AI receptionist for nurseries and childcare in London
A London nursery lets roughly 19 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 nursery
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 nursery working across the City, Camden and Croydon most of them arrive at the exact moment nobody can pick up.
A nursery place is worth thousands a year and parents visit the first two settings that answer.
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
- all day, because staff are with children and cannot leave the room
- drop off and pick up, the busiest phone times
- evenings, when parents ring
What London callers want
- availability for a specific age group
- fees and funded hours
- booking a look round
What a London nursery loses to the phone
£184,600
a month, at one site
Around 19 missed calls a week, assuming only a third would ever have booked, at £6,800 a customer. Callwise costs £499 a month, whatever the volume.
What it does for London nurseries
Answers availability by age group
Explains fees and funded hours
Books show rounds
Answers during the times staff cannot leave the room
London nurseries 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 nurseries 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.
Our staff cannot leave the children. Who answers?
Nobody can, which is why nurseries miss so many enquiries. Ratios mean the phone genuinely cannot be prioritised, and a place is worth thousands a year.
Can it explain funded hours?
From your own wording, which is the most asked and most misunderstood question you get.
Will it book show rounds?
Straight into your diary, which is the step that converts an enquiry into a registration.
Nurseries and childcare 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.