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Live Chat for HVAC Companies That Never Misses an Emergency Job

When a family's AC dies in a July heat wave, they don't leave a voicemail and wait. They message every HVAC company they can find and hire the first one that answers. ProntoChat puts real people on your website chat, SMS, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Instagram, and email, 24/7 — so the emergency job that lands at 9pm is answered in seconds, qualified, and booked before your competitor's phone even rings in the morning.

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Part of our live chat for home services. Every lead exclusive. Pay per qualified lead, no contract, 14-day free trial.

The problem

Where HVAC companies lose jobs

Your busiest weeks are your most missed weeks

HVAC demand doesn't arrive evenly. It arrives in surges — the first cold snap, the first 100-degree week — exactly when your techs are slammed and nobody's watching the website. The heat wave that fills your schedule is the same heat wave that floods your inbox with jobs you never see until they've hired someone else.

Emergency callers don't wait, and they're worth the most

A no-cool call in summer or a no-heat call with kids in the house is an urgent, price-insensitive customer. If they reach a live person, they book. If they reach a contact form, they keep searching — and the next name on that search results page gets the job.

Replacement leads hide inside repair questions

"How much to fix a 15-year-old unit?" is often a full system replacement conversation, not a repair ticket. A form can't hear that. A trained agent asks the system's age and symptoms, recognizes a likely replacement, and books the estimate — the highest-value lead an HVAC company gets.

After hours is where the jobs go

Homeowners notice the house is hot at dinner time and search that evening. Our client data shows 30–35% of leads arrive after business hours. For a trade where the emergency premium is real, that's not overflow — that's your margin.

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In practice

A 9:42pm no-cool emergency, handled

Illustrative example — every script is customized to your company, your service area, and your emergency policy.

Live chat

Website · 9:42pm

Illustrative example
our ac stopped blowing cold air today. do you do emergency calls?
Sorry you're dealing with that in this heat — we can help. Yes, we run emergency service. So I can get the right tech out: is the unit running but blowing warm, or not turning on at all?
running but warm. it's a 2009 unit
Thanks — that's helpful. What's the ZIP code, so I can confirm you're in the service area?
95993
You're covered. Given the unit's age, the tech will also give you honest repair-vs-replace numbers on site, so you're not paying twice. I can book tonight's emergency slot, or tomorrow at 8am at standard rates — which works?
tomorrow 8am
Booked. You'll get a confirmation text in a minute. If it becomes unbearable overnight, reply here — I can connect you to the on-call line right away.

Lead delivered to the client's CRM with transcript, ZIP, system age, and callback number — while the office is closed.

How it works

From hot house to booked job

  1. 1

    A homeowner reaches out on any channel

    Website chat during a search for "AC repair near me," a text to your number, or a Facebook message on your page — all covered, all hours.

  2. 2

    AI answers in seconds, a real agent takes over

    No hold music while their house is 88 degrees. The instant reply keeps them from opening the next tab; the human keeps them committed.

  3. 3

    The agent qualifies the job

    Emergency vs. scheduled, repair vs. replace signals like system age and symptoms, service area, homeowner vs. renter — your rules, every time.

  4. 4

    Booked or bridged

    Scheduled jobs go straight onto your calendar. True emergencies can be click-to-call connected to your on-call tech's own phone line in real time — we never answer your phone; we bridge the chat lead to your line.

  5. 5

    Delivered to your CRM

    Contact, transcript, and qualifying answers, in real time, exclusively yours.

Built from

The services doing the work

Real trades client

"The three-way call connect has been especially valuable. When a qualified lead is ready, ProntoChat connects them directly to our team in real time. It has significantly increased the number of leads that turn into actual jobs."
AE ASL Electric, Inc. Serving Southern California 20+ years

FAQ

Live chat for HVAC companies, answered

Can you handle after-hours HVAC emergency calls?

We handle after-hours emergency chats and messages — 24/7, including nights, weekends, and holidays. Agents answer in seconds, qualify the emergency, and can bridge the customer to your on-call tech's phone by click-to-call, or book the first morning slot if it can wait. We're not a phone answering service; we make sure no message-based lead is ever missed.

How do you know whether it's a repair lead or a replacement lead?

Agents are trained on your qualifying questions — system age, symptoms, whether it heats and cools, prior repairs. A 15-year-old system that won't cool gets flagged as a replacement-estimate opportunity and booked accordingly, so your comfort advisor walks in prepared.

What does an HVAC lead cost?

$20 per qualified lead — someone in your service area with a real service need and contact details, delivered exclusively to you. No retainer, no contract, no setup fee, and a 14-day free trial to see the lead flow first.

Do you answer maintenance-plan and seasonal tune-up inquiries too?

Yes. Tune-up requests, filter questions, and maintenance-plan signups are answered and booked the same way. They're smaller tickets, but they're the customers who call you first when the system finally dies.

Can you chat with my Spanish-speaking customers?

Yes — bilingual English/Spanish agents, including native Spanish speakers, on every channel, at no extra charge.

Which scheduling and CRM tools do you work with?

We book directly onto your calendar and push leads into HubSpot, GoHighLevel, Zoho, Pipedrive, Salesforce, and more — and we build custom integrations for any system your shop runs.

Stop losing heat-wave jobs to whoever answers first

Serving service businesses since 2015. Real agents plus AI, bilingual, 24/7 — and every lead exclusively yours.

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