Calso for driving schools
Answers the phone while you're in the car with a learner.
Calso is an AI phone answerer for Australian driving schools and instructors. When you're teaching and can't take a call, it goes to Calso instead of voicemail. It answers questions about prices, packages and the areas you cover from your own website and setup interview, takes the lesson 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 driving schools miss
- You're teaching, and you can't take a call with a learner at the wheel.
- Callers want lesson prices, packages, auto or manual, and whether you do test days in your car.
- Learners and parents ring after school and after work, often while you're still out on a lesson.
A missed call to your driving school
Calso answeredThe text you get
Lesson request: Mel (for Zoe, on her Ls), 0491 573 087, Dandenong. Auto, weekdays after 4pm. Asked about lesson packs.
Written example of a typical call, not a recording
What Calso does on those calls
- Answers questions about prices, packages, auto or manual, pick-up areas and test-day options, if your website or setup interview covers them.
- Takes lesson requests: name, number, suburb, auto or manual, licence stage and the times that suit.
- Texts you each one straight away, so you can reply between lessons.
- 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 driving tests with your state's licensing authority.
- It doesn't connect to booking apps or see your diary, so you confirm every lesson.
- It doesn't record calls, and it never guesses: what it doesn't know becomes a message for you.
How your driving school 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
Driving schools in the Calso Directory
3,279
driving schools listed, in 65 cities and towns
96 hrs
a week the typical one is closed, against about 72 open (95% list their hours)
54%
of 68 Google visits to driving schools' pages came while the business was closed
Most driving schools in the directory teach on weekends too, so there is rarely a day when the phone gets your full attention.
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: Sydney (945), Melbourne (762), Perth (324), Adelaide (242), Brisbane (184), Gold Coast (70). 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 driving school
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 out on a lesson. 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 driving schools$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 driving schools ask
No. It doesn't book tests with your state's licensing authority and doesn't connect to booking software. It takes the request and texts you.
Yes, if they're on your website or you give them to Calso in the setup interview.
You set your phone to forward the calls you don't answer to your Calso number. Leave the phone on silent, and a call you can't take goes to Calso instead of voicemail. You read the text when you pull up.
If they ask, yes. Calso says it's an AI assistant and never pretends to be you.
More answers on the FAQ page.
Calso for other businesses
Stop sending your driving school'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