AI Front Office for Appointment Scheduling. An AI scheduling assistant on every booking channel
Zanus AI is an AI scheduling assistant that books appointments on the phone, in the website chat, from your web forms and on your booking page, straight into the free slots of one book. It confirms each visit, sends the reminders, places the day-before call when you allow it and passes every exception to your desk.
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Helps your team
You talk. Lisa sets it up.
You“Book cleanings and checkups on calls; send callers who mention pain to the front desk.”
Lisa“Calls for cleanings and checkups get booked, and callers who mention pain go straight to the front desk. Apply?”
Any setting, in any module · applied only on your yes
Start with the one thing you need. Add more anytime by asking Lisa.
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Who reaches you
The people the AI answers for you
- New customers asking for a first visit or consultation
- Regulars who need a different day from the one booked
- Callers ringing early, at lunch, after closing or on Sunday
- Visitors who would rather type their question than call
- Parents, assistants and relatives booking for someone else
- Guests replying to a reminder to confirm or cancel
The whole desk
What an AI scheduling assistant does for your appointment book
Phone, chat and forms are not separate AI agents with separate lists: each books into the same book under the same rules, so everyone sees the same free times.
Books while the caller is on the line
AI Phone answers every call on the first ring, after hours too, asks what the visit is for and offers two or three open slots. The caller hangs up with the visit booked and the confirmation sent.
Books inside the website chat
AI Webchat answers the question first, by text or voice and from your own pages, then shows the free slots for that service and books the visit before the visitor leaves.
Books from a web form
AI Web Forms adds a booking question that lists your services with live availability, so the person filling in the form picks a real slot instead of waiting for a call back.
Confirms and reminds by itself
The confirmation leaves at once and the reminder goes by text, e-mail or both, the hours before that you choose. The guest's reply confirms, cancels or asks for another time.
Calls the day before
With AI Auto-Call, the customers booked for tomorrow get a call from your own number: a yes confirms the visit, a no frees the slot, another day goes to your front desk.
Handles the no-show
After the grace period a missed visit is marked NO-SHOW and one polite invitation to book again leaves by itself. A guest who missed twice in a year is asked to confirm next time.
A day at the desk
Appointment scheduling moments the desk handles all day
7:05 AM, nobody in yet
A caller wants the first cleaning this week. The AI offers Wednesday 8:30 and Thursday 9:15, books Thursday, and the confirmation text reaches her before the lights come on.
12:40 PM, phone and chat together
Call volume peaks while the receptionist checks a client out. The salon's AI books the next caller by phone while a chat visitor asks if the stylist does color and books Saturday.
4:15 PM, a reply asking for another day
A guest answers the reminder asking for another time. The reply is logged on the booking card, your desk presses Reschedule, and she gets the new time by text.
9:30 PM, a form about a leak
A homeowner sends the service form. A screening rule reads the word leak, marks it URGENT, tells the service manager and offers the first free slot on your booking page.
Real screens
Automated appointment scheduling on real Zanus AI screens
Each picture is a real screen with demo data, from AI appointment booking to the calls, the reminders and the forms your desk works from.
Weigh the options
AI receptionist for appointment scheduling or the usual options
Scheduling tools like an online booking page, or people like a receptionist or an answering service, each cover part of the day. Here is what each does with the moments that fill the book or empty it.
| What you need | A person at the front desk | An online booking page | An answering service | Zanus AI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A call at lunch or after closing | Rings out or reaches voicemail | Cannot take a call | A message for the morning | Booked during the call: into a free slot, confirmed at once |
| A question before booking | Answered when someone is free | Left to the visitor to find | Read from a script | Answered from your knowledge: by phone or chat, then booked |
| Only real free times | Depends on who checks the diary | Yes, for those who click | Typed in later by your staff | Free slots only: with rest times, notice and closures kept |
| Confirmations and reminders | Phoned when there is time | Usually one e-mail | Rarely part of the service | Text, e-mail and a call the day before: with every reply logged on the booking |
| A missed visit | Noticed when the chair stays empty | Noticed after the slot passes | Not their job | Marked NO-SHOW by itself: and one polite re-book message sent |
Your rules, your people
Where the appointment scheduling assistant stops and your staff decide
Requests you approve
A service marked subject to approval lands as a REQUEST on Upcoming, and the guest is told the time is requested. Your CONFIRM sends the confirmation, and DECLINE offers another free time.
A person when the caller asks
Anyone who asks for a person on the phone is put through to the colleague you chose. The AI tells your colleague who is calling and why before the call connects.
Advice stays with professionals
At a clinic, a law office or an insurance agency, the AI answers booking questions only from what the business approved. Symptoms, eligibility, a legal matter or money are handed to a person.
Lisa never moves a booking alone
Lisa can read your week and find a free hour, but she never moves a customer's booking without you. A closure over existing visits lists them so you keep, move or cancel each.
Ready in 2 minutes
Set up your AI scheduling assistant in 2 minutes
Lisa reads your website
Give Lisa your address. She reads your pages, fills in your locations and asks about your services, how long each takes and how a slot is counted.
Start from your line of business
Say what you are, a practice with three rooms or a salon with four chairs, and Lisa proposes the services, turns and texts of that preset, shown before and after.
Connect the calendar you use
Link your work calendar so its busy times are never offered, or run the book on its own. Forward your business line and the phone starts booking.
Try a week on your own book
Run it free for 7 days, with no credit card, and look through every booking it made, every confirmation it sent and every no-show it followed up.
Appointment Scheduling in your trade
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Questions & answers
AI scheduling assistant: frequently asked questions about appointment booking
What is an AI scheduling assistant?
An AI scheduling assistant is scheduling software that turns appointment requests into bookings without anyone typing them in. Many AI scheduling assistants arrange internal meetings; Zanus AI books your customers instead: it answers on the phone, in the chat and on your forms, offers only the time slots that are really free, books the one chosen and sends the confirmation.
Can an AI scheduling assistant book straight into my calendar?
Yes. Every booking lands in one book in real time, with its service, location and provider, and the work calendar you already use can be connected: its busy times, focus time included, are read every five minutes and never offered to a customer, and each booking is written there as an event your team sees.
How does the AI prevent double bookings?
It only offers times that are free under your own rules: each service's hours and length, the rest after each visit, the minimum notice, closures, whole-day blackouts, the bookings already taken and the busy times of your connected calendar. A slot with three places takes three bookings, then disappears from what callers and visitors are offered.
Can AI chatbots book appointments for service businesses?
Yes. With AI Webchat and AI Booking together, a visitor asks a question by text or voice, gets the answer from your own pages and books in the same conversation. The slot is held while the guest answers a texted code or verifies an e-mail, so nothing enters the book from an unverified visitor.
Does an answering service book appointments?
A traditional answering service usually takes a message, and someone books the visit later; some AI receptionists do the same. AI Phone with AI Booking books during the call: it asks what the visit is for, offers two or three free times, verifies the caller and sends the confirmation before the caller hangs up, around the clock.
What happens when a customer wants another time or has to cancel?
The reminder text lets the guest reply to confirm, cancel or ask for another time, and every reply is logged on the booking. A cancellation frees the place, and a waiting guest is texted the offer; a request for another time reaches your desk, where Reschedule tells the guest the new time by text or e-mail.
How do appointment reminders cut down on no-shows?
They turn a forgotten visit into an answer you get in time. Confirmations go out at once, reminders by text, e-mail or both at the hours you choose, and with AI Auto-Call the AI phones the day before, inside each person's local hours across time zones. A missed visit is marked NO-SHOW after the grace period, and the guest receives one polite message to book again.
Why are customers not booking appointments online?
Often because they have a question first: how long it takes, whether a certain person is free, which location has parking. A booking page cannot answer, so they call, and if nobody picks up they try the next business. The AI answers the question by phone or chat, then books in the same conversation.
Which businesses use an AI receptionist for appointment scheduling?
Any business that lives by its appointment book. Lisa starts from the preset of your line of business: clinics and practices, salons and studios, restaurants, dealers and showrooms, home and field services, and consultants who meet by appointment. Each preset comes with its services, turns and texts in your market's words, ready to change by talking.
What does the AI leave to my staff?
Whatever your rules keep for people. A service marked subject to approval lands as a REQUEST for you to confirm or decline, and a caller who asks for a person is put through, announced first. At clinics, law firms and advisers the AI answers only from approved information and hands advice, diagnosis, legal or money questions to a person.
How much does an AI scheduling assistant cost?
As an AI scheduling assistant for small business, Zanus AI is priced per company, never per seat, so the whole desk shares one subscription however many people take bookings. You pick the modules your appointment book needs, such as phone, booking or chat, and the paid plans are listed on the pricing page. The free trial runs 7 days with no credit card.
How long does it take to set up appointment scheduling with AI?
In 2 minutes, by talking. Lisa, your AI assistant, reads your website, finds your locations and proposes the services, turns and texts of your line of business with a before and after view; you correct anything in natural language and say yes. Connect your work calendar, or run the book on its own from day one.
Can clients book visits at their own address?
Yes, for home and field services. The AI asks where the job is first, checks the postal codes you serve and keeps travel time between visits, so the day it builds can be driven. An address outside your area becomes a callback request instead of a booking.
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