AI receptionist for nurseries and childcare in Portsmouth
A Portsmouth nursery lets roughly 19 calls a week ring out. Callwise answers all of them on your existing 023 number, books the work and sends you the transcript.
- Keeps your 023 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 Portsmouth nursery
Portsmouth and the wider Hampshire has a population of around 550,000, built on defence, maritime and a dense terraced housing stock. That produces a lot of phone calls, and for a nursery working across Southsea, Fratton and Cosham 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 023 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 Portsmouth 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 Portsmouth callers want
- availability for a specific age group
- fees and funded hours
- booking a look round
What a Portsmouth 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 Portsmouth nurseries
Answers availability by age group
Explains fees and funded hours
Books show rounds
Answers during the times staff cannot leave the room
Portsmouth nurseries ask us
Do we keep our 023 number?
Yes. Your existing 023 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 Portsmouth customers reach you changes.
Do you work with nurseries outside Portsmouth?
Yes. There is nothing local about how it works, so Portsmouth and everywhere across Hampshire 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 Portsmouth businesses we answer for
Hear it answer, then decide
Ring it and ask what a Portsmouth 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.