Never lose another lead to a missed call.
85% of people who call a local service business and get sent to voicemail hang up and call the next name on the list. Janus catches them instantly with an automated, branded text-back sequence, locking in the conversation before they ever leave your funnel.
An unanswered phone is your competitors' best marketing channel.
The Missed Call: You're on a job site, driving, or handling a client. The phone rings, you miss it, and it goes to a standard voicemail inbox.
The Abandoned Voicemail: Modern homeowners don't want to leave a message and wait hours for a call back. They want engagement now.
The Next Search: They immediately click the next listing on Google. By the time you check your voicemail, the job has already been booked by someone else.
How It Works
The moment you miss a call, Janus goes to work.
Step 1 — The Instant Trigger: A client dials your business number. If the line is busy or rings out, the Janus engine intercepts the event in real time.
Step 2 — The Branded Text-Back: Within seconds, Janus automatically sends a personalized text from your business number: "Hi, this is { your business name}. Sorry we missed your call. How can we help you out today?"
Step 3 — The Interaction Dashboard: The customer's reply routes instantly to your central Janus Lead dashboard, flagged with high-urgency visibility so your crew can reply on the go.
Texting you can actually budget for
Every missed-call text-back, every reminder, every review request goes out as a real SMS — and someone has to pay the carrier for it. Most tools in this space handle that badly: you buy "message credits" in a currency you have to decode, or you get charged some moving per-text number tied to "actual carrier cost," or an overage bill lands weeks later for texts you didn't know you were racking up. A few just quietly stop sending once you hit a limit, and you find out when customers stop replying.
We didn't want any of that on your invoice, so we built it differently.
How Janus bills for texts
How it works
Every plan includes a monthly text allowance — [200 texts] — that covers confirmations, reminders, review requests, and missed-call replies. For most shops, that's the whole story: you never think about it.
Go over, and it's one published rate — [$0.04] per text, the same number on every plan, printed right on our pricing page. Not a credit. Not a markup on a carrier rate you can't see. One number you can do math with.
It rolls into the bill you already expect. Overage isn't a separate charge that hits your card mid-month. It's added to your next regular quarterly invoice, same card, same cycle. No surprise line item, no second transaction to reconcile.
You can watch it happen. Settings → Billing shows a live meter — texts used this month, out of your allowance, with the running overage cost if you're past it.
You decide what happens at the limit. Keep sending and pay the per-text rate, or pause outbound customer texts until the next month starts. Your call, set once, changed anytime.
Why we chose this
Why we built it this way
We think you should be able to answer "what does a text cost me?" without opening a spreadsheet. That rules out message-credit systems, where the answer is "it depends on the bundle you bought." It rules out billing "actual carrier cost," where the answer changes and you can't plan around it.
It also rules out drip-charging your card every time you cross a threshold. A steady stream of small charges is how you end up not trusting your own invoice. One predictable bill, once a quarter, with the texting folded in — that's the whole design goal.
And when a busy month does push you over, that's your decision to make, not ours. That's why "pause" is a real option and not just a warning email.
How this compares
What you won't deal with
No message-credit currency to buy, track, or forecast.
No "carrier cost" markup that moves month to month.
No overage invoice you didn't see coming — it's on the bill you were already going to get.
No silent throttling. If texts are going to pause, you set that up on purpose, and you get a heads-up at 80% of your allowance first.
No per-seat texting fees. Add your whole crew; the allowance doesn't change.
The Final Push
Stop running your business from a missed-call log.
Get the digital front door that captures, scores, and saves your incoming leads automatically. Start text-backing your customers today.
Pricing Transparency
Janus Platform: Flat-rate published pricing; included in every plan we offer *SMS rates below.
Competitors: Strict quote-gates; their pricing is hidden behind sales calls
User Pricing
Janus Platform: Unlimited team members on every plan
Competitors: Restricted user lines or per-seat up-charges
Contract Commitments
Janus Platform: Cancel anytime from your own settings panel. No sales rep trying to sell you.
Competitors: Multi-year locked contracts or complex termination
Availability
Janus Platform: Available on day one
Competitors: Sold as a premium modular add-on suite
*SMS Rates: Your plan includes 200 texts to your customers each month — confirmations, reminders, review requests, and missed-call replies all count toward it. If you go over, extra texts are billed at $0.04 each on your next invoice. Track your usage anytime at Settings → Billing.