What is an AI receptionist? And what's different here.
An AI receptionist answers your business phone in a natural voice and does the front-desk work: it talks with the caller, takes the details, answers questions, books the appointment and passes urgent calls on. QuickVOC's AI receptionist is built into the QuickVOC CRM, so every call ends as a lead on your board with the recording, transcript, summary and booking, ready for the estimate, the invoice and the payment. It is included in every plan, from $149 a month with 300 AI minutes, about 100 calls.
Nights, weekends and holidays. Every call gets an answer, not a voicemail.
Switches to the caller's language on its own, Spanish included.
Quotes from your price list and never makes one up.
Recording, transcript and summary on the lead in your CRM.
Open times from your hours or Housecall Pro, booked when the caller says yes.
Questions, job steps and job types for 18 trades, ready on day one.
What it does on one call.
- 1Answers in your name
Picks up day or night, weekends and holidays, with your company name and greeting. No hold music, no voicemail.
- 2Asks your trade's questions
Year, make and model for a body shop. System and symptoms for HVAC. Bedrooms and bathrooms for a cleaning company.
- 3Quotes only your prices
From the price list you enter. If a service is not on your list, it does not make up a price.
- 4Books when the caller says yes
Offers open times from your business hours or your Housecall Pro schedule, and books only after the caller confirms.
- 5Hands off when it should
Transfers to your team when the caller asks for a person and someone is on duty. Urgent words like no heat or burst pipe alert you right away.
- 6Writes it all into the CRM
The lead, the recording, the transcript, the summary and the next step are on your board before you hang up your other call.
What is in your CRM when the call ends.
A separate answering service hands you a message. QuickVOC hands you a lead that is ready to become a job, an estimate, an invoice and a payment.
With the caller's name, number, address, job type and where the call came from, in the step your jobs start in.
Play the call, read it, or just read the short summary of what the caller needs and when.
QuickVOC reads every call and sets the follow-up: call back, send the estimate, confirm the visit. Reminders come on Telegram or by email.
Build the estimate from your own rates and templates. The customer opens the link, signs and approves it.
Turn the estimate into an invoice. Your Zelle, Venmo, check or other ways to pay are on it, and you record the payment on the same lead.
Every call, chat, job, estimate, invoice and payment for that customer on one page, the next time they call.
AI receptionist vs answering service, front desk and voicemail.
| What you get | QuickVOC AI receptionist | Answering service | Front-desk receptionist | Voicemail |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hours covered | 24/7, nights, weekends and holidays | Often 24/7, depends on the plan | Office hours, about 40 a week | 24/7, but only records a message |
| Books the job | Yes, when the caller confirms | Some can; many take a message | Yes | No |
| Knows your prices | Quotes only from your price list | Reads the script you give them | Yes | No |
| Speaks the caller's language | Up to 15 languages, switches on its own | Depends on the service | Depends on the person | No |
| Where the call ends up | A lead in your CRM with recording, summary and next step | A message by email or phone | Wherever they write it down | A voicemail you play back later |
| Monthly cost | $149 to $549, CRM included | Usually billed by the minute or by the call | About $3,170 in wages for one full-time person | Free |
Front-desk cost: median pay for receptionists was $18.27 an hour in May 2025 (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics), about $3,170 a month for 40 hours a week, before payroll taxes and benefits. Answering services vary by provider and plan.
How much does an AI receptionist cost? Here, the CRM comes with it.
One price for the receptionist and the CRM
QuickVOC costs $149, $299 or $549 a month. Every plan includes the AI receptionist and the full CRM: pipeline, customers, estimates, invoices and payment records. An AI minute is one minute the AI spends on a call. Calls average about 3 minutes, so Starter's 300 minutes cover about 100 calls, roughly $1.49 a call. Work you do in the CRM never uses AI minutes. Every plan starts with a 3-day free trial with 25 AI minutes and no credit card.
AI minutes by plan
| Plan | Price | AI minutes | About | Extra minute |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $149 | 300 | 100 calls | $0.25 |
| Pro | $299 | 1,000 | 330 calls | $0.22 |
| Business | $549 | 2,500 | 830 calls | $0.20 |
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