Missed-Call Text-Back
Start hereThe fastest way to stop losing emergency calls. Every missed call gets a text from your number within seconds.
For Plumbers
Plumbing emergencies are decided in minutes. The homeowner standing in water calls down the list until someone answers. We make sure the first call they make is the last one they need to.
Where work goes missing
Someone with water coming through the ceiling does not leave a voicemail. They hang up and call the next plumber, and that job was yours a minute ago.
You are under a sink with the water off. The phone rings in your pocket and you cannot touch it. A text back from your number is the difference between a booked job and a missed one.
A dripping tap or a slow drain is not urgent, so the customer says they will call back. Without a follow-up, most of them never do.
Homeowners choose a plumber from the map listing. Happy customers rarely leave a review unless they are asked at the right moment, which is right after the job.
What we would build
Most businesses do not need all of these. The first one closes the biggest leak; the rest are worth adding once it is running.
The fastest way to stop losing emergency calls. Every missed call gets a text from your number within seconds.
Answers when you cannot, finds out whether it is an emergency, and either books the job or reaches you straight away.
Texts the customer after the job asking for a review, so your map listing reflects the work you actually do.
Follows up the non-urgent jobs and the quotes for bigger work, so the customer who said they would call back actually books.
Once it is running
An illustration of how the systems work together, not a client story.
A homeowner calls: water is coming through the kitchen ceiling. You are asleep. The assistant answers, tells them where the stop valve usually is, and asks for the address.
Your rules say active leaks are emergencies, so your phone gets a call with the details. You call the customer back already knowing the job.
Someone else texts about a slow drain. That is not urgent, so the assistant books them into Thursday morning and sends a confirmation.
After the ceiling job is closed out, the customer gets a short text thanking them and asking for a review.
Worth knowing
You decide what wakes you up.
Not every after-hours call is worth a night call-out, and not every plumber wants them. You choose which situations reach you immediately, which get booked for the morning, and which get a polite referral. The assistant follows those rules exactly and never promises an arrival time you did not set.
Questions
Yes. The assistant can book the job for the morning and give the customer basic steps such as turning off the water. They have an answer and a time, which is often enough to stop them calling someone else.
Customers with a leak are annoyed by voicemail. An assistant that answers, understands the problem and books them in is usually a relief.
If you give us a fixed call-out fee, it can say it. It never quotes for the work itself, because that depends on what you find.
Missed-call text-back is usually live within a week. The answering assistant takes longer because it has to learn your rules, typically two to three weeks.
Other industries
The systems are the same; where the leaks are is not. Here is how they apply elsewhere.
The front desk closes at five. Toothache does not.
The busiest day of the year is the day you miss the most calls.
You cannot answer the phone from the top of a roof.
Your clients enquire at midnight. Your competitors reply at nine.
The client who calls first is the client you keep.
The phone rings under the lift. Nobody can reach it.
Half your calls are small jobs. The other half are the ones you want.
Your hands are in someone's hair. Your phone is still ringing.
Portal leads go cold while you are at a showing.
Patients feel better by visit three. That is when they stop booking.
Everyone asks for a quote. Few hear back fast enough.