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.
As a mechanic, every time the phone rings while you're up to your elbows in a cambelt or brake job, you lose diagnostic time or risk a quote error. AgentBuddy answers those calls, books WOFs, sends instant quotes for common jobs like cambelts or brake pads, and follows up unpaid invoices so you can focus on the spanners.
A customer calls about a rough idle. AgentBuddy captures their rego and issue, schedules a diagnostic slot in your calendar, and texts them a confirmation with the shop address.
When someone asks for a cambelt replacement price, AgentBuddy asks the vehicle model and mileage, pulls your preset pricing, and emails a quote while you finish the current job.
After a brake pad replacement, AgentBuddy automatically sends payment reminders at 7, 14, and 21 days overdue, and can even offer a payment link or arrange a plan.
Yes. AgentBuddy can triage urgent calls, offer your roadside assistance details, or book a tow if you provide a preferred towing company's contact.
AgentBuddy can access your predefined price list by vehicle model and job. If it's not in your list, it will take the customer's details and send you a notification to call back with a custom quote.
Yes, AgentBuddy integrates with common NZ workshop management systems to sync jobs, customer details, and invoices so you don't have to double enter data.
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 mechanics 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 mechanic 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 mechanic 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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