AgentBuddy answers your phone, writes your quotes and chases your invoices, so you can stay on the tools.
●Starting at NZ$29 a month plus usage. No card to start.
You're up a ladder drilling out a lock when the phone rings with a lockout. AgentBuddy answers for you, books the job, and sends a quote while you keep working.
A frantic customer calls at 11pm locked out of their car. AgentBuddy takes the details, sends your standard lockout quote, and schedules you for the job within minutes.
A landlord wants a full rekey and a new master key system for 20 units. AgentBuddy captures the custom requirements, calculates the cost from your price list, and sends an itemised quote instantly.
A homeowner needs a safe opened after losing the combination. AgentBuddy asks for safe brand and type, then sends your safe opening quote and books a two-hour window.
Yes, 24/7. It can take lockout calls at 2am, send your standard after-hours pricing, and book the job straight into your calendar with a $50 callout fee added.
You set up your pricing rules for different lock types, labour rates, and key quantities. AgentBuddy asks the customer relevant questions, then builds a quote from your settings and emails it.
Yes. AgentBuddy sends payment reminders at your chosen intervals. For lockout jobs, it can add a surcharge if payment isn't made within 24 hours.
AgentBuddy introduces itself as your assistant and never pretends to be you. Most callers care that someone picked up and booked them in. If a caller asks for you directly it takes a message or puts them through, depending on the rule you set.
It says so rather than guessing, takes the details and passes the question to you. You give it a pricing range it is not allowed to quote outside, so it cannot commit you to a number you would not have given yourself.
No. You keep your number and forward it to AgentBuddy, either all the time or only when you do not pick up. You can turn forwarding off whenever you want, and calls come straight back to your phone.
AgentBuddy starts at NZ$29 a month plus 25 cents for each customer conversation it handles. You pay for conversations that actually happen, so a quiet week costs less than a flat-out one.
Most locksmiths working on their own land between NZ$45 and NZ$130 a month once usage is counted.
Several vans and a steady stream of callers usually sits between NZ$150 and NZ$400 a month.
You choose a monthly ceiling. AgentBuddy stops taking new conversations once it is reached, so the bill cannot run away on you.
No setup fee, and no card needed to start.
Every locksmith deals with the phone somehow. This is how the usual options stack up.
| Letting it ring out | Free | Most callers do not leave a message. The ones who do have usually rung the next locksmith on the list first. |
|---|---|---|
| A phone answering service | Per call | Takes a message and passes it on. It cannot quote your work, book into your calendar or chase an unpaid invoice. |
| A part-time receptionist | Wages, plus holidays | Covers office hours. The 9pm call still reaches nobody, and you carry the cost in a quiet month. |
| AgentBuddy | From NZ$29 a month | Answers day or night, books the job, sends the quote and follows up on the money, in your name and your rules. |
We book them late afternoon or after five, because you are on a job all day.
The jobs you take, the ones you turn down, roughly what you charge, and what should happen when someone rings after hours.
It answers as your business, in the name you chose, working to the rules you gave it. Live by the end of this call.
A fortnight later we go through calls it actually handled and tighten anything that reads wrong.
One more round on whatever the first month turned up. After that it just runs.
Leave your details and we will get you set up with founding pricing.
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