TradieCall

NZ$181.50 (about $102) a month on Starter for 100 calls of 2.5 minutes (250 billed minutes). Billed in 30-second steps (2.5 min for a 2½-minute call).

NZ$531.50 (about $298) a month on Starter for 500 calls of 2.5 minutes (1,250 billed minutes). Billed in 30-second steps (2.5 min for a 2½-minute call).

Flat monthly plan fee that includes a monthly allowance of AI answering minutes, with talk time measured per call and rounded up in 30-second blocks, so the unit is the minute on top of a flat subscription.

Yes

Calls keep being answered past the allowance and are billed per minute at the plan rate ($0.35/min on Starter and Pro, $0.29 on Trade Team), unless you switch on the optional hard cap, which pauses answering instead; usage alerts fire at 80% and 100%.

Yes

Robocalls and telemarketing calls are filtered on every plan and the vendor states blocked spam does not consume the plan's included minutes, so it cannot eat the allowance or add overage.

Partlyfrom Pro

Real calendar booking during the call is a Pro-and-above feature: Pro writes clash-checked jobs into Google Calendar and texts the caller a confirmation, while Starter only captures the job details for you to book yourself.

Partlyfrom Pro

Live transfer of urgent calls to your mobile needs the Pro plan (2 transfer contacts, 10 plus team routing on Trade Team); the caller holds while it rings you, and the vendor does not describe a warm hand-off briefing.

Yes

It answers around the clock including nights, weekends and public holidays at the same flat price, and Pro adds time-based routing so you can run after-hours-only or full-AI answering.

Yes

It asks what happened and whether the job can wait, flags genuine emergencies in the job sheet texted to you within a minute, and on Pro can transfer the caller live to your mobile; triage is from what the caller says, so an anxious caller with a small job can be flagged urgent.

No

No human agents sit behind the AI: for callers who insist on a person the vendor's answer is a live transfer to the business owner on Pro, or a flagged message for you to return, and it describes itself as explicitly not a call center.

Partlyfrom Pro

Setup trains it on your services, hours and service area and it captures a fixed intake set (name, number, address, job, urgency); free-form editing of the agent's instructions is a Pro feature and bespoke rules are tailored by the vendor on Trade Team.

Yes

You train it during setup on your services, hours and service area so it answers from your own information, and it is built to refuse invention: by default it quotes no prices and tells callers you will confirm, with price answers only if you switch them on.

Partlyfrom Pro

Outbound SMS to callers exists as booking confirmations on Pro and above; the vendor documents no inbound or two-way texting, missed-call text-back or SMS conversation handling anywhere on its site.

Yes

Every plan texts and emails a job sheet within about a minute of hangup carrying the caller's name and number, the address, the job and an urgency flag, so SMS is the default channel rather than an app-only notification.

Yes

Both the recording and the transcript of every answered call are kept in the dashboard on all plans, and the terms confirm calls are recorded and transcribed to provide the call log and captured details.

No

Google Calendar booking is included on Pro and above and carries through to Tradify, but Outlook Calendar and Calendly are listed only as vendor-built custom integrations, which start from $499 and require a 12-month subscription.

No

Google Calendar booking is included on Pro and above and carries through to Tradify, but Outlook Calendar and Calendly are listed only as vendor-built custom integrations, which start from $499 and require a 12-month subscription.

No

Google Calendar booking is included on Pro and above and carries through to Tradify, but Outlook Calendar and Calendly are listed only as vendor-built custom integrations, which start from $499 and require a 12-month subscription.

Partlyfrom Custom Setup

HubSpot, HighLevel and Zapier are all offered, but each is marked "Custom-built for your business" rather than self-serve, which means the vendor's paid custom setup from $499 plus a 12-month subscription.

Partlyfrom Custom Setup

Trade job-management tools are supported but mostly as paid custom builds: ServiceM8, Fergus and Simpro are "Custom-built for your business", while Tradify is reached free through Google Calendar sync on Pro and above.

Partly

There is no standing free plan: new subscriptions get a 7-day free trial carrying 15 AI answering minutes, enough to set up and ring your own number before going live, and answering pauses if the 15 minutes run out first.

Yes

A valid card must be entered to start the 7-day trial, though the vendor states it is not charged until the trial ends and canceling before then avoids any charge.

Yes

You can sign up and configure it yourself in about ten minutes with no demo call required: business details, hours, services and a voice, then one forwarding code to go live; the number is provisioned automatically after checkout.

Partly

Self-setup is free, but the optional done-for-you build is a one-off $199 on Starter and Pro and free on Trade Team, and vendor-built custom system integrations start from $499 with a 12-month subscription.

Yes

Plans are month to month with no lock-in and cancellation is self-serve from the billing portal with no phone call; an annual option bills a year up front, and only the custom integration build requires a 12-month subscription.

Partly

You pick a voice from the vendor's natural New Zealand and Australian options during the ten-minute setup; no voice cloning or custom-recorded voice is offered anywhere on the site.

Yes

You can hear it two ways: the vendor builds a personalized demo and plays it to you live on a call with its team, and after free setup you can ring your own new number and test the receptionist before any customer reaches it.

Yes

You keep your existing number and dial one carrier forwarding code so only unanswered calls divert to the AI; your own phone still rings first and another code turns the divert off.

Partly

Porting in is not the model — plans advertise call forwarding, no porting — and the number they provision is licensed to you only while you subscribe; porting it out is possible by request within a 30-day grace period but is not guaranteed.

Yes

Australia is partly served (AU voices, an Australian recording notice and the Privacy Act 1988 in the terms) and no US, Canadian, UK or EU offering is described.

It ships trade-specific guidance and call handling for a long named list of trades, with its own page for plumbers, electricians, builders, roofers, landscapers, painters, drainlayers, arborists, locksmiths, handymen, glaziers, pest control and heat-pump installers.

Yes

Self-setup is about ten minutes and the number is provisioned automatically at checkout, or the vendor builds it with you over a call for a one-off $199 (free on Trade Team) including greeting, answers and forwarding.

Partly

Support is included on every plan and Trade Team adds priority support, but the published channels are an email address and contact form with a one-business-day reply target; no phone line, live chat or support hours are stated.