Answering service: what it costs and what you actually get

You are on a job and your phone rings. Answering costs you your concentration; not answering costs you the work. An answering service is the third way — and it no longer has to cost hundreds a month.

A human answering service typically charges $1 to $3 per answered call on top of a monthly plan, or $1.50 to $2.50 a minute: at a hundred calls a month that is $200 to $400. A receptionist on your payroll costs thousands. An AI receptionist that reads your website first costs $25.95 a month with us, including a thousand minutes of calls.

The difference is not only the price but the unit: you pay for minutes, not for every time your phone rings.

What you get

• She always answers — evenings, weekends, and while you are under a floor.
• She knows your business: she read your website before the first call.
• After every call the report is on your phone: who called, what for, what you need to do.
• If a caller wants an appointment, she checks your calendar and books it.
• She speaks your caller’s language — English, Spanish, Arabic and twenty more.
• You switch it on with one code on your phone, and off with another.

What people ask about this

What does an answering service cost?

A human answering service usually charges $1 to $3 per answered call on top of a monthly plan, or $1.50 to $2.50 a minute — at a hundred calls a month that is $200 to $400. With us it is $25.95 a month for a thousand minutes, however often the phone rings.

Will my customers notice it is outsourced?

She answers with your business name and knows what you do, because she has read your website. Most callers notice nothing. If somebody asks whether she is an AI, she is honest about it — she never pretends to be human.

How quickly can I start?

Within minutes. You pick a plan, dial one forwarding code on your phone, and from then on calls are answered when you do not pick up. Another code switches it off.

Can I try it first?

Yes, free and without an account. Enter your website and your phone number, and within a minute she rings you so you hear how she talks about your business.

What if she does not know something?

Then she says so, writes the question down, and you ring back with the answer. She invents nothing: everything she says about your business comes from your own website or from what you fill in yourself.