RINGDOWN
AN ANSWERING SERVICE BUILT FOR AUTO REPAIR

You’re under a car when the phone rings. Somebody answers.

Ringdown builds your shop its own receptionist. It answers every call with your name, takes year, make and model like a service writer would, quotes from your real price list, and books the appointment. Every call, including the six that come in while you’re on a test drive.

IT PICKS UP WHILE YOUR HANDS ARE INSIDE A TRANSMISSION
RINGDOWN DEMO LINE · AUTO REPAIR — LIVE RIGHT NOW. IT’S AN AI. TRY TO TRIP IT UP.LIVE
(760) 501-0999
It answers as Ironwood Auto Repair, a fictional shop in the Coachella Valley. Tell Maggie your check engine light came on. Ask what brakes run per axle, or book a smog check. She takes the year, make and model, quotes real prices, and texts the confirmation.
WORTH TRYING →Tell it your check engine light came onAsk what brakes run per axleBook a smog checkAsk to speak to a person
ANSWER TIMEFIRST RING
COVERAGE24 / 7 / 365
LANGUAGESEN · ES · 30+
CONCURRENT CALLSUNLIMITED
FREE PREVIEW — BUILT FROM YOUR WEBSITE

Hear it answer as your business.

The demo line answers as a fictional shop. This one answers as yours: we read your website, build your company its own receptionist from what’s published there, and email you a phone number that’s already answering — usually within a few hours.

  • Completely free. No card, no payment details, no sales call first.
  • It answers with your name and already knows what your website publishes. Going live adds everything the website doesn’t say: your prices, your booking rules, your calendar and integrations.
  • The line stays up for 24 hours. Try to stump it.
What kind of business optional
Free, and we only read what your website already publishes. You’ll get an email when your line is answering.
BUILT FROM YOUR BUSINESS

It already knows how a shop’s counter runs.

Your line is built from your services, your prices and your bays. It is not allowed to invent a price or promise a bay it doesn’t have.

01
Talks cars, takes the details
Year, make, model, symptom, drop-off or wait: it takes the intake a service writer needs, so the car shows up with the story already written down.
02
Price questions get real answers
Oil changes, brakes per axle, diagnostics, smog checks: quoted from your list. The jobs that need a look stay inspections, honestly framed.
03
Books around your bays
Drop-offs and waiters into real slots, confirmation text to the caller, and no double-booked Saturday morning.
04
Monday morning, all at once
Every caller after the weekend gets answered at the same time. Nobody hears a busy signal and calls the shop down the street.
05
The counter stops losing to the phone
Every ring answered mid-estimate costs you the customer standing in front of you. Ringdown takes the call, your writer keeps the counter, and both cars land on the schedule.
06
Habla español, toma la cita
A caller who starts in Spanish books in Spanish: vehicle, symptom, drop-off. The ticket still shows up at your counter in English.

What happens on the line

EVERY CALL · EVERY HOUR
01
Answers
Every call, any hour. Your business name, your receptionist’s name, and a note that the line is recorded, in one natural sentence.
02
Screens
It works out what the caller actually needs, turns spam away at the door, and gets urgent calls to a human immediately, by rules you set.
03
Books
It checks real availability, puts the appointment in your calendar, and texts the caller a confirmation. Nobody forgets and nobody double books.
04
Hands off
When a call needs a person, it reaches one and speaks the summary to whoever picks up. No caller ever repeats themselves.
FAIR QUESTIONS

Asked by every shop owner we talk to.

Shortest honest answers we have. The rest are on the FAQ page.

Q
Does it replace my service writer?
No. It catches the calls your counter can’t take: mid-estimate, under a car, at lunch, after close. Your writer gets the intake already done.
Q
Can it handle the how-much calls?
Yes, from your real price list. The honest ones that depend on the car become inspection bookings instead of made-up numbers.
Q
What if the caller needs a human?
They get one. Live handoff or a callback, their choice, and the summary is spoken to whoever picks up so nobody repeats themselves.
Q
Does it actually know cars, or is it reading a script?
It takes year, make, model, mileage and symptom the way a writer would, and it quotes only from your price list. What it won’t do is diagnose over the phone: the honest answer to most “what’s that noise” calls is an inspection, so that’s what it books.
Q
What about parts calls and vendors?
It sorts them by your rules. Customers get booked, vendors get routed or a message taken, robocalls get turned away at the door. The counter phone stops being a slot machine.
Q
Do I keep my number?
Yes — the one on your sign and your invoices stays. You forward it to your Ringdown line whenever you want covered: lunch, lifts, after close, or always.
GETTING STARTED

Hear it answer for a shop right now.

Call the demo first. If it would book work for your shop, the intake takes about ten minutes. Setup is $0 through December 31 — normally $500 — and plans run $297 to $797 a month. Most lines are ready to test in a few days.

CALL THE DEMO — (760) 501-0999Start the intake
01 — TODAY
Call the demo line and decide whether this is worth ten minutes of your time.
02 — TEN MINUTES
Fill out the intake. About ten minutes — it saves as you go, so you can stop and come back.
03 — A FEW DAYS
We build your line and send you a private number to test. Forward your number once it handles your calls the way you want.