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Jann Mateo
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September 22, 2026

🚀 Your 24/7 front desk: the AI Receptionist webinar recording is live

  • September 22, 2026
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Madison Hall (Sr. Director, Customer Success) and Joe Fahrner (VP, AI Growth) walked through how an AI Receptionist answers calls, handles FAQs, captures leads, and books appointments around the clock. If you missed it, or want to rewatch the live setup demos, the full recording is below.

You'll get a live setup demos of what’s new, and answers to real customer questions.

🎬 Click Here to Watch the Full Webinar Recording

 

💡 What we covered

Speed to response is what wins the booking. AI Receptionist picks up every inbound call, answers routine questions, and books the caller on the spot without anyone stepping in.

Televero Health saw a 14% increase in monthly booked appointments and more than $200,000 in additional monthly revenue within four months of going live. 

 

🔥 What’s new: recent & upcoming feature updates 

New capabilities

How it works

Desktop app management

You can now manage AI Receptionist directly in the RingCentral desktop app. Everything stays in sync with the admin portal.

Voice and personality controls

Set the personality, level of detail, and pace AIR uses on every call. Learn more here.

Offer help before transfer skill

When a caller asks for a person, AI Receptionist asks what they need help with first before transferring. Your team gets context before the handoff, and more routine questions often get resolved automatically. Learn more here.

Leads notifications 

Get an email the moment AIR captures a lead, a daily or weekly digest, to up to 10 people. Learn more here.

Calendly integration

Calendly will soon join Google and Outlook calendars as a booking integration, so callers can book straight into the calendar your team already uses. 

Improved call routing

AI Receptionist will now ask multiple clarifying questions before routing, so fewer calls reach your team that don’t need to, and callers stop getting bounced around.

Spam detection

Set spam filtering to off, medium, or high. It uses RingCentral's network data to block bot calls before they eat into your usage minutes. Learn more here.

 

 

🛠️ Six quick tips to get more out of AI Receptionist

  1. Start number porting early. Moving your existing main number takes time, so kick it off while you're still designing call flows.
  2. Register for SMS compliance. If you plan to use text reminders or SMS scheduling links, register your business first. AIR SMS Registration Guide here.
  3. Check your CRM permissions. Salesforce, HubSpot, and Zoho all need read and write access for lead data to sync properly.
  4. Test before you go live. Place test calls from the desktop or admin portal using different scenarios to tune your AI Receptionist.
  5. Turn on spam detection. Medium or high filtering keeps telemarketers from burning your minute pool.
  6. Structure your knowledge base. One clear answer per topic, and keep each uploaded file under 10 MB.

 

🤝 Resources

 

Setting up an AI Receptionist, or found a use case worth sharing? Tell us in the comments below! 👇

 

21 replies

Jann Mateo
Community Manager
Community Manager
September 24, 2026

Syd

Q: I am a CPA tax office and love the new bifurcation track between new clients and existing clients. Are 2 different Calendly options available to book appointments differently for those 2 types of clients?

A: Yes. If you have the two separate event types (e.g., "New client" / "Existing client") set up in Calendly, you can enable both in the appointment booking skill, and AIR books whichever matches what the caller says.

 

Jann Mateo
Community Manager
Community Manager
September 24, 2026

Darshi

Q: When will the MCP be released?

A: You can now bring RingEX into your preferred LLMs. ChatGPT and Claude can now tap RingEX as an intelligence layer for conversation data and interaction context, with the secure governance your business expects. Learn more here.

 

Jann Mateo
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Community Manager
September 24, 2026

Denzell

Q: Is there a way of removing the Operator or Receptionist feature and add "agent" ?

A: Yes. You can set a custom title, such as “assistant” and “support team,” for who AIR transfers callers to, so callers hear a title that matches how the business refers to its team. Learn more here.

 

Jann Mateo
Community Manager
Community Manager
September 24, 2026

Todd

Q: is this for desk phones or just the RC app?

A: AIR works on your business number directly, built into your existing RingCentral phone system (or any third-party/on-prem system. Any desk phone extension or number already in the Admin Portal can be a routing destination for AI Receptionist calls.

 

Jann Mateo
Community Manager
Community Manager
September 24, 2026

Mat

Q: One more question. I'm trying to use Workflows to text back Missed Calls. So far, not texts have been sent. When AIR answers does that set it as an answered call even if the caller did not reach a human? Is there a trigger that will recognize a caller that didn't get the help they wanted? Sorry, technically 2 questions here.

A: AIR doesn't have a missed-call text-back feature; what it can do instead is answer the call itself, respond to inbound texts, and send SMS follow-ups during a call.

 

Jann Mateo
Community Manager
Community Manager
September 24, 2026

SCOTT

Q: how do i hookup AI to desktop

A: You can now easily access AIR in the RingCentral desktop app. 

 

Jann Mateo
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Community Manager
September 24, 2026

Anonymous

Q: We are looking for the AI to be able to confirm a caller has an appointment before sending it to an extension. Is it possible to have the AI be able to compare that user's calendar to see that kind of information? It would likely require you to have view access to the calendly calendar.

A: AIR currently cannot confirm if a caller has an appointment before sending it to an extension. However, soon AIR can capture appointment requests and email to your team to confirm.

 

Jann Mateo
Community Manager
Community Manager
September 24, 2026

Izabel

Q: Is there a better way to set up our AI receptionists? Customer support walked me through the current setup, but it is not working as intended.

A: Please book a one-on-one technical onboarding session with a specialist, at a time that works for you.

 

Jann Mateo
Community Manager
Community Manager
September 24, 2026

Jeremie

Q: When we set our AIR calls for recording, we only get the transcript and the call leg after the transfer recording? How can we access the recording of the interaction between the caller and AIR?

A: Admins can review or download the recordings once they appear in the call log or call history. Learn more here. 

 

Jann Mateo
Community Manager
Community Manager
September 24, 2026

Lisa

Q: we are a law office and use the server based needles 4.9 CRM. Can AIR be used with our system to field calls?

A: Not currently, but we’ll take this to our product team to consider. You can find the list of AIR integrations in the “Integrations” tab.