One plan. $500 a month. Flat.
No per-minute caps. No setup fee. Month to month. Cancel anytime. That is the whole page; the rest is the math.
Flat rate. Every call, every minute, every channel of the phone workflow. Month to month, cancel anytime.
What one answered call is worth
This is a revenue line, not a cost line. In pest control, the jobs go to whoever picks up the phone. Market ranges, not quotes from any one company.
A one-time pest job
$188 to $369The routine call. Ants, roaches, spiders. The ones that ring out while both trucks are on jobs.
A quarterly plan customer
$480 to $800 a yearNot one job, a standing route stop. The single most valuable call to pick up.
A termite or bed bug job
$1,000 to $4,000One caught call covers months of PestLine. These callers ring the next company fastest.
And what answering costs today
Market rates, not quotes from any one vendor.
A full-time CSR
$33,000 to $43,000 a yearPlus taxes, training, turnover, and the hours nobody covers: nights, weekends, swarm season.
A human answering service
$245 to $909 a monthTakes a message. Does not qualify the pest, does not book, and you still play phone tag.
Pest-specific AI receptionists
From $449 a monthWith per-minute caps. A busy July runs the meter exactly when you can least watch it.
The return is extra booked jobs, not a smaller payroll. One caught termite call covers months of PestLine; one saved quarterly customer is worth $480 to $800 a year. The fact that it also costs about a seventh of a CSR is the floor, not the pitch.