Calso for nail salons
Answers the phone when you're holding a client's hand.
Calso is an AI phone answerer for Australian nail salons. When everyone is mid-set and the phone rings out, the call goes to Calso instead of voicemail. It answers walk-in, price and service questions from your own website and Google listing, takes the booking 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 nail salons miss
- You can't pick up a phone with a client's hand under the lamp.
- Walk-in or book? How much for SNS? Do you do kids' nails? The same questions, all day.
- You're open long hours, often seven days, and the phone still rings out at the busiest times.
A missed call to your salon
Calso answeredThe text you get
Group booking request: Ana, 0491 570 159. Gel nails for 4 (hen's party), Saturday 11am.
Written example of a typical call, not a recording
What Calso does on those calls
- Answers walk-in, price, service and hours questions from your website, Google listing and setup interview.
- Takes booking requests, including group bookings for a hen's party or a birthday.
- Texts you each one straight away, so you can confirm it once the polish is on.
- 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 who's in your chairs, so it never promises a time. It gives your walk-in policy and takes the request.
- It doesn't connect to any booking app.
- 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
Nail salons in the Calso Directory
4,253
nail salons listed, in 87 cities and towns
110 hrs
a week the typical one is closed, against about 58 open (96% list their hours)
47%
of 140 Google visits to nail salons' pages came while the business was closed
Most nail salons in the directory open on Sundays as well as Saturdays, so the phone has no quiet day of its own.
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 (1,030), Sydney (993), Brisbane (425), Perth (379), Adelaide (214), Gold Coast (189). 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 every station is busy. 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 nail 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 nail salons ask
No. It can't see who is in your chairs, so it never promises a time. It gives your walk-in policy and hours, and takes a request you can confirm.
It takes the request with the details (how many people, which service, when) and texts it to you. You confirm it, since only you know whether you can fit a group in.
No. Calso doesn't connect to any booking app. It texts you the request and you put it in.
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 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