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Missed call SMS for UK businesses
Missed call text service
for callers who will not wait
When you cannot answer, your caller gets an instant SMS from your business name. You keep your existing mobile number, there is no app, and calls you answer carry on exactly as normal.
The call rings you first
TextTheCaller only triggers when your mobile goes unanswered, is busy, or is unreachable.
The caller gets your text
The message sends from your business name within seconds, with your booking link, email or callback promise.
You call back as normal
Their number is still in your phone log. The text simply stops them moving on before you are free.
Built for the calls that currently become nothing
A missed call notification is not a lead. It is only a number, and by the time you ring it back the customer may have already booked the next business on the list.
A missed call text changes that moment. The caller knows they reached the right business, sees your name on their screen, and gets a clear next step while you finish the job you are already doing.
It is deliberately lighter than a phone answering service. Nobody speaks to your customer, nobody takes details badly, and nobody sits between you and the relationship you are trying to build.
Flat monthly price
£6.49
Per month after the 7-day free trial. Includes 50 missed-call texts, no per-text charge, and no contract.
Full pricing detailsWhere it fits
| Option | Best for | Weak spot |
|---|---|---|
| TextTheCaller | Missed callers who need an instant reason to wait | It does not collect job details for you |
| Voicemail | Known callers who are willing to leave detail | New callers usually hang up |
| Answering service | Businesses that need live qualification and booking | Higher cost and a third party answers your phone |
| WhatsApp away message | People who already message you on WhatsApp | It does nothing for phone calls |
The longer comparisons are here: voicemail, answering services, WhatsApp Business, and diverting to another phone.
Pages for your line and your trade
Missed call text questions
It sends an automatic SMS when someone rings your business mobile and you do not answer. With TextTheCaller, the call is never answered by us; your network forwards the unanswered call, we reject it immediately, and your caller gets the text you wrote.
Yes. You keep your existing UK mobile number, SIM, handset and tariff. The setup uses conditional call forwarding, so calls you answer are untouched.
No. The SMS sends from your business name rather than a phone number, so there is nothing to reply to. Put a booking link, email address, callback promise or instruction to call again in the message.
No. An answering service answers the call and takes details. TextTheCaller covers the earlier problem: the caller who would otherwise hang up before you can call them back.
They get one text per 7 days, not one per call. Repeat callers do not burn through your allowance.
Cover the next call you cannot answer
Seven days free. Keep your number. Cancel whenever you like.
7 days free, then £6.49/mo. Cancel any time.