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Freemium
HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing contractors
Most AI receptionists take a message and send you an email — which leaves the caller's problem exactly where it was, and you chasing it up at 9am. Hooroo is built to close that gap, handling the call, the booking, and the job record without a human in the middle.
Hooroo answers calls, texts, and website chat in an Australian voice, then pushes the resulting quote details or booking directly into the same app where you schedule, invoice, and run the job. Nothing is exported, reformatted, or re-entered — the appointment the AI books is already on the calendar. That tight loop between reception and operations is where it earns its place. The ceiling arrives when your workflows need branching logic the AI cannot express, or when you need regional call routing across multiple business entities. The vendor states it is built for Australian trade and service businesses specifically, so international compliance requirements and non-English call handling are outside the design envelope.
Bottom line: Pick Hooroo if you run a single Australian trade or service business and want one system from first call to paid invoice — but plan a different stack if you operate across multiple entities, need multilingual reception, or require call routing logic more complex than 'put the urgent ones through to me.'
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Freemium
HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing contractors
Paid
Australian service businesses
Most AI receptionists take a message and send you an email — which leaves the caller’s problem exactly where it was, and you chasing it up at 9am. Hooroo answers calls, texts, and website chat in an Australian voice, then pushes the resulting quote details or booking directly into the same app where you schedule, invoice, and run the job.
Nothing is exported, reformatted, or re-entered — the appointment the AI books is already on the calendar. The vendor states it is built for Australian trade and service businesses. It handles incoming service enquiries via phone, text and web chat, captures quote details and books appointments autonomously, and manages jobs end-to-end including invoicing and compliance forms.
Subscription pricing with a 7-day free trial. Integrations include Xero, API, webhooks, and MCP for ChatGPT and Claude. An API is available.
Reception and job management share one data layer, so quote details the AI captures are already in the scheduling and invoicing system. Flat per-account pricing with no per-user fee. The AI is trained off your own price list and business details. The call closes something instead of creating a follow-up task.
The AI handles enquiries inside the scope of what you’ve configured. Calls that go off-script hit the boundary fast, with fallback to human transfer. No self-hosted option exists.
Best for Australian trade and service businesses and teams needing one app for reception and operations. Users wanting Australian-voice AI without per-user fees should consider it. Skip it if workflows need branching logic the AI cannot express or regional call routing across multiple business entities is required.
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