A Hey Jodie alternative built around booking real jobs

Fair play to Hey Jodie: like us, they publish their pricing. Plans start at £49/month with unlimited minutes, custom AI training and a 7-day free trial with no card required, with Enterprise plans from £500/month for API access and custom integrations. No setup fees, cancel anytime. It's exactly the transparent, flat-rate model we think every answering service should use.

The difference is what you get for the money. Hey Jodie is a broad receptionist that flexes across every kind of small business. TradeHalo is tuned for the businesses that turn phone calls into booked jobs — so Starter is £19/month, and our top standard plan, Pro at £39/month, still costs less than Hey Jodie's entry price while adding voice appointment booking, Google Calendar sync with travel-aware scheduling, and booking reminder SMS.

Because TradeHalo is built for hands-on, appointment-led work, the £19 plan already includes things you'd otherwise piece together yourself: emergency call detection with instant SMS alerts, job-focused questioning, a service exclusion list so it never takes work you don't do, and a free SEO-ready mini-website so customers who Google you find a proper page with your number on it.

Hey Jodie has built real experience across a wide range of sectors — including office-based ones like GP surgeries, accountants and estate agents — and its custom AI training is designed to flex across all of them. Its 7-day trial doesn't ask for a card, and its white-label and Enterprise options go places TradeHalo doesn't. If your calls are less about booking on-site work and more about complex, sector-specific reception, that breadth counts.

TradeHalo's strength is a different kind of focus: turning phone calls into booked, well-documented jobs — capturing the details, flagging the emergencies, and scheduling around the work you've already got on. If that's the shape of your day, you get more of what matters, for less than half the price.