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How much is your business losing to missed calls?
Most service businesses have no idea how much revenue walks out the door every time the phone goes to voicemail. This calculator gives you the actual number, based on your vertical, call volume, miss rate, and average customer value.
Why this calculator exists
The biggest revenue leak most service businesses ignore.
Across dental, medspa, physio, real estate, and contractor verticals, one number shows up in every single research report we ran: the average service business misses somewhere between 18 and 50 percent of its incoming calls. Not after hours. Not during lunch. Actual open hours.
And here is the part that makes it ugly: callers who get voicemail do not leave messages and wait. They hang up and call the next business on the list. In most verticals, the next call happens within 10 minutes. So “missed call” almost always means “this customer just became your competitor’s customer.”
The calculator above uses conservative assumptions: a 40 percent close rate on calls that would have been answered, and your own input for call volume, miss rate, and average customer value. If anything, it understates the loss. Your actual number is probably higher.
The research behind the numbers
Where the baselines come from.
The default values for each vertical in the calculator are pulled from industry research we ran across 1,500+ podcast transcripts and operational benchmarks from specific verticals. Here is the short version by vertical, with deeper reads linked for each one.
Dental
18 to 19 percent missed call rate during office hours
Based on 310 dental podcast transcripts. Average practice loses $3,000 to $15,000 per month to unanswered calls before counting the $550K+ in unscheduled treatment sitting in the PMS.
Medspa
Up to 50 percent missed call rate at single-location practices
Based on 524 medspa podcast transcripts. Solo operators miss calls during treatments. One medspa recovered $853K from a single missed-call text-back automation over 18 months.
Physio
$100 to $140 revenue lost per no-show or missed call
Canadian private physio averages, Jane App user benchmarks. Two no-shows or missed calls a day for a solo practitioner equals roughly $60K to $72K per year in lost revenue.
Realtors
81 percent of agents do not answer calls from paid-ad leads
Based on 373 realtor podcast transcripts and Ylopo / Real Geeks data. Combined with the 60-touch follow-up rule (most agents do 1.7), the revenue leak compounds to $100K+ per year for a typical agent.
Contractors
30 to 50 percent of calls go to voicemail on jobsites
Most contractors on a jobsite cannot answer. 40 percent of inquiries come in after hours. Close rate without systematic follow-up is 25 percent; with follow-up, 50 percent. The difference is typically six figures per year per truck.
Next step
Now you know the number. What do you do with it?
If the calculator shows less than $1,000 a month in losses, you probably do not need to change anything right now. A small number suggests your current phone handling is good enough, and the ROI on fixing it is marginal.
If the number is between $1,000 and $5,000 a month, you have a real leak worth closing. An AI phone agent typically pays for itself in 30 to 60 days at that level. The AI Phone Agent service is probably the highest-leverage change you can make.
If the number is above $5,000 a month, the calculator is understating it. At that level, missed calls are not your only leak — you almost certainly also have a follow-up gap, a reactivation gap, and a review gap. The Growth Package is built for businesses at this level.
Either way, the calculator number is a rough estimate. For the real number, with your actual data and benchmarks against local competitors, the $500 Revenue Audit produces a full PDF report in 7 days.
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