Merchants Virtual Presents

The Office Manager

Your business. Finally under control.

The Office Manager answers your calls, chases your quotes, follows up your invoices, requests your reviews, and re-engages your customers. Every day. Automatically. For less than the price of a daily coffee.

24/7
Always at the desk.
Never off sick.
£29
Per month. Less than
a daily coffee.
10
Capabilities handled
so you don’t have to.
0
Sick days. Holiday requests.
Pension contributions.

Full Annual Retainer — All ten capabilities installed over 12 months. £15,000/year. Limited places available.

Retain The Office Manager →

Right now, you’re doing five jobs.
And none of them well.

You’re the owner, the salesperson, the receptionist, the credit controller, and the marketing department. All at once. While trying to do the actual job you’re brilliant at.

Calls go unanswered. Quotes go cold. Invoices go unpaid. Customers go elsewhere. Not because you’re not good enough — but because you’re one person, and there aren’t enough hours.

“Every missed call is a missed job. Every unsent invoice reminder is money left on a table you worked hard to earn.”

Until now, an office manager was something only larger businesses could afford. That changes today.

85%
of callers who reach voicemail never try again. They call your competitor instead.
£21k
The average UK small business is owed this in unpaid invoices at any given time.
62%
of quotes sent by tradespeople receive no follow-up when there is no response.
4.8★
Businesses with 50+ Google reviews win 70% more enquiries. Most tradespeople have fewer than 10.

For the first time in your working life,
you have an Office Manager.

Not a piece of software. Not an app you have to learn. Not a dashboard full of numbers you don’t understand. An Office Manager — a capable, tireless professional who handles the parts of your business that have always fallen through the cracks.

The Office Manager is powered by ten AI capabilities, each one targeting a specific revenue leak in your business. You don’t need to understand how any of it works. You just need to know that it gets handled.

“Every call answered. Every cold quote chased. Every overdue invoice followed up. Every customer asked for a review. All of this, every single day — while you get on with the job.”

And every morning, The Office Manager gives you a briefing. One screen. What happened overnight. What needs your attention today. What is working and what needs a nudge. Your business, under control, for the first time.

Retain Your Office Manager → See The Value For Yourself

Is it going to be the usual plan
or the better one?

Every business owner has tried the usual approaches. Here is what actually changes when you retain The Office Manager.

The Usual Way
  • Increase ad spend, but get scattered results
  • Hire a salesperson, but see short-lived boosts
  • Be “nicer,” but no consistent growth
vs
The Merchants Virtual Way
  • Capture every lead — even while you sleep
  • Turn quotes into confirmed bookings automatically
  • Retain customers effortlessly — no extra effort

Four Functions.
Ten Capabilities.

Every capability targets a specific place where your business is losing money. Together, they cover everything a great office manager would do — and then some.

From Day One
🎯

Capture Every Lead

No call goes unanswered. No enquiry falls through the cracks. Every lead is answered, qualified, and logged — 24 hours a day, 7 days a week — with an instant alert to you.

  • After-Hours Call Answering
  • Missed Call Recovery — automatic SMS within 60 seconds
  • Emergency Escalation — to your phone, immediately
  • Lead Qualification — so you only deal with serious enquiries
See How →
Month 3 Onwards
📋

Convert More Quotes

Quotes that go cold cost you more than you realise. Every unanswered quote is followed up — politely, persistently — and appointment reminders eliminate no-shows automatically.

  • Quote Follow-Up — automatic, timed, professional
  • Appointment Reminders — 24 hours and 2 hours before
See How →
Month 5 Onwards
🔄

Keep Your Customers

Your past customers are your most valuable asset. Dormant clients are re-engaged, reviews requested at exactly the right moment, and any unhappy customer flagged before they leave a bad review.

  • Customer Re-Engagement — wake up dormant clients
  • Review Request Automation — after every completed job
  • Post-Job Satisfaction Check — with instant alert if needed
See How →
Month 7 Onwards
💰

Recover Your Money

The average UK tradesperson is owed £21,000 at any time. Every overdue invoice is chased — politely but persistently — without you having to make a single awkward phone call.

  • Invoice & Payment Chasing — automatic escalating sequence
See How →

Ten Capabilities.
One Office Manager.

Each capability is installed into your business one at a time, at the right moment, so you always have the bandwidth to see the difference it makes before the next one arrives.

Day One
01

After-Hours Call Answering

Your calls are answered professionally around the clock. Every lead captured. Instant SMS alert with the caller’s details.

Day One
02

Missed Call Recovery

Any call that goes unanswered triggers an automatic follow-up SMS to the caller within 60 seconds.

Day One
03

Emergency Escalation

Burst pipe. Gas leak. No power. Emergencies are recognised instantly and your personal mobile alerted immediately.

Month 2
04

Lead Qualification Filter

The qualifying questions are asked before you ever pick up the phone. You only speak to the leads worth your time.

Month 3
05

Quote Follow-Up

A quote sent is not a job won. Every unanswered quote followed up automatically — at the right interval, in the right tone.

Month 4
06

Appointment Reminders

No-shows cost you time and money. A reminder goes out 24 hours before and again 2 hours before.

Month 5
07

Customer Re-Engagement

Customers who haven’t booked in six months receive a personal message from your business. Dormant becomes repeat.

Month 5
08

Review Request Automation

After every completed job, a review request goes out with your Google link. Your rating grows without you asking anyone.

Month 6
09

Post-Job Satisfaction Check

Every customer checked in with after the job. If someone is unhappy, you hear about it before they post a bad review.

Month 7 onwards
10

Invoice & Payment Chasing

Every overdue invoice chased with a polite, escalating sequence. You get paid faster — without a single awkward conversation.

Every morning, The Office Manager tells you exactly what needs your attention.

The Office Manager Dashboard is your daily check-in. One screen. Plain English. What happened overnight, what needs a response today, and how your business is performing this week.

You don’t need to understand how any of it works. You just open it — the way you’d check in with any good office manager at the start of the day.

As each new capability goes live, a new section of the dashboard activates. By the end of your first year, you are looking at a complete picture of your business — captured, converted, retained, and recovered.

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The Office Manager Thursday, 23 April
Leads overnight
4
3 captured · 1 emergency escalated
Quotes outstanding
7
2 followed up today
Reviews this month
11
Up from 3 last month
Overdue invoices
£2,340
Chase sequence running
New lead at 11:43pm — John Davies, Worcester. Boiler breakdown. Needs callback.
Quote #47 sent 6 days ago — no response. Follow-up sent automatically this morning.
Sarah M. left a 5-star review overnight. Your Google rating is now 4.8.

Three Steps to Having
an Office Manager.

No IT department. No complicated setup. No learning curve. We handle all of that.

1

We Introduce The Office Manager to Your Business

We configure each capability for your trade, your geography, and your customers. You tell us what you need — we do the rest. Your Office Manager is ready within the week.

2

The Office Manager Gets to Work

From day one, your calls are answered, your leads captured, and your follow-ups sent. You carry on doing your job. The Office Manager carries on doing the rest.

3

You Check In Every Morning

Open your dashboard. See what The Office Manager has done overnight. Act on anything that needs you. That is the entire workflow. Everything else is handled.

What Does The Office Manager Cost?

A competent office manager costs £35,000 a year. The Office Manager costs £15,000 — and is available every hour of every day, without sick days, holiday pay, or pension contributions.

Build Over Time

£399/mo
Start with Call Answering · Add capabilities as you go
  • Call Answering live from day one
  • Dashboard included
  • Add capabilities at your own pace
  • Full onboarding & configuration
  • Individual capabilities from £99/mo
See All Capabilities →

Saving of £20,000+ against the cost of a human office manager. Full pricing breakdown →

40+ Years of Experience

The Office Manager is Backed by Four Decades of Commercial Experience.

Merchants Virtual is not a tech startup that stumbled onto a clever idea. It is built on a foundation of real commercial experience — the same principles that once made us the number one business-to-business service operation in the UK, serving some of the world’s most recognised brands.

We understand what it takes to grow a business, keep customers, and build something of lasting value. The Office Manager is the most powerful expression of that experience — delivered through the most capable technology that has ever existed.

It’s Time Your Business Had
Someone In Charge.

Retain your Office Manager today. The desk will be ready within the week — every call answered, every quote chased, and nothing falling through the cracks ever again.