Lockline is the after-hours receptionist built for local trades — picking up every ring, qualifying the caller, and booking the emergency straight into your existing scheduler. While you sleep. While your techs are on a job. While your competitor is closing theirs.
What your owner sees on Monday morning.
One missed-after-hours call on a Friday night is the next shop's Monday install. The customer doesn't leave a voicemail and try again — they tap the next result on Google.
Capabilities
Most answering services hand the caller a generic intake, then email you a transcript at 8am. Lockline is configured for the calls and emergencies specific to your shop — so the qualification happens on the call, not after.
Lockline follows your dispatch matrix — text/call your on-call tech, your office manager, or both, in the order you specify. We configure emergency rules per trade at setup so a leaking ceiling and a "toilet won't stop running" never route the same way.
Inbound calls
A real receptionist trained on your trade picks up before the third ring, 24/7/365. No voicemail, no bounced calls, no after-hours service that sends jobs to voicemail.
Web leads & SMS
A contact-form submission at 11:40pm and a "is anyone there?" text get the same qualified follow-up as a daytime call — within seconds, never a ticketed queue.
Qualification
Lockline is configured for the calls and emergencies specific to your shop. The right triage questions get asked, the right urgency gets flagged.
Coverage
Lockline intake scripts are configured per trade — so the right triage questions are asked on the first call, every call.
Plans
Most shops recover the monthly fee from a small number of retained jobs each month. No long contracts, no setup fees.
Single Trade
For solo operators and owner-run shops.
Shop
Most HVAC, plumbing, and electrical shops start here.
Multi-location
Regional contractors and franchise crews.
How it works
A 60-minute working session captures your trade rules, dispatch matrix, scheduling system, and emergency playbooks. We write the script.
Forward after-hours to Lockline, or port your number in. Web-form submissions and inbound texts route through the same queue.
Live calls, qualified leads, bookings into your scheduler, escalations per your matrix. You get the dispatch log Monday morning.
Get started
Email us with your trade, your area, and rough call volume — we'll come back with a one-page quote and a setup timeline.