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Tax season without a jammed phone line

CallsYou for accounting and bookkeeping firms

Around month-end your bookkeepers are closing the books, running payroll and filing sales tax, and from February to April the annual returns pile on top - exactly when a business owner calls to switch accountants or set up a new company. The phone goes unanswered and they send the same enquiry to five other firms. CallsYou answers in chat using your website - services, pricing by number of documents, the business types you work with - and connects the prospect with someone at your firm through a callback, usually in about 30 seconds. The assistant gives no tax advice: it shares information from your site and hands the topic to an accountant.

Example flowlive
  1. Step 18:15 pm - sole trader asks about pricing
  2. Step 2AI shares packages and services
  3. Step 3Owner books a 10:00 callback
  4. Step 410:00 - system connects an accountant
  5. Step 5Onboarding from next month
Today

What costs you time and money today

Around filing deadlines every accountant is buried in returns, payroll and reconciliations, so a call from a new prospect loses to the deadline - and a business owner who could not get through once rarely tries again.
December and January bring the most enquiries from companies switching accountants and people starting a business who ask which setup suits them - exactly when your firm is closing the year and has no time to talk.
Your front office answers the same questions over and over: what does bookkeeping for a limited company cost, do you run payroll, do you work with our accounting software, do we have to drop off paperwork, can we switch to you mid-year.
Many enquiries come in the evening, after the owner has closed the shop or the workshop, and an email reply sent the next afternoon reaches someone who has already booked a call with another firm.

Where it pays off most: deadline weeks and evenings

An accounting firm sells trust and availability, and the first contact often shows whether that availability is real. The assistant reads your website - packages, pricing by number of transactions and employees, the entity types you serve, payroll, how clients send documents - and checks it for changes every night. In the dashboard you add what is not on the site: which month you are taking on new clients from, that switching from a previous accountant needs an authorisation and opening balances, that you always offer a short call before quoting. Questions like ‘should I be an LLC or a sole proprietor?’ or ‘can I deduct this?’ go to an accountant - the assistant gives no tax advice, it shares what is on your site and offers a callback. In the busiest week of the month you can let AI handle chat while calls go to whoever has a spare moment.

AI chat assistantwins here
  • Explains packages, pricing and services - bookkeeping, payroll, year-end
  • Describes how switching from another firm works and what to prepare
  • Never recommends a tax setup - those questions go to an accountant
30-second callbackcomplement
  • A new client talks to your firm before shopping around
  • The call goes to an accountant who is not mid-filing
  • After hours the owner picks a time that suits them
Step by step

What it looks like in practice

Times and numbers are examples - they show the situation, not a guaranteed result.

1Wednesday, 8:15 pm - a question after closing up

Tom runs a car repair shop with two employees and is unhappy with his current accountant. In the evening he asks in chat what bookkeeping plus payroll would cost with you and whether he can switch from January.

2The assistant shares pricing and switching terms

From your website it gives the package for businesses with staff and how pricing depends on volume, and from your dashboard notes it explains that switching needs an authorisation and notice to the current firm. Whether he should change his tax setup goes to an accountant.

3The owner picks a call time

The assistant offers a call and Tom chooses Thursday at 10:00. The lead, with the chat and the payroll pages he viewed, is waiting in your dashboard in the morning, and a Telegram notification comes in too.

410:00 - the system connects a free accountant

At the chosen time the system rings the first free person at your firm and connects them with Tom. The accountant already knows it is a repair shop with two staff, so she goes straight to monthly invoice volume.

5Onboarding from January 1

Your firm prepares a quote and agrees with Tom which documents to hand over. The owner who messaged several firms that evening stays with the one that spoke to him first.

Sample conversation

What it looks like on your website

In the chat, the AI assistant or your team replies - you decide when. On the phone, it is always a person.

AI assistantonline · replies instantly
How much is bookkeeping for a sole trader?
It depends on the tax form and the number of documents. Which tax form, and roughly how many invoices per month?
Flat-rate, about 20 invoices.
Thank you. Pick a time and an accountant will call back with a quote.
Features

The features that work hardest here

The assistant reads your website

It learns your packages, pricing, the entity types you serve and how you work with clients, and checks for changes nightly - January's new prices show up in answers on their own.

Who answers the chat

On quiet days your front office runs chat, and in filing week you let AI step in whenever nobody is at the chat - anyone can take over just by replying.

Callback at a chosen time

An owner writing in the evening picks a time, and the system connects them with your firm once your team is at their desks.

After-hours leads

Every morning the dashboard lists overnight enquiries - with the chat, the number and the pages the prospect viewed, such as payroll or company bookkeeping.

CRM integration

API and webhooks send leads to your CRM, and you can embed the CallsYou dashboard in your own system.

Pricing

What it costs and what you get in this industry

The same simple plans for every business - below, what they do for you specifically. 3 days free, no contract, cancel in one click.

Chat only

Chat

An AI assistant that answers on your website instantly

$29/month
Included in the plan:
  • 1 agent
  • Up to 250 chat conversations / mo
  • The AI assistant knows your whole website
In your industry:
  • Explains packages, pricing and services - bookkeeping, payroll, year-end
  • Describes how switching from another firm works and what to prepare
  • Never recommends a tax setup - those questions go to an accountant
For more traffic

Business

For businesses with heavy traffic and a bigger team

$109/month
Included in the plan:
  • 5 agents
  • Up to 1,000 chat conversations / mo
  • 100 min on the phone or 200 min in the app
Everything in Chat + Call, plus:
  • Everything in Chat + Call
  • Agent order: who answers first and who takes over
  • Call recording
  • "Phone only" mode
FAQ

Questions

Will the assistant tell a client which tax setup to choose?

No. It gives no tax advice - it can tell clients from your website which business types you serve and what each package costs, and passes the choice of setup to an accountant. You can add a rule in the dashboard to always offer a call on those questions.

Will the assistant prepare a quote on its own?

It does not produce quotes automatically. It gives the prices and ranges on your website or in your dashboard, and when a client wants a specific proposal it takes their number and the system connects them with someone at your firm.

Can we switch the assistant on just for tax season?

Yes, you can change who answers the chat at any time - for example AI only after hours in normal months and AI always from February to April. There is a free 3-day trial, so you can test it with no commitment.

See CallsYou in your business

3 days free. Enter your website, check the assistant's answers and paste one line of code.