What are missed calls costing you?

No industry averages here, just your ticket, your missed calls, and your math. Adjust anything and the numbers update as you type.

Picking a trade just prefills the ticket. Edit it to your real number.

Pull up last week’s missed-call list and skip the obvious spam. What’s left is the honest number.

Most callers who hit voicemail are done with you. They’re already dialing the next place.

$31,200

a year at the numbers you entered. That’s 104 jobs, using your own close rate and your own average ticket.

$2,600

a month on the same arithmetic. BeepBack texts back every one of those calls for $79 of it.

3.8 months

of BeepBack paid for by one recovered job at your average ticket.

One saved job every couple of months covers it. Whether you save one is up to your callers, not up to us.

Set this up on my number

$79/month flat, going to $99 for new signups after this. First month free, starting the day your texting goes live. No contract, cancel anytime.

That is about $2,600 a month at the numbers you entered. Yours, not ours.

Set this up on my number $79/month flat, going to $99 for new signups after this. First month free, starting the day your texting goes live. No contract, cancel anytime.

The link in your address bar carries your numbers. Text it to yourself or your business partner.

How the math works

Yearly loss = missed calls per week × 52 × the share who would have booked × your average ticket. Payback months = your average ticket ÷ $79. Nothing here is an industry average. It’s your inputs, multiplied. We capped the close rate at 3 in 10 on purpose, because a number you believe is worth more to us than a bigger one you don’t. The one outside fact worth knowing is that most people who hit voicemail don’t leave a message or call back. They just call the next business in the search results.

What missed-call text-back pays back

The payback figure above is the whole return case in one number: how many months of BeepBack a single recovered job covers, at your own average ticket. At a $300 ticket that’s just under four months, so saving one job a quarter puts you ahead. Most trades clear it faster than that, because the calls that roll to voicemail tend to be the urgent ones, and urgent jobs carry bigger tickets.

Two things the calculator leaves out on purpose, both in your favor. It counts only the first job, never the repeat work or the referrals that come with a customer you kept. And it assumes every recovered caller books at your average ticket, when emergency work usually runs higher. Treat the number as a floor, not a forecast.

The other side, said plainly: this is arithmetic on your own inputs, not a promise. Pull last week’s real missed-call list and skip the obvious spam. If what’s left is small, the money case is small too, and what BeepBack mostly buys you is not being the one who has to answer the phone between jobs. Then see exactly what’s included.

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