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Vet receptionist leaving, and the phone never stops?

Hear it answer for your veterinary practice, right now. Every worried owner answered, appointments booked, emergencies put through, from a flat monthly price. Live today.

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Veterinary receptionist

A veterinary 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 veterinary receptionist really cost?

A dog on the table and the phone ringing

Your nurse is holding a patient. The owner on the line has an emergency, or thinks they do, and nobody can pick up.

A vet receptionist has to triage on the phone

They decide whether a vomiting dog waits until tomorrow or comes in now, and they get blamed either way. Few people want that for a receptionist's wage.

Grief at the desk, a ringing phone behind it

An owner saying goodbye needs the receptionist's full attention. The phone rings through it, and the caller with a kitten to vaccinate gives up.

Out-of-hours cover costs more than the day

Someone has to answer the phone at night. A night rota or an answering service eats the margin on every consultation.

What changes with an AI receptionist instead of hiring

Emergencies get through, routine gets booked

It calms the caller, works out whether it is urgent, puts real emergencies through, and books vaccinations and check-ups into the diary.

Emergencies by your rule, routine into the diary

It asks the questions you set, puts a collapsed or bleeding animal straight through or gives the out-of-hours number, and books everything else.

Vaccinations and neutering booked with the animal's details

Species, breed, age and name are taken on the call, the appointment goes into the diary, and the owner gets a text with what to bring.

Repeat medication and food orders as messages

Flea treatment, prescription diet, insulin. It takes the animal's name and what is needed, and the team gets a message to have it ready for collection.

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 veterinary receptionist takes every week

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

Dog ate a bar of chocolate

“My spaniel has just eaten most of a bar of dark chocolate. Is that bad? Should I bring him in?”

It follows your poisoning rule. It gives no advice, puts the call through to the duty vet, or out of hours gives the emergency number, and texts the practice the dog's name, weight if known and what was eaten.

An emergency reached a vet in seconds, with the facts already written down.

Puppy's first vaccinations

“We picked up a Labrador puppy on Saturday. He is nine weeks. What does he need and when can we come in?”

It explains the vaccination course from your website, gives the price, and books the first appointment on Thursday at 3.10pm. It takes the puppy's name and date of birth and tells the owner to bring the breeder's paperwork.

A new client registered with a booking, and years of visits that started with an answered call.

Insulin collection on a Sunday

“My cat is diabetic and I have just realised we are nearly out of insulin. Are you open tomorrow?”

It gives the opening hours, takes the cat's name and the owner's surname, and sends a message to the team to have the insulin ready at the counter in the morning. It tells the owner when to collect.

A repeat prescription ready when the doors open, taken on a day the practice was closed.

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Veterinary 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 consultations, vaccinations, neutering and check-ups

Yes

Triage emergencies by your rules and put them through or give the out-of-hours number

Yes

Answer questions about prices, opening hours, parking and what to bring

Yes

Take repeat medication and food orders as messages

Yes

Handle animals and owners in the waiting room

No

See exactly how it works for vets →

Veterinary 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

Veterinary receptionist questions, answered

Updated November 2026

What happens with an emergency call?

It follows your emergency rule word for word: a collapsed animal, a suspected poisoning or heavy bleeding goes straight through to a person or gets your out-of-hours number, and the caller is never left waiting.

Can it take deposits for surgery?

Yes, on the Team plan. It texts the owner a secure payment link while they are on the call and the deposit lands in your own account before they arrive.

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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