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Calls after 5pm going to voicemail?

Hear it answer for your business, after hours, right now. An after-hours answering service that books, takes messages and puts emergencies through, every evening, weekend and night, from a flat monthly price. Live tonight.

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After-hours answering service

A after-hours answering service, a year

$37,230

Median full-time pay, United States, before employer costs, holiday, sick cover and recruitment

SiVoice Team plan, a year

$5,388

Every call answered, day and night, three lines, deposits, ring-backs

What you keep, a year

$31,842

Before the sick days, the holidays and the Monday-morning text

US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2024, receptionists and information clerks, median

Team plan $449 a month, the best plan· Solo from $199 · 7 days free, then monthly · cancel any time

Built on the engine behind ChatGPT's voice and billions of calls for

  • OpenAI
  • Spotify
  • Oracle
  • NVIDIA
  • Salesforce
  • Headspace
  • Coursera
  • Zocdoc
  • Axon
  • Skydio
  • Whatnot
  • Decagon
  • Retell
  • Cresta
  • micro1
  • Assort Health
  • Ultravox

The engine that answers for them answers for your receptionist.

Same lines, same clarity, same uptime. Whether you run one van or a hundred branches.

You get a brand-new phone number to share everywhere. Or link it to the number you already have. Your choice, one tap, in the dashboard.

Money-back guarantee

If your stress doesn't go down or your revenue doesn't go up in your first 30 days on a paid plan, tell us and we refund the month. No forms, no argument.

Does an AI receptionist really work? Check it yourself.

Talk to it in a minute

Paste your website below. In under a minute your receptionist is built from your own pages and you can call it in your browser, before you give us an email address.

Read every rule it follows

Nothing is hidden. In your dashboard every rule is written in plain English, and you can change any of them and hear the difference on the next call.

Watch the message land

Ring your own number after it's live. Seconds after you hang up, the summary, the caller's details and the full transcript are in your inbox, and the message is texted to your mobile.

A phone showing the receptionist ringing back after the line dropped

Try this on the demo call

Hang up on it. It rings you back.

Lose signal mid-call, or hang up by accident, and it rings you straight back and carries on where it was. No answer? It leaves a short message. Humans forget to ring back. This doesn't.

The voice

Press play. Would you know it wasn't a person?

It listens while it talks, lets callers interrupt, and answers in the time a person would. Callers can't tell the difference. Press play and hear for yourself.

What does hiring a after-hours answering service really cost?

Evenings are when customers finally have a minute

People ring tradespeople, clinics and restaurants after work. Voicemail loses most of them; an answering service that just takes a name loses the rest.

A call centre knows nothing about your business

The person answering has forty clients on the screen. They take a name and a number, mispronounce your business, and cannot say what you charge or when you open.

Per-call billing punishes the busy nights

An answering service charges by the call or by the minute. The night a storm takes down half the town's fences is the night the bill doubles.

Message-taking is not the same as helping

A message left at 9pm is read at 8am. By then the caller has rung someone else who booked them in. The message was taken, the job was lost.

What changes with an AI receptionist instead of hiring

More than a message-taker

It answers questions from your website, books into your diary, takes deposits, and texts you what happened, not just a name and number.

Answers and books, not just takes names

It knows your services, prices and hours from your website, books into the connected calendar, and texts you what happened, not just who rang.

Emergencies through, everything else to the morning

Your rule says what counts as urgent and where it goes. Those calls are transferred or given the out-of-hours number. The rest are booked or left as messages for 8am.

A flat price however busy the night

Ten calls or a hundred, the monthly price is the same. No per-call fee, no per-minute fee, no setup charge.

It happens to be AI. That is why it never calls in sick, never needs cover, and answers several callers at once. You do not need to know anything about AI to use it: paste your website, pick a voice, connect a number.

Three calls an after-hours answering service takes every week

What the caller says, what SiVoice does, and what lands with you.

Locked out at 1am

“I have locked myself out of my flat and my phone is on four percent. Can someone come?”

It takes the address and the caller's number first, in case the phone dies, explains the night call-out fee as written, and puts the call through to the locksmith on duty or sends the urgent message. If the line drops it rings the caller back.

A night job captured with the address before the phone died.

A death at home at 3am

“My mother has just died at home. The doctor has been. What do we do now?”

It answers gently and slowly, takes the family's name, the address and the doctor's details, explains the next step as your site describes it, and puts the call through to the on-call funeral director. It does not hurry the caller off the line.

A family reached a person within minutes, and the director had the details before speaking.

No heating on a Sunday

“The boiler has stopped and we have a baby in the house. Is anyone working today?”

It follows your weekend rule: notes the baby as a priority if your rule says so, takes the address, the boiler make and the fault, gives the weekend rate as written, and books the first Sunday slot or sends the urgent message to the engineer.

A weekend job booked with the boiler details already in the message.

Hear it answer for your business, after hours, right now.

After-hours answering service: the job description, and who does what

Copy the duties into your advert if you still want to hire. The ticks show what SiVoice takes on from day one.

DutySiVoice

Answer every call outside your opening hours

Yes

Explain you are closed, give the hours, and still help

Yes

Book appointments and take full messages

Yes

Recognise emergencies and put them through or give the emergency number

Yes

Charge per call or per minute like a call centre

Flat monthly price.

No

After-hours answering service salary against an AI receptionist: the numbers

Median full-time pay from the national statistics office, before employer taxes, pension, holiday and sick cover, recruitment and training. Team is the best plan: three numbers, an AI receptionist per location, deposits on the call, ring-backs, several callers at once. Solo is the one-person option.

A receptionist, a yearA receptionist, a monthSiVoice Team plan, a month BestSiVoice Solo plan, a month
United Kingdom£24,678£2,057£354 · excl. tax£150
United StatesYou$37,230$3,103$449 · excl. tax$199
Deutschland€33,636€2,803€419 · excl. tax€179

Nothing against them. They're people, and people have lives. The phone doesn't.

The fee before the salary

A recruitment agency typically charges a percentage of the first year's salary, commonly 15 to 25 percent, or a daily margin on a temp.

The salary is the start

Add employer's National Insurance or payroll tax, pension, training, and the cost of covering the desk when they're away.

Off sick

UK workers lost an average of 4.4 days each to sickness in 2024, says the ONS. The phone does not get the memo.

On holiday

28 days a year in the UK, and you pay for every one of them. Who answers while they're on the beach?

At lunch

One o'clock sharp, which is when the phone is busiest.

Evenings and weekends

Not on the rota. That is when customers finally have a minute to ring.

Monday morning, the text

Can't make it today. The desk is empty and the week starts on the back foot.

Two calls at once

One person answers one call. The second one is voicemail, however good they are.

Hands in their notice

Just as they finally know the job. Back to the advert, the gap and the training.

SiVoice: none of the above. Every call answered, day and night, from $449 a month on the Team plan.

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Sickness figure: ONS, Sickness absence in the UK labour market, 2023 and 2024. Agency fees vary; check the agency's own terms.

Why not voicemail, an answering service or another receptionist?

Each of them answers part of the problem. Only one answers every call, knows your business and costs less than a day of a receptionist's time.

VoicemailAnswering serviceAnother receptionistSiVoice
Answers every call, day and night
Knows your services, prices and locations
Books into your diary and takes complete details
Follows your rules word for word, every call
Several callers at once, no engaged tone
Live the same day, nothing to install

After-hours answering service questions, answered

Updated November 2026

How is this different from a traditional answering service?

A traditional service has a person take a name and number for a per-call fee. SiVoice answers in your name, knows your services and prices, books into your diary, takes deposits and texts you the summary, for a flat monthly price with no per-call charges.

Can it only work after hours?

Yes. Forward your number to it after closing time, or let your phone system send calls over when nobody answers. During the day your team carries on as normal.

Is this instead of a receptionist, or as well as one?

Either. Some businesses use SiVoice instead of hiring, some use it to take the phone off a receptionist who is already run off their feet, and some use it to cover the gap while they recruit. It answers the phone; a person still greets whoever walks in.

How quickly can it start?

Paste your website and it is built in 30 seconds. You can talk to it in your browser straight away, before you give us an email address. Connecting a phone number takes a few more minutes, and it is answering the same day.

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