For nurseries
The best AI receptionist
for nurseries.
Parents ring during nap time, during pickup, during a tantrum. Staff can't always step away from the children.
A Saturday morning, told straight
A new-place enquiry for next September is two years of fees. Twenty-four grand walks past your door.
It's a Wednesday in March. A mum on maternity leave has decided she wants her one-year-old to start nursery in September. She's been on Day Nurseries and Childcare.co.uk all morning. She has a shortlist of four. She rings yours first because you have the cleanest reviews.
It's pickup time. Your manager is at the door handing children over to parents. The phone rings out. The mum rings the next nursery. They pick up. They send her the visit form, book her in for Friday, and have a place reserved for September by the end of next week. Five days a week, fifty weeks a year, two years until school. Roughly £24,000 of fees gone, including the sibling who would have followed.
Foan picks up while your team is with the children. Speaks to parents in the calm tone they need to hear. Takes the child's age, the start date, days they want, and whether they get the funded hours. Books the show-around tour and sends the visit form by text. Drops everything into Famly or your enquiry log so the manager opens her laptop in the morning to a list of qualified tours, not missed calls.
Nurseries underprice the lifetime value of a single new-place enquiry. It's not £200 a week. It's £200 a week for a hundred weeks, plus the sibling, plus the word-of-mouth referrals from satisfied parents. One missed call is closer to £30,000 of value when you do the maths properly.
Most nurseries we work with miss 15 to 25 calls a week to active care duties. Catching even a quarter of those is multiple new placements a year.
Same pattern works for funded-hours queries, holiday club bookings, and the contractor and supplier calls that come during nap.
The maths for a nursery
Capture three missed calls a month at £1k and you've recovered £47k a year.
Average ticket for nurseries: £800 to £2k. Foan costs less than one missed call a year.
Avg ticket
£1k
Per month
£4k
Per year
£47k
When the phone rings, you can't answer.
New-place enquiries for September starts come in March. Slow response loses the spot.
Foan answers every line at once.
Unlimited simultaneous calls. Ten callers at the same time, ten conversations. Your number is never busy.
What Foan does on a typical nursery call
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Picks up on the first ring, even when you're with another customer.
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Captures their name, phone number, and exactly what they're calling about, read back to confirm.
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Texts you a summary the second the call ends — or emails it, your pick. Call back while they're still warm.
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Books appointments straight into your calendar (Calendly or Google Calendar).
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Sounds like a real receptionist, not a robot. Trained on your website, your services, your prices.
Works with the software nurseries already run on
Speaks nurseries' language. Plugs into your stack.
Foan reads your live diary, books straight in, and writes the outcome back. No spreadsheets in the middle, no tabs left open at the end of the day.
Connect the rest of your stack
Foan plugs into the systems you already run on. The agent reads your live data, books, and writes the result back. No spreadsheets in the middle.
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Nursery + Stripe
Take payments on the call. Send a Stripe link, check invoice status, handle billing questions.
Run the numbers
Curious what missed calls actually cost you?
Plug your average ticket and missed-call rate into the calculator. Most nurseries pay for Foan with the first three captured calls of the month.
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