Calculator
See the full picture: recovered revenue, saved floor-staff time, and prevented churn — all in one number.
An AI phone agent pays for itself on any one of three axes — recovered calls, reduced interrupt cost on floor staff, or captured after-hours demand. Most venues see payback on all three at once. This calculator stacks them honestly.
Monthly revenue recovered
$4,562
Monthly labour saved
$480
Net monthly return
$4,743
After ~$299/mo Calso subscription.
Payback period
2 days
Line one is the direct revenue recovered — missed calls that now convert to bookings. Line two is the interrupt cost saved — every call a staff member doesn't take is a table they're giving attention to. Line three is after-hours capture — calls at 9pm, 10pm and 11pm that currently go to voicemail and are forgotten by morning.
On Calso's current pricing and the inputs in this calculator, a typical Australian cafe sees payback inside 30 days; a typical restaurant inside 14 days. Bars and catering operations with spikier call patterns see payback fastest because their miss rate is highest.
We've deliberately modelled the low end of industry conversion rates and the low end of typical miss rates. If your venue's numbers are on the realistic-to-high end, your actual return will be meaningfully above what this calculator shows.
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