What Happens on an After-Hours Roofing Call
OnCrew answers in your company name whether the office is open or closed. Your configured hours tell the AI receptionist when you are closed and when you open next, so a routine caller hears that the team will have their details first thing at the next opening, while an urgent caller hears that your team is alerted the moment the call ends and someone calls back as soon as possible, and it does not promise a callback time. On every call it collects the caller's name, the best callback number, the service address, the issue, whether the property is a home or a business, how urgent it is, and a preferred time. For roofing, an active roof leak during or after rain, storm or hail damage, a tree or debris through the roof, or a sagging ceiling is treated as urgent, and if water is coming in the AI suggests buckets or tarps only when that is safe and tells callers to keep everyone clear and call 911 first when there is collapse risk or a downed power line. Urgent calls reach your on-call roofer by text with the caller's name, number, address, and need, and by email with the full transcript and the recording when it is available.
- After hours: open or closed and the next opening come from your configured hours, and urgent requests are flagged so they are seen first.
- Roofing triage: active leaks, storm or hail damage, debris through the roof, and sagging ceilings are urgent; routine estimate and inspection calls queue for the morning callback.
- On-call alert: an urgent text to your on-call team, plus the email with the full transcript and the recording when it is available. With SMS Follow-Ups on, the caller gets one text confirming the call came in, and a caller who hangs up before saying a word gets one text asking what they need; replies come to your phone.
- Housecall Pro connects from your OnCrew dashboard. It needs Housecall Pro's MAX plan (their tier, not an OnCrew plan). Each real caller lands there as a customer and a lead tagged OnCrew, with the call summary, callback number and service address. Jobber, ServiceTitan and other tools get one record per real call (summary, callback number, service address and a link to the call) through the webhook export. Connect it yourself with Zapier, or we set it up with you at no extra charge. It does not book onto your Jobber or ServiceTitan schedule. QuickBooks is not integrated.
- Your team still decides who goes out, what it costs, and when. The AI receptionist captures and alerts; it never quotes a price or promises an arrival time.