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Virtual receptionist for small business
For the plumber, roofer or cleaning company whose office is the front seat of a truck. It answers the calls you miss, in your name, and books the job. $200 a month, no contract.
You don't pay a cent until it gets you two leads. No card to start.
The bar is simple: handle the call the way you would if you weren't holding a wrench.
Hours, service area, free estimates or a service fee, how fast you get out, licensed and insured, warranty, and the handful of questions every caller asks. Ours learns all of it from a two-minute form. There's no training period and nothing to maintain - change an answer on the form and the next call uses it.
Name, address, callback number read back, what's going on and whether it's urgent. Then two appointment times from your calendar, and the job goes on it. Every booking comes with the recording, so you can hear exactly what the caller said before you drive over.
Both are real options. Here's the honest comparison for a business that isn't big enough for a full-time desk.
Best if you have enough calls to keep them busy and enough margin to cover a salary. They can do a hundred other things too. But they leave at five, take lunch, get sick, and need training - and a one-truck business rarely has the call volume to justify one.
Shared receptionists in a call center, billed by the minute or by the call. They're polite and they're real, but they're reading a script about a business they've never seen, and they usually can't book into your calendar.
Answers at 2 a.m. and at 2 p.m. the same way, never puts anyone on hold, and knows your policies because you wrote them. One flat monthly price. It won't restock the truck - but it will make sure the caller who wanted a new water heater is on your calendar for Thursday.
No equipment, no new number unless you want one, nobody comes to your office. If you ever want it off, one code turns it off. The full walkthrough is here →
A receptionist for a dental office needs insurance codes. One for a law firm needs conflict checks. Ours is built around local service businesses - roofing, plumbing, HVAC, electrical, general contracting, cleaning, landscaping, painting, handyman work and the rest - because those are the calls where the difference between "answered" and "voicemail" is a job worth real money. It knows what those callers say, what to ask back, and what a wasted trip looks like. If you're a service business that makes visits, it's for you.
300 minutes of answered calls included, 30¢ a minute after, no setup fee, no contract. Cancel any time from your account page.
Over 300 minutes it's 30¢ a minute, and you get a text before that happens. No setup fee, no contract. Cancel any time from your account page; you keep the month you've paid for, and months aren't refunded.
Live on your phone tomorrow. No card to start. Billing begins the morning after your second real lead - and you'll have the recordings of both.
Hear it before you payTwo minutes. Nothing to pay until it has earned it.
Our promise
A lead is a real customer it put on your calendar from a call you would have missed. You'll see every one, with the recording. Until there are two, you owe nothing. After that it's $200 a month, month to month, cancel any time from your account page.
Try itAn answering service takes a message. A virtual receptionist runs the call: answers questions from your policies, qualifies the caller, and books the appointment. Ours does all of that and texts you the recording.
No, and it won't claim to be. It's an AI receptionist set up around your business. If a caller asks, it says so and keeps helping. Most callers care about getting booked, not about who booked them.
No. It's for anyone whose phone rings while their hands are busy - roofers, plumbers, HVAC, electricians, cleaners, landscapers, painters, movers, detailers, salons. It's set up around your business, whatever it is: your hours, your area, your prices, the questions your customers always ask.
Minutes. The questions you answer for the demo - hours, service area, estimates, warranty, what customers always ask - are the setup. Say yes on the demo call, we text you your link, you dial one forwarding code on your phone, and the calls you miss are being answered. Live by tomorrow. Nothing to install.
Works with Google, Outlook and iCloud. You share the calendar once; bookings show up on your phone like any other event, with the customer's name, number, address and what they need.
300 minutes of answered calls — about 150 calls, more than enough for a regular contractor — plus booking into your calendar, spam screening, a text summary after every call, and the recording. There is one price and one plan. No setup fee, no contract.
Something better. You don't pay a cent until it gets you two leads. A lead is a real customer the receptionist put on your calendar from a call you would otherwise have missed. You'll see every one, with the recording. Until there are two, you owe nothing - no card, no invoice. The morning after the second one, we text you a link, and from then it's $200 a month, month to month, cancel any time from your account page.
No. It's month to month. Cancel any time from your account page and we'll text you the code that unforwards your number the same day. It keeps answering until the end of the month you've paid for.
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