
Education Answering Service and Virtual Receptionist
Course questions, answered at 9pm.
Frontly answers dates, locations and entry questions from the course info you approve.
HEAR IT FOR YOURSELF
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Call our AI agent right now. It answers a course question and books an advising call the way it would for your school. No signup required.
- Frontly
Thanks for calling admissions. Which course are you interested in?
- Caller
The medical assistant certificate. When does the next one start?
- Frontly
The next cohort starts on the first Monday of February and runs about six months, plus an externship.
- Caller
And what does it cost?
- Frontly
I don't have tuition details here, but an advisor can go through cost and payment options with you. Shall I book a call?
- Caller
Yes, Wednesday after 5 if possible. I'm Linda, my cell is 614-555-0187.
- Frontly
You're booked for an advising call Wednesday at 5:15 PM, Linda, and I have 614-555-0187.
- Name
- Linda
- Type
- Advising call, medical assistant certificate
- Time
- Wednesday, 5:15 PM
- Escalated
- No
Thanks for calling, Linda. 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 education answering service?
Frontly is an AI education answering service and virtual receptionist for training providers, trade schools, career colleges and short-course businesses. It answers course, start-date and eligibility questions 24/7 from the course information you approve, books advising calls and info sessions, takes messages for admissions and calls back every inquiry on the list you load, in more than 40 languages.
THE PROBLEM
An Inquiry Is Warmest in the First Few Minutes
21x
better odds of qualifying a lead when the first contact comes within 5 minutes rather than 30. A course inquiry left until the next business day waits far longer.
Source: MIT / InsideSales Lead Response Study, 2007
23%
of 2,241 US companies audited never replied to a web inquiry at all. A prospective student deserves an answer before they start comparing schools.
Source: Harvard Business Review, 2011 (US)
24/7
answering, holidays included, so an evening or weekend question about start dates, entry requirements or enrollment gets an answer instead of voicemail.
HOW IT WORKS
No Disruption to Your Admissions Team.
A New Number, or Your Own
Take a new local number from Frontly, or forward the admissions line your students already call. No hardware changes, and your admissions team keeps answering when they can.
Customize Your Industry Workflow
Start from the prebuilt receptionist workflow and customize it in the visual builder. Add your courses, start dates, entry requirements and the course information you approve for the AI to use, then test it before going live.
Go Live
Frontly answers every inquiry from your approved information, books advising calls and info sessions, and passes anything else to your admissions team.
WHAT FRONTLY HANDLES
Every Course Inquiry Call, Handled
From a late-night question about the next start date to a callback after a web inquiry, this virtual receptionist for training providers answers from the course information you approve and hands the rest to your team. Every call captured in your Frontly dashboard.
Course and start-date questions
Answers dates, locations, delivery format and duration from the course information you approve. If the answer isn't in it, Frontly takes a message instead of guessing.
Eligibility and entry questions
Answers entry requirements and eligibility questions using only the criteria you write, and passes anything that needs a judgment call to an advisor.
Enrollment callbacks
Takes the caller's name, course of interest and best time, then books a callback with an advisor or transfers the call while your team is in.
After-hours inquiries
Answers evening and weekend calls, so a prospective student gets a response now and your team opens the day with the inquiry and its transcript.
Info sessions and advising calls
Books advising calls, campus tours and info sessions into your calendar, and notifies the advisor by email or text as soon as the call ends.
Current-student messages
Takes messages from enrolled students about classes, assessments and absences, and routes each one to the instructor or student services team you choose.
Visual Workflow Builder
Script Your Admissions Line Without Code
Start With a Workflow for Your Industry
Customize the prebuilt workflow in the visual builder. Add your courses, start dates and entry requirements to set exactly what the AI asks and answers before it books an advising call.
Answers From Information You Approve
Write the course answers once. Frontly answers only from them, and anything outside goes to a message or an advisor, so every answer is one you signed off.
Rules for Every Kind of Call
Route a new inquiry to admissions, a current student to student services, and an info-session booking straight into the calendar, each on its own path.
Change It Yourself
Update start dates, course details and entry requirements any time in the visual builder, without waiting on us.
Branch by Course or Campaign
Give short courses, certificate programs and international inquiries their own paths, so each caller hears answers for the course they asked about.
Cross-Call Memory
Your AI Remembers Every Prospective Student
- Returning callers recognized the moment they call
- The course they asked about last time recalled automatically
- No asking a prospect to repeat their name and course of interest
- Full call history on every caller before your advisor picks up
Frontly Dashboard
Every Inquiry Captured Before Your Advisors Log On
Every Inquiry in One Place
Name, number, course of interest and best time to call arrive already captured, so an advisor starts the day with a ready list.
Full Transcript on Every Call
Read exactly what the caller asked, including tuition and entry questions, before your advisor calls back.
Alerts Sent to Your Phone
Email or text the inquiry to the right advisor the moment the call ends.
Outcomes You Can Count
Every call ends with a labeled outcome, so you see questions answered, calls booked and messages taken.
Live Status Across the Team
See what came in overnight on one screen, and which calls were put through to admissions.
Outbound Campaign Manager
Follow Up Every Inquiry and Fill Every Class
Follow-Up Campaigns at Scale
Frontly calls the whole list of people who inquired, so no lead waits for an advisor to find a free hour.
Reminders Before the Start Date
Call enrolled students ahead of a start date and catch the ones who will not be there, while you can still fill the seat.
Calling Rules Built In
Every campaign checks your Do Not Call list, reads the required disclosure statements and calls only within the hours the law allows, and course promotion goes only to contacts who agreed to hear from you.
See What Landed
Track bookings against questions for each campaign, so you know which list or follow-up to run again.
Deploying Frontly into your own cloud is an enterprise capability, scoped with our team. See enterprise
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Works with the software training & education 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.
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 a school or training provider?
Many answering services take a message after hours, and the prospective student has often enrolled elsewhere by morning. An AI receptionist answers course, start-date and eligibility questions from information you approve, books an advising call or info session, and calls every inquiry back. Your admissions team keeps the decisions.
Where a staffed answering service still wins
Enrollment advice is a considered conversation. A prospective student unsure about a career change, or a parent weighing tuition and pathways, often wants an advisor who listens and tailors the answer. Advisors also judge eligibility and financial aid questions that carry compliance weight, which is why Frontly hands those to your team.
Where Frontly wins
Most inquiries are course dates, duration, delivery mode and how to apply. Frontly answers those at any hour, books the next step, and calls back every inquiry, so interest does not go cold while the office is closed.
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.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. Frontly answers course, start-date, location and entry-requirement questions 24/7, using only the course information you approve. It books advising calls and info sessions, and takes a message for admissions when a question needs a person. Every call lands in your Frontly dashboard with the full transcript.
Frontly doesn't guess. If the answer isn't in the information you approved, it says so, takes the caller's details and question, and either books a callback or transfers the call to admissions with a spoken briefing. You see the unanswered question in the dashboard and can add an approved answer.
You are, which is why Frontly answers only from the information you write and approve. Your school stays responsible for what is said on its behalf, so you can read every transcript and change any answer in the visual builder. Check your own compliance obligations with your advisor.
Yes. Load the list of people who inquired and Frontly calls each one, answers their questions from your approved information and books an advising call or info session. Numbers that do not answer are retried, and every outcome is logged, so no lead goes cold waiting for an advisor.
Yes, to your opted-in list only. Course promotion calls count as telemarketing, so load only contacts who agreed to hear from you. Start-date reminders to enrolled students are separate. Every campaign checks your Do Not Call list, reads the required disclosure statements and calls only within the hours the law allows.
A student information system's assistant mostly answers inside that platform. The calls admissions care about are the 8pm phone inquiry and the lead nobody followed up. Frontly answers those calls, runs follow-up campaigns over the lists you load, hands calls to admissions, reports outcomes per campaign, speaks more than 40 languages, and gives you a prebuilt receptionist workflow to customize.
Tell us which student information system or admissions CRM you use and we will check it for you. Some vendors approve the connection first. Nothing waits on that step. Your admissions team sees every inquiry, with the course of interest and transcript, in your Frontly dashboard from the first call.
Yes. Frontly's outcome analytics and campaign reporting show what happened on each campaign you run: questions answered, advising calls booked, messages taken and numbers that did not answer. You see bookings versus questions per campaign, and which ones are worth running again.
Yes. Each Frontly agent speaks the language you set, so a prospective international student can call a dedicated Spanish, Mandarin, Vietnamese or Hindi line, out of more than 40 languages, and ask about entry requirements or start dates. Frontly answers from your approved course information, and your admissions team reads the transcript in the dashboard.
They can. You choose how Frontly introduces itself, for example as your school's AI receptionist, and it never pretends to be a person. What prospective students notice most is a clear answer at 9pm and an advising call booked for a time that suits them.
No. Frontly handles the inquiry and the booking: it answers questions from your approved information, books the advising call or info session, and passes the caller to your team. Your admissions staff and student information system run enrollment, records and assessments, as they do now.
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