AnswerCare
For plumbers, electricians, HVAC, locksmiths · 24/7/365

What is voicemail actually costing your shop?

AnswerCare answers every call in under 2 seconds, qualifies the customer, books the job, and texts you the details — while you're on a ladder, under a sink, or halfway through a drive.

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$497 setup · 14 days free · then $199/mo · cancel anytime with 7 days notice
< 2 sec
pickup time
24/7/365
always on
100%
calls logged + recorded
5 days
average setup
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Jason M. · Homeowner
+1 (303) 555-0142 · Lakewood, CO
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Booked for
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The truth

Most trades miss
30–40% of inbound calls.

Each missed call is a job that never existed. Drag the sliders below — see what voicemail is actually costing your shop.

Your numbers

What is voicemail costing you?

Drag the sliders. We do the math.

Calls you miss per workday
Phone rings, you're on a roof or under a sink.
7
≈ 154 missed calls / month
Average job ticket
Typical revenue per booked job.
$750
Close rate on answered calls
Of the people who reach you, how many book?
30%
Industry median for trades is 28–34%.
Net upside / month
$34,451
174.1× ROI
Recoverable jobs / mo46
Revenue back in pocket$34,650
AnswerCare flat fee– $199
Net upside$34,451
MATH: 154 × 30% × $750$199 = $34,451
A story

It's 2:43 PM.
You're under a sink.

A customer calls with an emergency lockout — a $185 job that needs someone on-site in an hour. Your phone rings twice. You can't reach it. They hit voicemail. They hang up.

They call the next locksmith on Google. They book with him.

“You just lost a job you didn't know existed.”

An answering service costs $150–300/mo — and takes a message. It doesn't book the job.

85%
of voicemail callers never call back
4–12×
how often a tech is unreachable in an average work day
$4,200
average monthly revenue lost to voicemail
67%
of the missed calls go answered by a competitor
Real calls. Anonymized.

Hear exactly what your customer hears.

Three recordings of the same service line, captured this week. Listen, then call our demo line yourself to test it live.

Now playing

Emergency lockout

Stranded customer in parking lot. Confirmed cross-streets, dispatched tech, sent ETA confirmation.

Address verifiedBooked in calendarSMS sent to techLogged + searchable
Side-by-side

How AnswerCare stacks up
against your real options.

FEATURE
Voicemail
Answering service
Ringwell / Voios / Capta
AnswerCare
RECOMMENDED
Cost / mo
$0
$150–300
$49–99
$199
Setup fee
$0–50
$0 (self-serve)
$497 one-time
Pickup time
2–4 rings
< 3 sec
< 2 sec
Available 24/7
business hours
✓ Always
Knows your trade
generic script
basic prompts
✓ Custom script
Books in your calendar
takes message
✓ Automatic
SMS to you + customer
sometimes
✓ Every call
Setup in < 1 day
instant
1–2 weeks
self-serve
✓ Same day
Approx cost-per-job
∞ lost
~$45
~$18
~$4
Answering service pricing from industry averages · Ringwell public pricing $49/mo · cost-per-job assumes 50 booked jobs / mo · AnswerCare data from live customers
How it works

Live by the end of the day.
No port. No commitment.

01
Day 1 · 15 min

Setup

15-minute discovery call. We learn your trade, service area, rates, job types, and how you want calls handled. We write your custom call script. You review and approve.

02
Day 1 · 1 hr

Go live

We forward your existing phone line. Every incoming call is answered in under 2 seconds. Bookings land in your calendar and your SMS inbox.

03
Days 2–15

14 free days

Monthly billing starts on day 15 after go-live — not before. AnswerCare is live with real callers for two full weeks. Cancel before day 15 and you pay nothing beyond the $497 setup. Continue and you pay $199/month.

Pricing

One price. No per-call fees. No tiers.

Single plan
$199/ month
First 14 live days are free
Unlimited calls — never a per-call fee
24/7/365 coverage
Custom script for your trade
Bookings into your existing calendar
SMS notifications to tech + customer
Spam + robocall filtering
Monthly performance report
Cancel anytime — 7 days notice
ONE-TIME SETUP FEE
$497

Discovery, script writing, voice tuning, calendar + SMS integration. Non-refundable — this is the real work.

Your 14-day free trial starts immediately — no $199/mo charge until day 15. Cancel before then and you owe nothing more.
Start your 14 free days Or book a 15-min setup call
No port-out. No long contracts. No surprise fees.
Operators

Quiet phones make for loud pipelines.

First week, AnswerCare booked four jobs I would have missed. Paid for itself by Tuesday.
MW
Marcus W.
McNeil Plumbing · Boise, ID
+$3,200
first week revenue
I stopped pulling over to answer the phone. My wife stopped fielding scheduling calls at dinner. That alone is worth it.
DR
Devon R.
Apex HVAC · Reno, NV
47 hrs
reclaimed in month one
I was paying a service for $480 that mostly just took messages. AnswerCare actually books the job. Different sport.
HS
Hank S.
Hank's Locksmith · Sacramento, CA
−$281
savings vs old service
FAQ

Real questions, real answers.

Most don't — and you can choose either way. Default voice is warm, conversational, and identifies as 'a service from [your business].' If you'd rather it disclose, we have a one-line script for that too. We'll show you both before you go live.
Every ring you miss is a job your competitor books

Stop leaking jobs.
Pick up by Friday.

Setup takes 15 minutes. Live by end of day. First 14 days free.

Start free →Call our demo line: (754) 227-6342
AVERAGE GO-LIVE: 5 DAYS · NO LONG CONTRACTS · CANCEL WITH 7 DAYS NOTICE
14 days free. $497 setup · cancel before day 15 and owe nothing more.
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