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Event Venue Virtual Receptionist and Answering Service

First venue to reply wins.

Frontly answers every enquiry call, takes the details and books the site visit.

Help with your first workflowFlat monthly rateNo commitment beyond your planAustralian-built

The short answer

What is Frontly's event venue virtual receptionist?

Frontly is an AI receptionist and answering service for Australian event, wedding and function venues. It answers every enquiry call 24/7, including during live events, captures the date, guest numbers and budget, books site visits, and answers capacity and minimum-spend questions from your own venue information. It also phones organisers to confirm final numbers and dietaries before your cut-off.

THE PROBLEM

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

120,844

marriages were registered in Australia in 2024. Each couple compares venues, and the enquiry call that goes unanswered while your team runs a function is the one that goes to the next venue.

Source: ABS Marriages and Divorces, 2024

1 in 5

registered attendees do not turn up, according to a global study of more than 1,070 live events. A figure from outside Australia, but it is why confirming numbers by call matters.

Source: PheedLoop Event Data Lab, Report 5 (global)

32%

median no-show rate at small events of 10 to 49 attendees in the same global study. Your caterer works to final numbers, so every empty seat is food and labour already paid for.

Source: PheedLoop Event Data Lab, Report 5 (global)

HEAR IT FOR YOURSELF

Your AI Receptionist Is Ready to Take an Enquiry

Call our AI agent right now. It handles a venue enquiry and a site-visit booking the way it would for your venue. No signup required.

Test Call

Talk to the AI agent right now from your browser. Hear exactly how Frontly will sound for your business.

Hear a real AI agent handle a typical inbound callNo signup, no card, no waiting on a sales rep

HOW IT WORKS

Live in About an Hour. No Disruption to Your Events.

1

Connect Your Phone

Forward your existing venue line or use a dedicated AI number. No hardware changes, and your team keeps answering when they can.

2

We Help Set Up Your First Workflow

Our team helps set up your first workflow around your spaces, capacities, packages, minimum spends and site-visit times.

3

Go Live

Frontly answers every enquiry, books site visits, takes messages for your coordinators, and phones organisers to confirm numbers.

WHAT FRONTLY HANDLES

Every Venue Call, Handled

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

New enquiries

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

Site-visit bookings

Offers the inspection 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 minimum spend

Answers capacity by layout, hours, curfew, BYO and minimum-spend questions from the venue information you provide. Anything you want a person to quote goes to your team.

Existing clients

Takes guest-number changes, dietary updates and run-sheet questions from couples and organisers, 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 duty manager.

Supplier calls

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

OUTBOUND CAMPAIGNS

Outbound Campaigns Over Your Enquiry and Guest Lists

Load a list and Frontly works through it, retrying unanswered numbers and logging every outcome. Do Not Call Register screening and legal calling windows are built in, and promotional calls go only to your opted-in list.

Web enquiry call-back campaign

Load your list of new web and directory enquiries and Frontly works through it, calling each one, qualifying it and booking the site visit, so no enquiry goes cold.

Final numbers and dietaries campaign

Before your cut-off, Frontly calls each organiser or couple to confirm final guest numbers and dietaries, and sends the counts to your event team.

RSVP and dietary campaign

For corporate and gala events, Frontly rings your guest list to confirm attendance, dietary and accessibility needs, and reports the totals per event.

Quote follow-up campaign

Frontly calls the enquiries still deciding after a proposal, asks where they are up to, logs the reason and books a second site visit for anyone keen.

Annual events campaign

Ahead of Christmas parties and annual conferences, Frontly rings your opted-in list of past clients, answers questions and books anyone ready to rebook.

Visual Workflow Builder

Script Your Venue Enquiries Without Code

1

Your First Workflow, Built With You

Our team helps set up your first workflow around your spaces, capacities and packages: exactly what the AI asks before it books a site visit.

2

Rules for Every Kind of Call

Send a new wedding enquiry to your sales manager, a supplier to the coordinator, and a site-visit request straight into the calendar, each on its own path.

3

Venue Answers You Control

Write the answers for capacity, curfew, BYO and minimum spend once. Decide which questions go to a person for a quote.

4

Change It Yourself

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

5

Branch by Event Status

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

Cross-Call Memory

Your AI Remembers Every Enquiry

  • Returning enquirers recognised the moment they call back
  • Earlier dates, guest numbers and questions recalled automatically
  • No asking a couple to repeat their wedding date and budget
  • Full call history on every caller before your team picks up

Frontly Dashboard

Every Enquiry Captured While Your Team Runs the Event

1

Every Enquiry in One Place

Enquiries arrive with the event type, date, guest numbers and contact details already captured, so sales can reply the moment they are free.

2

Full Transcript on Every Call

Read exactly what the caller asked for, including dietaries and special requests, before the site visit.

3

Summaries Sent to Your Phone

Email or SMS the enquiry or message to your sales manager the moment the call ends.

4

Outcomes You Can Count

Every call ends with a labelled outcome, so you see enquiries, site visits booked and messages taken.

5

Live Status Across the Venue

See what came in during the event on one screen, and which calls were put through to staff.

Outbound Campaign Manager

Win Enquiries and Lock In Numbers With Campaigns

1

Enquiry Call-Back Campaigns

Load your list of new enquiries and Frontly works through it, so every enquiry gets a call without waiting for a coordinator to be free.

2

Final Numbers Without the Chase

Frontly rings your organisers and guests before the cut-off, so your coordinators stop chasing by phone.

3

Same Builder, No New Tool

Script each campaign in the same visual builder you used for inbound calls.

4

See What Landed

Track which campaigns booked site visits, confirmed numbers and collected dietaries, so you know which to run again.

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.

Integration allowances vary by plan. See Pricing for what's included.

View all integrations

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?

An answering service takes a message while your team runs an event, and the enquirer rings the next venue. An AI receptionist answers during the function, captures the date, guest numbers 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 phones organisers to confirm final numbers and dietaries before your cut-off.

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 Frontly against a human receptionist.

Bigger organisation?

Venue groups and large events

Enterprise builds voice experiences to measure, such as voice event registration for large events, connected to your group's own systems during the call. Own-cloud or on-premise deployment, SLA-backed uptime and a dedicated account manager.

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FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

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

Yes. Frontly offers the inspection times you set and books the visit into your sales team's calendar during the call, with the caller's details and a transcript attached. Frontly connects to Google Calendar and Microsoft 365, and both are listed as Available on this page.

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

Yes. Frontly answers from the venue information you give it: capacity by layout, hours, curfew, BYO, parking, accessibility and minimum spend. You decide which questions it answers itself, and which, such as a custom quote, go to your sales manager.

Frontly connects to the software listed on this page, each marked Available or Requires vendor approval. For your own venue management system, we scope a custom connection with you and quote it separately. Until it is built, every enquiry, site visit and message lands in your Frontly dashboard, and your AI is answering in about an hour.

Yes. Run a final numbers campaign and Frontly calls each organiser 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 rings each guest to confirm attendance, dietary and accessibility needs, then reports the totals for that event. For very large events, Enterprise builds voice event registration to measure for your organisation.

Explore Frontly Enterprise

Venue software add-ons mostly answer inside one system. A venue's phone work is wider: chasing final numbers, following up quiet proposals, putting a supplier through to the duty manager. Frontly runs those campaigns over the lists you load, warm-transfers to your staff, reports outcomes across every call, speaks more than 40 languages, and comes with a first workflow set up with you.

Yes. A quote follow-up campaign calls the enquiries still deciding, asks where they are up to, logs the reason and books a second site visit for anyone keen. Your sales team sees which proposals are live and which were lost, and why.

Yes. Destination couples and overseas planners can call in their own language, from Mandarin and Hindi to Arabic and Vietnamese, more than 40 in all with coverage varying by language. Frontly answers in it, captures the date and guest numbers, and your team reads the transcript in the dashboard.

Yes. Final-numbers and RSVP calls go to organisers and guests already booked with you, and an annual events campaign to past clients goes only to those who opted in. Every number is screened against the Do Not Call Register and called within legal calling windows, on every plan.

Ready to Answer Every Enquiry, Even During an Event?

Set up your AI venue receptionist in about an hour. No commitment beyond the plan you pick. Flat monthly rate.

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