Free tools · Missed-call revenue calculator
Free tool no. 1 —
What does an unanswered phone actually cost?
Four sliders, sixty seconds, and a number you may wish you hadn’t seen. Every missed ring has a dollar value; here is yours.
Set the dials to your shop
All inbound — office hours and after
Honestly, now — count the lunch rush and 7 p.m.
Of answered calls, how many become jobs
Blended repair/maintenance average
The leak, measured
Walking out the door yearly
$166,452
Figures assume 8 of 10 voicemail callers dial a competitor instead — the trade’s open secret.
An AI answering agent works this exact leak: every call answered in seconds, around the clock, booked straight into your schedule. Want this math run on your real call data — free?
Fair use · No limits, no login, no meter — the math runs right in your browser and costs nobody anything. Slide the dials all afternoon. Want the same numbers pulled from your real books? That part is also free.
The arithmetic is deliberately conservative. It counts only the callers you never speak to — not the ones who wait on hold and give up, not the web visitors who found no way to book at midnight, not the repeat business a rescued customer would have brought for a decade. Real leakage runs higher. The number above is merely the part that can be measured with a straight face.
And it is a leak, not a tax — leaks can be fixed. The shops that answer every call, at every hour, are not staffed by insomniacs. They wired the night shift and let customers book without calling at all — the whole after-hours economy is mapped in this Dispatch filing. If your number above is bigger than a service truck payment, it deserves fifteen minutes of your attention this week.
From the counter
About the math
Where does the 8-out-of-10 assumption come from?+
Industry call studies consistently find that the large majority of home-service callers who reach voicemail do not leave a message or call back — they dial the next result. We use 80% as a defensible middle figure; your after-hours number is likely worse.
My office answers everything during business hours. Does this still apply?+
Run the calculator with your honest after-hours and weekend volume in mind. For most shops, a third or more of emergency-intent calls arrive outside office hours — precisely the calls with the highest tickets and the least patience.
What is the fix, practically?+
Three tiers: missed-call text-back (cheap, catches some), an answering service (costly, books clumsily), or a custom AI agent that answers in seconds and books real appointments around the clock. The calculator usually makes the third option’s math obvious.
Don’t sweat it —
Plug the leak.
A custom AI agent answers every one of those calls in seconds and books straight into your schedule. The estimate for one costs nothing and takes a phone call.
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