Best AI Phone Agent for Clover Restaurants
Six phone agents a Clover restaurant can shortlist, ranked on price, the Clover ticket, limits, and payment. Kovo scores 93; Loman takes any card in the call.
On this page
The best phone agent for a Clover restaurant is the one that reads the Clover catalog, so the price the caller hears is the price the register charges. On the seven criteria below that is Kovo at 93/100: Clover is the single menu source, the finished ticket goes back as a Clover order, and $99 buys 750 connected minutes. Loman is second at 80/100 because it captures any card inside the call.
Kovo is ours, so every competitor line here comes from the vendor's own public pages, read in October 2026, and the quote-based prices are blanks only a sales call fills.
A Clover register is correct most of the time, and the phone is where the correctness stops. The wing combo went up $1 on Tuesday, the register shows the new price, and the printed menu at the door does too. A caller heard the old number, agreed to it, and arrived to collect a $41 order that now rang $43.
TL;DR:
- Kovo scores 93/100: Clover is the menu source, the ticket is written back as a Clover order, $99 buys 750 connected minutes, and reservations run in its own book.
- Loman scores 80 and wins the payment row — any card, captured inside the call — with Clover on its published POS list from $199 (published pricing, October 2026).
- Hostie (58), Kea (57), VoiceBit (57), and Reachify (53) do not publicly document Clover depth, so the demo question is a live Clover ticket.
- At 900 four-minute calls, Kovo Unlimited is $299 with no overage, against $199 flat for Loman and $399 for Hostie's order-taking tier.
- Ask for one printed Clover ticket with two modifier groups on it, then change a price and call again.
The rubric, and why these weights
We sell Kovo. The weights and the inputs are printed so the ranking can be checked.
Ranking phone agents by how natural the voice sounds is unmeasurable, and every vendor on this page claims it. Ranking by what a Clover shop pays for is checkable, so this is the table the ranking uses.
| Weight | Criterion | Why it decides |
|---|---|---|
| 25% | Price per answered call | The bill is the first objection |
| 20% | Reservations included, no platform fee | A table call is the highest-value call |
| 15% | Order limits the owner controls | One fixed cap does not fit four restaurant types |
| 15% | Payment that closes on the call | An unpaid ticket is a kitchen waiting |
| 10% | POS depth you actually run | A ticket that needs retyping is not an integration |
| 10% | Channels on one brain (phone, chat) | Two menus is two truths |
| 5% | Setup without a scheduled onboarding | Speed to first call |
Each vendor is scored 1 to 5 on every row against public information checked in October 2026, then weighted to a total out of 100. A competitor can win a row and still lose the total, because price per answered call carries a quarter of the weight by itself.
The ranking
| # | Product | Score | Price | Reservations | Card on the call | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kovo | 93 | $99 / $299 | Own book, included; no OpenTable write-back | Known card charged on the line; link for a first-timer | A Clover shop whose phone should quote the register's menu |
| 2 | Loman | 80 | From $199 | OpenTable write-back | Any card, captured in the call | A shop where every caller has to pay before they hang up |
| 3 | Hostie | 58 | $199 / $399 | OpenTable and Resy documented | Not publicly documented | A full-service room that wants one inbox |
| 4 | Kea | 57 | Quote | Not publicly listed | Not publicly documented | A restaurant-specific build bought on a quote |
| 5 | VoiceBit | 57 | Quote | Not publicly listed | Not publicly documented | A small vendor with a direct line to the founder |
| 6 | Reachify | 53 | Quote | Not publicly listed | Confirm on the demo | A shop already committed to a POS-first workflow |
Kovo takes price, the included book, owner-set limits, and chat. Loman takes payment and ties the POS row. Only those two publish Clover at all, and the four quote-based products put the Clover question on the demo rather than on a pricing page.
Kovo — 93/100
Kovo is ours, and Clover is the part worth stating precisely. Kovo reads the Clover catalog, keeps the nested choice groups, and writes the finished ticket back as a Clover order. The refresh runs daily in the background, and an answered call only waits on that menu when it is two days old.
The merge keeps your edits, takes the source's other changes, and does not resurrect a deleted item. A card the shop already holds is charged while the caller is still on the line; a first-time caller gets a link. $99 buys 750 connected minutes, or $299 buys 5,000. Availability is Kovo's own toggle, so the register still needs its own 86.
Loman — 80/100
Loman is the fullest version of the job on this page: order with modifiers, card captured inside the conversation, reservations, and a ticket into one of nine published POS integrations. It starts at $199 a month per location with no per-minute fees (published pricing, October 2026).
Clover is on that published list, which makes Loman the only product here besides Kovo that names it. The limit is the evidence: the 99.6% order accuracy it publishes is a vendor claim, operator-reported and not audited. Ask for a Clover reference with your menu shape. Kovo vs Loman is the row-by-row.
Hostie — 58/100
Hostie is a guest communications layer: reservations, guest questions, and one inbox for calls, texts, and email, at $199 base with order taking documented on the $399 tier (published pricing, October 2026).
For a full-service Clover room where the phone is mostly tables and questions, the inbox is a real product and the reservation workflow is the reason it is third. The limit is Clover: its documented list is OpenTable, Resy, Toast, and Square, so ask how much of an order reaches the register versus staying in the inbox. Kovo vs Hostie covers the split.
Kea — 57/100
Kea is restaurant voice AI with order taking, sold on a quote, and the build is restaurant-specific, which is the shape most Clover operators ask for.
The appeal is a sales conversation about your menu rather than a packaged tier, and a custom build is where a quote can beat a published price. The limit is comparison: a quote hides the Clover path and the monthly number at your volume, and neither is published. The two lines you need beside $99 and $199 arrive only in writing. Kea alternatives shows how that arithmetic lands.
VoiceBit — 57/100
VoiceBit is one of the smaller restaurant phone AI vendors, sold on a quote, claiming order taking and POS integration.
The appeal is real: a smaller vendor usually means onboarding with somebody who learns your menu by name, and a direct line when a Friday call goes wrong. The limit is proof. Its public pages do not name Clover, so the demo has to show a Clover ticket rather than a dashboard order. Ask for the named integrations you run, and what happens to your number if you leave.
Reachify — 53/100
Reachify is built around getting an order into the POS instead of leaving it as a message, with POS push and text-link fallbacks, sold on a quote (its public pages, October 2026).
For a Clover shop whose current failure is orders arriving as a text the cashier re-keys, the framing matches the problem, and POS-first is the right instinct. The limit is what a fallback means at the counter: part of an order can finish by text, so ask which items close inside the call and watch where the modifier ticket stops.
The test call on your Clover menu
One live call per vendor, same order every time. The ticket is the evidence, not the transcript.
- A nested modifier. A build-your-own with two required groups. Flat text means the kitchen guesses.
- An item you deleted last month. Does the agent still offer it, and for how long?
- A price you changed this week. Which number does the caller hear?
- An $85 order. Declined, truncated, or printed wrong?
- The test ticket. Kovo's test connection prints one $0.00 ticket to Clover and never marks an order paid, which is the cheapest proof in the category.
The mechanism behind the first four is in how Clover menu sync works, and the full Clover ticket path walks an order from the ring to the register.
FAQ
Which AI phone agent is best for a Clover restaurant?
The one that reads the Clover catalog, so the price the caller hears is the price the register charges. On the rubric above that is Kovo at 93/100: Clover is the single menu source, the finished ticket goes back as a Clover order, reservations run in Kovo's own book, and $99 buys 750 connected minutes. Loman scores 80 and is the pick when any caller must pay by card inside the call, because it captures the card on the line while Kovo charges a card the shop already holds and links a first-time caller.
Do I have to maintain a separate menu for the phone agent?
Only if the vendor does not read your catalog. With Kovo, Clover is the menu source: the catalog is pulled, changes merge once a day in the background, and your own edits survive a refresh. A vendor with its own menu board is a second place for a price to go stale, and a stale price on the phone is a refund at the counter. Ask each vendor which of the two menus the caller is quoted from.
How much should a Clover phone agent cost per month?
Published prices run from $99 for Kovo Starter, with 750 connected minutes and roughly 300 calls, to $199 for Loman and $199 base for Hostie, whose order taking sits on a $399 tier (published pricing, October 2026). Divide by your monthly calls before comparing: $199 is 33 cents a call at 600 calls and $1.33 at 150. Kea, VoiceBit, and Reachify sell on a quote, so ask for the monthly figure at your volume in writing.
What happens to a big order on the phone?
The limit belongs to the shop. Defaults are 10 items in total and 8 of one item, an owner can change either, add an order-value limit, or set one to zero to remove it. Above a limit the call rings your handset if you turned on large-party routing, and otherwise the agent says the order is too large to send through and keeps taking what fits. Route the 40-wing Friday to a phone somebody answers and let the agent finish the $41 tickets it can ticket.
Can a phone agent mark an item unavailable in Clover?
Sold out is an owner toggle in Kovo's menu board, and Clover's available flag survives the pull, so an owner's 86 outranks a source that still says available and a restock brings the item back. The register still needs the same update made in Clover, at the same moment the kitchen makes it, and no vendor on this list publishes a different answer, so ask the question on the demo.
Final Thoughts
The Clover decision reduces to one page: the ticket. An agent that prints a readable Clover ticket with your choice groups intact is taking orders, and one that emails a summary is answering the phone and leaving you the typing.
On the rubric above the answer is Kovo at 93/100 — $99 for 750 minutes, Clover as the menu source, limits you set, and a card charged while the caller is still talking. Loman is the answer when any caller must pay in the call, and the table says so. Set a time when the menu is right, change one price, and call the agent. Take a test call.