AI Receptionist Canada With Unlimited Minutes

Jodie costs C$99, C$199 or C$399 a month before tax, with unlimited minutes on every plan (fair use up to 1,000 calls a month). Many rivals cap minutes instead: Ask Benny's C$99 Starter covers 300 minutes, then C$0.45 a minute, and RingCentral's AI Receptionist includes 100 minutes before it bills per minute (checked October 2026). A capped plan can cost less in a quiet month; a flat price holds steady.

It picks up your business line in a natural voice, has a real conversation with the caller, then takes a message, books an appointment or passes the call along. Jodie does that around the clock for small businesses across Canada, drawing on what she learns from your website or Google Business Profile. After each call you get an email summary with the recording and transcript.

Smith.ai has a free AI plan that covers 25 calls a month, then charges US$3.00 a call (checked October 2026). Jodie has no free plan, but your first 7 days cost nothing and need no credit card. If you do not pick a plan by the end, the service pauses without a charge, and paid plans run month to month with no setup fee.

Count the calls you miss while you are on a job site, with a client or closed for the night: one job won back a month will often cover C$99. If someone who can book the work already answers every call within a few rings, you can probably skip it.

For the phone part of the job, yes: Jodie answers every call day and night, takes messages and, from the Professional plan, books appointments and transfers urgent callers. She will not greet people at your front desk or handle tasks away from the phone. To weigh a wage against a plan, try our receptionist cost calculator.

A virtual receptionist is normally a person at an outside company who answers your line remotely and bills per minute or per call, sometimes in US dollars. An AI receptionist, also called an AI virtual receptionist, is software that does the same work at any hour, and Jodie charges one flat monthly fee for it. The comparison table above shows where each one comes out ahead.

You decide: her greeting can tell callers the call may be answered by an AI assistant and may be recorded, which some businesses are required to say. Either way, Jodie sounds natural, answers with your business name and asks follow-up questions instead of reading out a phone menu.

She takes down the caller's details and their question, and it reaches you right away in your email and the Jodie app so you can call them back. From the Professional plan up, you can also set rules that transfer certain callers straight to you or a coworker.

Yes. Your number stays the same, and you forward calls to Jodie for the times you want her to answer: all day, after hours or only when you miss a call. Our call forwarding pages cover 12 Canadian carriers and phone services, including Bell, Rogers and TELUS, with the code or phone settings for each, and note that some carriers charge for forwarding.

Our privacy policy's Canadian section sets out that PIPEDA, and provincial laws such as Quebec's Law 25, govern how Jodie AI handles your personal information wherever those laws apply to us. Recordings and transcripts are processed in Ireland and the United States under contractual safeguards. Complaints can go to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, or in Quebec to the Commission d'acces a l'information.

Start a free trial, and most businesses have Jodie answering calls in under 10 minutes. She reads your website or Google Business Profile, you review what she picked up and add your own questions, then you place a test call and turn on call forwarding to her number.

She can on the Professional and Premium plans: she offers open time slots and books the appointment during the call, and sends the callers you pick straight through to you or a coworker. Basic answers every call and takes messages, without booking or transfers.