The tariff
More minutes. Same money.
Flat monthly pricing, no contracts, and more included talk time than the other guys at every tier. Start free for 7 days with unlimited minutes — the plan that makes you money, with Maria booking jobs and upselling your callers, is Maria Books.
Maria Books
- Voice-guided white-glove onboarding — set up by talking, no forms
- Answers 24/7 in your company’s nameEvery missed call is a job the next guy books.
- Speaks 10 languages, switches to the caller automaticallyYou keep the callers you used to lose.
- Knows your business — your website, your documents and your trade
- Books appointments into your calendarBooked while they are still on the phone.
- Proactively upsells your callers — books bigger jobsBigger ticket on the calls you already get.
- Texts your customers their appointment confirmationsFewer no-shows on jobs you already won.
- Warm & live call transfers to youBig one on the line? A real person takes it, live.
- Clone YOUR own voice — Maria answers sounding like you
- Takes messages & screens spam
- Summaries & full transcripts
- Connects to 1,000+ apps
Maria Closes
- Everything in Maria Books
- She calls back the ones who didn’t book — and texts if she can’t reach themThe calls you already paid to get, turned into jobs.
- On their clock, and she stops the moment they reply
- Two-way texting — they answer, she books, moves or cancelsThey text back, she books the job.
- Backup numbers — if you miss it she rings your partner, your foreman, then the shopThe caller holds instead of hanging up. No voicemail, no lost job.
- A number for each marketing campaign — see which ads actually bring calls ($10/mo per line)Kill the ads that don’t pay. Feed the ones that do.
- Connect ALL your CRMs at once
Start free: 7 days, unlimited minutes of the full Maria Books, every feature. Then it’s just $199/mo and Maria keeps right on going.
Every plan includes
Add extra lines to track your marketing: $10/mo per number
Put a different local number on each ad, flyer, or truck and you’ll know exactly which one is ringing. We break out the calls, bookings and upsells per number, and keep detailed call records (a summary and the full transcript of every call) for each line you have, the same detail as your main line. Minutes come out of your plan; each extra number is just $10/month, and you can turn one off anytime.
Add Maria to your website: $79/mo, or free on any annual plan
Why not turn your website into a lead-generating sales machine? Drop Maria onto your own site and every visitor can talk to her right there. She greets them, answers questions, and books the job while they’re still on the page. No more forms nobody fills out. She does everything on your site that she does on the phone — same Maria, same abilities, whether you’re on Maria Books or Maria Closes. The minutes come out of your plan. Pay yearly on either plan and it’s included free — a $948/yr bonus on top of your two months free. On monthly billing it’s $79/month.
Short calls cost you almost nothing
You pay for talk time, not for calls. We add up the actual seconds Maria is on the phone across the month. Nothing rounds up to a full minute, and nothing bills as a whole “call.” A wrong number, a pocket dial, a thirty-second “are you open Saturday?” costs you pennies.
The spam and sales calls Maria screens are free. Screened calls never touch your minutes: not your allowance, not your overage, ever. Services that meter you per call, or per “interaction,” charge full freight for that same thirty seconds.
The fine print: no surprises
Keep your existing number. Go over your minutes and Maria never stops answering. You only pay for the minutes you actually use, and we text you first. No surprises, ever.
Texting works the day you start. we set it all up for you, nothing to file. Pick from 40+ voices (male or female) and name your receptionist. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Month-to-month. Cancel or switch plans anytime.
The full Maria Books, unlimited minutes, no commitment.
Not happy in your first 30 days? We refund you. No problem.
The index
Pricing, answered.
Is there a contract?
No contracts, ever. Every plan is month-to-month — cancel anytime, and switch between Maria Books and Maria Closes whenever your call volume changes. And there’s a 30-day satisfaction guarantee: not happy in your first 30 days, we refund you. No problem.
What’s included in the free trial?
Seven days of the full Maria Books with unlimited minutes and every feature. No commitment — if it’s not for you, cancel before the trial ends.
What happens if I go over my minutes?
Maria never stops answering. Past your plan’s minutes it’s $0.49 a minute on Maria Books and $0.39 on Maria Closes — still well under the $1–$2 a minute a live answering service charges from the very first minute — and we text you before it happens. No surprises.
Do the annual plans really give me two months free?
Yes. Pay yearly and you pay for ten months, not twelve — two months free. Paying yearly also includes Maria answering on your website free, on either plan — that is a $79/mo add-on, so it is a $948-a-year bonus on top of the two months. Pay monthly and the website widget is $79/mo on either plan.
Can I keep my existing phone number?
Yes. Keep your number on any plan — no porting headaches — and add a local number in your area code if you’d like. Extra tracking numbers are $10/mo each.
How much does a virtual receptionist cost per month?
Maria Answers costs $199 or $499 a month, with the minutes included: 1,000 on Maria Books, 2,000 on Maria Closes. All-in that is about $0.20 and $0.25 per minute. There is no setup fee, no contract, and no per-call charge. For comparison, a traditional live answering service is usually a monthly base plus $1–$2+ for every minute an operator spends on your calls, so the same volume runs several times higher.
Which Maria Answers plan should I pick?
Pick by what you want Maria to do. Maria Books ($199/mo, 1,000 minutes) is the working trade business plan: she answers 24/7 in your company’s name, books straight into your calendar, upsells your callers and connects your CRM. Maria Closes ($499/mo, 2,000 minutes) adds the part most businesses lose money on — she goes back to the callers who did not book and RINGS them herself, on their clock, texting only if she cannot reach them, and stops the second they answer. An urgent caller is rung within the hour, not the next day. It also includes Maria on your website, a separate number for each of your marketing campaigns so you can see which ads actually bring calls ($10/mo per line), and unlimited CRM connections. You can move between plans at any time, and the free 7-day trial runs the full Maria Books with unlimited minutes, which shows your real call volume before you choose.
Is there a setup fee or a cancellation fee?
Neither. There is no setup charge on anything we sell, and no cancellation fee. Plans are month-to-month, you cancel from your dashboard, and the 30-day satisfaction guarantee refunds your first 30 days if Maria is not right for you.
What does Maria Answers include on every plan?
Both plans include 24/7 answering in your company’s name, a receptionist trained on your own Google listing, website and uploaded documents, your choice of 40+ voices, ten languages with automatic switching mid-call, calendar booking, caller upsells, appointment confirmation texts, warm transfers to your phone, outbound webhooks, a native CRM connection, instant text alerts, and a summary and full transcript of every call. Maria Closes adds the follow-up on callers who did not book — she calls them back, not just texts — two-way texting, a separate number for each of your marketing campaigns at $10/mo per line, and unlimited CRM connections. Maria answering on your website is included free when you pay yearly, on either plan, and $79/mo when you pay monthly — and she does everything on your site that she does on the phone, same Maria, same abilities.
See exactly how she works on the how-it-works page, or browse the Help Center.
Try her free for a week.
7 days free with unlimited minutes, then it’s just $199/mo. No contract, cancel anytime.