AI receptionist for UK garages
Every missed call is a job that went down the road.
Garage Ghost answers 24/7, checks the capacity you set, and books the customer into your diary while they're still on the phone.
Missed calls cost you
£2,680/mo
Garage Ghost
£200/mo
One booked service a fortnight covers it. Two weeks free to try.
Twelve missed calls a week at a £220 average job. Put your own numbers in and see yours.
Step-by-step process
How it Works
Every busy call follows the same simple, professional workflow. No guesswork, no waffle.
Busy calls forward
Busy Calls Forward
Customer calls your garage number. If you are under a car, on a test drive, or already on the line, the call automatically forwards to Garage Ghost.
Timeline
00:00
AI answers 24/7
Professional Answering
Garage Ghost answers professionally in your garage's name. It greets the caller, captures their name, number, vehicle registration, and exact fault.
Timeline
00:05
Live capacity check
Books The Slot
Garage Ghost checks the daily car capacity you set on your dashboard and books the customer into an available slot on the call. It only talks money where you have set a price range for that service — everything else is booked and flagged for you to price.
Timeline
02:00
Confirmed & logged
Appointment Confirmed
The customer receives an SMS confirming their booked slot. The booking, vehicle reg, fault and any urgency flag land live on your dashboard, and sync straight into your Google Calendar. You get an SMS alert too. Urgent or unclear calls are flagged for your review — never transferred to a live human.
Timeline
02:45
Bookings live in your Garage Ghost dashboard and sync two-way with Google Calendar. Outlook Calendar support is in development.
Simple, transparent pricing
One Simple Plan
Full operational access with zero tier restrictions. All features included. No setup fee.
Two weeks free
£200/month
500 calls included • No setup fee
Two-week free trial, then £200/month on a rolling month-to-month basis. 500 answered calls included each month, then 25p per additional call.
- 24/7 AI Voice reception — Answers every busy call in your garage's name
- Real-time booking against the daily car capacity you set on the dashboard
- 500 answered calls included each month, then 25p per additional call
- Google Calendar sync so bookings appear in the diary you already use (Outlook coming soon)
- Custom Operational Dashboard — Calls, customer profiles, and booking calendar
- Live Customer Profiles — Names, registrations, fault and booking history
- Urgent-keyword flagging on the dashboard plus SMS alert to the owner
- Instant SMS confirmation to the customer with their booked slot
500 calls a month
500 answered calls are included every month — far more than most workshops take. Beyond that it is 25p per additional call, itemised on your bill.
No commitment
Rolling month-to-month with 30 days notice to cancel. Your first two weeks are a free trial, so you hear it working before you pay anything.
Say hello first
Call the demo line: +44 7462 176396Garage Ghost: £200/month, two-week free trial, no setup fee. 500 calls included, then 25p per extra call. You set capacity and price ranges; the AI books inside them.
The Garage Ghost difference
Built for mechanics,
not call centers.
Every detail captured. Slots booked in real time. Your data in your dashboard.
No missed information
Every detail. Every data point. Caller name, vehicle reg, specific fault, urgency. Nothing gets lost between the phone and your workbench.
Booked, not messaged
The AI checks your live capacity for that day and books the customer into your Garage Ghost calendar on the call. The caller ends the call with a confirmed slot.
Your data, your dashboard
Every call and booking is stored in your own dashboard. Your garage owns it. Nothing is pooled or shared with other garages or third parties.
No assumptions
Structured intake means you know exactly why they called. No vague descriptions. Urgent or unclear jobs are flagged for you, not guessed at.
"You set the daily capacity. You set the price ranges. You review the flags. The AI works inside your rules."
Inside the dashboard
Every call and booking,
on one screen.
This is the live Garage Ghost dashboard — today's work, bookings, customers, vehicles and calendar setup exactly as your garage sees them.
Today at a glance
Open the dashboard and immediately see whether anything needs your attention, which cars are due in and whether Ghost is answering.
Weekly diary
Every booking the AI takes lands in the weekly diary with time, customer, job type and vehicle registration.
Customer records
Searchable customer profiles with phone number, vehicle registration and full activity history of bookings, changes and messages sent.
Vehicle records
Search every vehicle by registration, make, model or customer, with linked owners, DVSA details, mileage and MOT history in one place.
Calendar connection
Connect Google Calendar so Garage Ghost can read your availability and place every new booking straight into the calendar you already use. Outlook is in development.
Customer SMS
The caller leaves
with it in writing.
As soon as the slot is booked on the call, the customer gets a confirmation text in your garage's name — vehicle, registration, date and time. Every text sent is logged on the customer record on your dashboard.
Registrations are read out and written back character by character so the wrong plate never reaches your diary.
Instant
sent as the call ends
Your name
not ours, on every text
Logged
on the customer record
Test Garage
Text message · SMS
Today 09:41
Why choose us
Same market.
Different rules.
Every claim below about another provider is taken from what they publish on their own website. Where they are stronger, it says so.
| Garage Ghost | ReceptionMate (Assist) | AiRingDesk | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Published monthly price | £200/month. Two weeks free to trial it. | Assist listed at £200/month + VAT. | Tiers listed from £29 to £349/month + VAT. |
| Call or minute limits | 500 calls a month included, then 25p per extra call. | Assist includes 400 minutes, then £0.25 per overage minute. | Each tier caps monthly calls (150 / 300 / 1,000 / 5,000). |
| Every price published | One price on the site. Nothing behind a sales call. | Automate is "Custom" and Connect is "Talk to us". | All four tiers are published with prices. |
| Diary booking on the entry plan | Included. Books against the daily capacity you set. | Their table lists diary booking under Automate, not Assist. | Books appointments; no garage capacity model described. |
| Built only for garages | Garage intake only — MOT, service, cambelt, diagnostics. | Garage focused, including DVLA and MOT lookups. | Positioned for businesses generally, not garages. |
| Where your customer data sits | Your own dashboard. Never pooled or shared. | Calls, transcripts and messages in their portal inbox. | Calls, transcripts and summaries in their dashboard. |
Sourced from receptionmate.co.uk/pricing and airingdesk.com as published in August 2026. Providers change their offers — check their current pages before you decide. Garage Ghost prices exclude VAT where applicable. Bookings sit in our own dashboard calendar and sync with Google Calendar; Outlook is in development.
Missed-call ROI calculator
Your numbers.
Not our averages.
Set the sliders to match your workshop and see what unanswered calls are worth, and what recovering them is worth against the £200/month plan.
Three numbers you already know
Slide them to match your garage. The number on the right is what those missed calls are probably costing you every month.
Roughly how many inbound calls your workshop line takes in a week.
Calls that ring out, hit voicemail, or come in after hours. Count a busy Saturday morning.
Your typical invoice across MOT, service and repair work.
What that costs you
Money walking out the door every month
£3,120
Based on 1 in 3 of those missed callers booking a job. Even at 1 in 5, you are still losing £1,872 every month.
Missed calls per month
52
Jobs lost per month
17
Garage Ghost costs £200 a month.
Recover just 2 jobs in a month and it has paid for itself. Everything after that is profit you were previously giving away.
More on the causes behind those numbers: why independent garages miss calls, capacity planning for a small workshop and the full plan.
Compliance
UK based.
GDPR compliant.
UK based, UK data
Built and supported in the UK for UK independent garages, with UK speech models and UK-based support. Call and booking data is processed on UK/EU infrastructure.
UK GDPR compliant
Lawful basis, data minimisation and retention limits are built in: we capture only what the booking needs — name, number, vehicle reg, fault. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, access is restricted, and your garage remains the owner of the record. Nothing is pooled with other garages, sold, or used to train third-party models.
ICO confirmed
Registered with the Information Commissioner's Office under reference ZC199049, as Garage Ghost Ltd, company number 17140314. Data subject requests — access, correction, erasure — are handled on request, and you can delete a customer record from your dashboard at any time.
Workshop notes
Read the thinking
behind the product.
Guide
Why independent garages miss calls
Where calls go unanswered in a working day, and how to work out what that is worth to you.
Read it
Guide
Should you quote prices over the phone?
A framework for which jobs you can price on the call and which need the car in front of you.
Read it
Guide
Who owns your garage's customer data
Why customer, vehicle and booking records belong in a system your garage controls.
Read it
Stop Missing Calls.
Start Capturing Revenue.
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£200/month • Two weeks free • 500 calls included • 25p per extra call • No setup fee • UK based • GDPR compliant • ICO confirmed