AI receptionist for equipment hire companies in Stoke-on-Trent

A Stoke-on-Trent hire company lets roughly 37 calls a week ring out. Callwise answers all of them on your existing 01782 number, books the work and sends you the transcript.

Keeps your 01782 number
Answers on the first ring
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Ring +44 330 912 2553. It answers, and you can try to catch it out.

Equipment hire companies in Stoke-on-Trent

What the phone looks like for a Stoke-on-Trent hire company

Stoke-on-Trent and the wider Staffordshire has a population of around 370,000, built on ceramics, logistics and a large base of family run trades. That produces a lot of phone calls, and for a hire company working across Hanley, Newcastle-under-Lyme and Longton most of them arrive at the exact moment nobody can pick up.

Hire is an availability business, and a builder standing on site rings until somebody says yes.

Callwise answers on your own 01782 number. Customers ring the number they already have, it is answered on the first ring by something that sounds like a person, and the job is booked into your diary before the caller has thought about trying anybody else.

When Stoke-on-Trent calls go unanswered

early mornings, when trades ring before site
while staff are loading and checking equipment
Saturdays

What Stoke-on-Trent callers want

whether an item is available today
hire rates and deposits
delivery and collection

What a Stoke-on-Trent hire company loses to the phone

£20,100

a month, at one site

Around 37 missed calls a week, assuming only a third would ever have booked, at £380 a customer. Callwise costs £499 a month, whatever the volume.

What it does for Stoke-on-Trent hire companies

Answers availability questions

Takes bookings with dates and delivery details

Quotes rates and deposits

Answers from seven in the morning

Questions

Stoke-on-Trent hire companies ask us

Do we keep our 01782 number?

Yes. Your existing 01782 number stays exactly as it is and keeps ringing your phones. Calls only reach the assistant when nobody picks up, or at the hours you choose, so nothing about how Stoke-on-Trent customers reach you changes.

Do you work with hire companies outside Stoke-on-Trent?

Yes. There is nothing local about how it works, so Stoke-on-Trent and everywhere across Staffordshire is covered the same way, along with the rest of the UK. The local part is your number and your customers, and both stay yours.

Our customers ring at seven. Are we losing those?

Almost all of them. Trades ring before they get to site, which is an hour before most hire desks open, and they hire from whoever answers.

Can it check availability?

If your stock system is available to it, directly. Otherwise it takes the requirement and confirms within minutes.

Will it explain deposits and damage terms?

From your own terms, which prevents most of the disputes that happen on collection.

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Hear it answer, then decide

Ring it and ask what a Stoke-on-Trent customer would ask. It is the same assistant your callers would get, so if it does not convince you on the phone it will not convince them either.