A wedding photographer's phone rings on Saturdays, which is when they cannot answer it. Your Bot answers, asks what kind of shoot it is, the date and the place, tells them your packages, and says straight away if the date is gone.
Made for: Wedding photographers · Portrait and family studios · Real estate photographers · Event and corporate photographers
Wedding on Saturday, June 6, at the Harlow Boathouse, about 110 guests. Wants the 8-hour package with a second shooter. Date is open on your list. Found you on a friend's wedding gallery. Would like a call this week.
Example. Names and numbers are made up; the format is what every call produces.
A photographer answering service keeps enquiries from going to voicemail on a shoot day. This one also knows which dates are gone, explains your packages in your words, and sends the portfolio link you chose.
More on how this compares: AI receptionist · AI answering service · replacing voicemail.
Read the guide: Photographers: answer the inquiry while you're shooting
Fill in the brackets, paste it into Settings → Standing instructions, and make one test call. Tighten it after a day of real calls.
Want to hear a briefed Bot first? Listen to two real calls.
You are the assistant for [Photographer or Studio]. Booked dates (say we are unavailable): [dates]. Packages and from-prices: [list]. Travel beyond [area]: [rule]. Always capture: name, phone, email, kind of shoot, date and time, location, hours or headcount, the package they are interested in, how they found us. Offer a consultation on [days and windows]. A date is held only once the contract and deposit are done, and those are handled by email, never by phone. Never take card numbers.
100 minutes of calls. Then $0.25 a minute.
300 or 1,000 minutes, for a line that's busy all day. Full pricing →
It's a phone number for your Bot. You brief that Bot as your front desk, your sales intake, or both, the way you'd brief a new hire. One line, one Bot, and your instructions, not a generic script.
No. Keep your booking system. The line collects the request and your team confirms it there, or your own Bot books it if you've given it access to that calendar.
No. The line never reads out or takes a card number. Deposits and payments stay in the tools you already use.
No. The line works on its own with standing instructions you write in Settings. If you run Grok Bot, an OpenAI dot, Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor, connecting it lets your Bot place calls and read every summary itself.
Yes, whenever someone asks. It answers as your business's assistant and never pretends to be a person.
Brief it once. Callers get your business. You get the notes.