Comparison
A live answering service versus an office that also routes, quotes and bills. What each one actually does with the call.
The fair case for Ruby Receptionist
Ruby uses real people, and they are good at it. For a business that just needs calls answered warmly and messages taken accurately, it does that job well.
Where it stops
They take a message. They cannot book the job, because they cannot see your schedule.
Priced by the minute, so a busy season costs more precisely when you are least able to watch it.
They do not know your prices, your service area, or which jobs you turn down.
Nothing they do reaches your route, your estimates or your invoices.
An answering service ends with a note. An office ends with the job on tomorrow’s route.
All included
Not screenshots and not a roadmap. Three live products — the software your business runs on, the assistant that answers your phone, and the website we build you. Open any of them.

Customers, properties, scheduling, the route map, chemical logging, invoicing. Poke at the live demo on that page — it is the real app with sample data. We operate it for you.
Open the live demo →
Day and night, English or Spanish. It knows your services, your prices and your area, and it books the job instead of taking a message. Ring it and see if you can tell.
Try the phone assistant →
A fast site built for your trade and your town, with the SEO pages behind it. Included in your plan rather than billed separately.
See what we build →Pricing
Start with Office at $349 and stop there if you like.That is the whole service — your phone answered, your software, your website and your billing. The three below are optional extras: add one, add all three, or never add any.
Every price includes the website, SEO, Google Business Profile, blogs, the software and your routes — there is no cut-down version. Extra calls $1.29 each. Setup $995, waived when you pay yearly, and yearly is two months free.