AI receptionist for hair salons in Reading
A Reading salon lets roughly 41 calls a week ring out. Callwise answers all of them on your existing 0118 number, books the work and sends you the transcript.
- Keeps your 0118 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 Reading salon
Reading and the wider Berkshire has a population of around 350,000, built on technology, professional services and some of the most expensive property outside London. That produces a lot of phone calls, and for a salon working across Caversham, Earley and Tilehurst most of them arrive at the exact moment nobody can pick up.
A client who cannot get through books somewhere else, and a colour client is worth hundreds a year.
Callwise answers on your own 0118 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 Reading calls go unanswered
- every hour, because everybody's hands are in somebody's hair
- Mondays, when many salons are closed
- evenings, when clients think about the weekend
What Reading callers want
- booking a cut or colour
- prices for balayage or extensions
- moving an appointment
What a Reading salon loses to the phone
£18,700
a month, at one site
Around 41 missed calls a week, assuming only a third would ever have booked, at £320 a customer. Callwise costs £499 a month, whatever the volume.
What it does for Reading salons
Books appointments with the right stylist and duration
Quotes from your price list
Handles cancellations and rebooking
Answers on your closed day
Reading salons ask us
Do we keep our 0118 number?
Yes. Your existing 0118 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 Reading customers reach you changes.
Do you work with salons outside Reading?
Yes. There is nothing local about how it works, so Reading and everywhere across Berkshire 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.
Can it book the right length of appointment?
Yes. A full head of colour and a dry cut can have different durations and different stylists, and it books accordingly.
What about our closed day?
Monday is when many clients ring to book the week ahead, and a shut salon takes none of it. It answers all of it.
Will clients mind?
It says it is an assistant, books in seconds and never puts anyone on hold with the dryers going in the background.
Other Reading businesses we answer for
Hear it answer, then decide
Ring it and ask what a Reading 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.