Spring turns the phone on and it does not go off again until autumn. While you are shifting soil in Sandy Bay, Talkify answers every enquiry across Hobart, works out whether it is a tidy-up, a full design or a retaining wall, and books the site visit. The small stuff gets quoted and the big stuff gets a real appointment.
Hobart is split by the Derwent and joined by one main bridge, so the eastern shore and the western shore are effectively two different working days. Much of the housing in Sandy Bay, Battery Point and New Town is nineteenth century and largely uninsulated, and a cold snap shows that up in a hurry. Mountain weather arrives fast, the snow line drops to the suburbs most winters, and being the southernmost capital means the working light runs out early.
Eleven people ring about their sections in one morning, and every one of them is answered at the same time, so nobody gets an engaged tone. The agent sorts the one-off tidy-ups from the design work and fills your week in the order that makes sense across Hobart.
AnsweredA Sandy Bay section is slipping and the owner does not know whether they need consent. The agent takes the height, the length, what sits above and below it and whether the council has been involved, then books a look rather than pricing something that may need an engineer.
AnsweredA commercial property wants a monthly schedule rather than a one-off visit. The agent takes the site, the frequency, who signs off and where the invoice goes, then puts a recurring job in the diary instead of a single appointment nobody remembers to repeat.
AnsweredThe agent takes the whole call rather than a message. Anything on the urgent list reaches your mobile as a text within seconds, with the address and the number, and the caller gets their own text confirming somebody is on it.
Your questions, in your order. Anything you would ask standing in the doorway with a notebook.
You set the list. These are the defaults for landscapers, and every one of them texts you rather than waiting in a summary.
On the tools the diary is not a calendar app, it is the job system. Talkify writes the enquiry, the site address and what the caller actually said into the one you run in Hobart, so nobody types the same job in twice. Where a connector is marked early access it is built and tested, and set up with you rather than left for you to wire up.
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Press the button, approve Talkify at Fergus, set a password. Talkify builds the whole account out of what Fergus already knows: your company, your team, your line already pointed at the right town, your customer list copying in behind you and Fergus already connected. It drops you on the agent builder with a reception agent half made, rather than on an empty screen.
Plenty of good landscapers run the week off a notebook and a phone. Nothing here asks you to open an account somewhere else first.
Hobart is Australia's southernmost and second oldest capital city, with a large stock of nineteenth century housing and a working port at the middle of it.
From Glenorchy to Kingston, Bellerive to Sandy Bay and out to Sorell. You set the area you actually drive to, and anything outside it is turned down politely rather than booked and cancelled.
HobartYour 03 landline or mobile stays exactly as it is. Forward it to the agent when you are busy, after hours, or always, and switch it back from your phone whenever you like.
ForwardingWe can provision a local 03 number for the agent and sell you the line itself, so the agent has a number of its own without you running two providers.
03 numberThere are a lot of AI receptionists now and they all sound much the same on a demo call. These are the six things that are hard to hear in five minutes and matter by month three, and each one is something you can check rather than something we can claim.
We sell the line as well as the thing that answers it. Numbers sit on our own carrier account, the routing is ours to change, and it is one supplier and one bill. Most AI answering is a layer of software on a phone account somebody else sold you, which is invisible on a good day and the whole game at three in the morning.
One supplierCalls to an Australian number are answered and handled in Australia rather than routed through somewhere else and back, and an Australian account is quoted and invoiced in Australian dollars. Most of what is sold here is an American platform wearing a local logo, and you hear the difference on the line before you ever see it on a bill.
AustraliaTalkify has answered business calls since 2024, out of a Christchurch software studio over twelve years old that was doing voice and telephony work before Talkify had a name. Most of this market arrived in the last year and a half. That is not a criticism, but it is worth knowing when you are handing over your phone.
Since 2024Nothing gets named on this website until the connector behind it exists and we can show it to you, which is why our list is shorter than some and why every name on it is real. Anything we have not built yet, you or your developer can, over a documented API with webhooks and Zapier.
Written by usThe same account and the same number also chase the quotes you sent, confirm next week's jobs, ring the overdue invoices straight out of your Xero, run phone surveys, work an on-call roster until somebody actually accepts, staff a front counter and answer the chat window on your website.
Same accountReal Australian voices that say the street and suburb names properly, so a caller is not spelling their own address at a machine. Support is a phone number in your own timezone answered by the people who built the thing, and the apps for iPhone and Android are on every plan.
iOS + AndroidTwo more are further up this page rather than repeated here: if you run Fergus you can sign in with it and skip the setting up altogether, and if you run no software at all you still get the diary and the address book. Weighing us against somebody else? We list every provider selling into Australia on the alternatives page, including where each of them is the better pick, and there is a row by row of us against Tradies Line on the head to head.
Slide for the number of agents you would run on your number (the plan includes up to 3), pick the integrations you'd connect, and see live what your monthly looks like. Most businesses start with one. No sign-up needed.
Broadcast fits most growing NZ businesses. One number carries up to 3 agents and three callers at once.
Includes 200 minutes a month, then 10c a minute (20c after your first 3 months). Each number includes 50 texts a month, then 9c each.
Want more than 3 agents on one number? Extra agents are $39 a month each.
Start with this plan →What landscapers in Hobart ask us first. If yours isn't here, ring our live demo agent on +64 3 242 1262, it'll either answer or queue a callback from a human.
The Talkify mobile app puts the dashboard, transcripts and live coaching in your hand. Listen back to any call, edit your agent's prompt mid-shift, get push-notified the moment a hot lead lands.