Bays full, voicemail fuller. AI receptionist for auto shops.
Reception answers while your advisor is with a customer, takes the year, make, and model, asks what the car needs, and books the drop-off.
Try one of these calls
You're talking to Jamie at Lakeside Auto Care, a shop we invented. Nothing here reserves a real bay.
What is a missed job worth?
Start with how many calls you miss in a week and what a job is worth. Every assumption is editable, and the defaults come from published industry data, not our marketing team.
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Adjust assumptionsSwap in your own numbers. The defaults stay deliberately low.+
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Estimated missed ticket revenue
$39,414
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Monthly
$3,282
Bookings
2 / week
The default is a mid-conservative mechanical ticket. Body, paint, and full detail work run well above it, so put your own average in.
Sources and confidence
- Conservative independent-shop ticket: 375 USD (medium confidence). Invoca automotive example used a $220 ticket as a floor; independent-shop tickets often run higher
- Share that are real opportunities: 55% (low confidence). Invoca missed-call research (opportunity mix is an internal conservative assumption)
- Share that are in-scope and bookable: 70% (low confidence). Invoca conversion commentary; in-scope rate is a conservative assumption
- Answered phone-lead conversion: 35% (medium confidence). Invoca, qualified phone leads convert ~41% when answered
- Callers who leave a voicemail: 3% (medium confidence). Invoca, fewer than 3% of voicemail callers leave a message
Proven in production
Reception is built on the same ElevenAgents platform that already handles inbound requests involving scheduling, support, and countless other enterprise use cases.
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What a brake call sounds like mid-morning
Reception takes the year, make, and model, asks whether the car is safe to drive, and quotes the diagnostic instead of a repair price nobody has looked at yet.
The phone gets answered while everyone is in the shop
Someone chasing a quote or a drop-off time doesn't leave a voicemail and wait. Here's what Reception does with the call nobody can get to.
Customer Support, Answers what you charge to look at it, how long a job takes, and whether you handle that kind of work.
After-Hours Coverage, Answers at lunch, at close, and on the Saturday somebody walks out to a car that will not start.
Team-First Routing, Keeps quick jobs in the short windows you reserve, so an advisor is not pulled away from a customer.
Human-like voices in 70+ languages, Greet every caller in a voice that sounds genuinely human, in English, Spanish, and 70+ more. Serve customers in the language they speak and win the ones your competitors can't.
Online Booking, Give customers a booking page tied to the same receptionist. They can call, text, or book online, and every channel stays in sync so nothing gets double-booked.
Multi-Location Coverage, Run one receptionist across every location. Route calls by branch, share calendars, and keep the same brand voice whether you have one office or fifty.
Frequently asked
questions
Reception is set up for auto repair specifically, with the questions that industry actually gets asked.
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