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Salon receptionist

A salon 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 salon receptionist really cost?

Every missed call is a chair sitting empty

A stylist can't answer with a client in the chair. The caller books somewhere else, and the Saturday slot you could have filled stays empty.

A salon receptionist costs more than the phone makes

A full wage to book cuts and colours and sell a few bottles of shampoo. On a quiet Tuesday it is the most expensive seat in the salon.

Stylists book badly between clients

A colour booked into a cut slot, two clients at the same time with the same stylist. Every mistake costs a chair for an hour and a client for good.

No-shows on a Saturday are gone for good

The 11am balayage who did not turn up cost three hours of a senior stylist's day. Nobody rings to fill a gap at ten to eleven.

What changes with an AI receptionist instead of hiring

Fewer no-shows, fuller columns

It books the appointment, takes a small deposit by text so people turn up, and sends a reminder with the details.

Booked with the right stylist for the right time

It knows a full head of highlights takes longer than a trim, and who does what, and books the right length of slot with the stylist the caller asked for.

Deposits that make Saturday clients turn up

A small deposit by text at the time of booking. The money lands in your account and the chair gets used. Team plan.

Cancellations refilled without a stylist stopping

A cancellation comes in by phone, the next caller is offered the gap, and nobody has to put the scissors down.

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 salon receptionist takes every week

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

Balayage before a wedding

“I have a wedding on the 20th and I want balayage and a cut with Jade. Can I get a Saturday before that?”

It checks Jade's diary for a Saturday with a three-hour gap, offers the 14th at 9am, books it and takes a deposit by text. It asks whether the caller has had colour with you before and books the patch test 48 hours ahead if that is your rule.

A three-hour booking held with a deposit, and a patch test in the diary beside it.

Walk-in price check

“How much is a men's cut and can I just come in?”

It gives the price from your list, says whether you take walk-ins, and offers the next free slot with a junior or a senior stylist. It books it if the caller wants one.

A quick call that ends in a booking rather than a shrug at the door.

Running late for colour

“I am stuck in traffic and I will be fifteen minutes late for my colour at 2.”

It finds the booking, sends a message to the stylist straight away, and tells the caller your late-arrival policy as written. If the slot cannot be kept it offers the next one.

The stylist knows before the client walks in, and the rest of the afternoon is not thrown.

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Salon 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

Book cuts, colours and treatments with the right stylist and the right amount of time

Yes

Explain services and prices from your price list

Yes

Take deposits to cut no-shows

Team plan.

Yes

Handle cancellations and offer the next free slot

Yes

Sell retail at the desk, sweep up, make the coffee

No

See exactly how it works for salons and barbers →

Salon 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

Salon receptionist questions, answered

Updated November 2026

Can it book with a particular stylist?

Yes. Once your calendar is connected it offers real free slots for the stylist the caller asks for, books the one they pick, and takes their name and number. Without a calendar it takes the request as a message with their preferred time.

Does it sound like a salon, not a call centre?

You pick the voice and the opening line, and it learns your services and prices from your website. Callers hear your salon's name and a warm, unhurried voice. Most cannot tell.

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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