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AI receptionist for garages and mechanics

Your service desk answered while every bay is busy

Available handles MOT, servicing, warning-light and repair enquiries, captures vehicle details and preferred timing, and sends the workshop a structured booking request.

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Set up for you · Keep your existing number · Test privately before launch
Available — virtual receptionLive example
CallerCan I get an MOT and interim service next week? The car’s a 2019 Golf.
AvailableWe can look at that. Which days suit you best, and is anything specific worrying you — noises, warning lights?
Booking request logged · brake note added for technician
Where enquiries are lost

The phone rings most when the workshop is least able to answer

Technicians and service advisers are already juggling vehicles, parts and customers at the desk. Available prevents new bookings from disappearing into voicemail.

Businesses find this page searching for garage call answering and MOT booking enquiries — different words for the same problem: enquiries arriving faster than a busy team can answer them.

What Available can handle
  • Answers calls and website chat 24/7 in your tone of voice
  • Answers approved questions about services, guide prices, hours and coverage
  • Captures contact details and qualifies each enquiry
  • Sends your booking link or creates structured booking requests
  • Transfers important calls and sends summaries with urgent flags
Common enquiries

The enquiries it handles for garages & mechanics

MOT tests and annual servicing
Warning lights and diagnostics
Brakes, tyres and exhausts
Breakdown and non-start enquiries
Air conditioning and batteries
Repair updates and general messages
Example conversation

What a real enquiry looks like

Wording adapts to your business — this is a typical journey from first ring to structured summary. Nothing is booked or promised beyond the rules you approve.

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Available — virtual receptionExample journey
CallerCan I get an MOT and interim service next week? The car’s a 2019 Golf.
AvailableWe can look at that. Which days suit you best, and is anything specific worrying you — noises, warning lights?
CallerTuesday or Wednesday. There’s a squeal when braking.
AvailableBooked as a request: MOT plus interim service, Tuesday or Wednesday, with a note about brake squeal so the technician road-tests it first. Confirmation is on its way by text.
Booking request logged · brake note added for technician
Qualification

It asks the questions your team would ask

Example qualification questions for garages & mechanics — the exact wording follows your services, policies and escalation rules.

QWhat is the registration and vehicle model?
QWhat service or fault is involved?
QIs the vehicle safe and able to move?
QWhen is the MOT due?
QIs a courtesy vehicle required?
QWhat days work for drop-off?
Safety & escalation

Boundaries your business controls

Every rule below is configured and approved by you before launch — and anything outside its knowledge becomes a captured callback, never a guess.

  • Breakdown calls where the vehicle is in a live lane or unsafe location are told to contact their breakdown provider or 999 first, using your approved wording
  • Never gives regulated advice — it captures the matter and books the conversation with a qualified person
  • Confidential and sensitive enquiries are handled with wording you approve, and nothing is discussed beyond it
  • Urgent matters from existing clients skip the queue and reach the right person immediately
Setup

Live within a week, without disruption

We learn the business

Your services, coverage, guide pricing, hours, FAQs, escalation contacts and preferred tone become one approved knowledge base.

You test it privately

A private demo line and chat built on your information. Your team asks the difficult questions and signs off the behaviour.

Calls and chats go live

A simple call divert and website snippet. Every conversation is summarised and sent to the people who need it.

Available works alongside your existing booking process and software: it can send booking links and create structured requests without a deep integration. Direct integrations may be available depending on your system — confirmed honestly during setup.

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Questions

What garages & mechanics usually ask

No. It can sit behind your existing team and answer only when the line is busy, unanswered or closed. It can also handle all first-response enquiries if that suits your workflow.

Available can send booking links and structured requests without a deep integration. Direct availability and booking can be enabled where your calendar or business software provides suitable authorised access.

It says that your team will confirm, captures the caller or visitor details, and routes the enquiry. It does not invent answers.

Yes. It is trained on your approved services, pricing guidance, policies, coverage and tone. You test it privately and sign off before it handles live enquiries.

No. Your existing number can divert calls on busy, no answer or after hours. A separate campaign number can also be used when required.

A focused deployment can usually be prepared within about a week once your services, rules and escalation contacts have been supplied and approved.

See it handling your enquiries — before you pay anything

A tailored demo built from your website and approved information. Ring it, chat to it, try to break it.

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