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The call that comes in while you are under a sink gets answered.

In the trades the phone rings hardest exactly when you cannot reach it — hands wet, on a ladder, in a crawlspace, driving. This answers it, works out whether it is an emergency or a Tuesday job, checks they are in your area, and gets you the ones that cannot wait.

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The price

What it costs.

AI receptionist (24/7)

Monthly

$249 /mo

The same published price wherever you are and whatever you do. It can be bought on its own or folded into a monthly plan on the pricing page.

The trade phone problem

You cannot answer it and do the work at the same time.

Nobody in the trades misses calls because they do not care. They miss them because they are forty minutes into a job with both hands committed, or on a roof, or in an attic with no signal, or driving between. By the time you are back in the truck the homeowner has called the next contractor.

The other half is the hours. Water does not leak between nine and five and heating does not fail on a weekday. Evening and weekend calls are a real part of this trade's volume, and they carry the most urgency and the least patience for a mailbox.

Emergency or Tuesday

The one question your phone has to sort correctly.

The job an answering setup has to do for a trade is triage, and it is not subtle: is this water coming through a ceiling right now, or a quote for a bathroom in the spring. Wrong one way and you are woken for a dripping faucet. Wrong the other and a burst line waits until morning.

You define the emergency list yourself — no heat, no hot water, active leak, sewage back-up, burning smell, no power. Those reach you on the spot. Everything else is qualified, booked or written up and waiting at the end of the day.

Do you cover my area

The question that wastes the most of everyone's time.

A service-area business fields calls from outside its area constantly, and each one is a callback you make for nothing. It is given your radius, your towns and your zip codes, so an out-of-area caller is told politely on the first call.

For the ones inside it, it collects what you need to schedule: the address, the system or fixture, its age, whether it is under a home warranty, and when somebody will be there to let you in.

On the line

What it handles on a trade phone.

Getting it live

How a trade puts it on the truck line.

1. You define the emergency list

In your language, not mine. No heat, active leak, sparking panel — whatever gets you out of bed, and what does not.

2. We load the territory and the trade

Service area, the work you take, the work you refuse, licensing questions, and how far ahead you book.

3. It picks up what you cannot

Start with unanswered and after-hours calls only. Widen it once you have heard it handle a real one.

4. It moves when your business moves

You add a town, drop a service, or get booked out four weeks. You tell me, and it stops promising next Tuesday.

What this normally costs

The comparison, honestly.

A live answering service

$250–$975/mo, metered by the call

Go over your call bundle and every extra call costs more. The site's own comparison puts a 60-call month at about $530.

AI receptionist (24/7)

$249/mo

One published price, one invoice, and the work is done for you.

Figures are typical market ranges shown for illustration, not quotes from named providers. Many vendors price by seat, contact or location and keep pricing behind a sales call.

Questions

Frequently asked

Is there an answering service for plumbers that works after hours?

This one answers at three in the morning the same way it answers at three in the afternoon, and a night call costs no more than a day call because it is not billed per call. Whether it wakes you depends on the emergency list you wrote.

How does it know if a call is an emergency?

Because you told it. You give it the conditions your business treats as drop-everything, and it asks the questions that separate those from routine work. If a caller describes something it cannot place, the safe default is to reach you.

Can it quote a job over the phone?

It quotes flat items you have given it — a service call fee, a diagnostic, a standard tune-up — and books everything else for a look. A number given down the phone without eyes on the job is how you end up arguing in a kitchen.

What about calls from outside my service area?

It is given your towns, radius or zip codes and tells an out-of-area caller straight away, instead of taking a message that costs you a callback.

I already forward the phone to my cell. Why is this better?

Forwarding works right up until your hands are full, which is most of the working day. This is not asking you to answer faster. It answers when you physically cannot, and interrupts you only for the calls you chose.

Is there a contract?

Not on this. Growth, marketing and website services — including the website care plan — are month-to-month with no long-term commitment, and you can prepay annually for up to two months free. Payment processing is a separate thing: it is a merchant account and it has its own terms, which I go over with you personally on the free review so everything is clear before you decide.

Can I cancel?

Yes, any month. There is no cancellation fee and no notice period to argue about on the month-to-month services — I would rather earn the next month than hold you to a term you regret. If you cancel a website plan the domain is yours, registered in your name, and you can take the site elsewhere.

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