# Shared phone numbers for your team's verification codes.

> Move your company's verification codes and texts off personal phones. Shared US numbers, including real SIM lines, delivered to a shared inbox, email or Slack, with per-number access and a record of who opened what.

When a company code lands on one person's phone, everyone waits for them. Give the account a company number, send its texts to the people and places that need them, and keep the number when people leave.

## One inbox for every company number.

Every text each number receives, with its code pulled out and its links made clickable. Anyone with access copies a code in one click.

The Phonekit inbox: each number's messages with the code pulled out, and a record of which person or agent read it.

## Texts go where your team already works.

Choose per number. People who don't open Phonekit still get the code.

- **Shared inbox**: Every number's texts in one place, codes pulled out and links shown with the site they go to.
- **Email**: Owners and admins pick who gets each number's texts by email. Anyone can stop their own.
- **Slack**: Post a number's codes to the channels you choose, each with a link back to the message.
- **Scripts and agents**: Give a test key or an agent access to a number and it reads the same texts through the API, CLI or MCP.

## Decide who reads each number.

Share each number with the people, test keys and agents that need it. Owners and admins can always open it. Nobody else sees it unless you add them, and each time a teammate opens a message or copies a code, it's recorded.

## Handover without waiting on one person.

The number belongs to the company, not to whoever set it up.

1. **Name it**: Give each number a label that says which account and team it's for.
2. **Share it**: Add the teammates who sign in with it, and choose where its texts also go: email, Slack or both.
3. **Hand it over**: When someone leaves, remove them. The number, its history and everyone else's access stay put.

## The details.

- **Numbers**: US numbers. Mobile lines are real SIMs, for accounts that won't text a VoIP number. [VoIP or real SIM](https://www.phonekit.io/learn/voip-vs-real-sim)
- **Codes and links**: Codes are pulled out of each text. Links stay clickable and show the site they go to.
- **Delivery**: A shared inbox for everyone with access, plus email and Slack per number.
- **Access**: Per number: the people, keys and agents you add, plus owners and admins. [Security](https://www.phonekit.io/security)
- **History**: Who opened which message and copied which code, and who changed access.
- **Leaving**: Remove someone and their access and emails stop. The number stays. [Offboarding checklist](https://www.phonekit.io/learn/offboarding)
- **Retention**: Messages are encrypted and kept 30 days from receipt by default. [Privacy](https://www.phonekit.io/privacy)
- **Sign-in**: Passkeys only, for everyone. No passwords to share or leak.
- **Price**: From $29 a month for four numbers and up to 10 people. [Pricing](https://www.phonekit.io/pricing)

## Questions

### Who can see a number's messages?

The people, test keys and agents you add to that number, plus your workspace's owners and admins.

### Can codes go to Slack?

Yes. Connect Slack once, then choose which channels each number posts its codes to. Each post links back to the message in Phonekit.

### Can texts go to email?

Yes. For each number, owners and admins choose which teammates with access also get its texts by email. Anyone can stop their own emails. Emails already delivered stay in their inboxes.

### What about texts with a link instead of a code, like an invitation?

They arrive the same way. Links in a text are clickable in the inbox and in emails, each shown with the site it goes to, and the API returns them pulled out of the message.

### What happens when someone leaves?

Remove them from the workspace. Their access and email copies stop, and the number, its history and everyone else's access stay as they were.

### How long are messages kept?

30 days from receipt by default. Owners and admins can change it. Releasing a number doesn't reset that clock.

### Can we keep using a number we already have?

Today you start with numbers from Phonekit. Point the account's phone setting at the new company number, using that account's own settings.

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Source: https://www.phonekit.io/teams