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"It was our biggest ticket that month, and it started with a call none of us picked up."
That's the owner of a 4-truck shop in Canton talking about a new-door replacement that ran a little over $2,200. The job was real, the customer was serious, and the whole thing turned on details a rushed voicemail would have flattened into "call me back about a door." Instead, Ava captured all of it — and the clean intake is why the shop won the work.
Big-ticket door replacements aren't simple phone calls. This one came with an HOA in the mix: the customer needed a specific style and color to match the community's approved list, had paperwork the HOA required, and wanted documentation of the quote for the board.
That's a lot to get right on the phone. When the Canton crew was slammed and the call went to voicemail, the customer would leave a vague message. Someone would call back hours later, ask half the questions, miss the HOA piece entirely, and the whole quote would stall. Complicated jobs — the ones worth the most — were exactly the ones the shop was fumbling.
The owner forwarded his existing number to Ava. Now the calls the crew couldn't take got answered live, 24/7, with a full intake every time — name, phone, address, and the actual issue, spelled out.
On the HOA call, Ava captured the whole picture: replacement door, the style and color the HOA required, the customer's timeline, and the note about needing documentation for the board. Then she booked a window for the on-site quote and sent the owner an SMS and email summary with all of it laid out. Nothing was lost between the ring and the callback, because there was no gap to lose it in.
The owner walked into that quote already knowing what the customer needed. He matched the HOA's approved style, wrote up the documentation the board wanted, and closed a $2,200-plus door — the biggest single ticket on the board that month. Across the same 30 days, Ava captured 29 leads and the shop booked 13 jobs, but this was the one that paid for the software many times over.
He'd almost cancelled after week one — thought answering was "just answering." Then he read the HOA summary on his phone and realized Ava had captured a detail his own crew routinely missed on rushed callbacks. "If we'd called that lady back the old way," he said, "we'd have quoted the wrong door and lost her to whoever asked the right questions."
That's what full capture is worth. On small tickets it saves you a callback. On big ones, the difference between a complete intake and a vague voicemail is the difference between winning the job and never quoting it. It's the same logic behind what missed and half-caught calls actually cost — and at a flat monthly fee with no contract, one captured door replacement covered the service for the better part of a year.
The complicated calls are usually the valuable ones. Capture them completely, or watch them walk.
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