Missed Call & SMS Automation · For Tradies
Your hands are full, you're up a ladder, or the drill is going. The call rings out and they ring the next bloke. This texts them back before they get that far.
It answers in a real conversation, works out what you need, and takes a message or puts you through. That's the same thing we'd build for your business — judge it before you talk to us.
A bloke's hot water service just died. He searches, gets five plumbers, and starts at the top. You're second. He rings you at 9:40 while you're under a sink at Prospect with the water off and your phone in the van. It rings out. He rings the third name, someone answers, and that's a $900 job you never knew existed.
You'll never see that call in a way that means anything. It's one missed call among the eight you got today, with no voicemail and no name. There's no moment where you find out you lost it — which is exactly why it keeps happening.
Trades are the worst-hit industry for this, because the work itself makes answering impossible. You can't take a call with your hands inside a switchboard. The fix was never going to be answering more calls.
What It Does
Within seconds of the call ringing out: your business name, that you're on a job, and a question they can answer with one thumb. Most people reply to that instead of ringing the next name — they've got what they needed, which is to know you exist and you'll call back.
Instead of "missed call, 9:40am, mobile", you get "hot water service, no hot water since last night, Prospect". You can price it in your head on the drive and ring back knowing what you're walking into.
The 6pm and Saturday calls get a different message — one that says when you're back and asks if it's urgent. You don't lose the lead and you don't spend your evening on the phone.
No new number, no app to remember, no change to how you take calls. The signage, the cards and the Google listing all stay exactly as they are.
100% South Australian · No lock-in contracts
Missed Call & SMS Automation starts at $800 as a one-off setup, and it's yours — no lock-in. One recovered hot water service or switchboard job tends to cover it.
Everything we build is yours from day one — the system, the settings and the data. Any ongoing support is month-to-month.
Get Your Free Local Business Growth CheckNo. Once it's set up it runs on its own. You'll get the replies as normal texts on the phone you already carry, so there's nothing new to check and nothing to remember.
You'll get a polite text going out to them, which is usually better than silence anyway. If there are numbers you never want it to reply to, we can exclude them when we set it up.
It's cheaper and simpler than one, and it's instant. If you want an actual conversation — someone who works out what the job is and books it in — that's the AI voice receptionist instead, and you can ring 0468 097 000 and hear ours answer right now.
Within seconds of the call ending, not minutes. That matters more than it sounds: someone working down a list of five trades is ringing the next name inside a minute, so a reply that arrives five minutes later arrives after they have already spoken to somebody else. The whole point is to reach them while yours is still the business they were thinking about.
That is normal on a small crew and it changes nothing. The system watches the business number, not a person, so it does not matter who was meant to pick up. If you run separate numbers for separate blokes we can set it up on each one, and the replies land wherever you want them.
This is one trade's version of a bigger service. For how Missed Call & SMS Automation works generally — what's included, how it's built and what it costs — see Missed Call & SMS Automation. For everything else we do for tradies in South Australia, see For Tradies.
Free Growth Check
Take the free Growth Check. We'll look at your calls, your Google listing, your website and your bookings, and tell you what to fix first — including when the honest answer is something other than this.
