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Missed Call Text Back · Perth & Peel TradesEvery call you miss gets a text back inside a minute.

You are on a roof, under a house or halfway down the Kwinana Freeway, and the phone rings out. Before the caller has scrolled to the next name on Google, they have a text from your own number asking what the job is and which suburb. Their answer lands in your diary. We build it, run it and report on it, so you never have to touch it.

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Why it matters

Every missed call
is a Perth job
someone else does.

A missed call does not wait politely for you to finish the job. It rings the next listing.

$250 to $700

a Perth emergency callout

What a Perth plumbing emergency visit is worth in 2026, before the job it leads to. One missed call on a Friday night is that money going to the next listing.

50 to 100%

more for after-hours work

The after-hours surcharge Perth electricians charge. The calls that come in when nobody can answer are the best-paid work of the week.

Inside a minute

every caller hears from you

Every caller gets a text from your number before they have scrolled to the next listing. That speed is what the whole build is for.

A missed call is a lost job, not a delayed one. The fix is not answering every call, which nobody on the tools can do. It is making sure every caller hears from you inside a minute, so they have no reason to ring anyone else. The full numbers, with Perth job values against them, are in how Perth tradies lose jobs to missed calls. On shared leads, where up to three businesses get the same enquiry, that minute is most of your win rate: see what a better win rate is worth to you.

Perth prices: What's The Damage, plumber cost Perth and electrician cost Perth, 2026.

See it work · runs in your browser

This is what happens
to a missed call.

Pick a trade, hit run, and watch the sequence play out at real speed. Nothing is sent and nothing is collected. It is the same logic we build into an engagement, written for your trade and your suburbs.

Industry average response time: 47 hours

Want the real thing? Ring 0495 044 800. Sam, our AI receptionist, picks up day or night. Ask it what your customers would. Calls are recorded.

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How it works

From a missed call
to a booked job.

Four steps, none of which need you to stop what you are doing.

The call rings out

You are on the tools, the office is empty, or it is 9pm. Nobody picks up, and nothing about that changes. What changes is what happens next.

0 seconds

A text goes back from your number

The caller gets a message from the number they just rang, written the way you talk, asking what the job is and which suburb they are in.

Under 60 seconds

Urgent jobs reach you

Triage questions set to your rules decide what is worth interrupting you for. Water escaping or no cooling in a heatwave rings your mobile. A dripping tap waits for morning.

Same night

The job lands in your system

Name, number, job type, suburb and urgency go straight into ServiceM8 or Simpro. Quotes you send afterwards get followed up at day 2, 7 and 21.

Every time
Rough maths

What are your missed calls worth?

A Perth plumbing callout runs about $250 to $700, and an air conditioning install can be several thousand. Drag each slider to match your business. The standalone calculator shows the maths and has a preset for each trade.

Walking out the door each year
$224,640
Per week$4,320
Per month$18,706
What we would expect to recover$134,784
After the $197 monthly platform fee$120,384
Get the real number

We assume we recover 60% of what you are missing, which is deliberately conservative.

An app or us?

If all you want is
an automatic text,
buy an app.

We would rather say that here than sell you something you do not need. The difference is everything that happens around the text.

A self-serve app

Cheaper, and yours to run

Self-serve apps start at under $100 a month. You set it up, write the messages, decide what counts as urgent, connect it to your job system, and make sure it is compliant. A good fit if someone in your business has the time to own it and keep tuning it.

Built and run for you

More than the text

We audit where your work is actually leaking first, then build the text-back with triage rules set to your tolerance, quote follow-up, consent handling and the ServiceM8 or Simpro connection. Then we run it, tune the wording as replies come in, and report monthly on what it caught and what it earned.

What it costs

Published floors,
no surprises.

We do not quote a final figure before the audit, because we do not know what your business is losing until we look. Here is enough to know whether to bother booking.

Billed separately
At cost no markup
SMS carriage, typically $20 to $60 / month
  • Depends on how many texts go out
  • Paid advertising is not included
  • Website build or hosting is not included
  • The audit itself costs nothing
Full pricing detail
Is it legal?

Legal, if it is
built properly.

The text-back itself

A text replying to a call the customer has just made, about the job they rang about, is a response to their own enquiry. It goes out from your business number, so ACMA's Sender ID Register does not touch it. Which of your texts the register does affect.

Anything that promotes

Seasonal offers, service reminders with a price attached and review requests with a discount are marketing, so the Spam Act applies: consent you can prove, your business identified, and a working unsubscribe. We build all three in. The rules, in plain English.

Results

The proof section, honestly.

The straight version

No Perth case study yet. You would find out anyway.

We are new to the Perth market and we will not fake a testimonial wall. Every build reports monthly on what it caught, what got booked and what it earned. Our first Perth clients become the case studies, published with their real names and their real numbers.

Proof you can run yourself

The demo further up this page is the actual build logic, running at real speed in your browser. And it runs month to month with no lock-in: if it does not produce booked work worth more than it costs, stop paying.

Before you book

Fair questions.

How does missed call text back work?
When a call to your business number goes unanswered, the caller gets a text from that same number within 60 seconds asking what the job is and which suburb. Their reply comes to you and into your job system with the details attached. Genuine emergencies can be set to ring your mobile, and routine work is booked for the morning.
How much does missed call text back cost in Perth?
Self-serve apps start at under $100 a month and leave the setup, wording and compliance to you. Our done-for-you setup starts at $999, then $197 a month for the platform, with SMS carriage billed at cost, typically $20 to $60 a month. The audit is free, and if an app is all you need we will tell you.
Is missed call text back legal in Australia?
A text that replies to a call the customer has just made, about the job they rang about, is a response to their own enquiry. It sends from your business number, so the ACMA Sender ID Register does not apply to it. If the texts start promoting other services, Spam Act consent, identification and unsubscribe rules apply. This is general guidance, not legal advice.
Does it work if my business number is a landline?
Yes, with the right setup. A plain landline cannot send or receive texts, so the build either text-enables the number your customers already know or forwards missed calls to one that can. The audit works out which.
How quickly can it be live?
A full build is usually live in about 14 days from the audit. That includes the wording in your voice, triage rules, compliance and the connection to your job system.
Will it work with ServiceM8 or Simpro?
Yes. We work behind whatever you already run. Jobs we capture land in your existing system with the job type, suburb and urgency attached, so quoting, scheduling and invoicing stay where they are.
The audit

Half an hour, and
you will know.

We go through how work reaches you, where it falls out, and what each of those holes is worth in a year. You leave with that whether you hire us or not.

A dollar figure on your missed calls, using your job values not averages
Whether an app would do the job, if that is the honest answer
Whether your current SMS setup is actually legal

Three questions on the next page and we text you a time within a few minutes. Nothing to buy on the call.

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