A free calculator

What does taking bookings by phone cost?

Every booking costs staff minutes, and the calls that ring out at 7pm cost the whole job. Nothing you type leaves your browser.

JavaScript is off The sliders need it. Nothing is hidden behind them: bookings × minutes × loaded rate for the admin cost; missed calls × the capture rate you choose × booking value × margin for the recovery. The platform it prices is on the catalogue page, from $50,000, staged.

Bookings you take a week

60 bookings

Staff minutes per booking, phone-tag included

6 min

Loaded rate of whoever answers

$45/hr

Calls that ring out or hit voicemail — your estimate

10%

Share of those you would capture with self-booking? Your guess

Average booking value

$180

Your gross margin

35%

Phone admin / year$14,040

Shown for scale. None of it is counted in the payback below — a system takes over most of this, not all.

Bookings recovered / month0

At your own guess of what self-booking captures.

Kept, at your margin$0 /yr

Margin on recovered bookings only.

Nothing recovered at zero.

The capture slider starts at nothing on purpose: this page asserts no uplift, you do. Drag it to what you believe and the arithmetic follows.

The maths, in full. Phone admin a year = bookings per week × minutes each ÷ 60 × loaded rate × 52. Missed calls a month = bookings per week × 4.33 × the ring-out share you estimate. Recovered = missed × the capture rate you set. Kept = recovered × booking value × your margin. It counts no-shows and deposits at zero — self-booking with payment usually changes both, but we do not have your figure so neither does this — and it counts none of the admin saving in the payback. Both choices understate the case on purpose.

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The staged platform it prices

Book and pay: self-booking, with payment taken at booking. From $50,000, staged, with a walk-away at every gate — you see it running on your own data before each stage's money moves.

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How this page works

In your browser, no sign-up, nothing kept. The capture slider starts at zero, the payback ignores the admin saving entirely, and no-shows and deposits are counted at zero — every choice understates the case, so the number you get is one you can defend.