AI receptionist for funeral directors in London
A London funeral director lets roughly 16 calls a week ring out. Callwise answers all of them on your existing 020 number, books the work and sends you the transcript.
- Keeps your 020 number
- Answers on the first ring
- No per minute fees
- Live in 24 hours
Ring +44 330 912 2553. It answers, and you can try to catch it out.
What the phone looks like for a London funeral director
London and the wider Greater London has a population of around 9.7 million, built on professional services, hospitality and an enormous base of independent trades serving them. That produces a lot of phone calls, and for a funeral director working across the City, Camden and Croydon most of them arrive at the exact moment nobody can pick up.
A family ringing at three in the morning needs somebody to answer, and they will remember for the rest of their lives whether you did.
Callwise answers on your own 020 number. Customers ring the number they already have, it is answered on the first ring by something that sounds like a person, and the job is booked into your diary before the caller has thought about trying anybody else.
When London calls go unanswered
- nights, when most deaths are reported
- weekends and bank holidays
- while staff are conducting a funeral
What London callers want
- a death that has just happened
- costs and what is included
- arranging a time to come in
What a London funeral director loses to the phone
£77,700
a month, at one site
Around 16 missed calls a week, assuming only a third would ever have booked, at £3,400 a customer. Callwise costs £499 a month, whatever the volume.
What it does for London funeral directors
Answers at any hour, calmly
Takes the essential details without intruding
Alerts your duty director immediately
Books appointments for the family to come in
London funeral directors ask us
Do we keep our 020 number?
Yes. Your existing 020 number stays exactly as it is and keeps ringing your phones. Calls only reach the assistant when nobody picks up, or at the hours you choose, so nothing about how London customers reach you changes.
Do you work with funeral directors outside London?
Yes. There is nothing local about how it works, so London and everywhere across Greater London is covered the same way, along with the rest of the UK. The local part is your number and your customers, and both stay yours.
Is an assistant appropriate for these calls?
It answers within one ring at any hour, speaks gently, says what it is, takes only what is needed and puts a person in touch quickly. An unanswered phone at that moment is far worse.
How fast does our duty director know?
Immediately. A first call is always urgent and is treated as one.
Will it discuss costs?
It gives your published prices if asked and otherwise arranges the appointment. It never pushes anything.
Funeral directors elsewhere
Other London businesses we answer for
Hear it answer, then decide
Ring it and ask what a London customer would ask. It is the same assistant your callers would get, so if it does not convince you on the phone it will not convince them either.
Talk to our AI assistantNo form, no sales call. Thirty seconds on the phone with the thing itself.