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AI receptionist for appliance repair companies

AI Receptionist for Appliance Repair

An AI receptionist for appliance repair answers every call day and night, asks for the brand, model and symptom, and books the diagnostic visit before the caller tries the next repair shop in the search results.

  • Answers every call in seconds, day or night, and asks for brand, model and symptom before you're ever pulled off a job
  • Books the diagnostic or repair visit straight into your calendar, no phone tag, no callback
  • Flags a fridge-down or no-heat emergency and texts the on-call tech the details within minutes
  • Tracks jobs waiting on a part and books the return visit the moment it lands
  • Confirms whether the appliance is inside its manufacturer warranty before the visit gets billed either way

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We'll book you more revenue in your two-week trial than the cost of your annual plan.

Captures what a tech needs

Brand, model, symptom, appliance age and serial number, logged before the truck rolls, so the tech shows up with the right part instead of driving back for it or ordering it after the first visit.

Works with your dispatch tools

Books straight into the field service software, calendar or CRM you already run. Nothing new for your techs to learn on the way to the next call, and nothing to migrate before it goes live.

Live in days, not weeks

Forward your number, train it on how you triage a call, and most appliance repair shops answer their first AI-handled call inside a week, with a test call placed before anything reaches a real customer.

Hear it for yourself

No number required, no callback. Press play, then book a time below.

Megan, AutoRev inbound receptionist
Inbound receptionist
Megan

Professional and warm

Bryan, AutoRev outbound agent
Outbound agent
Bryan

Confident and friendly

Ava, AutoRev support agent
Support agent
Ava

Calm and reassuring

Three steps, then it's answering

No hardware, no new number to hand out, no software migration.

1

Forward your number

Point your existing line at AutoRev. Ten minutes, no new number to print on the truck, the invoice or the Google listing, and no hardware to install at the shop.

2

Train it on your business

Walk through how you triage a no-cool call, what a diagnostic visit costs, and how a warranty job gets logged. AutoRev learns your shop's pricing, your service area and your techs' specialties before it ever answers a real caller.

3

Go live and start booking

Place a test call, then switch it on. Every call after that gets answered, triaged and booked, with an emergency flagged the moment it comes in and a follow-up sent if the caller doesn't book on the spot.

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We'll book you more revenue in your two-week trial than the cost of your annual plan.

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Every call it handles

The jobs that come down your line, and what AutoRev does with each one.

No-cool and no-heat emergencies

A refrigerator or freezer down means food spoiling within hours, and a no-heat dryer in a house with a newborn won't hold until Monday.

  • Daytime: routine no-cool calls that can hold for a same-day or next-day slot.
  • After hours: a freezer full of food thawing at 11pm, and the caller is already searching for the next name on the list.
  • Weekends: no-heat and no-cool calls spike on Saturday and Sunday, exactly when most shops run a skeleton crew.
  • A commercial walk-in cooler down at a restaurant is a bigger emergency than a home fridge, and it needs to jump the queue.
  • Every hour a no-cool call sits unanswered is a food-loss number the caller can already price out for themselves.
  • A no-heat call in the middle of winter carries the same urgency as a no-cool call in July, and it gets triaged the same way.

How AutoRev handles it: AutoRev asks the two questions that separate an emergency from a routine call, what's not cooling or heating and how long it's been out, gets a same-day slot booked on the ones that qualify, and texts the on-call tech the details before the caller hangs up.

Diagnostic and service booking

A tech who shows up without the brand, model and symptom loses the trip, the time slot, and often the job.

  • Daytime: the bulk of call volume, a washer that won't spin, an oven that won't heat, an icemaker that quit.
  • After hours: callers browsing in the evening who want the visit locked in before they call anyone else.
  • Weekends: Saturday is the highest-volume booking day for most repair shops, and the day staffing runs thinnest.
  • Serial number and appliance age change what a tech brings on the truck, a five-year-old dishwasher and a fifteen-year-old one are different jobs.
  • A caller who repeats the brand and symptom to three different people before getting a booked slot usually books somewhere else instead.
  • A diagnostic fee quoted clearly on the first call cuts down on the no-shows that cost a tech a wasted trip window.

How AutoRev handles it: AutoRev captures brand, model number, symptom and appliance age in the caller's own words on the first call, quotes the diagnostic fee up front, and gets the tech dispatched already knowing what's likely wrong and which parts to load before leaving the shop.

Warranty and brand-authorized service

A caller under manufacturer warranty expects the visit to cost nothing, and getting that wrong on the phone starts a billing fight before the tech even arrives.

  • Daytime: warranty callers asking whether their appliance is still covered and what a service call costs if it isn't.
  • After hours: a caller who just found the receipt and wants to know if a year-old range is still under warranty.
  • Weekends: brand-authorized service calls that need to be logged correctly for the manufacturer to approve the claim.
  • An out-of-warranty repair on the same appliance model needs a different quote path than a covered one.
  • Getting the warranty question wrong on the call turns into a dispute at invoice time, after the job's already done.
  • Extended service plans sold by a retailer or a third party need their own authorization number captured before the visit gets billed.

How AutoRev handles it: AutoRev asks for the purchase date and confirms whether the appliance sits inside its manufacturer warranty window before booking, captures any extended-plan authorization number the caller has, and makes sure the tech and the office both know which billing path applies before the truck rolls.

Parts callbacks and return visits

A part on order is a promise to a customer who's already been without a working appliance once, and a missed callback is a second bad experience with the same job.

  • Daytime: customers calling to check on a part's status, or the shop calling to schedule the return trip once it lands.
  • After hours: a customer who wants to know if the part came in before planning an evening around a tech visit.
  • Weekends: return visits often land on Saturday, because that's when the customer's home.
  • A part that arrives on a Tuesday and sits unscheduled until someone remembers is a job that ages past what the customer will tolerate.
  • The second visit is where a repair shop earns the five-star review or loses the customer for good.
  • A backordered part with no firm delivery date still needs a status update, even when the answer is just 'not yet.'

How AutoRev handles it: AutoRev tracks which jobs are waiting on a part, reaches out the moment it's marked in, and gets the return visit back on the calendar without anyone in the office having to remember to make the call or dig through a parts-order spreadsheet.

Property managers and multi-unit accounts

A property manager with twelve units calling about a broken dryer is a repeat account, and how that first call goes decides whether every future call from that portfolio comes to you.

  • Daytime: property managers and landlords calling in bulk, often with several units needing service in the same week.
  • After hours: a tenant's emergency call that gets routed through the landlord or management company instead of straight to you.
  • Weekends: turnover units between tenants, where an appliance has to be working before the next lease starts.
  • A management company account needs its own billing and access instructions logged, not the intake a single homeowner gets.
  • Missing a property manager's call once often costs every unit in that portfolio, well beyond the one job.
  • A laundry room serving an entire building runs on a different urgency clock than a single unit's dryer.

How AutoRev handles it: AutoRev recognizes a repeat property manager or management company account, applies the billing and access rules already on file, and books the unit without making them repeat account details on every call, including which units are already scheduled that week.

Preventive maintenance and installation calls

A dryer vent cleaning or a new dishwasher hookup is a smaller ticket than an emergency repair, but it's recurring revenue that keeps the schedule full between breakdowns.

  • Daytime: dryer vent cleaning, refrigerator coil cleaning and annual maintenance calls that fill gaps in the schedule.
  • After hours: homeowners who just bought a new appliance, calling to book the install before the delivery date.
  • Weekends: installation and hookup jobs booked around a customer's home-improvement weekend, not an emergency timeline.
  • A maintenance customer today is a repair customer in two years, and both calls should feel like the same relationship.
  • An install that needs a gas line or a water-line hookup is a different scope than swapping in a plug-in appliance.
  • A maintenance plan customer calling in expects to be recognized on file, not treated like a first-time caller.

How AutoRev handles it: AutoRev books the maintenance visit or the install straight into the calendar, flags the ones that need a gas or water-line hookup so the right tech gets scheduled, and keeps the account in rotation for next year's service reminder without a spreadsheet to track it.

It doesn't stop at answering

AutoRev answers the call, then keeps working the job through dispatch, the estimate, the invoice and the review request, the way an operations coordinator would if one sat by the phone all day, every day.

Answers

Picks up in seconds, captures brand, model, symptom and urgency in the caller's own words, and tells a fridge-down emergency from a routine repair on the first exchange instead of running through a fixed script.

Books

Puts the diagnostic or repair visit on your calendar based on tech availability and service area. No hold music, no callback tag, and no double-booking a slot two techs both think is open.

Dispatches

Routes the job to the tech who covers that appliance type and that zip code, and texts them the brand, model and symptom before they leave the last job so the drive isn't wasted.

Sends the estimate

Once the tech diagnoses the problem, sends the repair quote for approval by text or email, so the customer signs off before parts get ordered instead of being surprised at invoice time.

Invoices

Sends the invoice the moment the job's done, itemized for labor and parts, and takes the payment without anyone in the office chasing a check or running a card manually.

Asks for the review

Follows up once the appliance is back running, timed to when the customer's relieved it's fixed rather than the day the invoice went out, when a review is easiest to get.

Works with your tools

AutoRev connects with 500+ tools. These are some of the ones appliance repair shops run most, from dispatch to invoicing to review requests, and anything with an API is fair game to connect, including tools built specifically for the appliance and repair trades.

RepairShopr

Repair shop management

ServiceMonster

Repair shop management

ServiceTitan

Field service management

Housecall Pro

Field service management

Jobber

Field service management

Service Fusion

Field service management

FieldEdge

Field service management

Successware

Field service management

Workiz

Field service management

Podium

Review requests and texting

NiceJob

Review requests

Birdeye

Review requests

QuickBooks

Invoicing and accounting

Xero

Invoicing and accounting

Stripe

Payment processing

Square

Payment processing

HubSpot

CRM

Salesforce

CRM

Go High Level

CRM

Zoho

CRM

Google Calendar

Scheduling

Calendly

Scheduling

FAQ

AI receptionist for Appliance Repair, answered

It answers every call, day or night, asks for the appliance brand, model and symptom, and books the diagnostic or repair visit on the spot. If a caller doesn't book right away, it follows up until the job's on the calendar, and it keeps working after the call through dispatch, the estimate and the invoice.

Yes. That's the first thing it asks for, along with the appliance's age and serial number when the caller has it handy, so the tech who gets dispatched already knows what's likely wrong and which parts to bring instead of driving back for one.

Yes. It asks what's not cooling or heating and how long it's been out, then gets an emergency into today's schedule and texts the on-call tech the details within minutes instead of leaving it in a general queue.

Yes. AutoRev tracks which jobs are waiting on a part and reaches out the moment it's marked in stock, so the return trip gets scheduled without anyone in the office having to remember or dig through a parts-order list.

Yes, that's the point of it. AutoRev books the visit, dispatches it to the right tech, sends the estimate for approval, sends the invoice once the job's done, and follows up for the review, the way an operations coordinator would handle the whole job from the first ring to the paid invoice.

AutoRev connects with the field service software, calendar and CRM you already run, ServiceTitan, Housecall Pro, Jobber and QuickBooks among them. Anything with an API is fair game to connect, so switching your dispatch software isn't a requirement.

It asks for the purchase date and confirms whether the appliance sits inside its manufacturer warranty window before booking. That keeps the billing conversation clean instead of turning into a dispute after the job's done, and it captures any extended-plan authorization number the caller already has.

Yes. AutoRev can quote and collect a diagnostic or service-call fee on the booking call itself, and it can take payment on the invoice once the repair's complete, so the office isn't chasing a card number after the fact.

Yes. It dispatches based on which tech covers a given appliance type and service area, so a washer-and-dryer specialist and a refrigeration tech don't end up with each other's jobs, and it respects each tech's schedule and zip-code coverage.

Yes. A solo tech gets the same coverage a bigger shop does: every call answered while a hand's inside an appliance, every emergency flagged, and every booking synced to one calendar instead of a stack of sticky notes.

Most appliance repair shops take their first AI-answered call within a week of signing up. You forward your number, train it on how you triage and price a call, and test it before it touches a real customer.

Yes. AutoRev forwards from the number you already have, so nothing changes on your trucks, your invoices or your Google listing. Customers keep dialing exactly what they already have.

You forward your number, AutoRev learns how your shop takes a booking and prices a diagnostic visit, and it starts answering real calls. Two weeks is enough to see it book real jobs against your real schedule, not a demo running in a browser tab.

We'll book you more revenue in your two-week trial than the cost of your annual plan, or you don't pay for it. There's no fine print past that: we'd rather prove what it books than argue about it.

AutoRev follows up by text until the caller books or asks to stop. You approve the follow-up message before it ever goes out, and the message references the same brand, model and symptom already captured.

Yes. It recognizes a repeat property manager or management company account, applies whatever billing and access rules are already on file, and books the unit without making them repeat the same details every call.

AutoRev transfers to a mobile or landline the moment a caller asks for a person, or whenever the call falls outside what it's set up to handle. You decide whether that's a warm transfer straight through or a logged message for a callback.

Yes. AutoRev books straight into the calendar, field service platform or CRM you're already running instead of asking you to move the business into a new one, and it updates that system automatically as a job moves through dispatch, estimate and invoice.

Yes. AutoRev sends a confirmation once a visit is booked and a heads-up text before the tech's on the way, so the customer isn't guessing when to be home.

Yes. AutoRev can filter obvious spam and robocalls before they take up a slot in the call log, so what reaches your review is real customer calls, not a list to sort through every morning.

Yes. AutoRev can sit behind your own team and pick up only what nobody gets to, calls after a set number of rings or calls that land while every line's busy, rather than replacing anyone who's already answering.

Yes. Multi-location shops route calls to the right branch, tech pool or calendar based on the caller's zip code or which number they dialed, so a call meant for one location doesn't end up booked into another's schedule.

Yes. It walks the caller through what to look for, the manufacturer plate inside the door or on the back panel, and books the visit with whatever detail is available if the caller still can't find it. A tech still shows up prepared with the symptom and appliance type either way.

Yes. Every call is logged with a transcript and the details captured, brand, model, symptom, and how it was booked or triaged. You can pull up any call to check what a customer was told or resolve a dispute over what was promised.

AutoRev can answer in English and Spanish, switching based on how the caller opens the conversation, so a Spanish-speaking customer isn't stuck waiting for a bilingual staff member to be free.

Yes. A commercial account, a restaurant's walk-in cooler or a laundromat's washer bank, gets triaged with the same urgency logic as a home call, and the office gets flagged when a job needs a commercial-rate quote instead of a standard residential one.

Yes. Every call is tagged by outcome, booked, followed up, transferred, or a caller who hung up, so you can see how many calls converted to revenue instead of guessing from a stack of voicemails.

Yes, if you want it to. AutoRev can mention a dryer vent cleaning or a coil cleaning while booking a repair visit, the same way a good front-desk person would, without turning the call into a sales pitch the caller didn't ask for.

Pricing scales with call volume and how much of the front desk you want AutoRev running, so we'll walk through the real number on the demo instead of guessing at it here. Every plan starts with the same 14-day free trial and the same revenue guarantee.

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