Your AI receptionist can now take payments over the phone

LONG BEACH, Calif. — July 27, 2026 Atomic Apps AI today introduced Pay by Phone, a new capability that lets AIRIN, its AI phone receptionist, collect payment during a live call. When a caller is ready to pay, AIRIN confirms the amount out loud, texts a secure payment link to the caller's mobile phone, and waits quietly on the line. The caller pays on their own device with Apple Pay, Google Pay, or a card, and AIRIN reads back a confirmation number the moment the payment clears.

For the HVAC companies, plumbers, and other service businesses Atomic Apps AI serves, getting paid has usually meant a callback, a mailed invoice, or an office staffer reading a card number aloud. Pay by Phone closes that gap. A deposit, a balance, or a service fee can be captured while the customer is still on the phone — no chasing, no second call, no card details spoken out loud.

Pay by Phone is available now. Businesses already using Atomic Apps AI can turn it on from their dashboard, and AIRIN starts offering to take payment on the next call.

Security was the starting point, not an afterthought. Card details are never spoken over the phone, never typed into a keypad, and never stored by Atomic Apps AI. The payment link opens on the caller's own device, and funds settle directly into the business's own connected payment account — Atomic Apps AI never holds the money. The result is a payment experience that is faster for the caller and safer for the business than reading a card number to a receptionist.