It answers on Hobart time, Regatta Day and Show Day included, says it’s your assistant, books the routine work and texts you the urgent calls. We set it up by phone from Wagga Wagga.
OffsiteMate is an AI receptionist that answers Hobart tradies’ phones when they can’t: any hour, every day, Tasmanian public holidays included, at the same price. It says it’s your assistant, gets the job details, books routine work at times you’re free and texts you emergencies straight away.
A sole trader pays A$299 a month with 100 minutes and 150 texts included, plus A$299 once to set up. We’re in Wagga Wagga, NSW, which is a long way from Salamanca, so everything happens over the phone. You never touch the software.
The ABS estimates 233,736 people lived in Hobart at 30 June 2025, and counted 3,526 construction businesses in Greater Hobart.
Tasmania’s list is shorter on Easter and longer on local days. Your assistant answers on all of them at the same price, and only books jobs on a holiday if your hours include it.
| 2026 | 2027 | |
|---|---|---|
| New Year’s Day | Thursday 1 January | Friday 1 January |
| Australia Day | Monday 26 January | Tuesday 26 January |
| Royal Hobart Regatta (southern Tasmania) | Monday 9 February | Monday 8 February |
| Eight Hours Day | Monday 9 March | Monday 8 March |
| Good Friday | Friday 3 April | Friday 26 March |
| Easter Monday | Monday 6 April | Monday 29 March |
| Easter Tuesday (generally the Tasmanian Public Service only) | Tuesday 7 April | Tuesday 30 March |
| Anzac Day | Saturday 25 April | Sunday 25 April |
| King’s Birthday | Monday 8 June | Monday 14 June |
| Royal Hobart Show (southern Tasmania) | Thursday 22 October | Thursday 21 October |
| Christmas Day | Friday 25 December | Saturday 25 December, plus Monday 27 December |
| Boxing Day | Monday 28 December | Tuesday 28 December |
From WorkSafe Tasmania’s public holidays page, read October 2026. Anzac Day gets no substitute day. When Boxing Day falls on a weekend, the holiday moves to the Monday or Tuesday. WorkSafe Tasmania also says a day being on the list doesn’t automatically mean a day off or extra pay, so check your award.
Hobart gets two holidays the north of the state doesn’t. Royal Hobart Regatta Day is a Monday in February, and Royal Hobart Show Day is a Thursday in October. Both cover most of the state from Oatlands and Swansea south, and WorkSafe Tasmania lists the exact areas.
The parts of the state that don’t take Regatta Day get Recreation Day in November instead, so that one isn’t a Hobart holiday. And unlike Victoria and NSW, Tasmania’s list has no Easter Saturday or Easter Sunday.
Daylight saving started at 2am on Sunday 4 October 2026 and ends at 3am on the first Sunday in April, which is 4 April 2027 (Tasmanian Department of Premier and Cabinet). Your assistant follows your local clock, so bookings, reminders and the rule that a night-time text waits until 9am all move with it.
A Thursday off does odd things to a working week. If you take Show Day, text us and your assistant won’t book jobs on it.
In Tasmania one company runs each network, so there’s no working out which one covers which street.
132 004, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for shocks or sparking, fallen powerlines and faults affecting life support equipment. Triple zero if someone’s in danger.
1802 111, at any time, for leaks and gas emergencies. It runs Tasmania’s gas distribution network, which takes in urban Hobart. Fire is triple zero.
13 6992, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for urgent faults. TasWater asks for major bursts, sewer faults and water quality problems to be phoned in.
From TasNetworks’ contact and about pages, Tas Gas Networks’ about and emergency pages, and TasWater’s contact, about and report a fault pages. All read 13 October 2026.
From TasWater’s blockages, leaks and floods page. Handy when a customer asks who’s paying.
From 1 October 2026, Consumer, Building and Occupational Services (CBOS) has become two agencies: Consumer Affairs Tasmania and Building Standards Tasmania.
Building Standards Tasmania’s site has the Find a licensed tradesperson search. It covers electricians, plumbers, gas-fitters and builders among others, and only shows current licence holders. Tas Gas Networks points customers to the Occupational Licensing portal to check a gas fitter’s licence status and scope.
If you’d like your assistant to give your licence number to customers who ask, text it to us.
A Hobart plumber and a Hobart roofer want different calls texted to them at night. Each trade page shows where we start.
Same price in Hobart as anywhere else. Pick the one for how many people work in the business.
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.
No. We’re based in Wagga Wagga, NSW, and set tradies up anywhere in Australia by phone. Ring us on 0468 075 000 and a human answers.
Yes, at the same price as any other day. It only books jobs on a holiday if your hours include it, so text us the days you take off.
Yes. Under the national numbering plan, Hobart landlines start (03) 62, (03) 61 or (03) 60. Your number stays with your phone company and forwards to your assistant’s own Australian mobile number. A landline forwards differently to a mobile, so ring us and we’ll sort it out with you and your provider.
It’s an AI assistant doing that job. It answers as your business in an Australian voice, says it’s your assistant and tells callers the call may be recorded. We set it up and read what it says.
Ours is A$299 a month for a sole trader with 100 minutes and 150 texts, plus A$299 to set up. It’s A$449 a month for 2 to 4 people and A$799 for 5 to 10. No GST is added, and it’s month to month.
Ring us on the number below, or email. Either way, a human gets back to you.
0468 075 000Or email hello@offsitemate.com.au
