The promise
If Avidra doesn't recover 3 booked jobs in your first 30 days, I refund everything and disconnect you myself.
No forms. No retention call.
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GARAGE DOOR · MISSION
Never miss a garage door service call in Mission
Phone rings first4.2s response30-day guarantee
Routine maintenance keeps the springs and the rollers alive, but most homeowners don't book it. The bookings come from the breakdown. The shop that picks up is the shop that does the install.
Three things garage door techs push back on
“what if the caller wants pricing right away”
Avidra answers with the standard ranges you provide, or it deflects to a callback. You choose which questions get answered immediately and which wait for a human.
“this is a same-day job, an AI bot can't promise that”
It doesn't. The intake captures the basics and tells the caller you'll be in touch. The promise of a same-day slot is yours, after you've looked at your schedule.
“customers want to know the exact spring size before we come out”
Avidra asks for door dimensions and approximate age in the intake. The actual spring size gets confirmed on site. The intake just gets the truck rolling.
How Avidra answers your calls
Step 1 · AI picks up
Avidra answers the call on the first ring with the AI receptionist. The caller hears your business name and a short greeting.
Step 2 · Qualifies the caller live
Qualifying happens on the call. The caller doesn't have to repeat anything to a human later.
Step 3 · Transfers to you when they ask, or summarizes when they don't
The caller can say 'put me through to a tech' any time. The AI routes the call. Otherwise it captures the lead and ends with a thank-you.
Step 4 · Lead summary lands on your phone
After the call, Avidra texts you a structured summary. Caller name, problem, urgency, recording link if you want it.
Pick a pickup mode
You decide who picks up first. Run the human-first mode: your phone rings, and Avidra only steps in if the call goes unanswered. Or run the AI-first mode: Avidra picks up live and transfers when the caller wants a human. Most shops start human-first because the customer relationship still flows through you. AI-first makes sense once the volume is past what one person can handle.
Both pickup modes run on the Free tier. AI voice answering and SMS text-back are included at $0, with 30 voice minutes a month.
The phone end of your shop
Avidra owns the phone end of your shop. It picks up calls, runs the qualifier, captures the job, and relays the messages you ask it to send. Everything past the phone stays with you. Pricing, scheduling, dispatch, billing all live in your existing tools.
The text won't quote a spring. It won't promise a same-day slot. It won't tell a homeowner whether their opener motor is shot or just the capacitor. Door type and approximate age get captured. The diagnosis and the price stay with you.
The math on your missed calls
The numbers on a garage door shop your size.
7 calls/week missed$250 avg job$1,750 / week$7,583 / month$91,000 / year
73% of homeowners don't leave a voicemail. They call the next garage door tech on Google.
Avidra catches them in 4.2 seconds.
Calls garage door techs in Mission actually take
The calls that land most often go something like this. Panel replacement after a hailstorm. Opener motor humming but the door won't move. Smart opener install with phone app. Annual lube and tune-up booking. Each is the same opportunity. The phone is the bottleneck.
After hours, the calls shift. The patience is shorter and the stakes are higher. Door stuck open at 11pm with valuables inside. Snapped spring trapping a car before an early shift. Fast pickup is the difference between the job and a callback that never gets returned.
What the year looks like
Spring breaks spike during cold snaps when steel contracts. Opener calls spike in summer. Otherwise steady year-round.
Volume changes by season. Pickup rate shouldn't. Avidra fires the text-back the same way in February as it does in July, on a slow Tuesday or during a heat-advisory week.
Getting Avidra answering your phone
Setup is two minutes. You connect your business number to Avidra, either by porting it or by setting your existing line to ring the Avidra number. The AI picks up from then on. You edit the default intake script to sound like your office, and the first real call uses your voice and your business name.
Most owners are live before lunch on the day they sign up. The honest test is to call your own line and have the AI answer. The questions land. The summary fires. You see the intake on your phone.
Why live pickup beats voicemail
Voicemail is where service leads go to die. A homeowner who hits voicemail at 7pm and gets a callback at 9am has already booked the next name on the list. Avidra picks up live, so the conversation starts in the first ring. By the time the caller would have hung up on voicemail, the AI has already captured the caller's name and address along with the basics of the call. The follow-up callback then lands into a warm conversation, not a cold one.
Common questions
Will it know if my service area excludes a caller?
Yes. Out-of-area requests get a polite 'we don't service that postal code' response with no callback promise.
Will it offer a tune-up upsell?
Only if you configure it to. Most owners keep the intake to capture-and-acknowledge and handle the upsell on the human callback.
Will it triage a same-day request?
Yes. The intake flags same-day urgency and pushes the lead summary to the top of your inbox.
Does it handle commercial overhead doors?
Yes. Commercial intake is a separate script that captures door type, opening size, and access constraints.
Can the script capture the door brand and approximate age?
Yes. Most garage-door scripts include brand, model if known, and rough install year.
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