AI receptionist for accountants in Southampton
A Southampton accountancy practice lets roughly 26 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 Southampton accountancy practice
Southampton and the wider Hampshire has a population of around 900,000, built on maritime, logistics and marine trades. That produces a lot of phone calls, and for a accountancy practice working across Portswood, Bitterne and Shirley most of them arrive at the exact moment nobody can pick up.
A business owner switching accountants makes one round of calls and engages whoever answered and quoted.
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 Southampton calls go unanswered
- January, when the whole country rings at once
- while partners are with clients
- evenings, when business owners finally have time
What Southampton callers want
- changing accountants and what it involves
- self assessment before the January deadline
- fees for a limited company
What a Southampton accountancy practice loses to the phone
£55,700
a month, at one site
Around 26 missed calls a week, assuming only a third would ever have booked, at £1,500 a customer. Callwise costs £499 a month, whatever the volume.
What it does for Southampton accountancy practices
Takes new client enquiries with turnover and structure
Quotes from your fee guide
Books discovery calls
Absorbs the January deadline surge
Southampton accountancy practices 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 Southampton customers reach you changes.
Do you work with accountancy practices outside Southampton?
Yes. There is nothing local about how it works, so Southampton 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.
What about January?
The last two weeks of January produce more calls than the previous two months, and most practices simply cannot answer them. Those are new clients as well as panicking existing ones.
Can it quote fees?
From your guide, by turnover and company type, which qualifies the enquiry before it reaches a partner.
Will it give tax advice?
None whatsoever. It gathers facts and books the call.
Hear it answer, then decide
Ring it and ask what a Southampton 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.