The three BT Cloud Voice feature packs cover different levels of capability, and in our experience the most common source of over- or under-spending is selecting the wrong pack for the actual working pattern of the team.
Basic covers hunt groups, automatic call routing, the online management portal, call forward and call transfer, with weekday support included. It does not include Cisco Webex and is suited to users who answer inbound calls from a fixed location with no requirement for video meetings or collaboration tools.
Connect adds Cisco Webex to the core feature set - 40-minute meetings with up to 100 attendees, a personal meeting room, three-way calling, Call Director and voicemail-to-email. It is BT’s most commonly selected pack and is the right choice for hybrid teams who need to take calls and join video meetings from any location.
Collaborate goes further, adding full 24-hour Webex, the Webex AI Assistant, live transcription, captions, dial-in access and meeting recording. It is suited to teams that run, rather than just join, a high volume of meetings and have a heavier reliance on collaboration tools day to day.
A simple rule that helps in most cases:
- Runs meetings: Collaborate
- Joins meetings: Connect
- Answers inbound calls from a fixed spot: Basic
BT Cloud Voice tiers at a glance
| Tier | List price (60mo) | Includes | Best for |
|---|
| Basic | £10.52/user/mo | Hunt groups, online portal, automatic call routing, call forward and transfer, Mon-Fri 8am-6pm support. No Cisco Webex. | Shared and reception lines, basic calling |
| Connect (most commonly selected) | £13.74/user/mo | Everything in Basic plus Cisco Webex 40-minute meetings up to 100 attendees, Personal Meeting Room, screen sharing, file sharing, three-way calling, call director, voicemail to email, Mon-Sat 8am-6pm support. | Most SME and mid-market deployments |
| Collaborate | £20.09/user/mo | Everything in Connect plus Cisco Webex 24-hour meetings, Webex AI Assistant in-meeting, real-time transcription, closed captions, dial-in number, lock and record meetings, Mon-Sat 8am-6pm support. | Remote-heavy teams that run meetings |
All tiers carry a one-off £100 connection charge for new customers, often waived if taken with a new BTnet or fibre product.
Call plans
A licence on its own handles the platform. To make and take calls you also need a call plan.
| Call plan | From price | What it covers |
|---|
| UK Unlimited (most common) | £10.47/user/mo | Acquisition rate. Unlimited inclusive calls to UK landlines and UK mobiles. |
| UK Sharer | From £18/site/mo | 500 minutes up to £1,487 for 60,000 minutes. Pooled minutes shared across the whole site. |
| Pay as you go | Pence per minute | No inclusive minutes, BT’s standard per-minute rate. |
| International Sharer | From £4.05/site/mo | 100 fixed-only minutes up to £149/site/mo for 5,000 fixed and mobile minutes. |
Add-ons
| Add-on | Price | What it does |
|---|
| Call recording | 1yr £2, 3yr £3.50, 5yr £5, 7yr £7 per user/mo | FCA and GDPR compliance, dispute handling, training. |
| CRM integration | £3/user/mo (Integrator) or 50p (Lite) | Click-to-dial and screen-pop into Salesforce, HubSpot, Dynamics, Zoho. |
| Auto Attendant (IVR) | £8/site/mo | Automated call routing menu. |
| Receptionist console | £15/site/mo (full) or £8/site/mo (small business) | Console for managing high inbound call volumes. |
| User training | £10/mo (5yr), £12/mo (3yr) or £400 outright (1yr) | On-site day £650 one-off. |
Niche options such as fax messaging, busy lamp field, hot desking and full call-centre ACD are available too but rarely needed. Handsets sit outside the calculator because the right device depends on the role, and can be supplied free of charge on qualifying deals.