Kwickly Answers vs. Markate: AI Phone Answering and Booking for Service Businesses

What Markate does, and what Kwickly Answers adds

Markate's pricing page (read 13 Oct 2026) prices its software at $49.95 a month paid monthly or $45.95 a month paid yearly, and its Team plan adds $5 per employee per month on top of that base. Kate-AI Receptionist, the online booking form, a business phone number and call forwarding are each listed as add-ons, with Kate at $1 a call and the booking form at $10 a month.

Markate's Kate page says Kate collects customer information, takes notes and alerts you for follow-up, and can recognize repeat callers by phone number; its FAQ puts the price at $1 per call for calls up to 5 minutes. Its online booking page says the booking tool can take deposits through Square and PayPal.

Kwickly Answers sells the answering and the booking as one plan. The assistant answers the calls you forward, and you choose whether it books straight into the plan's calendar or takes a message, which is how it starts. Customers can also pick their own time on your booking page, and each gets a confirmation email and a reminder the day before.

For the crew, each person can be sent a private day link with their jobs for the next seven days, starting today, and Mark done on today's jobs. Laying out the week's schedule is free on every plan, and Team, from $19.99 a month, gives each person their own schedule link with time off, swaps and clocking in and out.

How do the plans compare?

Markate is $49.95 a month plus $1 a call for Kate AI and $10 a month for online booking, and Kwickly Answers Starter (Essential level) is $129.99 a month for 350 minutes with booking included.

See Kwickly Answers' full published pricing. Prices change, so confirm Markate's current price on its own site before you decide.

Is Kwickly Answers a Markate alternative?

Yes, Kwickly Answers is a Markate alternative for answering calls and taking bookings, with the calendar, customer list and crew day links in the same plan. Markate sells Kate AI and its booking form as add-ons to a $49.95 plan that also covers estimates, invoices and payments, which this page leaves out. Kwickly Answers starts at $129.99 a month for 350 minutes.

What do Kate at $1 a call and Kwickly Answers by the minute come to for 150 calls?

Markate charges Kate by the call and Kwickly Answers charges by the minute, so the sum depends on how many calls you get and how long they run. Figures are monthly list prices read on 13 Oct 2026, with tax and any phone company charges left out.

Markate: 150 calls × $1 = $150, plus the $49.95 monthly plan, is $199.95, before the $10 booking form or any number or forwarding add-on. Kate's FAQ prices a call up to 5 minutes, and the pages we read (13 Oct 2026) do not say what a longer call costs.

Kwickly Answers: Starter is $129.99 for 350 minutes, counted by the second, with booking included. 150 calls fit inside it if they average 350 ÷ 150 = 2.33 minutes or less; past 350 minutes each extra minute is $0.50. Shorter calls leave room for more of them, which a per-call price does not.

Does Kwickly Answers work if I just need calls answered and jobs booked?

Yes, Kwickly Answers works on its own for answering calls and booking jobs, with no other field software behind it. Forward your line to your Kwickly Answers number, add your services and hours in your portal, and pick whether the assistant books or takes messages; the booking page and calendar are part of the plan.

Markate or Kwickly Answers for a small crew that misses calls?

Kwickly Answers suits a small crew that wants missed calls answered and booked without stacking add-ons: one phone plan from $129.99 holds the assistant, booking page, calendar and customer list. Markate's pages describe a service business suite where Kate, online booking and call forwarding are each added to the base plan.

Which Markate features are built, planned or not part of Kwickly Answers today?

• Built, not switched on yet: simple invoices that your customers pay online into your own Stripe account, with reminder emails on day 3 and day 7, where Markate's home page lists invoices and online payment; and deposits and a card saved at booking, charged into your own Stripe account, where Markate's booking page lists deposits through Square and PayPal.
• What Kwickly Answers does today: one phone plan from $129.99 a month answers the calls you forward, books or takes messages as you choose, and holds the booking page, calendar, customer list and each person's day link.

Source: markate.com, markate.com/solutions/online_booking, read October 13, 2026

Unhappy with Markate? What switching to Kwickly Answers looks like

Switching from Markate to Kwickly Answers for calls and bookings means forwarding your business line to your Kwickly Answers number, adding your services, hours and staff in your portal, and putting your booking page link on your website and social profiles.

Markate's pricing page (read 13 Oct 2026) lists $49.95 a month on monthly billing and $45.95 on annual billing, and its FAQ says add-on features for annual members are billed on an annual basis. Source: markate.com/pricing, read October 13, 2026

Your phone company may charge for forwarded minutes, so ask them. Customers go in one at a time in your portal, and your list also grows from calls and bookings. Kwickly Answers plans renew automatically each month until you cancel, and you can cancel at any time.

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Why choose Kwickly Answers instead of Markate?

• Booking comes inside the phone plan: Starter at $129.99 for 350 minutes includes the booking page, calendar, confirmation and reminder emails and the customer list, with no separate booking add-on.
• Priced by talk time, not per call: minutes counted by the second, then $0.50 a minute, so a quick call uses a small slice of your plan.
• You decide what the assistant does: it books into your calendar or takes a message, and urgent calls, as you define them, are flagged to you by email.
• A flat price for the crew add-on: Team is $19.99 a month up to 15 people and $39.99 for 16 or more, and building the schedule is free on every plan.

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Sources and last verified date

Last verified: 2026-10-13. Every fact about Markate on this page was read from its own pages, listed here with the date each was read.

• markate.com/pricing, read October 13, 2026
• markate.com/solutions/kate_ai_receptionist, read October 13, 2026
• markate.com/solutions/online_booking, read October 13, 2026
• markate.com/, read October 13, 2026

Markate is a trademark of its owner. Kwickly Answers isn't affiliated with or endorsed by Markate. Markate's prices are from its public page on October 13, 2026.