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ROI calculator

What every missed call
actually costs you.

Move the four sliders. The ledger runs in real time. No email, no signup — this is math, not a lead magnet.

Inputs

Four questions.

We'll set a realistic starting average. You can override below.

$450

Ticket size for a booked job in your trade. Pre-tax, pre-tip.

10

43 per month at this rate

With no after-hours coverage, roughly 100% of those callers are lost.

What happens today when the phone rings and you can't pick up.

Ledger

Monthly impact.

Ledger · Monthly · USDQ1 · 2026
Revenue lost now
From missed calls at a 25% close rate, pre-Capta.
-$4,871
Recovered with Capta
Same calls, answered instead of missed.
+$4,871
Capta plan
Flat. Unlimited calls. No per-minute billing.
-$497
Net, monthly
After the plan. Assumes every call becomes an answered call.
+$4,374
Pays for itself after 2 answered calls per month.
Assumptions
  1. [1]25% close rate on phone leads (industry median; higher for HVAC emergencies, lower for landscaping).
  2. [2]4.33 weeks per month. Missed calls assumed evenly distributed.
  3. [3]Capta assumed to catch 100% of missed calls — in practice Maria answers every call, so this is the ceiling, not a stretch.
How we got here

The math behind the sliders.

Missed calls per month = weekly rate × 4.33. A contractor missing 10 calls a week is leaking 43 a month to voicemail or to competitors. The math doesn't care whether you missed them because you were on a ladder or because it was 7 PM.

Revenue lost = missed calls × average job value × 25% close rate. 25% is the median for phone-only leads in home services — a homeowner who picks up a phone is warm, but not every warm lead books. Higher-urgency trades (HVAC emergencies, water damage) run closer to 40%. Lower-ticket trades (landscaping) run closer to 15%.

Net with Capta = revenue recovered − $497. If Maria catches every missed call, you keep the whole recovered total minus the plan. Real-world conversion rates once calls are answered also tick up, because an answered call closes better than a returned voicemail — but we don't model that lift here. The number above is conservative on purpose.

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