Calculator · your assumptions
What does an answered phone net you, after its cost?
Most AI receptionist calculators add up revenue and hours saved and stop there. This one keeps going: it counts only the bookings that show up, only what you keep from each after the job’s own costs, only the payroll you would really stop paying, and then subtracts the bill. Amfion has not published a measured capture rate, so the result is your estimate, not our claim.
What you get
What the calculator counts, and what it refuses to
- Extra bookings that show up: inquiries × the share you miss × the share an instant answer would book × the share that shows up.
- What you keep: each of those bookings × your booking value × the share you keep after the job’s own costs. Revenue is not profit.
- Freed front-desk hours count as money only if you cut them from the payroll; otherwise they are time back, shown separately.
- The bill is the pricing page’s own model: the plan, the phone add-on and number where they apply, and call minutes beyond the bundle.
- It says how many extra bookings a month cover the bill, and what happens if only half as many come back.
Steps
The steps, in order.
Enter your booking value and what you keep from it
Booking value from your own invoices. What you keep is after that job’s direct costs: supplies, the pay of whoever does the work, card fees.
Pick a plan and your call minutes
The bill updates with the plan: Front Desk at $249 a month includes the phone and its minutes; Digital adds the voice add-on and a number when you want calls answered.
Decide whether freed hours come off the payroll
If the hours freed would simply become quieter hours for someone you still pay, leave the box unticked: the page shows the time back without adding it to the net.
Your assumptions
Estimate the upside from your own numbers.
Every input is yours. The result is an estimate from those assumptions, not a measured Amfion outcome.
Calls, chats, emails and texts from new customers.
Your assumption. Start low until you have counted.
After the job's own costs: supplies, the groomer's or technician's pay, card fees.
Front Desk includes a phone number and answered-call minutes.
A front-desk call runs two to four minutes.
Freed time counts as money only if you stop paying for it. Otherwise it is time back, shown below but not added.
- Covers its cost at 5 extra bookings a month that show up.
- If only half as many bookings come back: $232/mo.
- Time back: 34.6 hours a month, worth $831 at your hourly cost. Not added above.
Your estimate: 240 inquiries × 18% missed × 45% booked × 90% shown × $110 × 50% kept, less the Front Desk bill from our published prices. Amfion has not published a measured capture, show or margin rate; this is your assumption, not our claim. Taxes are not modeled.
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Answered plainly.
Which assumptions matter most?
The missed share and the booking share. They multiply, so a small change in either moves the result a lot. Count the first from a two-week log; keep the second conservative until you have measured it. The half-recovery line shows how much room the estimate has.
Why does it not count all the freed hours as savings?
Because an hour freed is only money if you stop paying for it or sell it. If the same person stays on the same schedule, the hours come back as time, not cash. Tick the payroll box only if you would really cut those hours.
Why use what I keep instead of the booking value?
A booking brings in its full price, but the job has its own costs. What you keep after them is what can pay for software. Using the full price would make any tool look better than it is.
How do I validate the estimate?
Run the two-week log before and after a change. With Amfion, the Performance page shows bookings and their value by channel, with your test bookings excluded, so the comparison is against real appointments.