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The AI phone receptionist for veterinary clinics.
Worried pet owners don’t leave voicemails, they call the next practice. Ringmere answers your calls, books routine appointments, and gets emergencies to a human straight away.
The missed-call problem
Sound familiar?
- Phones ringing constantly during consults
- Anxious owners who need a fast, calm answer
- Emergencies that must reach a vet immediately
Every one of those is a booking walking to a competitor. Ringmere answers before it does.
How Ringmere helps veterinary clinics
Answer, book, and hand you the rest.
Answers your calls, 24/7
First-ring pickup, evenings and weekends included, so callers get a real answer instead of voicemail.
Books into your calendar
Checks live availability and books the right service into the right diary, with no double-booking.
Escalates what matters
Urgent, clinical or unhappy callers go to your team immediately, with full context.
It answers messages too: on Growth and Pro, customers can WhatsApp or text your business and the same receptionist replies, books and takes orders.
Call by call
Every call a vet practice gets.
An AI receptionist for a veterinary clinic has to do more than take bookings. This is what Ringmere does with the calls your front desk handles every day, and the ones that ring out during consults.
| The call | What Ringmere does |
|---|---|
| A routine appointment: vaccination, booster, health check, nail clip | Checks live availability and books it during the call, asking for the pet’s name and the type of animal or breed so the vet knows who is coming. It can text a confirmation. |
| A new client who wants to register | Takes the owner’s name and number and the pet’s details, answers the questions you have approved, such as opening hours, what you treat and the prices you publish, and books the first visit. |
| An emergency: a road accident, poisoning, collapse, trouble breathing | Recognised as urgent and escalated to a person straight away. You choose how: put through live to the number you give, or sent to your team by text and email with the caller’s number. It never gives veterinary advice. |
| A repeat prescription or food order | Taken as a message with what is needed and the owner’s number, and passed to your team to authorise. Ringmere does not approve or advise on medication. |
| Test results, or a worried question about symptoms | Not answered. The details are taken and the call is escalated to your team with context. |
| Moving or cancelling an appointment | Done on the call within your rules, which frees the slot for the next owner who rings. |
| Evenings, weekends and bank holidays | Answered the same way, on the first ring. Routine calls are booked for when you are open, and urgent ones are escalated to your team exactly as they are in the day. |
The maths behind this is in what missed calls cost a UK veterinary practice: a worried owner who cannot get through rings the next practice. Run your own numbers in the missed call cost calculator.
RCVS guidance requires every veterinary surgeon in practice to take steps to provide 24-hour emergency first aid and pain relief (paragraph 3.1 of the RCVS supporting guidance), and to give clients full details of that cover, including the telephone numbers to ring (paragraph 3.23). A line that is answered at 2am and tells a frightened owner exactly where emergency care is tonight is part of meeting that. Ringmere does not provide the care; it makes sure the call reaches it.
Your services, your words
It only ever offers what you approve.
Import your services and prices in seconds. Ringmere quotes exactly what you configure, never a made-up price or a promise you can’t keep.
Questions from veterinary clinics
Good to know.
How does it handle emergencies?
Can it book different appointment types?
Will owners know it’s AI?
What does it ask the owner on a booking call?
Does it answer out of hours?
Does it work with our practice management system?
What does an AI receptionist cost for a veterinary practice?
What should a veterinary AI receptionist never do?
Is Ringmere an answering service for veterinary clinics?
Guides for veterinary clinics
Do the maths for your business.
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