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Most callers do not want a message taken. They want a time. PhonePick looks at the calendar you already keep, offers only times that are free, and books one while the caller is still on the phone.
On every plan, from $75 a month. No contract, no setup fee.
What it does
Everything it cannot see for itself — a quote, a job outside your area, a party bigger than you take — becomes “someone will confirm”, because a promise a machine made is a complaint, not a job.
It reads your Google, Apple or Outlook calendar to see when you are busy, and never offers a time you already have something in. Each booking lands back in your calendar.
It only offers times inside your working hours. You can cap how many bookings it takes in a day, decide how soon is too soon — from straight away to three days' notice — and how far ahead it may go.
“Have someone ring me tomorrow at five” becomes a fifteen-minute appointment with the caller's name, number and what it is about. Call backs do not count towards your daily limit or block a slot.
Booking confirmation texts are on every plan, so the caller has the day and the time before they have put the phone down.
Setting it up
Being straight with you
It never books on top of something already in your calendar, and it never promises what it cannot see. Anything that needs a person — a price you have not written down, an unusual job, a booking outside your rules — is taken as a message or a call back for you to confirm.
Before you ask
Google Calendar, Apple (iCloud) Calendar and Outlook or Microsoft 365. It reads your calendar's private or published address to see when you are busy, and its bookings reach your calendar through a calendar link you subscribe to.
Yes. Pick “Restaurant, café or bar” and it books tables instead of appointments. It asks how many people before it looks at times, reads the day, time and party size back before it books, and you set how many parties can start in the same half hour and the largest party it will book.
No. It answers in 85 languages and gets the job done in the caller's own, and what reaches you is in English.
Call (249) 496-5966 and PhonePick answers its own phone, or walk round the real app on a sample business. Ten minutes to set up, and you keep your number.
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