What could an unrecovered missed call be worth?

Use your call log and average job value to estimate revenue at risk. Leave out duplicate calls, non-sales calls and bookings you recovered later. This is a planning estimate, not measured lost revenue or profit.

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Missed call cost calculator

Illustrative starting values: five unrecovered sales calls a week, two potential bookings and a $500 average job. Replace these with your numbers. Potential bookings are capped at the number of calls.

Estimated annual revenue at risk: $52,000

Potential bookings per week × average job value × 52. This is revenue before costs, not profit or a forecast of revenue recovered by Vantage.

US job values for context

Home Service Hound 2025 reports the following typical job-value ranges. They describe different kinds of work and are not substitutes for your own completed-job averages.

  • HVAC repair: $320-$650
  • HVAC replacement: $5,000-$15,000+
  • Plumbing service call: $315-$856
  • Residential electrical job: $348-$419
  • Roof replacement: $7,500-$12,000

Use your own missed-call rate

Invoca 2025, as reported by Hicira, puts missed inbound calls in home services at about 27% and phone-lead conversion at about 46%. The measures have different denominators. Neither tells you which of your unanswered callers would have booked.

Count a typical week in your own log. Work out how many unanswered sales inquiries were still unrecovered after your normal follow-up. Choose a realistic number of potential bookings, then use the average value of that kind of job.

Turn the estimate into a test

Review a few weeks before and after a call-handling change. Look at answered conversations, booked appointments and completed work. Seasonality, job mix and dispatch capacity can change the result, so a calculator total is not a promise of what the system will earn.

Start with your actual calls and bookings

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