Lost revenue, recovered

Missed call recovery for hospitality

The average Australian hospitality venue misses 38% of its inbound calls. Each missed call is worth around $90 in lost bookings, orders or catering. Calso either answers the call live or recovers it with an instant SMS.

Missed calls are an invisible revenue drain.

Service time is the busiest time for inbound calls — and the hardest to answer.
Voicemail is a dead end: most callers never leave one, most owners never check it.
There's no visibility: nobody knows how many calls are being missed, by whom, or what they wanted.
Repeat callers get frustrated fast and go to a competitor who answers.

The Calso solution

A net under every ringing phone.

Calso is always the first responder. If it can't take the call itself, it sends an instant, personal SMS within 10 seconds: 'Hey, sorry we missed you — can I help? Are you after a booking, catering, or something else?'. Most callers reply, and a huge percentage become bookings.

First-ring pickup

Calso handles most calls before anyone in the venue even hears the phone.

Instant SMS recovery

Within 10 seconds of a missed call, Calso texts the caller with a contextual message matching the time of day.

Missed-call dashboard

See exactly how many calls you're missing, during which shifts, and how many Calso converts into bookings.

Instant follow-up

If a caller replies to the recovery SMS, Calso continues the conversation and books them in — no staff action needed.

38%

industry-average missed call rate

$90

avg. value of a single inbound hospitality call

72%

of missed-call recoveries convert to a booking via Calso SMS

How it works

Setup in under an hour. Running forever.

  1. 1

    Connect your number

    Forward or port your phone line — works with landlines, mobiles, and VoIP.

  2. 2

    Choose your policy

    AI picks up every call, or only when staff can't — it's your call. SMS recovery is always on.

  3. 3

    Watch the dashboard

    Every missed call, recovery SMS, and resulting booking is tracked and tied back to revenue.

Works with

TwilioVonageAircallResDiaryNow Book ItSquare

Common questions

How is this different from voicemail?+

Voicemail expects the customer to make the effort — most won't. Calso reverses that: within 10 seconds of a missed call, the customer gets a personalised SMS that continues the conversation.

What if the caller is on a landline?+

Calso detects the number type and switches to an outbound callback attempt for landlines without SMS, or leaves a short voicemail offering a callback slot.

Does it work out of hours?+

Especially out of hours. Most hospitality bookings are made after 7pm. Calso is on 24/7.

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