Recep picks up every call — during the dinner rush, at 2 AM, on Christmas Day — sounds like your best employee, and books the job before your competitor's voicemail even beeps.
Plumbing, HVAC, electrical, roofing — catch every job call before it goes to your competitor's voicemail.
You're here →Reservations, takeout orders, catering — answered during the dinner rush when your staff simply can't.
See how it works →Scheduling, insurance questions, after-hours triage — routed to the right person, every time.
See how it works →Bilingual buyer and seller qualification in English, Spanish, and more — 24/7, never miss a listing call.
See how it works →For home-service businesses, the call is the sale. Every one that goes to voicemail is revenue walking to your competitor.
Calls to small service businesses go unanswered during busy or after hours.
Of callers who hit voicemail won't call back — they dial the next company.
Average value of a single home-service job lost to a missed call.
Point your existing number to Recep — for overflow, after-hours, or every call. Or let it ring your team first and have Recep pick up on the 3rd ring if no one answers. Nothing to install.
Qualifies the lead, checks your calendar, books the job on the spot — or captures full details and photos if it's complex. Sends you a text summary instantly.
Pushes the appointment or lead straight into Jobber, ServiceTitan, Housecall Pro, or your CRM. Sends the customer a confirmation text and adds them to your follow-up queue.
Nights, weekends, holidays, and the moment your team is on a ladder — Recep picks up every time.
Flags urgent jobs — burst pipes, no heat, no power — and routes them to you immediately.
Name, number, address, and job type texted to you the second the call ends. No more sticky notes.
Checks availability and schedules the visit on the call, so the lead never goes cold.
Syncs with the calendar and CRM you already use, so the office sees everything in one place.
Custom greeting, your service area, your pricing rules — callers feel like they reached your team.
Slide your real numbers in. This is an estimate to show scale — your mileage will vary.
Drag to match your business.
Generic answering services treat a burst pipe like a billing question. We built Recep around how home-service jobs actually come in — the urgency, the dispatch, the after-hours rush — so every call is handled the way you would handle it.
The pain: Burst pipes and leaks don't wait for business hours. A missed 11pm call is a $2k emergency job lost to the next plumber on Google.
The pain: First 90°F day and the phone rings off the hook. Your team's on rooftops — every call that rolls to voicemail is a no-heat/no-AC job gone.
The pain: Callers want answers fast on safety issues. Slow pickup reads as "they're too busy for me" — and they dial down the list.
The pain: After a storm, leads spike for 48 hours then vanish. Crews are on-site and can't answer — the window closes fast.
The pain: A stuck door is "I need someone today." High intent, zero patience — they'll book with whoever picks up first.
The pain: Recurring-service revenue starts with one call. Miss it and you lose not just the job — but the whole contract behind it.
I used to keep my phone on the nightstand and just dread it. Now Recep takes the 11 PM "my basement is flooding" calls, books them for first thing in the morning — or texts me if it's a true emergency. First month it caught a $4,300 repipe job that would've gone straight to voicemail. It paid for itself the first week.
We're a four-truck shop and I was the only one answering phones. When I was on a call, the second line just rang out. I checked the report after our first heat wave with Recep — 31 calls answered in one afternoon that we physically could not have picked up. Eleven of them booked. I honestly didn't believe the number until I listened to the recordings.
I'm on a ladder half my day. I can't answer the phone with a hot panel open, and customers won't leave voicemails anymore — they just call the next guy. Recep answers like it's my front office, gets the address and the problem, and drops it into Jobber. My close rate didn't change. My pickup rate did, and that was the whole problem.
The average missed home-service call is worth $1,200. Recep costs less than a single one of them — per month. If it saves you just one job you would have lost to voicemail, everything after that is pure profit. Most customers recover 8–15 calls a month.
Flat monthly price. No per-minute charges. No contracts. 30-day money-back guarantee.
Some will, most won't — and almost nobody cares once they realize they're getting helped instead of getting voicemail. Recep speaks naturally, handles interruptions, and doesn't sound like a robot reading a menu. And if you prefer full transparency, we can have Recep introduce itself as your AI assistant. In our customers' experience, callers judge one thing: did someone pick up and solve my problem? Recep does, in under two rings.
Text us or update it yourself in your dashboard — changes go live in minutes, not days. Closing early for Thanksgiving? New emergency rate? Stopped offering duct cleaning? Recep knows the moment you save it. You never have to "retrain" anything, and there's no ticket queue to wait in.
Recep knows its limits — that's by design. If a caller needs something outside its lane (a billing dispute, a complex job, an angry customer), it warmly takes down the details and either transfers to you live or sends you an instant text with everything captured. You'll never find out about a hard call two days later on a voicemail. The rule is simple: Recep handles the routine, humans handle the exceptions, nothing falls through the crack in between.
No. You keep your number, your business cards, your Google listing — everything stays the same. You just set call forwarding: send Recep every call, only after-hours calls, or only the calls you can't get to (overflow). Most owners start with overflow and after-hours, see the booked jobs roll in, then hand over more. Turning it off is one setting, so you're never locked in.
An answering service takes a message. Recep takes the booking. Traditional services put a stranger with a script between you and your customer, charge by the minute, and hand you a callback list — which means you're still chasing leads on your own time. Recep answers instantly, qualifies the caller, checks your real calendar, books the appointment, and syncs it to your tools. It costs less than a part-time hire, works 24/7/365, and never puts anyone on hold.
Book a 15-minute demo. We'll show you exactly how Recep handles your calls and what it'd recover for your business.