The caller switches to Spanish. So does the agent
A bilingual answering service normally means a second number, a rota of Spanish-speaking operators, and a surcharge for the hours they are not working. Vandial answers in either language on the line you already have, and switches the moment the caller does, mid-sentence, without asking them to call back.
From $99 a month · Robocalls are never billed
Incoming callLucía Menéndez“Perdón, ¿puedo seguir en español? Mi inglés no es muy bueno.”
Switched mid-call · Booked and confirmed in Spanish
- No hand-off
- The caller never repeats themselves to a second person, or waits for one to be found
- One number
- No second line to buy, publish, or explain to anyone
- Mid-call
- It switches when the caller switches, rather than routing to a queue
Not a message. A booking
Every one of these is something the product does on a real call, not a capability statement. Where it refuses to act, that refusal is the design.
It switches when the caller does, not when a menu does
No “press 2 for Spanish”. The agent hears the language and answers in it, including part-way through a call that started in English, which is what actually happens when the person who dialed hands the phone to whoever is standing next to the problem.
Same questions, same booking, same calendar
A Spanish call is not a message that gets translated later. It runs the same triage, captures the same fields, states the same service call fee and writes into the same calendar as every other call.
If you only need a Spanish answering service, that is this too
Plenty of businesses do not want bilingual cover in principle. They want the Spanish-speaking half of their customers answered, because those are the calls currently ending in a hang-up. The same agent does that on the same number, at the same price, with the same booking. Bilingual is what it is capable of; Spanish is what it is doing.
The confirmation text goes out in the language they spoke
A booking confirmed in Spanish and texted in English is a missed appointment. The confirmation follows the call.
Your log is readable in one language
The transcript is kept in the language it was spoken, and the summary and classification you read are in yours. You can tell what happened on a call you could not have taken.
No Spanish-hours rota, and no surcharge
Human bilingual services staff Spanish separately, which is why they price it separately and why the cover has gaps. There is nothing to staff here, so both languages are on the same line at 3am on a Sunday at no extra cost.
What people say before they say yes
In the words they are usually put in. Where the objection is right, it says so.
“My Spanish-speaking customers already call and hang up.”
And that is the loss you cannot see. A hang-up leaves no message, no callback number and nothing in the missed-call list worth reading, so the only evidence it happened is a customer who went elsewhere. Answering in Spanish turns a silent hang-up into a booking you can count.
“I need a real person for Spanish calls.”
You need someone who understands the caller and books the job. A human service does that only during the hours it has staffed Spanish, which is not the hours a burst pipe keeps. Where the agent cannot help it says so and takes a message, in Spanish.
“Machine translation will mangle my trade's vocabulary.”
This is not translation. The agent runs the same configured script in Spanish, with your services and your terms in it, rather than translating an English call word by word after the fact.
What it will never do
You are handing your phone to something that talks to your customers when you cannot. These are the lines it does not cross, and the words it uses instead.
It never invents a price
It states the call-out fee and the rates you configured, and nothing else. Where it does not know, it says so and brings it to you rather than guessing — a number said on the phone is a number you are held to at the door.
What it actually says
“I'm not going to guess at the repair before someone's seen it — you'd only be annoyed if I got it wrong.”
It never promises an hour it cannot keep
Work in the field is booked in windows, because a specific time is a promise the traffic breaks. It offers the window that actually has capacity left, and it will not invent one to end the call politely.
What it actually says
“I can do Tuesday morning, between eight and twelve — I won't give you an exact hour and have you waiting in all day.”
It never sends anyone to voicemail
If the transfer ladder runs out and nobody accepts, it takes the details, commits to a specific callback window and flags it. A beep is the one outcome worse than not answering at all.
What it actually says
“I can't reach anyone this minute, so let me take the details and someone will call you back before nine tomorrow.”
The job lands where you already work
Google, Outlook, Apple, Exchange, CalDAV — whichever calendar you already keep. Then your payments, your CRM, and whatever you automate with.
…and a lot more besides
- Warm transfersWarm transfersAnnounced — who is calling and why, before you take the line.
- Spam never billedSpam never billedRobocalls are spotted, zero-rated, and never become a customer.
- A number per sourceA number per sourceVan, yard sign, Google listing — see which line brings the work.
- Team & on-callTeam & on-callTries you, then a second number, then whoever is on call.
- Run it by textRun it by textReply to a text to move a job, block a morning, clear a day.
- Clear a day, everyone toldClear a day, everyone toldCall off a wet Tuesday; every customer is told and re-offered.
- Never invents an answerNever invents an answerNo price or slot it was not given. It takes a message instead.
- Any trade, no codeAny trade, no codeGoal, questions and guardrails are settings, not a rebuild.
Is this a Spanish answering service, or a bilingual one?
Both, and it is the same product either way. If every one of your calls is in Spanish it answers every one of them in Spanish; if one in five is, it switches for that one. There is no separate Spanish plan to buy and no Spanish line to publish.
Which languages does it answer in?
English and Spanish today, on the same number, with the switch happening mid-call. Those are the two the US measurement supports; nothing else is claimed here because nothing else has been proven on real calls.
Do I need a second phone number for Spanish?
No. That is the arrangement this replaces. A second published number is a second thing to maintain, and callers use whichever one they already had.
Does bilingual cost extra?
No. Human services price it separately because they staff it separately. There is nothing here to staff, so it is included on every paid plan.
Can I read a Spanish call afterwards?
Yes. The transcript stays in the language spoken, and the summary, classification and captured fields are shown in yours, so a call you could not have taken is still a call you can review.
When it answers
The hour, not the trade. Every one of these is a time your phone rings and nobody picks it up.
Answered for your trade, in your words
The questions, urgency rules and escalations are configuration. 31 trades have their own page.