Calso for bars and wine bars
Answers the phone over the noise on a Friday night.
Calso is an AI phone answerer for Australian bars and wine bars. When it's loud, busy and nobody behind the bar can hear the phone, the call goes to Calso instead. It takes table bookings if you take them, answers questions about your hours, kitchen and what's on from your own website and Google listing, and texts you function enquiries straight away.
From $99 a month · 30-day money back from your first payment · You keep your number
The calls bars and wine bars miss
- It's loud, it's busy, and nobody behind the bar can hear the phone.
- Callers ask if you take bookings, whether the kitchen's still open, and what's on this weekend.
- Function and private-event enquiries are the big ones, and they usually come while you're flat out.
A missed call to your bar
Calso answeredWhat lands in your bookings
Saturday 8:00pm, 10 people, Jas, 0491 575 789. Birthday, share plates.
Written example of a typical call, not a recording
What Calso does on those calls
- Takes and manages table bookings, if you take them.
- Answers questions about your hours, kitchen hours, what's on and dress code, from your website, Google listing and setup interview.
- Takes function and private-event enquiries and texts them to you straight away.
- Says it's an AI assistant if anyone asks. It never pretends to be a person.
What it won't do
- It doesn't connect to other booking systems, so it can't see bookings made there.
- It doesn't take deposits or confirm a function space. You do that when you call back.
- It doesn't record calls, and it never guesses: what it doesn't know becomes a message for you.
How your bar gets set up
- 01
Calso reads what you've published
Sign up with your business name. Calso reads your website and Google listing for your hours, services, prices and policies.
- 02
A short setup interview
Typed, or by voice if you'd rather. It covers what your website doesn't say, and how you want messages and requests taken.
- 03
Forward the calls you miss
You get your Calso number and choose a plan. Then set your phone to forward the calls you don't answer. Customers keep ringing your usual number.
Setup usually takes under 15 minutes, because Calso reads your website and Google listing first. Nothing is charged until you choose a plan. To undo it, turn call forwarding off.
From the Calso Directory
When people look you up
46%
of 1,114 Google visits to pages in the Food & drink group came while the business was closed
The visit figure counts Google visits to business pages in the Calso Directory from Saturday 24 to Monday 26 October 2026, set against each business's listed hours in its own state's time. There were too few visits to bars and wine bars' pages alone to quote, so it is the figure for the wider Food & drink group. It was a weekend-heavy sample, so read it as a sign of when people look businesses up, not a rule for every week. Each of those visits was someone who might have called.
Your directory listing needs no account. Calso, the phone answerer, is a separate paid service.
Which plan suits your bar
Starter is sized for about 100 answered calls a month, roughly three a day. Start there if the phone only rings out when the bar is flat out. Go over and calls are still answered, with nothing cut off or charged extra, and you can move to Pro, sized for about 500, any time.
Starter
Suggested for bars and wine bars$99 a month
Sized for about 100 answered calls a month.
Pro
$199 a month
or $1,980 a year ($165 a month)
Sized for about 500 answered calls a month.
Both plans are the same Calso. Go over and calls are still answered, with nothing cut off and nothing charged extra, and you can move to Pro any time. 30-day money back from your first payment. No lock-in, cancel any time.
Questions bars and wine bars ask
Yes. It takes the details (date, numbers, the kind of event and budget) and texts them to you straight away, so you can call back and confirm a space.
If your website or Google listing has it, or you've covered it in the setup interview, yes. It doesn't make up events.
No. Calso keeps the bookings it takes in Calso and doesn't connect to other booking systems.
If they ask, yes. Calso says it's an AI assistant and never pretends to be a person.
More answers on the FAQ page.
Calso for other businesses
Stop sending your bar's callers to voicemail.
Set it up on your own number, usually in under 15 minutes. Start with only the calls you already miss.
From $99 a month · 30-day money back from your first payment · Cancel any time