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Free missed call calculator

What do missed calls cost your business?

Every unanswered call is a customer deciding whether to wait or call the next company. Put in your own numbers and see what it adds up to each month and year.

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Why calls go unanswered

The calls you miss are the ones that matter most.

Calls get missed at the worst times: when the team is on a job, after hours, at lunch and during the busy season, which is exactly when demand is highest.

How many calls do businesses really miss?

Invoca’s 2026 home services benchmarks report found that nearly half of calls to home service businesses never reach a person. Check your own phone system’s missed-call log for a week to get your real number.

Why don’t callers leave a voicemail?

Someone with a burst pipe or a locked car wants help now. Many hang up and call the next business on Google rather than wait for a call back, so the first company to answer often gets the job.

What are the ways to fix it?

A missed-call text back that replies within seconds, an answering service, or an AI receptionist that answers every call, books the job from your calendar and sends urgent calls straight to your phone.

Are your Google Ads calls being answered?

If you pay for clicks, every missed call is paid for twice. We track every call from Google Ads with call recordings in Clarity, so you can see which calls went unanswered and when.

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How much do missed calls cost a business?

Multiply the calls you miss each month by the share of those callers who would have hired you, then by your average job value. A business that misses 40 calls a month, would have booked 4 in 10 of them and averages $400 a job loses about $6,400 a month. This calculator does that math with your numbers.

How many calls do service businesses miss?

More than most owners think. Invoca's 2026 home services benchmarks report found that nearly half of calls to home service businesses never reach a person. The easiest way to know your own number is the missed-call log on your phone system or call tracking.

Do people call back after a missed call?

Some do, but many call the next business on the list instead, especially for urgent jobs like a leak, a lockout or a breakdown. That is why the calculator asks what share of missed callers never call back.

How can I stop missing calls?

Options include a call answering service, a missed-call text back that replies within seconds, or an AI receptionist that answers every call, books the job and sends urgent calls to your phone. Measure your missed calls first so you know what it is worth fixing.

What should I enter as my average job value?

Use the average invoice for the kind of job these calls are about, not your biggest jobs. If customers come back for years, raise the jobs per customer number to see the lifetime value you are losing.

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