What would one captured job pay for?

The maths behind answering your calls

Call-answering can feel like another bill until you set it against the work it recovers. The sums are simple. If a typical job is worth £250 and a service costs £50 a month, then one captured job covers five months of cover. Put another way, you only need a fraction of a job a month to break even.

That is the point this calculator makes plain. Most small businesses miss more calls than they realise, and each missed call is a customer who may never call back. Recover even one of those jobs and the service has usually paid for itself with room to spare.

Reading your result

The headline figure follows a simple pattern: one job of a given value covers a number of months. The break-even figure shows how many jobs a month you need to cover the cost, which for most businesses is well under one. Anything above that line is profit against the spend.

Use your own numbers. A higher average job value means a single recovered job stretches further; a lower one means you need slightly more volume to break even. Either way, the calculation gives you a clear, honest basis for deciding whether call cover is worth it for your business.