Calso for beauty salons
Answers the calls you can't take with a client on the table.
Calso is an AI phone answerer for Australian beauty salons. When you're mid-treatment with the door closed, the call goes to Calso instead of voicemail. It answers questions about treatments, prices and policies from your own website and Google listing, takes the appointment request, and texts it to you straight away. You keep your own number.
From $99 a month · 30-day money back from your first payment · You keep your number
The calls beauty salons miss
- You're halfway through lashes or a wax, and you can't step out to answer.
- People ring about patch tests, deposits and cancellation fees, and the answers are already on your website.
- Evenings and weekends are when people plan their appointments, and that's when you've gone home.
A missed call to your salon
Calso answeredThe text you get
Appointment request: Priya, 0491 570 158. New lash lift client, needs a patch test first. Weekday evenings.
Written example of a typical call, not a recording
What Calso does on those calls
- Answers treatment, price and policy questions (patch tests, deposits, cancellations) from your website, Google listing and setup interview.
- Takes appointment requests: name, number, treatment, and the day and time they'd like.
- Takes messages about existing appointments, like running late or needing to move.
- Texts you each one 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 book into Fresha, Timely or any salon system, and it doesn't take deposits or card details.
- It doesn't give skin or medical advice. A question like that becomes a message for you.
- It doesn't record calls, and it never guesses: what it doesn't know becomes a message for you.
How your salon 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
Beauty salons in the Calso Directory
10,910
beauty salons listed, in 123 cities and towns
122 hrs
a week the typical one is closed, against about 46 open (92% list their hours)
50%
of 155 Google visits to beauty salons' pages came while the business was closed
Most beauty salons in the directory are closed on Sundays, so a Sunday-night booking call has nobody to answer it.
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. 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.
Where they're listed most: Melbourne (2,381), Sydney (2,354), Brisbane (1,077), Perth (1,031), Adelaide (588), Gold Coast (466). Listings and hours as published in the directory, October 2026.
Your directory listing needs no account. Calso, the phone answerer, is a separate paid service.
Which plan suits your salon
Starter is sized for about 100 answered calls a month, roughly three a day. Start there if the phone only rings out when you're with a client. 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 beauty salons$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 beauty salons ask
No. Calso doesn't take payments or card details over the phone. If you take deposits, it can explain your deposit policy from your website, and you collect the deposit your usual way when you confirm.
Yes, if your policy is on your website, your Google listing or covered in the setup interview. It explains it the way you've written it and doesn't promise exceptions on your behalf.
No. It doesn't connect to any salon software. It takes the appointment request and texts it to you, and you book it in.
It doesn't guess. It takes the client's name, number and question and texts them to you, so you can answer between appointments.
More answers on the FAQ page.
Calso for other businesses
Stop sending your salon'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