For takeout & restaurants
Your phone takes the order.
Your kitchen prints it.
Answa answers every call, handles what the caller needs from start to finish, and hands it back done — the order printed, the appointment booked. No missed calls. Nobody stuck on the phone.
Early access — free trial, 14 days, no call limit. No demo to book and no sales call to sit through. Tell us your trade and we'll get your number answering.
No contract. · No transaction fees. · Cancel anytime.
Who Answa answers for If a caller can ask for a time, Answa can book it — whatever the trade.
Not for healthcare. Answa isn't built for medical, dental, optometry or therapy practices, or anyone else handling patient health information, and signup doesn't accept them — see our Terms.
How it works
From ring to kitchen ticket, hands-free.
A customer calls
Answa picks up instantly — every call, every time, even mid-rush. Your line is never busy and never missed.
The order is taken
It knows your menu, confirms the details and pickup time, and answers the usual questions politely.
The ticket prints
The order prints on the receipt printer in your kitchen the moment it's confirmed. Your staff just cooks.
Found online
Customers can find your shop and read your menu on the web.
Turn on one switch in the app. Answa makes a simple web page for your shop: your hours, your menu with prices, and the number that answers. Search engines can read it, and so can AI apps such as ChatGPT and Claude.
- Off until the owner turns it on.
- Your street address stays hidden unless you show it.
- Turn it off and we stop publishing at once.
ChatGPT and Claude are examples. Answa is not affiliated with OpenAI or Anthropic. Search engines and AI apps decide what they show. How the AI app works.
Text messages
The text comes from the number they just called.
Answa LLC runs the service and sends these messages on the business's behalf, from that business's own Answa number — the same one the customer dialed a minute earlier. Messages lead with that business's name, so the person reading one can place it. Answa LLC runs its own number on the service too. Each number is registered with the mobile carriers separately, under the business that sends from it.
Texting starts after you fill in the texting details in the app, pick a plan, and the mobile carriers approve your number. That usually takes 1 to 15 days.
They're asked on the phone
Before anything is sent, Answa asks on the call: "Can [business name] text you about this booking at the number you're calling from? It's just a few texts, message and data rates may apply, and you can reply HELP for help or STOP to opt out." Only a caller who says yes gets a text. Numbers come from the caller themselves, on the call: never from purchased lists, scraped sources, or any third party. A business can also add a customer it booked by hand, and our terms require it to already have that customer's permission to text them.
Only about their own visit
Appointment times to choose from, booking and cancellation confirmations, waitlist openings, a reminder before the day, order updates, a link to see an order while it is taken, and a payment link for orders, which the caller is told to expect on the call.
STOP ends it
Reply STOP to any message to opt out, or HELP for help. Frequency follows the caller's own orders and bookings — a few messages around each one, and nothing at all in between.
Message and data rates may apply. Message frequency varies with your own order and appointment activity. Reply STOP to opt out or HELP for help. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. Mobile opt-in data and consent are never sold, and never shared with anyone else for their own marketing. Full program terms, including the words said on the call, are on our text message page; see also our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.
Pricing
Pay for the work we finish. No contract, no cut of your sales.
Start on the free trial and pay nothing. Subscribe in the app when you know it works for you.
Answa
One plan for every shop, quiet or busy.
Includes 300 question calls a month. Plus $0.99 for each completed job: an order we send to your kitchen, or an appointment we book on a call or by text after the call. Each question call after 300 is $0.30. We never take a percentage.
- Answers every call, 24/7 — your line is never busy
- Takes orders and books appointments — both, on one plan
- A question call is a call that ends with no order and no booking — hours, directions, "are you open".
- Your own dedicated phone number
- Books the appointment on the call — and publishes your day to the calendar app already on your phone. You subscribe once; nothing to connect, no account.
- English and Spanish included — no add-on, no extra charge
- Spam, robocalls, wrong numbers and hang-ups are never charged
- We never charge for an order or an appointment that you enter yourself. An appointment we book on a call counts, even if the customer does not arrive.
- Prints to an Epson TM-m30 receipt printer. Got one? Nothing else to buy. Need one? Ask us — it's bought, never rented, and it stays yours if you leave.
Month to month. Cancel anytime. Pay for the year and get two months free.
No contract, no transaction fees, and we never take a cut of your sales. More than one location — talk to us and we'll quote it.
Stop losing business to a busy line.
Sign up, pick your trade, and you get a number that answers. Call it yourself and hear exactly what your customers will hear — before you decide anything.
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