AI phone + online booking
A German-speaking AI phone assistant answers the line when you are with a patient or customer, and books appointments straight into your online booking system. Fully set up in 14 days, fixed price.
The problem
You are with a patient, at the chair or in a conversation, and the phone rings. The person who would have stayed on the line books an appointment. The one who hangs up calls the competitor instead. Local practices and salons miss 20 to 40 percent of their calls this way. Each missed call is on average a missed appointment, sometimes a lost regular.
Online booking is meant to absorb the rest. In practice it is often phone-only, or hanging off a half-finished widget someone embedded two years ago. Your customers want to book at half past ten from the couch, not call between your morning appointments hoping someone picks up.
On top of that there is the daily annoyance: no-shows eat a measurable share of your revenue. Pre-payment and reminders have been possible for years, but only if someone actually sets them up.
Our solution
We set up two tools at the same time, and we wire them together properly. That is the point. A German-speaking AI phone assistant (Fonio.ai) answers the line and writes booked appointments directly into your online booking system (Dr. Flex, samedi, Doctolib or Shore, chosen for your practice or salon). Not a generic webhook that occasionally pushes something to your inbox. Real slot allocation, aware of what is already booked, with your service catalogue and your staff profiles.
We build everything end to end, from the greeting script and the call flows to the “Book appointment” link in your Google Business Profile and Stripe pre-payment against no-shows. You pay a fixed price. You keep your accounts directly with the providers. We don’t add a markup on the monthly software fees. And during the first four weeks we review transcripts with you every week, so the AI lands the tone of your business.
What it costs
Setup (fixed price)
€1,880
Monthly care
€248 / month
Included:
- · Discovery visit at your practice or salon (60 minutes)
- · Setup of Fonio.ai as the AI phone assistant, including voice selection and greeting script
- · Setup of your online booking system (Dr. Flex, samedi, Doctolib or Shore, chosen for your practice or salon)
- · Service catalog with treatments, durations, and prices, tailored to your business
- · Staff and practitioner profiles, opening hours, breaks, holidays
- · Two-way sync with Outlook, Apple or Google Calendar
- · Call flows for booking, rescheduling, standard questions and escalation
- · Direct write of phone-booked appointments into your booking system
- · Booking widget on your website (WordPress, Wix, Jimdo, Squarespace, IONOS)
- · "Book appointment" button connected in your Google Business Profile
- · Stripe pre-payment for no-show protection and SMS reminders 24 h / 2 h before
- · One-hour on-site team training and a written handover document
Not included:
- · Monthly software fees for Fonio.ai and the booking system (paid directly to the provider)
- · A new website or redesign of your existing site
- · Integration with billing or practice-management software (on request)
- · Multilingual call flows beyond German and English
- · Porting of your landline number (usually not needed, we set up call forwarding)
How it works
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Step 01
Day 1–5
Discovery & setup
- · On-site briefing (60 minutes)
- · Assessment of call volume, current booking method and existing calendars
- · Tool recommendation with reasoning (Fonio.ai plus Dr. Flex, samedi, Doctolib or Shore)
- · Both accounts provisioned and connected to your calendar
- · Voice selection, greeting script and call flows drafted
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Step 02
Day 6–10
Integration
- · Complete service catalogue and staff profiles in the booking system
- · AI phone writes booked appointments directly into the booking system
- · AI knows occupied slots and avoids double-bookings
- · Stripe pre-payment and SMS reminders switched on
- · Booking widget embedded on your website and "Book appointment" active in Google Business Profile
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Step 03
Day 11–14
Go-live & training
- · One-hour on-site training for your team
- · Soft launch with daily transcript review in the first week
- · Adjustments from the first real calls within 24 hours
- · Written handover document and video walkthrough for the owner
- · Weekly transcript review for the first four weeks
Who it fits, and who it does not
A good fit for:
- · Heilpraktiker and naturopathic practices
- · Physiotherapy practices with 1–4 therapists
- · Small dental practices (1–3 chairs)
- · Hair salons with 2–6 chairs
- · Cosmetic and nail studios
- · Solo health practitioners (osteopathy, speech, occupational therapy, midwives)
- · Small service businesses that run on appointments
Not a good fit for:
- · Restaurants and hospitality (see our Quandoo migration service instead)
- · Pure walk-in businesses without appointments (kiosks, bakeries)
- · Coaches and consultants without regular consultation hours (a leaner solution with Cal.com plus voicemail usually fits better)
Tools we set up
- Fonio.ai
- Dr. Flex
- samedi
- Doctolib
- Shore
Common questions
Let us talk for 15 minutes.
Not a sales pitch. We look at your situation and tell you honestly whether we can help. If not, we tell you who the better fit would be.
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