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Office receptionist on holiday, calls going to voicemail?

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Office receptionist

A office 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

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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 office receptionist really cost?

Nobody owns the phone

Without a receptionist the phone becomes everyone's job, which means nobody's. Calls ring out mid-meeting and clients notice.

A dear way to answer twenty calls

A small office gets a few dozen calls a day. A full wage, a desk and a chair to put calls through to five people is hard to justify, so nobody is hired and the phone becomes everyone's job.

Mid-meeting calls go to whoever is nearest

The phone rings during a client meeting and the fee earner answers it. Either the client in the room waits, or the caller gets a hurried can you ring back.

The main line is where clients judge you

A client rings and gets the voicemail of someone who left last year. Or six rings and the engaged tone. They form a view before they hear a person.

What changes with an AI receptionist instead of hiring

The main line answered and put through

In your name, on the first ring. It asks who the caller wants or what it is about, transfers by your rule, and takes a message with a best time when the person is busy.

Meetings booked without three emails

It checks the connected calendar for the person the caller wants, books the meeting, and texts the client the time and the address.

Every call written down

Who rang, what for, what was done, in a text and an email before the caller hangs up, and a transcript in your dashboard.

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 office receptionist takes every week

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

Solicitor's client before completion

“This is Mrs Patel. I am meant to complete on Friday and I have not heard from Daniel about the funds.”

It puts Mrs Patel through to Daniel. When he is on another call it takes a message marked urgent with the completion date and her number, and sends it to Daniel and his assistant at once.

A completion query reaches the right person in minutes, not after lunch.

IT support client with no email

“Our whole office cannot get email. We are a client on your support contract.”

It follows your rule for support calls: takes the company name, the contact, what is down and since when, and puts the call through to the engineer on duty. After hours it sends the message to the on-call number.

An outage logged and routed in one call, with the engineer briefed before he picks up.

Candidate late for an interview

“I have an interview with Sarah at 2 and my train is delayed. I will be about twenty minutes late.”

It finds Sarah, sends her a message straight away, and asks the caller whether they want to keep the slot or rebook. It books the new time in the connected calendar if they rebook.

Sarah knows before 2pm and the afternoon is rearranged without anyone chasing.

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Office 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 the main line and put callers through to the right person

Yes

Take messages when people are busy and send them on

Yes

Book meetings and manage callbacks

Yes

Post, couriers, meeting rooms and visitors

No

Office 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

Office receptionist questions, answered

Updated November 2026

Can it transfer to different people?

Yes. Add each person or team with their number and a sentence on when to put callers through, for example when they ask for accounts, and it transfers them. If the person is unavailable it takes a message and the best time to call back.

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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