Calso for caterers
Answers the phone while you're out on a job.
Calso is an AI phone answerer for Australian caterers. When you're at an event or in the kitchen prepping for one, the call goes to Calso instead of voicemail. It answers questions about your menus, minimums and the areas you cover from your own website and setup interview, takes every enquiry's details, and texts them 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 caterers miss
- You're at an event or prepping for one, so the phone goes to voicemail.
- Every enquiry needs the same details: date, numbers, location, budget and dietary needs.
- A corporate client who can't get through may well try the next caterer on their list.
A missed call to your business
Calso answeredThe text you get
Catering enquiry: Sophie, 0491 576 801. Work lunch, about 40 people, the 20th, Richmond office. Some vegetarian, 1 coeliac.
Written example of a typical call, not a recording
What Calso does on those calls
- Takes the enquiry: date, guest numbers, location, kind of event, budget and dietary needs.
- Answers questions about your menus, minimum numbers, lead times and the areas you cover.
- Texts you each enquiry straight away, so you can quote while it's fresh.
- Says it's an AI assistant if anyone asks. It never pretends to be a person.
What it won't do
- It only gives prices you've set, like per-head packages. Anything else becomes a quote request.
- It doesn't take payment or confirm your availability. You do.
- It doesn't record calls, and it never guesses: what it doesn't know becomes a message for you.
How your business 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 caterers' 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 business
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 at an event. 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 caterers$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 caterers ask
Only prices you've set, like per-head packages. For anything else it takes the details (date, numbers, location, budget) so you can quote.
Yes. It asks about them and puts them in the text it sends you.
No. Calso doesn't connect to catering or ordering software. It texts you the enquiry and you take it from there.
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 business'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