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Hiring a front desk receptionist?

Hear it answer for your front desk, right now. Get the phone half of the job done today: every call answered, messages taken, appointments booked, from a flat monthly price.

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Front desk receptionist

A front desk receptionist, 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 front desk receptionist really cost?

The phone is half the job, and the half that never stops

A front desk receptionist greets visitors and answers the phone. The visitor in front of them always wins, and the caller always loses.

Two jobs in one chair, the phone loses

Greeting visitors, signing for parcels, making coffee for the meeting, and answering the phone. The phone is the part that gets dropped, because the visitor is looking at them.

Lunch and holiday cover is somebody's second job

When the receptionist is off, the office manager answers between her own work, or the youngest person in the office does. Clients notice.

Quiet most of the day, swamped for an hour

Three visitors and six calls at ten past nine, then nothing until two. You pay for the whole day to cover the hour.

What changes with an AI receptionist instead of hiring

Calls put through by name or by need

Add each person or team and a sentence on when to put callers through. Accounts, the partner on the file, the engineer on call. It transfers, or takes a message with a best time to ring back.

Meetings booked into the right diary

A client wants half an hour with their adviser. It checks the connected calendar, books the slot, and texts the client the address and time.

Knows the business on day one

Built from your website, it knows your services, hours, address and parking, and anything you add, without a handover or a training week.

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 a front desk receptionist takes every week

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

Accountancy client at year end

“It is Tom Wallace from Wallace Plumbing. I need to speak to whoever does my accounts about the VAT return.”

It recognises Tom as a regular caller and puts him through to his accountant. When she is in a meeting it takes a message with the best time to ring back and notes the VAT deadline he mentioned.

A client call handled by name and routed properly, with no asking what it is regarding.

Courier at the architects' door

“I am a courier outside your building with a set of drawings and nobody is answering the buzzer.”

It gives the courier the delivery instructions from your knowledge base, the side entrance or the neighbour who takes parcels, and sends a message to the office manager at the same time.

Drawings delivered, and a message that says who to chase if they were not.

New landlord for a letting agent

“I have got a two-bed flat I want to let out. Who do I talk to about management fees?”

It explains the management service and fees from your website, takes the property address and the owner's details, and books a visit with the lettings manager in the connected calendar.

A new landlord booked for a visit, with the address already in the diary.

Hear it answer for your front desk, right now.

Front desk receptionist: 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

Screen and route calls to the right person or department

Yes

Take messages and send them on immediately

Yes

Schedule meetings and appointments

Yes

Greet visitors, issue passes, manage deliveries

No

Front desk receptionist 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

Front desk receptionist questions, answered

Updated November 2026

What is in a receptionist job description?

Answering and routing calls, greeting visitors, taking messages, booking appointments, basic admin and keeping the front desk tidy. The list on this page is a template you can copy into an advert; the ticks show which of those duties SiVoice takes on from day one.

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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