Calso for mechanics
Answers the workshop phone while you're under a car.
Calso is an AI phone answerer for Australian mechanics. When you're under a hoist and the phone rings out, the call goes to Calso instead of voicemail. It answers questions about your services, listed prices and hours from your own website and Google listing, takes the service or repair 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 mechanics miss
- You're under a hoist with greasy hands, and the phone's on the wall in the office.
- Most calls are service bookings, roadworthy questions and "is my car ready yet?"
- People ring to book over the weekend, when the roller door is down.
A missed call to your workshop
Calso answeredThe text you get
Service request: Dan, 0491 570 313. 2019 Corolla, logbook service, next week, early drop-off.
Written example of a typical call, not a recording
What Calso does on those calls
- Answers questions about your services, the prices you've listed (a logbook service, a roadworthy), hours, location and loan cars, from your website and setup interview.
- Takes service and repair requests: name, number, make, model and year, what's wrong, and when they can drop it off.
- Takes "is my car ready?" calls as a message for you to call back.
- 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 can't see your jobs, so it can't tell a customer their car is ready. It takes the message and you call back.
- It doesn't diagnose faults or quote a repair it hasn't been given a price for.
- It doesn't connect to workshop management software.
- It doesn't record calls, and it never guesses: what it doesn't know becomes a message for you.
How your workshop 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
Mechanics in the Calso Directory
15,227
mechanics listed, in 127 cities and towns
123 hrs
a week the typical one is closed, against about 45 open (94% list their hours)
45%
of 280 Google visits to mechanics' pages came while the business was closed
Few mechanics in the directory open on Sundays, and most are closed on Saturdays too. Weekend calls about the car still come in.
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 (3,498), Sydney (2,915), Brisbane (1,391), Perth (1,180), Adelaide (786), Gold Coast (522). 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 workshop
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 on the tools. 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 mechanics$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 mechanics ask
No. It can't see your jobs, so it never guesses. It takes the customer's name, number and rego and texts them to you, so you can call back when you know.
Only prices you've published or given it, like a standard logbook service. For anything that needs a look at the car, it takes the details and you quote.
No. Calso doesn't connect to workshop management software. It texts you the request and you book it in.
Yes. With call forwarding on, a Saturday or Sunday call goes to Calso, which takes the booking request and texts it to you. You confirm it on Monday, or whenever suits.
More answers on the FAQ page.
Calso for other businesses
Stop sending your workshop'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