Scheduling
The receptionist checks open slots, offers two times, and texts the confirmation. You stay on the job. The calendar stays true.
Dial the number and act like a customer. Beside answers, qualifies, and books the call you’d have missed.
A real AI receptionist picks up. Ask it anything about Beside.
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Google Calendar or the bookable hours you set in Beside. The receptionist only offers times you can actually honor.
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Name, job, address, and a slot. A confirmation text goes out before they hang up.
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Buffers, travel, and emergency holds are rules you set. The AI does not double-book a crew that is already rolling.
“Before I had to break away ten minutes answering questions, now that has changed a lot.”
Michael Chudner, Founder, Integral Pianos
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Google Calendar is the common path. You can also set bookable hours inside Beside without a full calendar sync.
Yes. A leak and a water-heater install are not the same slot. You define services and duration. The receptionist offers what matches the call.
You can collect the request and confirm yourself, or let it book inside the rules you wrote. Same trust model as the rest of Beside.
It takes the intake and the first slot. Dispatch still owns routing, parts, and who rolls. The summary is waiting when they look.
Booking from the call is part of the AI receptionist on the phone plans. Deeper calendar autonomy is part of Beside OS.
Also in Beside
Scheduling only works if the call is answered live.
The booking becomes a contact with the transcript attached.