AI receptionist for car body repair shops
The average body shop lets about 24 calls a week ring out. Callwise answers all of them, day or night, books the work into your diary and sends you the transcript.
- Answers on the first ring
- Books into your calendar
- No per minute fees
- Live in 24 hours
Ring +44 330 912 2553. It answers, and you can try to catch it out.
Why body shops miss so many calls
Bodywork callers ring three shops for a price and book with the one that answered and sounded organised.
When the phone rings out
- in the spray booth and the workshop
- lunchtime
- evenings, when people notice the damage
What they are ringing about
- a dent or a scrape after a car park knock
- insurance work and whether it affects a policy
- how long the car will be off the road
What that costs a single site
£30,500
a month, on conservative assumptions
About 24 missed calls a week. Assume only a third would have become customers, that is roughly 8 a week, and one customer is worth £890 to a body shop. Change any of those to your own figures and the answer stays uncomfortable.
Built around how a body shop actually works
Books estimate appointments
Takes the registration and the damage
Handles insurance versus private work
Answers courtesy car questions
It tells callers what it is
It says it is an assistant when it picks up. It gives no advice it is not qualified to give, and anything on your escalation list stops the conversation and reaches you straight away. For a body shop that matters more than the clever bits, because the calls you cannot afford to get wrong are the ones you most need answered.
What body shops ask us
Can it take photos of the damage?
It can send a text asking for photos as soon as the call ends, which lets you estimate without the car coming in.
Does it handle insurance jobs?
It captures the insurer, the claim number and whether the customer has an excess, so your admin starts with the facts.
Will it promise a turnaround time?
No. It books the estimate, because a promise made on the phone about paint work is a complaint waiting to happen.
AI receptionists for body shops near you
Same service everywhere. These pages cover what the phone looks like for body shops in each area.
- Car body repair shops in London
- Car body repair shops in Birmingham
- Car body repair shops in Manchester
- Car body repair shops in Leeds
- Car body repair shops in Glasgow
- Car body repair shops in Liverpool
- Car body repair shops in Bristol
- Car body repair shops in Sheffield
- Car body repair shops in Edinburgh
- Car body repair shops in Cardiff
- Car body repair shops in Leicester
- Car body repair shops in Nottingham
- Car body repair shops in Newcastle
- Car body repair shops in Southampton
- Car body repair shops in Brighton
- Car body repair shops in Coventry
- Car body repair shops in Reading
- Car body repair shops in Milton Keynes
- Car body repair shops in Luton
- Car body repair shops in Belfast
- Car body repair shops in Portsmouth
- Car body repair shops in Stoke-on-Trent
Hear it answer a body shop call
Ring the number and ask it the awkward question your customers always ask. If you like what you hear, it will book you in there and then.
Talk to our AI assistantNo form, no sales call. Thirty seconds on the phone with the thing itself.