Right On Call vs Rosie: AI Answering for Ontario Trades

Where Rosie wins

Much lower entry price when call volume is small.
Self-serve. Answering calls within the hour, no onboarding pack.
Live call transfer to your phone on higher plans. We text your team instead.
A free trial before you pay anything.

Where Right On Call wins

Someone writes your script: your emergencies, your job types, your service area. You do not build it.
The call writes into Jobber, Cal.com, Calendly, or Zoho. It does not end as an email.
Canadian postal-code coverage and out-of-area refusal, not a US ZIP flow.
Going over your minutes costs the minutes. It never changes your plan.
Photo intake by text after the call, and a recovery text when the caller hangs up.
English and French on every call, billed in Canadian dollars.

The 9 PM call that rings out

The same call, followed through both products. Nobody at the shop could get to it.

Rosie

1Rosie answers with the greeting and FAQs you typed in
2Takes the caller’s name, number, and reason
3Books or transfers to your cell, on the tiers that include it
4You get a summary and call the customer back

Right On Call

1You had your rings to pick up and could not
2The receptionist answers as your shop, in English or French
3Triage: a no-heat call is urgent, a tune-up is not. Postal code checked
4A real open time is booked, or your on-call phone gets the job by text
5On a booking, the caller gets a confirmation text and a request for a photo

Side by side

Rosie compared with Right On Call
Topic	Rosie	Right On Call
Price	From about US$49 a month for 250 minutes	$150 CAD a month for 200 answered minutes, then $0.75 a minute
Setup	None. You configure it yourself	$500 once, no term. $999 on Managed
Going over	Reviews disagree: per-minute charge or a move up a tier	Billed to the second. Going over never moves you to a bigger plan
Who builds the call flow	You, from a business description and FAQs	We write the script, triage, and call flow for your shop, test it on your number, and tune it after launch
Emergency triage	Urgent-call flagging you set up	Emergency vs routine rules written for your trade. Gas, smoke, or spark reports get a bounded safety script and a human callback
Service area	General questions you configure	Canadian postal-code check with a readback. Out-of-area bookings refused in code
Booking	Calendar booking on higher tiers, per reviews	Live Cal.com or Calendly availability. It cannot offer a time the calendar did not return
Field-service tool	Check current integrations list	Jobber connect in the plan: the call creates the client and the job. Housecall Pro and ServiceTitan on request
Human handoff	Live transfer to your cell on higher tiers	Texts your on-call number with name, number, and reason. No live transfer
After a hang-up	Missed-call notification to you	Recovery text when the caller hangs up. Booking by text reply is coming soon
Currency	US dollars	Canadian dollars

Price the January week, not the April one

Bundled-minute plans look cheapest in the month you picture when you sign up. For a furnace, plumbing, or appliance shop that month is April. The month that decides whether the plan was cheap is the cold snap, when after-hours calls double and every one of them is a job someone else will take if you do not.

So do the comparison on your busiest week. Count the calls that rang out, multiply by about three minutes, and check two things on any plan: which tier you need for booking and transfer, and what happens when you go past the bundle. Reviews of Rosie disagree on that second point, some describing a per-minute charge and some a move up a tier. With us it is written on the pricing page: the extra minutes cost the extra minutes and your plan does not change.

There is also a difference in what each product is for. Rosie is sold as a receptionist that answers your line. Right On Call is built for the calls you would have missed: you keep answering when you can, and when the phone rings out on a roof or at 9 PM, it picks up and books the job.

What Rosie costs

Published in US dollars as minute bundles: about $49 a month for 250 minutes, $149 for 1,000, and $299 for 2,000, with a free trial and no setup fee. Independent reviews report that booking, live transfer, and mid-call texting sit on the $149 tier and up, and they disagree on whether going over is a per-minute charge or a move to the next tier. Ask before you sign.

Right On Call is on the pricing page, in Canadian dollars, with what each tier does not include.

Where both sit in the market

Message → job in your tools

You build it, it booksBuilt for you, it booksYou build it, you get a messageBuilt for you, you get a message

You build it → built for you

Our read of the market, not a measurement. Across: who builds the call flow. Up: whether the call ends as a message or as a job in your own tools. Rosie is highlighted.

Choose Rosie if

You get a handful of calls a week and mostly need a message.
You want to set it up yourself tonight.
Live transfer mid-call is a hard requirement.

Choose Right On Call if

After-hours emergencies are real revenue for you.
You run Jobber or a shared calendar and want the job on it before morning.
You would rather pay once for a build than spend weekends tuning prompts.

Built for the calls you miss, not to replace the people who answer

Right On Call can answer every call if you want it to. That is not what it is built for. It is built so that a call you would have missed, on a roof, in a crawlspace, at lunch, after 5, on a Saturday, gets picked up and ends as a booked job instead of a voicemail nobody returns.

Why Right On Call →

Right On Call vs Rosie: questions

Is Rosie cheaper than Right On Call?

At low volume, yes. Rosie starts around US$49 a month. Right On Call is $150 CAD a month for 200 minutes plus $500 setup once. The gap narrows once you need booking and transfer, which reviews place on Rosie's US$149 tier, and it narrows again in a busy month if going over moves you up a plan. Price the month you actually have in January, not the quiet one.

What does the setup fee buy that Rosie does not charge for?

A person writing your call flow: what counts as an emergency in your trade, which follow-up question each job type gets, your postal-code coverage, your on-call numbers, and the calendar or Jobber hook. Then a test on your exact phone setup before customers hear it. With a self-serve product you do that work yourself.

Does Right On Call transfer calls live like Rosie?

No. When a caller needs a person, Right On Call texts your on-call number with the name, callback number, and reason, and tells the caller someone will call back. For a tech on a ladder that is often better than a ringing phone, but if you need a live transfer, that is a real point for Rosie.

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Sources

Rosie details come from its published pages and independent reviews as of September 26, 2026. Plans change; check theirs before you decide. If something here is out of date, email hello@rightoncall.com and we will correct it. Product names are trademarks of their owners. Right On Call is not affiliated with or endorsed by Rosie.

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