Call handling service
Professional Call Handling Services For UK Businesses.
Trained receptionists who handle every call with the consistency and tone of your best front-desk team - at a fraction of the cost.
Trusted by 1,000+ UK SMEs · 4.4/5 on Trustpilot
- UK-based receptionists
- Answered during and after business hours
- GDPR-compliant
- 10+ years
Consistent quality
Every caller gets the same warm, professional greeting. No bad days, no missed handovers, no temp-cover gaps.
Lead qualification in-call
Your intake questions are asked and answered before the caller hangs up - no callback chasing.
Escalation rules you control
Urgent calls go to your mobile. Routine bookings drop into your calendar. Marketing enquiries route to your sales pipeline.
Transcripts + audit trail
Every call is recorded and searchable. Useful for training, dispute resolution, and continuous script improvement.
Per-call pricing
Pay for what gets answered. No retainers, no idle minutes.
CRM integrations
Bookings, contacts, and call notes write straight into Zoho, HubSpot, Salesforce, and others.
What we do
Call handling goes beyond message-taking. Our team qualifies leads, runs intake scripts, books appointments, and escalates urgent calls to the right person - all with full call transcripts and a real-time activity feed in your phone or browser.
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Call Handling Built Around Your Process
We map the different reasons people call your business and agree what should happen in each situation. A new sales enquiry can follow a qualification flow, an existing customer can be routed to support, and an urgent operational call can be escalated to the right person. Receptionists have the relevant instructions in front of them throughout the conversation.
- Different flows for sales, service, and existing customers
- Conditional questions based on the caller’s answers
- Department, branch, or individual routing
- Approved responses for common enquiries
Consistent Handling Across Every Call
Call instructions are stored centrally rather than relying on one person’s memory. Updates to your greeting, availability, qualifying criteria, or escalation contacts can be reflected across the team, helping callers receive a consistent experience during busy periods, staff absence, and changes in your business.
How it works
How our UK answering service works
Three steps. Set up within 24-48 hours. Calls answered during and after business hours.
- 1
Forward your calls
Two-minute setup. Forward all calls or only when you’re busy / out of hours.
2 min setup - 2
We answer in your company name
Trained UK receptionists pick up using your script. Qualify, book, escalate.
UK-based team - 3
You get the work
Bookings dropped into your calendar. Messages and lead details by SMS + email instantly.
Instant delivery
Frequently asked questions
With our call packages, you’re always in complete control. You can manage where and how your calls are answered at any time, whether you just want your calls answered while you’re busy or on holiday, or you want us to take all your calls. Your Pocket Receptionist team can transfer important calls to you or your colleagues, take messages, answer customer queries, take payments and even schedule meetings. Overflowing calls to your Pocket Receptionist team will allow you or your team to spend their time focused on what’s important, and you can be assured that your calls are being handled by a professional UK-based team.
Using Pocket Receptionist’s out of hours call handling services allows your business to stay open longer, ensuring more calls are answered and more opportunities are taken. Unlike automated answering machines and AI receptionists, our call handling services mean your callers always speak to a human, whether that’s evenings, weekends, or during peak periods.
We offer a range of pricing options allowing you to choose a package that’s right for your business size and budget. Our prices start from as little as £70 per month with our starter package, which is perfect for small businesses in need of out of hours call handling or larger businesses that need pesky spam calls handled. Our most extensive package includes 300 monthly calls and is designed to provide call handling to those businesses with high, constant call volume.
Yes. All of our receptionists are based in the UK and we’ll never outsource your call handling to overseas call centres.
You’ll be able to customise our services through the helpful Pocket Receptionist app. This means you can turn our services on out of hours or when staff are busy and handle calls internally when staff are available. Alternatively, you can leave Pocket Receptionist to handle all of your inbound calls, receiving updates by text, email or through the app.
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- UK-based receptionists
- GDPR-compliant
- 7-day free trial
- Cancel any time