What is an AI receptionist for schools?
It is one AI that answers your school's phone, website chat, e-mail and inquiry forms, day and night, from the information you approved. Zanus AI tells families and students about your programs, ages, lessons and enrollment steps, books tours, driving lessons and trial lessons into the right calendar, writes every conversation on the student's record and follows up until they reply. Questions that need a person go to the staff member you choose.
Can it book campus tours and open-house visits?
Yes. Tours, shadow days and information meetings are booked into each person's or room's own calendar by phone, chat and form. Families get a confirmation and a reminder, and AI Auto-Call can phone them the day before: a yes confirms the visit and a no frees the time for another family.
Can a driving school use it to book lessons with each instructor?
Yes. Each instructor, and each car if you wish, has a calendar, and the AI books behind-the-wheel lessons into the right one by phone, chat and form, with the pick-up point written on the student's record. Students, and the parents of teen drivers, get a confirmation and a reminder call the day before: a yes confirms the lesson, a no frees the slot for another student.
Does it handle a music school's trial lessons and instrument rentals?
Yes. Trial lessons go into the right teacher's or room's calendar by phone, chat and form, and the rental instruments you list can be held for a student on the date you agree. Lesson packages are quoted from your own price list and wait for your yes, gift cards for lessons are offered on every channel, and each parent's question lands on the student's record.
How does it follow up with families and students who go quiet?
Every inquiry can start a follow-up written in your school's words: a thank-you, the details they asked about, an invitation to tour, to the next open house or to a first lesson. It stops the moment they reply, so nobody is reminded after answering, and your office can see who replied and who still needs a personal call.
Does it replace our admissions office or front office staff?
No. It takes the repeat questions, the calls that arrive during drop-off, classes and road lessons, and the evenings and weekends, so your people can give their time to the families touring the campus and the students in front of them. Each department chooses whether the AI answers alone, answers first, or passes every call to a person first.
Which languages does it speak with parents and students?
Each caller's own. The phone answers in the caller's language, the website chat talks with families in 40 languages by text or by voice, and a call can be transferred to the staff member who speaks it. International and bilingual families, and adult students new to the country, get the same answers about your programs as everyone else.
Can it answer questions about tuition, lesson prices and financial aid?
It answers only from what your school approved, so it can say where tuition information is published, explain the steps to apply for aid and give the dates that matter. Driving and music lesson packages can be quoted from your own price list, and each quote waits for your yes. It takes no payments and makes no aid decisions; those requests go to your business office.
What happens when a parent calls about a safety concern or an emergency?
Your school writes an always-say rule for it. A caller who describes an emergency is told, in your approved words, to hang up and call emergency services, and the matter is passed to the person you name. Concerns about a child's safety, health or custody are not handled by the AI alone; they are written down in full for your staff.
Can our teachers, instructors and office staff ask it questions too?
Yes. The team assistant answers your staff only from your own documents, such as the handbook, the school calendar and the cancellation policy, and shows the source of every answer. When someone at the desk takes a call, the answer appears on screen while they talk, new staff learn from courses you write by talking, and the AI File Cabinet files every enrollment document.
How much does an AI receptionist for schools cost?
Zanus AI is priced per company, never per seat, so every teacher, instructor, coordinator and office assistant works under one subscription. You choose the modules your school needs, and the plans are listed on the pricing page. Before you choose, you can run the whole front office on your own school's website at no cost.
How is family and student information looked after?
You set the rules for it. Call recording is off as shipped, each department receives only its own transcripts, and staff see only the departments they are given. The AI answers only from what you approved and says nothing outside it. Whether your set-up meets your own privacy obligations is decided by your school and its advisors.
What is the difference between the 7-day free trial and the demo?
The free trial builds a private sandbox from your own school's website for 7 days, with a phone line that answers as your school, and needs no card. The demo shows the AI front office ready-made, with nothing to set up, and arrives by e-mail in about 2 minutes. Watch the demo in a free moment; start the trial when you want to hear your own school answer.
