu. Behind the details you'll find the monthly price, the renewal date, and Verification forwarding with its "used 2 of 5" allowance.

Removing a line is not releasing the number

Removing a voice line from your channels stops it answering — but the number is still yours, and the rent still applies — until you release the number from the Numbers page. Releasing returns the number and stops the rent, with no refund for time already paid.

If it doesn't work

  • The search finds nothing — try another country or a looser pattern; more countries are on the way.
  • The rent is refused for balance — top up in the checkout and confirm again.
  • The amount changed at confirm — your plan's period rolled over while you were deciding; approve the fresh quote.