It's Friday at 6:42pm. Your hostess is seating a four-top. The phone is ringing — a party-of-eight asking about a 7:30pm reservation. Nobody can pick up. That call goes to voicemail and the party walks down the street to the other Italian place.
When the job's done, the customer is right there in front of you — credit card in hand, phone unlocked, ready to pay. Two days later, they're back at work and your invoice is at the bottom of a Gmail folder. Every day you wait to send the link, the collection rate drops. Sophia closes the loop the moment the job is done.
Sophia knows your reservation rules — table size, time blocks, kid-friendly windows, private-room minimums. She books, modifies, and cancels reservations in OpenTable / Resy / Tock without the hostess ever stopping a seating. On the takeout + catering side she runs the full order chain: captures the order, escalates to the manager when totals or special-instructions cross your threshold, fires the kitchen ticket, polls prep progress, texts the guest when it's ready for pickup, and notifies on dispatch + delivery confirmation. Front-of-house never has to babysit the kitchen.
One tap. Same day. No 30-day wait.
She works 168 hours a week. She charges from $5 an hour.
Same job. Different collection.
| Part-time employee | DIY voicemail/IVR | Sophia | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cost | $1,440/mo (bookkeeper) | $0 | $1,597/mo |
| Days to pay (avg) | 28 days | 37 days | 1.2 days |
| Collection rate | ~91% | ~83% | ~98% |
| Owner time on AR | 6 hrs/wk | 10 hrs/wk | 0 hrs/wk |
+47%
reservation calls captured
+39%
private-event bookings
12 hr/wk
manager time back
Average across JOOLT operators in their first 90 days.
From $5/hour. Flat tiers, no per-call surprises.
Pay-As-You-Win
$99
+ $35/booking
Starter
$497
/month
Pro ⭐
$1,597
/month
Scale
$3,997
/month
Enterprise
$9,997+
/month
Built for HVAC, plumbing, roofing, electrical, dental, vets, med-spas, real estate, legal, accounting, cleaning, landscape, restaurants, retail, gyms, salons — and pre-trained on the 50 questions your customers ask.
See your industryYes. Sophia uses Stripe-issued, PCI-compliant, single-use checkout links. The customer's card data never touches your phone or Sophia's servers. Same security every Apple Pay or Stripe Checkout transaction uses.
No. Sophia plugs into Stripe, Square, QuickBooks Payments, and most major SMB processors on Pro and above. The money lands in the same bank account it does now — just faster.
Yes — Sophia integrates with OpenTable, Resy, Tock, and SevenRooms on Pro and above. She books, modifies, and confirms reservations in real time so the floor team sees the exact same availability everywhere.
Yes. Private-event calls get a different intake — date, headcount, occasion, F&B minimum, AV needs. She books a tasting or sales call with your event coordinator and texts a one-pager with your room photos + menu options.
Yes. For phone-in take-out she captures the order against your menu, quotes the ready time, and texts a payment link. For catering she captures the headcount + date + delivery vs. pickup, books a follow-up with the chef, and sends the catering deck.
Sophia texts a Stripe-secured payment link the moment the job is done. Cash flow that doesn't depend on chasing customers.