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Outsourced receptionist

A outsourced 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 outsourced receptionist really cost?

Outsourced reception that doesn't know your business

A shared call centre reads a script, takes a name, and charges per call. Callers can tell, and the bill climbs with the phone.

Shared receptionists answer for forty companies

An outsourced receptionist has your name on a screen beside thirty-nine others. They cannot say what a boiler service costs or whether you work Saturdays, because they do not know.

Every call costs more on an outsourced bill

Per-call pricing means the month your marketing works is the month the bill hurts. You pay more for the success.

Scripts take weeks and never match the website

You write a script, they load it, your prices change, the script does not. Callers hear one thing and read another.

What changes with an AI receptionist instead of hiring

Yours, not shared

It is built from your website, speaks in your name, follows your rules, and costs the same whether it takes ten calls or a thousand.

Built from your website, so it knows your business

Your services, prices, hours, team and address are read from your site in 30 seconds. Change the site and read it again.

Same price for ten calls or a thousand

A flat monthly price. No per-call charge, no per-minute charge, no setup fee, and seven days free to see it work.

Your rules, changed in a sentence

When to transfer, what to book, what counts as urgent. Every rule is written in plain English on the page and you can edit it any time.

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 outsourced receptionist takes every week

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

Mortgage broker's remortgage lead

“My fixed rate ends in March. I want to see what else is out there.”

It explains that the broker offers a free initial call, as your site says, takes the caller's name, number, current lender and the end date of the deal, and books a 30-minute call with the adviser in the connected calendar. It gives no financial advice.

A remortgage lead booked with the deal end date in the diary, taken at 7pm.

Cleaning company new client

“I need a regular cleaner for a three-bed house every fortnight. What do you charge?”

It gives the hourly rate and the minimum visit from your site, takes the address, the size of the house and the preferred day, and books a quote visit or sends the request with best times.

A regular client enquiry captured in full while the cleaners were out on jobs.

Kitchen fitter deposit

“You quoted us last week for the kitchen. We want to go ahead. What happens next?”

It recognises the caller by name, explains the next step from your knowledge base, texts a secure link for the deposit if your rule says so, and sends a message to the fitter with the job reference.

A job confirmed and a deposit in your account before you had finished the one you were on.

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Outsourced 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 in your business's name with your opening line

Yes

Answer questions about your services and prices

Yes

Book appointments, take messages, transfer calls

Yes

Scale to any call volume without a bigger bill

Yes

Charge per call, per minute, or a setup fee

No

Outsourced 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

Outsourced receptionist questions, answered

Updated November 2026

How much does an outsourced receptionist cost?

Human virtual receptionist services typically charge per call or per minute, so the bill grows with your phone. SiVoice is £150 or $199 a month for 1,000 minutes, about 400 calls, with a number included, and £354 or $449 for three lines.

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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