
Virtual Receptionist for Training Providers and RTOs
Course questions, answered at 9pm.
Frontly answers dates, locations and entry questions from the course info you approve.
The short answer
What is Frontly's virtual receptionist for training providers?
Frontly is an AI virtual receptionist and answering service for Australian training providers, RTOs, short-course businesses and private colleges. It answers course, intake-date and eligibility questions 24/7 from the course information you approve, books advice calls and info sessions, takes messages for admissions, and runs follow-up campaigns over the enquiry list you load.
THE PROBLEM
An Enquiry 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, in a US sales study. A course enquiry 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 enquiry at all. A pre-enrolment question deserves an answer before the person starts comparing providers.
Source: Harvard Business Review, 2011 (US)
24/7
answering, public holidays included, so an evening or weekend question about dates, entry requirements or enrolment gets an answer instead of voicemail.
HEAR IT FOR YOURSELF
Your AI Receptionist Is Ready to Take a Course Enquiry
Call our AI agent right now. It answers a course question and books an advice call the way it would for your training organisation. No signup required.
Test Call
Talk to the AI agent right now from your browser. Hear exactly how Frontly will sound for your business.
HOW IT WORKS
Live in About an Hour. No Disruption to Your Admissions Team.
Connect Your Phone
Forward your existing enquiry line or use a dedicated AI number. No hardware changes, and your admissions team keeps answering when they can.
We Help Set Up Your First Workflow
Our team helps set up your first workflow around your courses, intake dates, entry requirements and the course information you approve for the AI to use.
Go Live
Frontly answers every enquiry from your approved information, books advice calls and info sessions, and passes anything else to your admissions team.
WHAT FRONTLY HANDLES
Every Course Enquiry Call, Handled
From a late-night question about the next intake to a call-back after a web enquiry, this virtual receptionist for training providers answers from the course information you approve and hands the rest to your team. Flat monthly rate, every call captured in your Frontly dashboard.
Course and intake-date questions
Answers dates, locations, delivery mode 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 judgement to an adviser.
Enrolment call-backs
Takes the caller's name, course of interest and best time, then books a call-back with an adviser or transfers the call while your team is in.
After-hours enquiries
Answers evening and weekend calls, so a prospective student gets a response now and your team opens the day with the enquiry and its transcript.
Info sessions and advice calls
Books course-advice calls, campus visits and info sessions into your diary, and notifies the adviser by email or SMS 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 trainer or student support you choose.
OUTBOUND CAMPAIGNS
Outbound Campaigns Over Your Enquiry and Student 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 course promotion goes only to your opted-in list.
Enquiry follow-up campaign
Load your list of people who enquired and Frontly calls each one, answers their questions from your approved information, and books an advice call or info session for those who want one.
Intake reminder campaign
Before a start date, Frontly calls every enrolled student on your list to confirm they are coming, and flags anyone who cannot attend so your team can follow up.
Course promotion to your opted-in list
Frontly rings only the contacts on your opted-in list about an upcoming intake, answers their questions and books the next step for anyone interested.
Campaign results tracking
Every campaign you run over a list reports its own outcomes, so you see advice calls booked versus questions answered per campaign and which brings real enrolments.
Visual Workflow Builder
Script Your Enquiry Line Without Code
Your First Workflow, Built With You
Our team helps set up your first workflow around your courses, intakes and entry requirements: exactly what the AI asks and answers before it books an advice 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 adviser, so every answer is one you signed off.
Rules for Every Kind of Call
Route a new enquiry to admissions, a current student to student support, and an info-session booking straight into the diary, each on its own path.
Change It Yourself
Update intake dates, course details and entry requirements any time in the visual builder, without waiting on us.
Branch by Course or Campaign
Give short courses, qualifications and international enquiries 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 recognised the moment they ring
- The course they asked about last time recalled automatically
- No asking an enquirer to repeat their name and course of interest
- Full call history on every caller before your adviser picks up
Frontly Dashboard
Every Enquiry Captured Before Your Advisers Log On
Every Enquiry in One Place
Name, number, course of interest and best time to call arrive already captured, so an adviser starts the day with a ready list.
Full Transcript on Every Call
Read exactly what the caller asked, including funding and entry questions, before your adviser calls back.
Summaries Sent to Your Phone
Email or SMS the enquiry to the right adviser the moment the call ends.
Outcomes You Can Count
Every call ends with a labelled 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 Enquiry and Fill Every Intake
Follow-Up Campaigns at Scale
Frontly calls the whole list of people who enquired, so no enquiry waits for an adviser to find a free hour.
Reminders Before the Start Date
Call enrolled students ahead of an intake and catch the ones who will not be there, while you can still fill the seat.
Same Builder, No New Tool
Script each campaign in the same visual builder you used for inbound calls.
See What Landed
Track bookings against questions for each campaign, so you know which list or follow-up to run again.
INTEGRATIONS
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.
Training and education
Team messaging
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.
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 training provider?
An answering service takes a message after hours, and the prospective student has often enrolled elsewhere by morning. An AI receptionist answers course, intake-date and eligibility questions from information you approve, books an advice call or info session, and calls every enquiry back. Your admissions team keeps the decisions.
Where a staffed answering service still wins
Enrolment advice is a considered conversation. A prospective student unsure about a career change, or a parent weighing fees and pathways, often wants an adviser who listens and tailors the answer. Advisers also judge eligibility and funding questions that carry compliance weight, which is why Frontly hands those to your team.
Where Frontly wins
Most enquiries are course dates, duration, delivery mode and how to apply. Frontly answers those at any hour, books the next step, and rings back every enquiry, 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 Frontly against a human receptionist.
Bigger organisation?
National RTOs, universities and multi-campus colleges
Enterprise builds voice experiences to measure, connected to your own student and enquiry systems during the call. Own-cloud or on-premise deployment, SLA-backed uptime and a dedicated account manager.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. Frontly answers course, intake-date, location and entry-requirement questions 24/7, using only the course information you approve. It books advice 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 call-back 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. Under the 2025 provider standards, a training provider stays responsible for what is said on its behalf. You can read every transcript and change any answer in the visual builder. Check your own compliance obligations with your adviser.
Yes. Load the list of people who enquired and Frontly calls each one, answers their questions from your approved information and books an advice call or info session. Numbers that do not answer are retried, and every outcome is logged. Do Not Call Register screening and legal calling windows are built into outbound calling on every plan.
Yes, to your opted-in list only. Course promotion calls count as telemarketing, so Frontly runs them only over contacts who agreed to hear from you. An enquiry gives consent to be called about it for a limited time, usually three months, so treat older enquiries as promotion. Intake reminders to enrolled students are separate, and Do Not Call Register screening is built into every campaign.
A student management system's assistant mostly answers inside that platform. The calls admissions care about are the 8pm phone enquiry and the enquiry nobody followed up. Frontly answers those calls, runs follow-up campaigns over the lists you load, warm-transfers to admissions, reports outcomes per campaign, speaks more than 40 languages, and comes with a first workflow set up with you.
VETtrak is listed on our integrations page as Requires vendor approval, so the software company approves the connection first. We make no promise that enquiries are written back into your student records. Your admissions team still sees every enquiry, with the course of interest and transcript, in your Frontly dashboard, and the AI answers in about an hour.
Yes. Frontly's outcome analytics and campaign reporting show what happened on each campaign you run: questions answered, advice 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. A prospective international student can ask about entry requirements or intake dates in Mandarin, Hindi, Vietnamese, Spanish or more than 40 languages in all, and Frontly answers in that language from your approved course information. Your admissions team reads the transcript in the dashboard.
No. Frontly handles the enquiry and the booking: it answers questions from your approved information, books the advice call or info session, and passes the caller to your team. Your admissions staff and student management system run the enrolment, the USI and the assessment, as they do now.
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