Callcenter Supply

From the phone ringing to the signature at the door.

Callcenter Supply answers your phone and your website with an AI that takes the order. Then it runs that order through your yard: picked, loaded, routed, delivered and signed for, with every van on a map.

For merchants selling timber, plasterboard and tools.

08:02 the phone ringsAnswered on the first ring.

Delivery docketNo. W10022
Account
2001, D. Smith Joinery
Job
Hendersons' extension
Deliver to
5, LA4 5ES
When
Wed 7 Oct, late morning, 7.5 tonne, drop 1
QtyItemLine
12Treated joist 47 × 150, 3.6 m174.00
40Plasterboard 12.5 mm, 2400 × 1200392.00
2Drywall screws 3.5 × 38, box of 100017.98
1Makita 18V combi drill, 2 × 5Ah kit239.99
Delivery, LA425.00
On account. Total read back and agreed.£848.97
Taken by phone08:04
Picked09:12, 4 of 4
On the 7.5 tonnedrop 1, left 09:40
Delivered10:31, signed D. Smith

Follow one order through the day.

Most systems do one part: a phone line, a route planner, a tracker. This is the whole run, and each part knows what the last one did. Here is Dave's order from the docket above.

1

Answered, and taken.

An AI picks up on the first ring, on the phone and on your website. It talks like your best counter hand: "six by two" is the 47 by 150 joist, "twelve mil board" is plasterboard and needs drywall screws, and a drill is body only or a kit with batteries. It reads the total back before anything is placed.

  • Knows your catalogue, your customers, their jobs and their last order
  • Works out whole jobs: the boards, studs and screws for a stud wall, a deck, a fence, a shed
  • Tools sold properly: the right battery platform, the blades and bits that fit
  • A "Plan your job" page on your website: a deck, fence or shed from the sizes, with a picture and the price
  • Quotes held at the price, cut-to-size, photos of the job, card payment by text
  • Or your own staff take it on the counter screen, with the same search
Screws, cheapest firstSay a number, tap one, or "next".
1Coach screws 8 by 80, pack of 10£4.49
2Wood screws 4 by 30, box of 200£4.99
3Drywall screws 3.5 by 38, box of 1000£8.99

The drywall ones. Two boxes, and send it with the board.

Two boxes of the drywall screws, going with the plasterboard to the Hendersons' on Wednesday.

2

Picked in the yard.

The order is on the pickers' phone the moment it's placed, with the items in the order your yard is walked: timber, plasterboard, bagged, then the tool counter. Big tick boxes, the cutting list where there is one, and nothing from the office in the way.

  • An app on the yard's phone or tablet, no sign-in
  • Collections marked ready, and the customer texted
  • Stock taken as it's sold, and back-orders flagged
W10022 · Dave Smith

Timber

12Treated joist 47 by 150, 3.6 m

Plasterboard

40Plasterboard 12.5 mm, 2400 by 1200

Tools and fixings

1Makita 18V combi drill kit
2Drywall screws, box of 1000
2 of 4 pickedDone
3

Loaded and routed.

It knows what every order weighs and how much room it takes, and what each of your vans can carry. One click plans the day: the fewest vans, the drops in driving order, how many drivers, the miles and the fuel.

  • Delivery charge and a rough arrival time quoted on the call, from the real round
  • Loads that need two trips known before anyone loads them
  • Each van's MOT, tax and service dates kept, and flagged when due
Wednesday: 9 deliveries, 2 drivers188 miles, about £34 of fuel
7.5 tonne KX71 ABC leaves 09:40, back 13:101,940 kg, 4.2 m³ 1. W10022, Hendersons' job, LA4 5ES10:252. W10019, 17 Mill Lane, LA1 4XR11:103. W10023 and W10024, same address12:05
Transit YD22 FGH leaves 09:30, back 12:20640 kg, 3.1 m³ 1. W10020, 3 Station Rd, LA2 9AA09:52
Dispatch everything
4

Driven there, and signed for.

The driver picks their van in the app and gets the drops in order, with turn-by-turn directions spoken aloud. At the door: who took it in, a photo, a signature. Delivered only unlocks when the van is actually there.

  • Every van live on a map in the office
  • The whole trip kept: stops, speeding, off-route stretches
  • "Where's my order?" answered from where the van is right now
10:314 min, 1.2 milesArrived
5

And after.

The customer has their own page for orders, quotes and tracking, and can order the same again in a tap. A return becomes a credit note. And on Monday you get the week in your own numbers.

  • Returns with photos, restocking and printable credit notes
  • A weekly report: calls, orders, value, out-of-hours calls answered
  • A list of what callers asked for that you don't stock
  • Your staff correct the assistant in plain words, and it sticks
Weekly reportan example week
212calls answered
61orders taken
38outside opening hours
Asked for and not found: 15 mm fire-rated plasterboard, 9 times Makita 40v circular saw, 4 times

Who uses what.

Six kinds of people touch an order. Each gets their own way in, and none of them needs training on the rest.

Your customers

  • Order by talking, on the phone or the website
  • See choices, the basket and job plans as they talk
  • Send a photo of the job
  • Their own page: orders, quotes, tracking, order again
  • Texts when it's placed, on the van, ready to collect

The counter

  • A screen for taking an order by hand
  • Find the customer by name, number or postcode
  • The assistant's search: "four by two" works
  • A price for this order, delivery worked out
  • Callbacks arrive with the call summarised

The yard

  • A picking app on a phone or tablet
  • Items in the order the yard is walked
  • Cutting lists on the order
  • Collections marked ready in a tap
  • Printable picking sheets

The drivers

  • An app: choose your van, see your drops
  • Turn-by-turn directions, spoken
  • Name, photo and signature at the door
  • Delivered only unlocks at the address
  • "Couldn't deliver" goes straight to the office

The office

  • The day planned across your vans in one click
  • A live map of every van
  • Each van's trip: stops, speed, route kept
  • Returns and credit notes
  • Catalogue imported from a supplier's website
  • Every call's transcript, with a way to correct it

The owner

  • The week in numbers, printable
  • What callers wanted that you don't sell
  • Staff logins with roles
  • Your name, your greeting, your choice of voice
  • Updates installed from a page, and undone from it

What it's worth is in your own numbers.

We don't quote a saving we can't know. Count the calls your counter takes in a day and how long each one is; we'll work the rest out with you, and the weekly report shows whether it held.

[calls a day]calls a day it would take
[hours a week]staff hours a week back on the counter and in the yard
[£ a month]a month, from those two figures

On your line in about two weeks.

  1. Your catalogue goes in

    From your supplier's website, a spreadsheet, or typed. Usually a day.

  2. Your staff ring it for a week

    They flag what's wrong, and it learns your names for things, your rules and your delivery areas.

  3. It goes on the line

    Your number forwards to it, or it takes the overflow and the after-hours calls first.

It runs under your company's name, with your greeting and a voice you choose. Priced by call volume.

Ring it. Ask for anything a yard sells.

Try to catch it out. Order something, change your mind, ask where a delivery is, plan a deck.