Missed call cost calculator
How much revenue does your locksmith shop lose every month because nobody is answering the phone? Drag the sliders and the estimate updates as you go.
Your numbers
The starting values are examples, not industry averages. Drag each slider to match your shop; results update as you go.
Answering-plan comparison
Two more assumptions for the comparison card. Both are yours to set.
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Estimated revenue from missed calls each month at these inputs.
The estimate is over $12,000 a month. If your own call records back up inputs like these, answering more of those calls is worth pricing out now. If they don't, adjust the sliders until they match your shop.
An estimate from the inputs above, not a typical result or a guarantee.
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How this calculation works (in plain math)
We want you to be able to verify the numbers, so nothing is hidden. The calculator uses:
monthly_calls = calls_per_day × work_days × (1 + seasonal_uplift) missed_calls = monthly_calls × missed_pct lost_bookings = missed_calls × booking_rate lost_revenue_month = lost_bookings × avg_ticket lost_revenue_year = lost_revenue_month × 12 // Answering-plan comparison (both inputs are yours to set) recovered_monthly = lost_revenue_month × recovery_share // example: 0.9 net_monthly_gain = recovered_monthly − plan_cost // example: $500 (Core) roi_multiple = net_monthly_gain / plan_cost
The recovery share is an assumption, not a measured rate: we have no published data on how much missed-call revenue any answering setup wins back. It starts at 50% as an example. Lower it if the plan takes messages and you call people back, or if you're unsure. The plan cost starts at $500, TheKeyBot Core's monthly price, which includes 500 AI minutes; minutes over that are billed at 45 cents each, so add any overage you expect. Lite is $149 a month with 100 calls included, then 50 cents a minute.
Assumptions, caveats, and where your number might be off
The starting values are examples, not averages. They describe a made-up mobile locksmith shop. If you're a commercial / institutional locksmith with higher tickets and lower volume, bump the ticket up and the call-count down. The math will still hold.
Booking rate scales the result directly. So do calls per day, the share missed and the average ticket. The 55% starting value is only an example. To find yours, check 100 recent answered calls against your CRM or invoices and count how many became jobs.
After-hours share is yours to measure. The 38% starting value is an example. Your phone records show how many missed calls come in outside business hours. In this calculator the input only splits the missed-call count; it doesn't change the dollar result.
What the calculator does not include (but that also matters): the ad fees you may already have paid for leads you missed, the effect of missed calls on your Google Local Services ranking, later repeat work from the customer, and any change in no-shows if you take deposits. We don't have reliable numbers for these, so they're left out rather than guessed.
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