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?
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. 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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