TCPA compliance for cold calling (DNC, quiet hours, consent)
TCPA fines run $500–$1,500 per violating call. Scrub against DNC, honour 8am–9pm local quiet hours, and log consent. Here's how to enforce it before the dial, not after.
Short answer: to stay TCPA-compliant on cold calls, scrub every number against the national and your internal DNC lists, dial only inside the recipient's local 8am–9pm window, and keep an auditable consent trail. At $500–$1,500 *per call*, you enforce this before the dial — never after.
The non-negotiables
- DNC pre-flight on every number — national, state, and your own suppression list.
- Local quiet hours figured from the lead's timezone, not yours.
- Consent + record-keeping behind any prior-express-consent claim.
- STIR/SHAKEN attestation so carriers don't flag your calls as spam-likely.
Why "after the fact" is too late
You can't un-ring the phone. Every connected call to a DNC number is already a liability the moment it connects, and no cleanup reverses it. The math is simple: it's far cheaper to block at the gate than to pay per violation.
How Autocloz enforces it
Every dial passes through evaluate_send() — a compliance gate that checks DNC, computes the recipient's local quiet hours, and blocks with a structured reason before any carrier API is touched. The audit log is your proof it did.
> Start free — the dial gate is on for every campaign from the start.