Pay Full Price for Four Months.
Pay $29 for the Other Eight.
Your phone rings off the hook from January to April, then goes quiet — but every answering service bills you like it's March all year. callhand doesn't. Run a full plan through tax season, then drop to Standby for $29/mo. Your number, greetings, scripts, and integrations stay exactly where you left them.
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Tax Season — March, 6:40 PM
Deadline Call — October 14, 4:55 PM
The seasonal squeeze
Priced So You Get Punished for Being Busy
4x
call volume spike, January–April
Metered competitors bill the peak at overage rates.
8 months
of paying full price for a quiet phone
Or cancelling — and losing your entire setup.
62%
of callers won't leave a voicemail
A March prospect who hits voicemail files with someone else — for years.
$0
what most services refund off-season
'Cancel anytime' means rebuild everything next January.
The Standby Tier
The Off-Season Plan No One Else Sells
We checked every major answering service and AI receptionist on the market. The best they offer is "cancel anytime" — which deletes your configuration and puts you back at square one next January. Nobody offers a pause. So we built one.
Standby
$29/mo
May through December, for most firms
- Your number, greetings, scripts, and integrations held live
- Calls still answered 24/7 against a 50-minute allowance
- Summaries keep landing on your phone
- One-click switch back to a full plan in January
Core or Pro
$149+/mo
January through April
- Full surge capacity — unlimited simultaneous calls
- New client intake and consultation booking
- Deadline-aware triage and urgent escalation
- Top-up minutes below your plan rate, never auto-charged
A year of callhand for a seasonal firm: four months at $149 plus eight at $29 — $828/year, with your setup intact the whole time. Most competitors charge more than that by June.
Built for Tax Season
March Callers Handled Like It's Your Front Desk
While your team is heads-down in returns, the AI answers every call at once — and knows which ones can't wait.
Surge Without Hiring
4x call volume, zero temps. The AI answers every call simultaneously — no busy signal at the worst possible moment.
New Client Intake
Individual or business, filing status, what they need, how they found you — captured and booked into a consultation slot.
Deadline-Aware Triage
An extension-deadline call in October or an IRS-letter panic gets flagged urgent and escalated to the right accountant until acknowledged.
Document Request Handling
Callers get told exactly what to send and how; your team gets a tidy list instead of fifteen voicemails.
Client vs. Prospect Routing
Existing clients route by your rules; new prospects go to intake. Nobody important waits behind a robocall.
Discretion by Default
The AI never discusses a client's financials. It collects the callback and the reason — details stay between you and your client.
The Math
A Year of Coverage, Priced Like You Actually Operate
Typical Answering Service
callhand
March overflow calls
Billed as automatic overage
Answered; top-ups only if you choose
May through December
Full price for a quiet phone
$29/mo Standby
Your setup in the off-season
Deleted if you cancel
Held live, exactly as configured
Seasonal firm, full year
$3,000+
~$828
Contract terms
90-day minimums are common
Month to month
Busy-month billing surprise
Found out on the invoice
Alerts at 70% and 90%
One new business client signed in March typically covers the entire year of callhand — including the eight months at $29.
Busy Season Covered.
Quiet Season $29.
Set up before January and let the AI take the surge. Drop to Standby on April 16th.