AI virtual receptionist for Australian small businessYou built the business.
You call the shots.
Giday takes the calls.

Yep, and it never pretends to be a person. Every call opens with your greeting on a recorded line, and if a caller asks whether they're talking to a person or a machine, your receptionist says straight away that it's your virtual receptionist, not a person. No pretending. From Starter, callers who want a human can be put through to you; on every plan they can leave a message. Here's exactly what an AI receptionist does on a real call.

From the Starter plan up, it books them. Giday works from a live calendar — yours if you've connected it (Steady plan and up), or the Giday calendar we set up for you — offers real available times, locks the job in, and texts the customer a confirmation. On those plans, message-taking is the fallback, not the product. On Essentials ($19), message-taking is the product: every message, booking requests included, is emailed to you to action.

Answered like every other call, no after-hours surcharge. From Starter, callers are offered your next available business-hours time and booked into it, and genuine emergencies can be put through to the number you chose if you've turned that on — it doesn't send anyone out at 2am. On Essentials, the message is emailed to you.

Your card goes on file when you sign up as a safety gate — a real card proves a real business — but nothing is charged and no plan is started. You get 7 days or 60 minutes of call time, whichever runs out first, and the clock only starts when your receptionist answers its first call. Three days before the week ends we email you what's been used and the plan we'd recommend: one click keeps it (your first charge lands when the week ends), one click cancels. Do nothing and the week simply ends — nothing charged, ever, and we hold your number for 30 days in case you come back. If you don't keep it, undo your divert (one code), because an unkept line plays a short "not taking calls" message.

Both. Your existing number stays yours and nothing about it changes. We give your receptionist a real Australian number of its own — most people simply divert their existing number to it (one dial code, reversible any time), and some advertise the Giday number directly as well. That number is yours to use for as long as you're subscribed, and if you ever leave we hold it for 30 days. If you want to take it with you, we'll help you try to port it, but we cannot promise a number we supplied can be ported. One honest heads-up before you print it on the ute: the more you advertise the Giday number, the more effort moving away later takes — most people lead with their own number and let the divert do the work.