A receptionist for the job that rings while the vacuum's going

A realistic call, the way Giday runs it:

Giday: Giday, you've reached Spotless Brisbane — Verity speaking, on a recorded line. How can I help you?

Caller: Hi, I need a bond clean on a two-bedroom unit in Toowong, we move out Friday.

Giday: A two-bedroom bond clean is about five hours. Thursday is open from 8 — would that work, or Friday morning?

Caller: Thursday from eight.

Giday: Thursday from 8, five hours. Is the oven and the carpets included, or just the standard bond clean? And your name, the unit address and a mobile for the confirmation?

What happened: Five hours booked, what's included noted, a text to the client, a text to the business. The regular Thursday 2pm is still open.

Put your services on the list with their lengths — regular 2 hr, deep clean 4 hr, two-bed bond clean 5 hr — and the receptionist books the length the job needs, per cleaner or per team, never more jobs than you can run at once. It asks the questions you set: address, access, pets, what's included.

On the Busy plan and up it quotes the standard jobs from your price list, hedged as an estimate confirmed on the day. It books the first clean; a weekly schedule is yours to set with the client.

• Overflow. You keep answering; Giday picks up what rings out while you're with a job.
• Before open and after close. Divert at close, divert back at open. The 7:50am rebook is in the calendar before you've unlocked.
• All the time. The one-person business with no front desk.

Bookings land in your calendar through a subscription feed any calendar app reads, and by text. On the Busy plan and up they can go into ServiceM8 too. There's no link into other salon, grooming or job software yet; if you run one, bookings reach you by calendar and by text, not inside it.

Every plan answers 24/7, books into your calendar and takes messages. The difference is minutes and machinery: Starter $49 for a solo cleaning business with a handful of calls a day, Steady $99 to read your live calendar and keep transcripts, Busy $199 to quote from your price list and link ServiceM8, Flat Out $399 for custom call flows and the on-call roster. All AUD with GST, month to month, no setup fee. The full table is on the pricing page.

Sixty minutes of call time on us, for a week. Card up front, nothing charged, and the clock doesn't start until your receptionist answers its first call. Setup takes minutes: your business name, what you do, your hours, your services with how long each takes, and your receptionist is live on its own Australian number. Divert is one dial code.