# AI Receptionist Ireland — Fully managed AI receptionist answering Irish SMEs' calls, website chat and WhatsApp 24/7. > Source: Receptionist Index — https://receptionistindex.com/ai-receptionist-ireland (structured, researched, re-verified) > Facts last verified: 2026-10-14 AI Receptionist Ireland is a fully managed AI call answering service for Irish small businesses, built and maintained by its Dublin team rather than configured by the customer. It answers calls in the business name, books appointments and sends a summary of every call. | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Website | https://ai-receptionist.ie/ | | Price | from €69/month | | Free tier | No | No free or trial plan. A free 20-minute demo call and a private test number before go-live are the only unpaid ways to hear it; every live plan is paid and carries a one-off setup fee. ## What it costs at your call volume **Cost at 100 calls a month** · Yes — 227 EUR a month on Starter for 100 calls of 2.5 minutes (250 billed minutes). Billed in 1-second steps: 2.5 min for a 2.5-minute call. > Starter €227/mo 250 mins · + one-off setup > — https://ai-receptionist.ie/pricing · Plan cards, AI Receptionist Calls tab, Starter card **Cost at 500 calls a month** · Yes — 902 EUR a month on Business for 500 calls of 2.5 minutes (1250 billed minutes). Billed in 1-second steps: 2.5 min for a 2.5-minute call. > Business €827/mo 1,150 mins · + one-off setup > — https://ai-receptionist.ie/pricing · Plan cards, AI Receptionist Calls tab, Business card **What it bills by** · Yes — Plans are flat monthly fees that include a pool of call minutes, and usage is metered per second of call time rather than per call or per caller. > You are billed per second of call time, not rounded up to the next minute. A call that lasts 1 minute 20 seconds uses exactly 1 minute 20 seconds of your plan. > — https://ai-receptionist.ie/pricing · Pricing FAQ, 'What counts as a minute?' **Past your allowance** · Yes — Calls keep being answered past the allowance and extra minutes are sold in fixed blocks priced per plan, with the vendor flagging when a bigger plan is cheaper. > Your calls keep being answered. Extra usage is billed in blocks: €35 per 30 minutes on Peace of Mind, €60 per 60 minutes on Starter and Premium, and €75 per 100 minutes on Business. > — https://ai-receptionist.ie/pricing · Pricing FAQ, 'What happens if I go over my minutes?' ## What it does on the call **Books appointments** · Partly — It checks availability and books during the call into your calendar or booking system, but the comparison table shows calendar booking excluded on the entry Peace of Mind plan. > Calendar booking, CRM logging and text confirmations are included from the Starter plan up. Peace of Mind is designed for simple cover and sends you a summary of every call instead. > — https://ai-receptionist.ie/integrations · Integration FAQ, 'Which plans include integrations?' **Transfers to a person** · Partly — Live transfer of a caller to you or your team is included only on the Premium and Business plans; cheaper plans take the details and pass the message on instead. > On the Premium and Business plans it can transfer the caller live to you or your team. On every plan you get a summary of the call so you can ring back. > — https://ai-receptionist.ie/call-answering-service · Call answering FAQ, 'What happens when a caller needs a real person?' **After-hours rules** · Yes — Every call plan answers around the clock including weekends and bank holidays, and out-of-hours enquiries are captured and booked for the team next morning. > Out-of-hours enquiries are answered and booked in, ready for your team the next morning. > — https://ai-receptionist.ie/call-answering-service · What's Included section, 'Evenings and bank holidays' card **Urgent calls escalated** · Yes — You define what counts as urgent for your business during setup and those calls are flagged and passed to the on-call person immediately, at any hour. > Those calls are flagged and passed to your on-call person immediately, day or night. > — https://ai-receptionist.ie/faq · How calls are handled, 'Does it handle emergencies differently?' **Human receptionists as backup** · No — There is no human agent pool behind the AI: a question it cannot answer ends in a message and a summary for your own team to call back, not a handover to staff of theirs. > It never guesses. It tells the caller that someone will get back to them, takes their name, number and details, and sends your team a summary straight away so you can call back. > — https://ai-receptionist.ie/faq · How calls are handled, 'What happens if a caller asks something it can't answer?' **Asks your questions** · Yes — The vendor builds the call flow around the questions you want asked and qualifies enquiries, with more caller types handled as you move up the plans. > Your opening hours, services and prices, the questions customers usually ask, how you want bookings and messages handled, and who should get urgent calls. > — https://ai-receptionist.ie/faq · Setup and going live, 'What do I need to give you?' **Answers about your business** · Yes — The receptionist is trained on your services, prices and hours by the vendor's team and answers those questions on the call rather than only taking a message. > Your receptionist answers in your business name, knows your services and prices, books appointments and sends you a summary of every call. > — https://ai-receptionist.ie/call-answering-service · Hero introduction paragraph **Texts your callers** · Partly — Text confirmations and secure payment links can be sent to the caller, but the comparison table excludes caller text confirmation on the entry plan and no two-way SMS conversation is described. > It can send the caller a secure payment link by text during the call, so a deposit or booking fee is paid without any card details being read out over the phone. > — https://ai-receptionist.ie/faq · How calls are handled, 'Can it take deposits or payments?' ## What you get after the call **Call summary by text** · Yes — Every plan sends a summary of each call by email or text covering who rang, what they wanted and what was agreed, with no app login required. > After every call you get a summary by email or text, with the caller's details, what they wanted and what was agreed. > — https://ai-receptionist.ie/faq · How calls are handled, 'How do I find out what happened on each call?' **Recordings and transcripts** · Partly — You get a written transcript and summary of each call, but the standard setup deliberately keeps no call audio, so there is nothing to listen back to. > On our standard setup, call audio is not kept after the call ends. You receive a written transcript and summary, and that is delivered to you rather than stored by us. > — https://ai-receptionist.ie/faq · GDPR, privacy and compliance, 'Are calls recorded?' ## What it connects to **Google Calendar** · No — Google Calendar and Cal.com are the named calendar connections and Calendly appears in the homepage integration strip, but Outlook or Microsoft 365 booking is not stated in any integration list. > Calendars Google Calendar and Cal.com. > — https://ai-receptionist.ie/integrations · 'What connects' summary, Calendars card **Outlook** · No — Google Calendar and Cal.com are the named calendar connections and Calendly appears in the homepage integration strip, but Outlook or Microsoft 365 booking is not stated in any integration list. > Calendars Google Calendar and Cal.com. > — https://ai-receptionist.ie/integrations · 'What connects' summary, Calendars card **Calendly** · No — Google Calendar and Cal.com are the named calendar connections and Calendly appears in the homepage integration strip, but Outlook or Microsoft 365 booking is not stated in any integration list. > Calendars Google Calendar and Cal.com. > — https://ai-receptionist.ie/integrations · 'What connects' summary, Calendars card **CRM, Zapier and webhooks** · Partly — Callers are written into HubSpot, Salesforce and Zoho CRM with a call summary, from the Starter plan up; other systems are connected case by case through their API or email rather than a published Zapier or webhook route. > New callers can be added and existing contacts updated automatically in CRMs such as HubSpot, Salesforce and Zoho. > — https://ai-receptionist.ie/faq · Integrations, 'Can it update my CRM?' **Your trade’s software** · Partly — Trade, salon, gym and payment systems are named - Jobber, Tradify, ServiceM8, Fergus, Phorest, Fresha, Timely, Glofox, LegitFit, Mindbody, Stripe - but the US-centric stacks (ServiceTitan, Housecall Pro, Dentrix, Clio, OpenTable) are not in that list. > Jobber, Tradify, Phorest, Fresha, Glofox and more. > — https://ai-receptionist.ie/integrations · 'What connects' summary, Industry software card ## Trying it, starting and leaving **Free trial or free plan** · Partly — You can hear a receptionist built for your business on a free 20-minute demo and ring an unlimited private test number before go-live, but there is no free plan on your own live line. > Before go-live we give you a private test number. You and your team can ring it as often as you like, try difficult calls and ask for changes until you are happy. > — https://ai-receptionist.ie/faq · Setup and going live, 'Can I test it before it goes live?' **Sign up without a sales call** · No — There is no online checkout: every plan button leads to booking a free demo, and the vendor builds, connects and activates the receptionist for you as a managed service. > Book a free 20-minute demo. You will hear a live receptionist set up for your type of business, and we will recommend the right plan. > — https://ai-receptionist.ie/faq · Support and changes, 'How do I get started?' **Setup fee** · Yes — Every plan carries a one-off setup fee; it is €115 on Peace of Mind and the amount for Starter, Premium and Business is only confirmed on the demo call. > Yes, every plan has a one-off setup fee that covers the full build, training and testing of your receptionist. On Peace of Mind it is €115. For the other plans we confirm it on your free demo call. > — https://ai-receptionist.ie/pricing · Pricing FAQ, 'Is there a setup fee?' **Contract and cancelling** · Yes — All plans are rolling monthly with no long-term contract or cancellation fee, though a plan change has to be confirmed with the team before month end rather than in a dashboard. > No. Every plan runs month to month with no cancellation fees. You can move up or down a plan at any time. Just confirm the change with us before the end of the month. > — https://ai-receptionist.ie/faq · Pricing and plans, 'Is there a contract?' ## Which languages it speaks, and how it sounds **Languages** · Partly — English with Irish accent handling is the default; any other language is an add-on whose scope and price are settled on the demo call, with no list of supported languages published. > Multi-language support is available as an add-on. Tell us which languages your customers use and we will confirm what is possible on your demo call. > — https://ai-receptionist.ie/faq · Website chat and WhatsApp, 'Can it answer in languages other than English?' **Choose or clone the voice** · Partly — The vendor sets the name, voice, tone and greeting to suit your business during the build, but it is their team choosing from available voices and no voice cloning is offered. > We set the name, voice, tone and greeting to suit your business, whether that is warm and chatty for a salon or calm and professional for a solicitor. > — https://ai-receptionist.ie/faq · Setup and going live, 'Can I choose the name, voice and personality?' **Hear it before you buy** · Yes — There is a public number you can ring to hear their own receptionist answer, plus a form that calls you back and a free 20-minute demo built around your business. > Want to hear it first? Ring 01 263 6824 and our receptionist will answer. > — https://ai-receptionist.ie/call-answering-service · Hero section, below the demo button ## Your phone number and where it works **Keep your number** · Yes — You keep the number customers already ring and the vendor sets up forwarding from your existing line, working with your provider or phone system, with no hardware to install. > We set up call forwarding from your existing line, so there is no porting, no new hardware and nothing your customers will notice. We can also give you a new local number if you want one. > — https://ai-receptionist.ie/faq · Setup and going live, 'Can I keep my existing phone number?' **Move your number in** · No — The service works by forwarding rather than porting: the vendor states its setup involves no porting, and nothing on the site offers to take your number over or hand it back. > We set up call forwarding from your existing line, so there is no porting, no new hardware and nothing your customers will notice. > — https://ai-receptionist.ie/faq · Setup and going live, 'Can I keep my existing phone number?' **Australia** · Yes — Sold only in Ireland - the vendor is an Irish company serving all 26 counties with a GDPR Data Processing Agreement and an EU data residency option - so no US, Canadian, UK or Australian offering is published. > We work with businesses in all 26 counties of Ireland, including Dublin, Cork and Galway. Everything is set up remotely, so location is never a barrier. > — https://ai-receptionist.ie/faq · Support and changes, 'Where do you operate?' ## Who it is built for **Industries it is set up for** · Yes — Dedicated pages and prebuilt call handling exist for trades, garages, gyms, beauty, dental and medical, solicitors, accountants, letting agents, hotels, restaurants and removals. > Our main sectors are trades, gyms and fitness, hair and beauty, removals, hotels and restaurants, and we also work with garages, solicitors, accountants, estate and letting agents, clinics and many more. > — https://ai-receptionist.ie/faq · Industries, 'What types of business do you work with?' **Several locations or numbers** · Partly — Multi-location answering is included only on the top Business plan at €827 a month; the three cheaper plans are marked as not supporting it and no per-location price is published. > Up to 1,150 minutes, designed for full 24/7 | Multiple call flows, complex call routing | Full analytics and reporting | Multi-location support included > — https://ai-receptionist.ie/pricing · Plan cards, Business plan feature list ## Getting set up and getting help **Setup help** · Yes — The vendor does the whole build, training, testing and phone connection for you and most businesses are answering calls within about 48 hours of the demo call. > Most businesses are live in as little as 48 hours after the demo call. > — https://ai-receptionist.ie/faq · Setup and going live, 'How long does it take to go live?' **Support** · Yes — Changes and support go through the team by email, phone or WhatsApp with a published Dublin number and WhatsApp line, though no hours or response-time commitment is stated outside Enterprise. > Just tell us by email, phone or WhatsApp. We update new prices, holiday hours or new services for you, so you never need to change anything yourself. > — https://ai-receptionist.ie/faq · Support and changes, 'How do I make changes once it is live?' ## What changed - 2026-10-14 — Capabilities · Free tier · Plan limits · Price · Terms ## Corrections If you represent AI Receptionist Ireland, or anything here is wrong or out of date, send a correction with a source. 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