How to use AI Receptionist
A simple guide to turning AI Receptionist into a warm, capable first point of contact on your website.
- Last updated: July 28, 2026
- Reading time: 3 minutes
- Difficulty: Beginner
What it is: AI Receptionist is your website's always-on front desk. It welcomes visitors, answers common questions, offers booking guidance, and gracefully collects handover details when a real person should step in.
In plain terms, it helps you sound faster, sharper, and more available, even when your team is busy.
Step by step: how to use AI Receptionist
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Open the AI Receptionist settings. Start in the dashboard area where you manage the chatbot or receptionist experience for the organization you want to update.
Double-check that you are in the correct organization before editing anything.
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Set the welcome tone. Write a greeting that sounds calm, clear, and inviting.
A great opening should tell visitors they can ask about services, pricing, availability, or getting in touch with a human.
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Add your key business answers. Train the assistant with the information people ask for most often.
Focus on services, pricing logic, booking rules, opening hours, turnaround times, and common support questions first.
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Separate sales and support properly. Make sure the assistant knows when a conversation belongs in sales and when it belongs in support.
This keeps warm leads out of the wrong queue and makes the handover feel far more polished.
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Connect the booking journey. If you use the booking widget, set the booking page URL so the assistant can guide visitors into the correct page and slot flow.
This is especially important when the chat appears across multiple pages.
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Test the booking path. Ask real-world questions like ?What times are available on Thursday?? or ?Can I book a consultation next week??
Check that the assistant gives the right answer, opens the right page or widget, and preserves the correct service and time selection.
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Test the human handover path. Ask to speak to sales, support, or a person.
Confirm that the assistant collects details cleanly and sends the enquiry into the right team queue.
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Review the live conversations. After launch, read through early chats closely.
Look for awkward answers, missing details, or moments where the assistant should have handed over faster.
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Improve it every week. Add missing answers, shorten clumsy responses, and refine the handover wording as you learn what visitors really ask.
The assistant gets more valuable when its knowledge becomes sharper and more specific to your business.
What AI Receptionist is brilliant at
- Answering repeat questions without making visitors wait.
- Guiding people toward booking, pricing, services, and next steps.
- Separating sales-style conversations from support-style conversations.
- Capturing lead details cleanly when a human follow-up is needed.
Best practices for a smoother experience
- Write training content in the same words your customers use.
- Keep answers short, direct, and reassuring before adding detail.
- Review missed or clumsy conversations and tighten the knowledge regularly.
- Test both the booking flow and the human handover flow after each major change.
When to hand over to a human
AI Receptionist shines at clarity and speed, but it should hand over confidently when a visitor needs custom pricing, a sensitive support response, or a sales conversation that benefits from a real closer.
That blend is where the magic happens: the assistant keeps the momentum alive, and your team steps in exactly when the conversation becomes valuable enough to deserve human attention.