Pricing
One monthly price. Nothing billed by the minute.
If you've paid for an answering service, you know the invoice: two-minute calls rounded up to five, hang-ups billed, robocalls on the meter. Tendease is one flat price a month, and plans start at $79.
- 14 days free
- No credit card to start
- Cancel in two clicks
Solo
For the owner who answers their own phone.
$79 a month
- 1 business number, 1 calendar
- Up to 150 answered calls a month
- Answers day and night
- A text summary after every call
- Urgent calls ring your cell
For a shop with a crew
Crew
For a few people on the schedule: techs, stylists, chairs.
$149 a month
- Everything in Solo
- Up to 5 calendars, booked by person
- Up to 400 answered calls a month
- Summaries go to whoever needs them
- An on-call rotation for urgent calls
Multi-location
For two to five locations under one owner.
$299 a month
- Everything in Crew
- Each location keeps its own number, hours, and calendars
- Up to 1,000 answered calls a month
- One daily recap across every location
- A person helps you set it up
Every plan starts with the same 14-day trial, no credit card. Plans and prices are fictional, written for this concept project.
The fine print, in big print
A call counts once. A robocall doesn't count at all.
A call is a call whether it runs one minute or twelve. There's no clock, no rounding, and no per-minute line on a bill. The only thing your plan counts is a real conversation with a real caller.
Busier month than your plan covers? You get a text before anything changes. Calls keep getting answered through the end of the month, and you decide whether to move up a plan. There is no overage charge.
Never counted against your plan
- Spam and robocalls$0 · not counted
- Hang-ups$0 · not counted
- Wrong numbers$0 · not counted
- Your own test calls$0 · not counted
- A long call with a talkerCounts as 1 call
The numbers, not the hype
One job pays for four months. Check it with your numbers.
That's a $340 job against the $79 plan. Yours will be different, so put in your own average job and a guess at how many calls you lose in a month.
Your month
- Jobs you'd get back
- $1,020
- Tendease
- -$79
- Left over
- $941
The first job it books covers the month. Everything after that is yours.
One job at your price covers 4.3 months of this plan.
This is arithmetic on the numbers you typed. It is not a promise of results.
The trial
14 days free. No card, so there's nothing to charge.
You've seen trials that quietly bill the card on file a week in. This one never asks for a card, so it can't. On day 14 you pick a plan or you don't. If you don't, Tendease stops answering and your phone rings the way it did before.
Start my 14-day trialLeaving
Cancel in two clicks.
Settings, then Cancel plan. There's no phone call to make, no retention pitch to sit through, and no 30-day notice. Your number was never ours, so there's nothing to port back. Switch off forwarding and you're done.
Questions worth asking before you trust a robot with your phone.
Will it sound like a robot?
It's software with an AI voice, and you should judge it with your own ears before a customer has to. Forward your number, call it from your cell, and give it your worst: mumble the address, ask for something you don't do. If you don't like what you hear, you've spent ten minutes and no money. The sample call shows the kind of conversation it has.
Do I keep my number?
Yes. Your number stays with your carrier, in your name. You forward it to Tendease, which takes about four minutes, and you can turn forwarding off whenever you want. If you'd like a new local number instead, you can ask for one.
What if it can't answer something?
It takes a message and texts it to you right away, or it rings you if the caller would rather wait for a person. If the caller says it's urgent, the call goes straight to your cell. It doesn't guess at prices or promise times you don't have.
How do I cancel?
Two clicks: Settings, then Cancel plan. There's no contract and no notice period, and nobody calls to talk you out of it. Turn off forwarding and your phone is exactly how it was.
Will the trial charge my card?
It can't. The trial doesn't take a card. You only enter one if you choose a plan after the 14 days.
What counts as a call?
A real conversation with a real caller, counted once no matter how long it runs. Spam, robocalls, hang-ups, wrong numbers, and your own test calls are never counted.
Try it on your own phone first.
The trial is free and takes no card. The worst case is ten minutes you don't get back.
14 days free. No credit card. From $79 a month after, and you cancel in two clicks.