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Event Venue Virtual Receptionist and Answering Service

First venue to reply wins.

Frontly answers every inquiry call, takes the details and books the venue tour.

Ready-made workflow for your industryAnswers every inquiryBooks venue toursOver 40 languages

HEAR IT FOR YOURSELF

Hear it book a venue tour now

Call our AI agent right now. It handles a venue inquiry and a tour booking the way it would for your venue. No signup required.

It runs in your browser. Nothing to install, no number to give us.No signup, no card, no waiting on a sales rep.Interrupt it, change your mind, ask for a human. It is the live agent, not a recording.
Sample call
A call like the one you are about to make
  1. Frontly

    Thanks for calling. Are you planning a wedding or another kind of event?

  2. Caller

    A wedding. We're looking at a Saturday next October, around 120 guests.

  3. Frontly

    Lovely. Our main hall seats up to 150, and fall Saturdays book up about a year ahead. Would you like to come and see it?

  4. Caller

    Yes, this Sunday if you have anything. I'm Will.

  5. Frontly

    Thanks Will. I have Sunday at 10 or 11 in the morning.

  6. Caller

    Eleven works. Best number is 512-555-0148.

  7. Frontly

    You're booked for a venue tour Sunday at 11 with our events team, and I have 512-555-0148. See you then.

Captured in your dashboard
Name
Will
Type
Venue tour, wedding for 120
Time
Sunday, 11:00 AM
Escalated
No
Frontly

Thanks for calling, Will. Take care. Goodbye.

Your script, your appointment types and your escalation rules are yours to set in the visual builder.

The short answer

What is Frontly's event venue virtual receptionist?

Frontly is an AI virtual receptionist and answering service for event, wedding and private event venues. It answers every inquiry call 24/7, including during live events, captures the date, guest count and budget, books venue tours, and answers capacity and minimum-spend questions from your own venue information. It also calls organizers to confirm final headcounts and dietary needs before your cutoff, in more than 40 languages.

THE PROBLEM

Every Inquiry Is Worth a Booking, and Nobody Is Free to Answer

21x

better odds of qualifying an inquiry when you respond within 5 minutes rather than 30. Couples compare venues fast, and the venue that answers first gets the tour.

Source: MIT / InsideSales Lead Response Study, 2007

23%

of 2,241 US companies audited never replied to a web inquiry at all. A venue that answers every call, even mid-event, stands out from the first ring.

Source: Harvard Business Review, 2011 (US)

Mid-event.

Your busiest night is when the phone rings most. Frontly answers while your team runs the floor, so next season's booking never waits for tonight's last dance.

HOW IT WORKS

No Disruption to Your Events.

1

A New Number, or Your Own

Take a new local number from Frontly, or forward the venue line your couples already call. No hardware changes, and your team keeps answering when they can.

2

Customize Your Industry Workflow

Start from the prebuilt receptionist workflow and add your spaces, capacities, packages, minimums and tour times in the visual builder, then test it before going live.

3

Go Live

Frontly answers every inquiry, books venue tours, takes messages for your coordinators, and calls organizers to confirm headcounts.

WHAT FRONTLY HANDLES

Every Venue Call, Handled

From a couple asking about a Saturday next fall to a florist running late on the day, this event venue virtual receptionist answers the calls your team can't get to. Every call captured in your Frontly dashboard.

New inquiries

Captures the event type, date options, guest count, budget and contact details, then sends your sales manager the summary so the first reply is already done.

Venue tour bookings

Offers the tour times you set and books the visit into your sales team's calendar during the call, with the caller's details attached.

Availability, capacity and minimums

Answers capacity by layout, hours, end times, outside catering and food and beverage minimum questions from the venue information you provide. Anything you want a person to quote goes to your team.

Booked clients

Takes headcount changes, dietary updates and timeline questions from couples and organizers, and passes them to the right coordinator.

Event-day calls

Gives directions and parking, takes late-arrival and lost-property calls, and puts urgent calls straight through to the manager on duty.

Vendor calls

Takes messages from florists, bands, AV crews and caterers, and hands the ones that cannot wait to whoever is running the event.

Visual Workflow Builder

Script Your Venue Inquiries Without Code

1

Start With a Workflow for Your Industry

Start from a prebuilt receptionist workflow. You add your spaces, capacities and packages, and choose exactly what the AI asks before it books a venue tour.

2

Rules for Every Kind of Call

Send a new wedding inquiry to your sales manager, a vendor to the coordinator, and a tour request straight into the calendar, each on its own path.

3

Venue Answers You Control

Write the answers for capacity, end times, outside catering and minimums once. Decide which questions go to a person for a quote.

4

Change It Yourself

Update packages, open dates and tour times any time in the visual builder, without waiting on us.

5

Branch by Event Status

Treat a new inquiry, a booked client and an event-day call differently, so each caller gets the right path.

Deploying Frontly into your own cloud is an enterprise capability, scoped with our team. See enterprise

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INTEGRATIONS

Works with the software event venues already runs on

Connect your AI receptionist to the software your team already uses, so Frontly can check availability, manage bookings and capture caller details as part of your reception workflow.

Integrations support Frontly's reception and caller follow-up workflows. Available actions depend on the connected software and your setup.

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Not on the list, or need a specific workflow? Tell us what you use and what you'd like Frontly to handle. We'll check what's possible.

ANSWERING SERVICE OR AI

Answering service or AI receptionist for an event or wedding venue?

Many answering services take a message while your team runs an event, and the inquirer calls the next venue. An AI receptionist answers during the event, captures the date, guest count and budget, and books the site visit. For a venue, the first reply often wins the booking, and the phone rings loudest on event days.

Where a staffed answering service still wins

A wedding is emotional, and couples often want to talk through their day with a person who has run hundreds of them. An experienced venue coordinator reads a hesitant couple, picks the right moment to invite them in, and negotiates a package with nuance. That conversation belongs with your team, and Frontly books the site visit to get them there.

Where Frontly wins

The first call is usually the same few questions: is the date free, how many guests fit, what is the minimum spend. Frontly answers from your own venue information at any hour, books site visits, and calls organizers to confirm final counts and dietary needs before your cutoff.

Most businesses end up running one or the other rather than both. If you are weighing it up properly, the full cost and capability breakdown is in AI or human receptionist: which fits.

Stored and hosted in your region: US, EU, UK
Encrypted in transit and at rest
Enterprise: deploy in your own cloud or on-prem

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. With a wedding running in the ballroom, a couple calling about next fall still gets an answer, because Frontly picks up every inquiry while your coordinators are on the floor. It captures the event type, date, guest count and budget, and sends your sales manager the summary to follow up after the event.

Yes. Frontly offers the tour times you set and books the visit during the call, with the caller's details and a transcript attached. Connect Google Calendar or Microsoft 365 and the tour lands in your sales team's calendar; every booking also appears in your Frontly dashboard.

As fast as you can, because couples and planners often compare several venues at once. Frontly answers every inquiry call as it comes in, and an inquiry callback campaign works through the list of web inquiries you load, so each new lead gets a real conversation with your venue.

Yes. Frontly answers from the venue information you give it: capacity by layout, hours, end times, outside catering, parking, accessibility and food and beverage minimums. You decide which questions it answers itself, and which, such as a custom quote, go to your sales manager.

Frontly connects to Google Calendar and Microsoft 365 for tour bookings. For your venue management system, tell us what you use and we will check it for you. Nothing waits on that step, because every inquiry, tour and message lands in your Frontly dashboard from the first call.

Yes. Run a final headcount campaign and Frontly calls each organizer or couple, confirms guest numbers and collects dietary needs, then sends the counts to your event team. Late replies are retried and every outcome is logged, so your coordinators spend their time on the event instead of chasing.

Yes. Load the guest list and Frontly calls each guest to confirm attendance, dietary and accessibility needs, then reports the totals for that event. For very large events, Frontly Enterprise builds voice event registration to measure for your organization.

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Venue software add-ons mostly answer inside one system. A venue's phone work is wider: chasing final headcounts, following up quiet proposals, putting a vendor through to the manager on duty. Frontly runs those campaigns over the lists you load, hands calls to your staff, reports outcomes across every call, speaks more than 40 languages, and starts from a prebuilt receptionist workflow you customize in the visual builder.

Yes. A proposal follow-up campaign calls the couples and planners still deciding, asks where they are at, logs the reason and books a second venue tour for anyone keen. Your sales team sees which proposals are live and which were lost, and why.

Yes. Frontly can hand the call to the coordinator or sales manager you choose, with a short spoken briefing first so the caller never repeats their date, headcount or budget. Each transfer can try a preferred number and then a backup cell. During a live event, when nobody can pick up, Frontly takes a message and sends it to your team by email or text.

Frontly tells the caller your team will follow up rather than inventing an answer, so nobody is quoted a capacity, a package or a price you have not given it. It takes the question as a message, or transfers the call if you prefer, and you can add the answer in the visual builder.

They can. You choose how Frontly introduces itself, for example as your venue's AI receptionist, and it never pretends to be a person. What couples notice most is that the phone is answered straight away, their questions get real answers and the tour is booked before they call the next venue.

Yes. Each Frontly agent speaks the language you set, so destination couples and international planners can call a dedicated line in Spanish, Mandarin or Hindi, out of more than 40 languages with coverage varying by language. Frontly captures the date and guest count, and your team reads the transcript in the dashboard.

Yes. Headcount and RSVP calls go to organizers and guests already booked with you, about their event, and a holiday-party campaign to past clients goes only to those who opted in. Every campaign checks your Do Not Call list, reads the required disclosure statements and calls only within the hours the law allows.

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Every inquiry answered and every venue tour booked, even while the event runs.

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