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Night shift receptionist handed in their notice?

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Hotel receptionist

A hotel 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
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  • Salesforce
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  • 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 hotel receptionist really cost?

Checking in a coach party while the phone rings

The desk is dealing with arrivals. The caller wanting three rooms for a wedding gets voicemail and books elsewhere.

Night receptionists are the hardest to keep

The night shift is lonely, badly paid and in demand everywhere. Hiring and losing night staff is a permanent job for a small hotel.

A wedding enquiry rings during the coach party check-in

Twenty guests at the desk with keys and questions. The caller who wants twelve rooms and a dinner for forty gets voicemail and rings the hotel across the road.

Guests ring with questions answered a thousand times

Check-in time, parking, breakfast hours, whether dogs are allowed. Each one takes the receptionist away from the person in front of them.

What changes with an AI receptionist instead of hiring

The phone covered 24 hours

It answers overnight and at check-in time, takes booking enquiries and special requests, and puts guests through to the right department.

Booking enquiries taken with dates, rooms and names

It takes the dates, number of rooms and guests and any requests, books into a connected calendar or sends the request with best times, and texts the guest a summary.

Calls put through to the right department

Housekeeping, the restaurant, the duty manager. By name or by need, following your rule, with a message taken when nobody answers.

Group bookings held with a deposit

For weddings, conferences and team events it takes a deposit by text so the date is held while your events team does the contract. Team plan.

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 hotel receptionist takes every week

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

Arriving after midnight

“My flight lands at 11.40pm. Will there be someone to let me in, and can I get something to eat?”

It confirms the late check-in arrangement from your website, takes the booking name and the expected time, and sends a message to the night porter. It explains what food is available after the kitchen closes, as written on your site.

A guest who arrives at 1am is expected, and the night porter had the name an hour before.

Wedding block of rooms

“We are getting married at the church in the village in June. Could we take fifteen rooms for the Friday and Saturday?”

It takes the dates, the number of rooms, the couple's names and number, and sends the request to the events team with best times. It explains the group rate from your site and takes a holding deposit by text if your rule says so.

A two-night block worth thousands captured in full while the desk checked in a coach.

Charger left in room 12

“I checked out this morning and I think I left my phone charger in room 12.”

It takes the guest's name, the room and dates, and a postal address, and sends a message to housekeeping. It tells the caller your lost property policy as written.

Housekeeping gets a clear message, and the guest is not passed from desk to desk.

Hear it answer for your hotel, right now.

Hotel 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

Answer room, rate, availability and facilities questions

Yes

Take booking enquiries and group requests as messages or into your diary

Yes

Put guests through to housekeeping, the restaurant or the duty manager

Yes

Take deposits for group bookings

Team plan.

Yes

Check guests in and out, keys and luggage

No

See exactly how it works for hotels and b&bs →

Hotel 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

Hotel receptionist questions, answered

Updated November 2026

Can it take bookings into our property system?

Today it takes the booking request with dates, rooms and the guest's details and sends it to you in seconds, or books into a connected calendar. Property-system connections are on the roadmap; ask us which one you use.

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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