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Choosing the Buy DIDs Now option will add the selected DIDs to your account immediately. They will become live only after they have been successfully configured (this can be done after you complete your DID purchases).
Choosing to add DIDs to your Personal Inventory will place them in a holding area where they will be inactive. Any DIDs in Personal Inventory will not be live until they are placed into the Active DIDs area. Storing DIDs in your Personal Inventory can be useful if you need to save unused DIDs for future use. Please click here for our Wiki article on Personal Inventory.
Step 4. Back Order DIDs
This step will allow you to place a back order for DIDs that we did not have in stockin RateCenters that had no availability. These will be filled by our Provisioning team as soon as possible. VoIP Innovations orders DIDs by Rate Center only, so we are unable to guarantee NPA-NXX combinations.
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