AI receptionist for nurseries and childcare in Reading
A Reading nursery lets roughly 19 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 nursery
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 nursery working across Caversham, Earley and Tilehurst 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 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
- 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 Reading callers want
- availability for a specific age group
- fees and funded hours
- booking a look round
What a Reading 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 Reading nurseries
Answers availability by age group
Explains fees and funded hours
Books show rounds
Answers during the times staff cannot leave the room
Reading nurseries 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 nurseries 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.
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 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.