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 · ST. CATHARINES
What a missed call costs a St. Catharines garage door shop
Phone rings first4.2s response30-day guarantee
A hailstorm dented every garage door on a single suburban block. Twenty homeowners are about to call. The first three shops to answer the phone get the work.
What Avidra does
Avidra answers your phone with AI voice the moment a call lands. The caller hears a real voice. You get a structured lead summary on your phone, the same way a text would arrive.
The text doesn't replace the human conversation. It buys time for it. You still call back. You still close the job. Avidra just makes sure the lead is warm and the basics about the homeowners are in your inbox before you do.
Where the math breaks even
Break-even is one recovered job a month for almost every plan tier. If Avidra catches one garage door lead in the trial that would have gone to voicemail, you're already ahead on the year. The trial period is 14 days, so the math has the chance to prove itself before you're paying.
Two ways to set it up
Two setup paths. Path one is forwarding: your existing business number stays the front door, calls ring to your phone, and Avidra only catches the unanswered ones. Path two is direct: the Avidra number is the front door, AI picks up every call live, and it transfers to your cell when the caller asks for a human. Most one-truck shops use path one. Larger shops with reception coverage usually move to path two.
Free tier includes both. AI voice and SMS text-back are both in the $0 floor, so neither pickup mode costs extra.
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.
Your assistant for the calls you do answer
Avidra isn't just for missed calls. The owner side runs on text and voice too. From a truck or a job site, you can text the Avidra number to relay a message to a specific customer, ask how today's leads are shaping up, or have the AI book a callback. It does what a human dispatcher would do, on whichever channel you're already using.
Calls garage door techs in St. Catharines actually take
The calls that land most often go something like this. Panel replacement after a hailstorm. Door off the track after a bumper tap. Broken cable hanging loose on one side. Smart opener install with phone app. Pick up first and you book the job. Pick up second and you don't.
Off-hours calls run differently. Tighter, more urgent, less willing to wait until morning. Snapped spring trapping a car before an early shift. Door stuck open at 11pm with valuables inside. The shop that picks up fast keeps the work.
What the year looks like
Spring breaks spike during cold snaps when steel contracts. Opener calls spike in summer. Otherwise steady year-round.
For most garage door techs, the call volume isn't flat. You probably already plan staffing and on-call coverage around the peaks. Avidra runs the same in busy season as in slow. No per-call charges, no surge pricing when the inbox gets loud.
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.
After-hours and on-the-ground in St. Catharines
St. Catharines winters keep the call volume up. Cold weather doesn't slow the inbox. A call might originate in Port Dalhousie or three neighborhoods over. The text-back chain runs the same way in either case.
Common questions
Can the script capture the door brand and approximate age?
Yes. Most garage-door scripts include brand, model if known, and rough install year.
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.
What if a customer asks about spring size?
The script asks for door dimensions and approximate weight. Actual spring size is confirmed on site.
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.
Can it handle a stuck-open door at night?
Yes. The after-hours script for emergencies acknowledges the situation and offers a callback or a next-morning slot.
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