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Built for home services

When the crew's on a roof, who answers the phone?

HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing, garage doors, restoration — the calls come at all hours, and the job goes to whoever picks up first. SimpleCX answers every one, tells a burst pipe from a routine tune-up, and books the work while your techs keep working.

Every missed call is a customer who called someone else.

The problem

A ringing phone with nobody free to answer it

Home services runs on emergencies, and emergencies don't keep business hours. When a call goes to voicemail, the homeowner is already dialing the next name on the list.

27%
of calls to small home-services businesses go unanswered
After hours
Nights, weekends and holidays are when the pipes actually burst
Seasonal
Heat waves, cold snaps and storms bury the phone in overflow all at once

What should happen instead

Start with the experience you want for every caller

Tell SimpleCX what should happen when someone calls about a broken furnace at 11pm. It designs exactly that — no menus to build, nothing to assemble.

Never miss an after-hours emergency

No flooded basement ever hits a dead voicemail. Every caller is greeted and handled, nights, weekends and holidays included.

Tell urgent from routine

A gas smell reaches your on-call tech right away; a seasonal tune-up gets booked or queued for the morning — automatically.

Book by text and web, not just voice

Homeowners can text a photo of the problem or request a slot online — all of it lands in the same place your calls do.

Catch the storm-surge overflow

When a cold snap lights up every line at once, extra callers are offered a callback instead of a busy signal — and get called the moment you're free.

Every call written up for you

Address, the problem, and the mood of the caller — summarized so the tech rolls up already knowing the job.

?Know your busiest hours — just ask

"When do the emergency calls spike?" Ask in plain words and see the picture, so you staff the on-call rotation where it counts.

How it works

From "we keep missing calls" to covered — in about five minutes

You talk

Describe your shop

"We're a plumbing company, three trucks, we miss nights and Sundays." That's the whole brief.

It builds

See it designed

Emergency routing, after-hours handling, text-to-book and callbacks — laid out for you to approve.

You go live

Answer every call

Urgent jobs reach the on-call tech; routine work gets booked; nothing falls through.

You ask

Run it by asking

"How many emergencies came in last night?" — answered from your own account, with a chart.

Questions

Home-services questions, answered

Can it tell a real emergency from a routine service call?

Yes — that's the point. You describe what counts as urgent for your trade, and SimpleCX routes true emergencies straight to your on-call tech while booking or queuing the routine work. You decide the line; it holds it every time.

What happens after hours and on holidays?

Callers are greeted and handled around the clock. Emergencies reach whoever's on call; everything else is captured with a callback or a booked slot for the next working hour — never a dead voicemail.

Our techs can't answer while they're on a job. Does that matter?

No. The whole design assumes your people are in the field. Calls are answered, sorted and captured for you, so a customer is never lost just because both hands were on a wrench.

What about the seasonal rush?

When a heat wave or storm floods every line at once, overflow callers are offered a callback instead of a busy signal, then called back the moment a line frees up. You capture the surge instead of losing it to the competitor who happened to pick up.

Do I need a phone system or an IT person to set this up?

No. You describe your business in plain words and approve the design. The configurator is free, pricing is a flat per-seat rate with no minimums and no setup fee, month-to-month — long-distance and AI usage are billed only as you use them.

Ready when you are

Stop losing jobs to whoever picks up first

Describe your business and see your line designed in about five minutes. Free to try, no card, no lock-in.