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AI receptionist for garage door businesses in Canada

A broken spring leaves the car stuck inside the garage.

The door won’t lift and the car is trapped inside. Front&Center picks up the line in English or French while you’re winding a spring or setting a track. It takes the address and what the door is doing, books the repair into your calendar, and flags the calls where the door won’t close tonight.

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Halden Garage Doors(416) 555-0140 2:14Booking held

What the caller heard

  1. ReceptionistHi, thanks for calling Halden Garage Doors. What can I help with?
  2. CallerThe door won’t open. I hear the motor running but nothing moves.
  3. ReceptionistThat sounds like the spring or the cable. I can hold a repair visit and note the door is stuck closed. What’s the address?
  4. Caller210 Elm Crescent. Can someone come tomorrow morning?
  5. ReceptionistTomorrow at 8:30 or 11:00. Which one? I’ll text you the confirmation.

What lands in your dashboard

Reason
The door won’t open. I hear the motor running but nothing moves.
Wants
210 Elm Crescent. Can someone come tomorrow morning?
Callback
(416) 555-0140
Next step
Visit held. Caller picks a time.

Text sent to the caller

Thanks for calling Halden Garage Doors. Your visit request is held. We’ll text to confirm the time.

The problem

Why garage door owners
miss jobs

Stuck-open and broken-spring calls get flagged to you right away with the address and what the door is doing. Tune-ups and opener swaps get booked on your calendar.

  • Cold snaps break springs across town

    The first hard freeze and doors stop lifting on every street. Every ring you miss is a repair booked with someone else.

  • Nobody takes a call while winding a spring

    Torsion springs are dangerous work with both hands on the bar. The phone keeps ringing from the truck anyway.

  • A door stuck open is tonight’s problem

    A garage that won’t close at 9 p.m. feels like an emergency to the homeowner. They book whoever answers now.

How it works

Three steps, and your customers
never dial a new number

  1. Step 1

    A call comes in

    Your phone still rings first. If you can’t answer, Front&Center picks up.

  2. Step 2

    The AI handles it

    It answers in your company’s name, asks what the job is and where, answers questions from what you’ve told it, and books a time or takes a message.

  3. Step 3

    You get the lead

    You get an alert with a summary. The recording and transcript are in your dashboard, and a text follow-up keeps the job from going cold.

The math

One recovered job
can pay for the month

We started the calculator with an example garage door job. Change it to what your jobs are worth.

Jobs saved from missed calls, per month
1
Plan

$400 back for a $300 month on Growth.

Recovered work$400
Growth plan$300

That’s 1.3× what the plan costs. Prices in CAD, per month.

Pricing

Pricing, once
you’ve heard it

Every plan starts with a 14-day free trial, and you have 30 days after your first payment to ask for a full refund.

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Solo

$79CAD / month

or $790 CAD a year (2 months free)

For one-truck operators who can't pick up on the job: the phone gets answered and every call is on record, so you can see exactly what you missed.

  • 150 caller minutes / month
  • Answers missed & after-hours calls in English or French
  • Books jobs into your calendar
  • Emergency triage with safety advice
  • Missed-call text-back & callback queue
  • Every call on record: summary, transcript, recording, lead details and call problems
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Starter

$150CAD / month

or $1,500 CAD a year (2 months free)

For a small crew that wants the AI getting better every week: it learns from every miss, texts callers for photos, and holds each booking until you approve it.

  • 500 caller minutes / month
  • Everything in Solo, for up to 5 teammates
  • Train from misses: answer a question once, it uses it on the next call
  • Asks callers for photos by text, on the call
  • Approve each booking before it's confirmed
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Growth

Recommended

$300CAD / month

or $3,000 CAD a year (2 months free)

For multi-crew shops that want to see what the answering is worth: the weekly money recovered report, deposits taken on the call, and your CRM in step.

  • 1,500 caller minutes / month
  • Everything in Starter, for up to 10 teammates
  • Weekly money recovered report
  • Deposit links paid to your Stripe
  • Briefed transfers and on-call rotation
  • Two-way Jobber and HubSpot sync, plus custom lookups
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Scale

$750CAD / month

or $7,500 CAD a year (2 months free)

For multi-location shops that want the AI working new leads and past customers on top of the answering.

  • 5,000 caller minutes / month
  • Everything in Growth, for up to 25 teammates
  • Calls new web & Google leads back in under a minute
  • Website chat and Google review requests
  • Estimate follow-up, tune-up reminder & win-back campaigns
  • Priority support
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Enterprise

Custom

Custom minutes, onboarding and pricing for larger teams. Talk to us.

  • Custom caller minutes & pricing
  • Everything in Scale
  • Dedicated onboarding help
  • Volume / multi-location options
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Prices in Canadian dollars, plus applicable tax. Compare every feature. Change plans anytime in Settings. Enterprise is custom: email us.

Questions

Garage door owners ask
before switching it on

  • Can an AI receptionist answer calls for my garage door business?

    Yes. The door won’t lift and the car is trapped inside. Front&Center picks up the line in English or French while you’re winding a spring or setting a track. It takes the address and what the door is doing, books the repair into your calendar, and flags the calls where the door won’t close tonight. Stuck-open and broken-spring calls get flagged to you right away with the address and what the door is doing. Tune-ups and opener swaps get booked on your calendar.

  • What does the AI say when a garage door customer calls?

    It answers in your business’s name, for example “Hi, thanks for calling Halden Garage Doors. What can I help with?”, then asks what the job is, how urgent it is and where it is, answers questions about your services, and offers open appointment times or takes a message for a callback.

  • How much is one missed garage door call worth?

    Say a typical job in Garage door is worth $400+. That’s an example; yours may be more or less. If a missed call goes to a competitor, that’s the job you lose. Recovering a single job like that in a month would cover the Growth plan at $300 CAD.

  • How much does an AI receptionist cost for a garage door company?

    Front&Center starts at $79 CAD/month on the Solo plan. Growth, at $300 CAD/month, adds the money recovered report, deposit links, briefed transfers and on-call, Jobber, HubSpot and custom lookups. Google review requests are on Scale at $750 CAD/month. Every plan starts with a 14-day free trial.

  • Do I keep my garage door business phone number?

    Yes. Your phone still rings first. Only the calls you don’t answer are forwarded to Front&Center through your carrier’s no-answer forwarding, so customers keep dialing the number they already know.

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