Missed call text-back for contractorsYou missed
the call.
We got it.

An auto-text app texts them back. First Call catches what happens next. When your customer replies, those apps drop the reply onto your personal cell — where it gets buried between texts from your wife and your buddy. First Call captures every reply in a dedicated lead inbox, moves it through a pipeline (New → Contacted → Quoted → Booked), and shows you the dollar value of what you recovered at the end of the month. It's the difference between a text blast and an actual lead recovery system.

Your cell number never changes — the phone in your pocket stays exactly as it is. What changes is the number you advertise: your First Call number goes on your Google listing, your next batch of cards, your truck magnet. Existing clients keep calling your cell as usual, so within 60–90 days new leads flow through First Call and your personal number quietly becomes your existing-client line. Clean separation, no awkward announcement to anyone — and making that swap IS the setup, because a number nobody can find never rings.

Because a second phone separates your calls — it doesn't answer them. The work line rings in the truck while you're on a roof, exactly like your cell does, so you end up with two phones missing the same calls. First Call gives you a dedicated number too, but it lives in the app instead of your pocket: no second device, no second bill, nothing else to leave in the truck. And when you can't pick up, it actually responds in 18 seconds, catches the reply in a lead inbox, and tracks it through to booked. That's the part the second line never did.

They'll reach them. First Call automatically registers your number through the carrier compliance system (A2P 10DLC) during setup — the same registration that separates legitimate business texts from spam. Most text-back tools skip this step. We handle it automatically so your 18-second reply actually lands on their screen.

Their reply appears in your First Call inbox as a live conversation thread — think of it like a work-only iMessage. You reply, they reply, the whole conversation is tracked. When you book the job, you log it and First Call adds it to your recovered revenue total for the month. At the end of the month you'll know exactly what First Call made you — down to the dollar.

18 seconds. About 1 in 3 calls to home service businesses went unanswered in a review of 1,000 recorded calls (Service Direct, 2019 study of 94 home-service businesses), and when you're on a job site, those are your calls. The contractors who win those jobs are the first to respond. Your auto-text fires before they've finished looking up the next contractor on Google.

HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing, landscaping, painting, general contracting — any trade where you're on a job site and physically can't answer your phone. If your average job is worth $300 or more and you miss more than a handful of calls a month, First Call pays for itself on the first recovered job.

Yes. No contracts, no cancellation fees. Cancel from your settings in 30 seconds. We'd rather earn your $49 every month by actually recovering your missed calls than lock you in with fine print.