Answering service for electricians
You can’t pick up the phone with your hands in a panel. Memobell answers, tells the caller your call-out fee, books the job or takes the details, and puts real emergencies like a burning smell from an outlet through to you.
Set it up from your Google listing
Free to set up. No card needed.
What it does
- Answers while you’re on a job or up a ladder
- Quotes the prices you’ve added, like a call-out fee or a price per outlet
- Asks what’s happening and whether it’s one room or the whole house
- Puts sparking, burning smells and lost power through to you
- Books estimate visits for EV chargers and panel upgrades
- Says whether you cover the caller’s area
- Sends each message and booking to Jobber, if you use it
An example: half the house goes dark
Say Marcus calls at 8 PM on a Sunday because half the house lost power and one outlet feels warm. Warm outlets are on your emergency list, so the call goes straight through to your cell phone. Later that night Dolores calls about adding four outlets in her garage. It quotes your per-outlet price, books her in for Tuesday morning and offers to text a confirmation. She says yes, and it arrives before she hangs up.
Emergencies and routine calls, sorted
Tell it what counts as urgent for you, such as sparking, a burning smell or a main breaker that won’t reset. Those calls go through to whoever is on call, and on Team and Busy it can try a backup number if they don’t pick up. Everything else is booked or written down for the morning, so you can see at a glance who needs you first.
The questions you’d ask
Set what it asks each kind of caller. For a repair it might ask what’s happening and whether the problem is in one room or the whole house. For an EV charger it can ask where the panel is and how far away the charger would go. The answers land in your inbox with the address and a one-line summary.
Quotes for small jobs, visits for big ones
Add your prices once. It can quote a fixed call-out fee, a price per outlet or switch with your minimum, or a starting price for an EV charger install. For panel upgrades and rewiring, where you need to see the job first, it books an estimate visit.
After hours without the late-night calls
Set a separate greeting for when you’re closed and choose which calls can reach you. Someone asking about a new light fixture at 10 PM gets booked into your next free slot. You only hear about it that night if it’s on your emergency list.
Questions
Can it tell an electrical emergency from a routine call?
Yes. Add what counts as an emergency for you, such as sparking or a burning smell, and it marks those calls urgent and puts them through during the hours you choose. Everything else is booked or left as a message.
Will it give quotes?
It quotes the prices you’ve added, like your call-out fee or a price per outlet. For panel upgrades, rewiring and anything else without a set price, it takes the details or books an estimate visit.
How much does it cost?
Plans start at $49 a month for 75 calls, with 7 days free. A call at midnight costs the same as one at noon, and robocalls and hang-ups don’t count.
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