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OffsiteMate
It picks up when you’re on site, says it’s your assistant and gets the project details. Granny flats, extensions and new homes get booked in for a site visit.
Ring our demo assistant
0485 000 166It’s set up as Mario’s Plumbing, a made-up plumber. Yours answers as your business, with your jobs and your prices.
See what your customer gets
Someone’s thinking about an extension or a new home. They ring a few builders to get things moving, usually while you’re on site with a nail gun in your hand.
If you ring back at six, they may already have a meeting booked with someone else.
The assistant answers, asks what they’re planning and where, and books the site visit while they’re still keen.
Put in your own numbers. It works out what missed calls are worth to you a month and a year.
All three come in Core. Same assistant, same knowledge of your business, whether they ring, miss you or text.
It picks up when you can’t, as your assistant, and gets the job details.
Emergencies come to you. The rest get booked for the morning.
Only at times you’re free, with a confirmation and a reminder.
The same assistant answers texts and the chat on your website.
Two follow-ups if they go quiet, then it stops.
Happy customers get your review link after the job.
Builders don’t get many emergencies, so nothing here wakes you up. It asks what they’re planning, then books a time to talk.
“What are you planning to build?”
You get the details by text, and the visit lands in your diary.
It answers from what you’ve told us: your services, your area, your prices. If it doesn’t know, it says so and takes their details.
Do you charge for the first meeting?
It tells them your answer, word for word from what you gave us.
Can I use my own plans or architect?
It gives your answer and books a time to go through the plans.
Do you handle council approvals?
It tells them how you handle approvals.
How long will it take?
It gives your usual answer, or books a meeting so you can say.
Examples. Yours use your own prices, services and suburbs.
Texts come from your business name, in plain words. No jokes, no robot voice. The emergency comes to you.
Missed call · 10:23am (example)
Hi, it’s Nick’s Building. Sorry we missed you, we’re on site. What are you planning, and what suburb is it in?
Thinking about a granny flat out the back. Ashmont.
Thanks. I’m Nick’s assistant. Is it for family or to rent out? I can book a time for Nick to come and look at the block.
New site visit: granny flat in Ashmont, Thursday 4pm. The details are in your calendar.
On ServiceM8 or Fergus? Connect it once. From then on it only offers customers times you’re actually free, and the jobs it books land straight in your schedule.
On something else? It books into Google Calendar, Outlook or a calendar on your phone instead. Tell us what you use and we’ll make it work.
Set up in days, not weeks. We do the setting up and test it with you, and you don’t touch any software.
You tell us what you do, your hours, your area and what counts as an emergency. Phone or text, whichever’s easier.
The text replies, the assistant and your calendar. You don’t touch any software.
We read what it says to your customers and fix it when it stuffs up. Want something changed? Text us.
The robot answers your phone. We set it up, keep an eye on it, and we’re the ones you ring when you want a human.
We don’t sell leads, and you won’t have to learn any software. If you want something changed, text us. We’ll only ring you when there’s a reason to.
Pick the one for how many people work in the business. Prices in Australian dollars.
Sole traders on the tools
A$299a month
About A$9.83 a day. Plus A$299 setup, once. Month to month.
Talk to the humansA small crew
A$449a month
Plus A$499 setup, once. Month to month.
Talk to the humansA bigger team with more phones ringing
A$799a month
Plus A$499 setup, once. Month to month.
Talk to the humansGo over your minutes or texts and it keeps answering: A$0.49 a minute and A$0.25 a text. It’s month to month, because 12 months is a big commitment to make to a robot. That’s the whole price. Nothing gets added on top. Questions? Ring us on 0468 075 000 or email hello@offsitemate.com.au.
Sort of. An answering service takes a message for you to deal with later. Ours answers as your assistant, gets the job details, books the routine work and texts you the urgent ones.
Yes. It asks what they’re planning and where, offers the times you’re free and books the visit.
New homes, knockdown rebuilds, two-storey homes, extensions and second storeys, renovations, kitchens and bathrooms, granny flats, decks and patios, storm and insurance repairs, duplexes, commercial fit-outs and small jobs. It answers from your services and prices, and books a time to look or quote.
Yes. It tells them straight up it’s your assistant. If they want you, it takes their number and you ring them back.
Yes, any hour. During the day you can have it ring you first, so it only picks up when you don’t.
Yes. It only offers times you’re free in ServiceM8 or Fergus, and the job lands there by itself.
No. We set it up and keep it running. Job details come to you by text, and bookings show up in an app on your phone.
Text us. We read what it says to your customers, and we fix it.
A$299 a month and A$299 to set up, with 100 minutes and 150 texts included. Over that it’s A$0.49 a minute and A$0.25 a text. Month to month.
By a human. Ring us and we’ll set it up for your building business.
0468 075 000Or email hello@offsitemate.com.au