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Live answering service for property management

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· 9 Live answering service checked

Your calls per month

Costs and the recommended pick below update to this volume.

Best at 400 calls/month

Specialty Answering Service$2,929/mo

Live answering service · passes 3 of 3 required checks

Industry constraints

Maintenance emergencies after hoursAll live answering service productsProperty management hub

SHORT ANSWER

9 of the 9 live answering service products we track meet every requirement for live answering service in property management. At 400 calls/month, the lowest monthly cost among them is $2,929 (Specialty Answering Service), and the median is $2,950.

Who this is for

Businesses whose tool must cover these capabilities: live human agents; takes and delivers messages; transfers calls to staff.

Property management: Maintenance emergencies after hours.

Typical property management businesses here: residential and commercial managers.

What to check before buying

  • Live human agents.
  • Takes and delivers messages.
  • Transfers calls to staff.
  • HIPAA: vendor signs a business associate agreement before handling patient information, encrypt patient information in transit and control how long recordings and messages are kept.

How costs scale

Costs scale with calls per month. The lowest monthly cost among products that meet every requirement: $783 at 100, $2,929 at 400 and $6,839 at 1,000 calls/month.

2 products sell without a published plan price and are not in these figures.

What this job needs

Requiredproducts passing

Live human agents9/9

Takes and delivers messages9/9

Transfers calls to staff9/9

Depends on your situation

Triage scripts for urgent callsClinical or emergency triage

Signs a HIPAA BAAPatient calls

Bilingual (English and Spanish) answeringSpanish-speaking callers

Answers 24/7 including holidaysYou need answering outside business hours

Right column on Required: share of tracked products that pass the feature check (included or available as an add-on).

Live answering serviceBest at your volume

9 qualifying products. Most also offer: Bilingual (English and Spanish) answering; Answers 24/7 including holidays.

Median cost$2,950/mo
Outsourced call center (BPO)

No qualifying products tracked yet.

Median cost—

Products that pass every required check

Ranked by fit, then cost at 400 calls/month. 9 of 9 tracked products pass after industry filters. The others are listed below, under missing a requirement or not enough public information.

Products qualifying for Live answering service for property management
#ProductFitCost scaleMonthly costIncidents (90d)Customer setups
1Specialty Answering ServiceLive answering service3/3$2,9292,500 Minute—0
2Smith.aiLive answering service3/3$2,950Pro—0
3PATLiveLive answering service3/3$3,5552,000 minutes—0
4Abby ConnectLive answering service3/3——0
5AnswerConnectLive answering service3/3Custom quotePublic estimates: $350 per month (1 source)—0
6Davinci VirtualLive answering service3/3——0
7MAP Communicationsin reviewLive answering service3/3——0
8NexaLive answering service3/3Custom quote, no public estimates found—0
9RubyLive answering service3/3——0

Cost includes add-ons this job requires. Plans whose included allowance is exceeded count only when an overage price is published. Cost scale is logarithmic. Incidents from public status pages. Customers counted from recorded customer setups.

Assumptions used: Average answering-service call length 6 minutes per call (source). How costs are computed

Missing a requirement 0

The vendor states a required feature is not offered, or offers it only on a higher plan.

None.

Not enough public information 0

No requirement is known to fail, but at least one is not stated on the vendor's public pages. Unknown is not a failure.

None.