AI receptionist for daycares
- Educators can't pick up the phone. They're with children. Calls during nap, snack, or outdoor time go to voicemail and never get returned.
- Enrollment inquiries are urgent for parents. Every week of delay is a parent calling the next daycare on the list.
- Waitlist questions ('where am I on the list?', 'when will a spot open?') eat hours of director time that could go to ratios and curriculum.
- Parent FAQ calls (hours, meals, ratios, sick policy, holiday closures) repeat constantly and there's no clean way to scale a human answer.
- 24/7, Inquiry line: Answered live, never voicemail
- 0, Educator interruptions: Staff stays with children
- Captured, Waitlist intake: First call, no callback
- Live, Tour booking: Into your calendar
What Gala does
- Enrollment intake: Captures child's age, start date, days needed, program interest, parent contact, written into your enrollment system with full context.
- Waitlist management: Adds new families to the waitlist with priority criteria, gives existing families a status update, and routes enrollment-ready confirmations to the director.
- Tour scheduling: Books in-person tours into your calendar around nap and outdoor times, never interrupting child care, always parent-friendly slots.
- Parent FAQ handling: Hours, meals, ratios, sick policy, holiday closures. Gala answers from your published policy. Frees your director from repeat calls.
- Closure & weather alerts: Outbound calls and texts when you need to close for weather or a sick day, reach every family fast, no manual phone tree.
- Multilingual: Detects the caller's language on the first sentence, essential for serving anglophone and francophone families in Quebec. Works best in French and English.
One number, two languages, no surcharge
Gala answers in Québécois French or in English depending on who is calling, with no keypad menu and no transfer. Most providers in this market are built for English and Spanish, and several bill a second language as a monthly add-on.
Your data stays in Canada
The moment a caller gives a name, an address, or a payment detail, you are handling personal information, so ask any vendor where the recordings live. Here, data is stored in Canada, on a Québec-based application server, voice processing runs under zero data retention, and your data is never sold or used to train third-party models.
What it costs
A flat monthly rate in Canadian dollars with no setup fee and no contract, bilingual included. Plans: Essential $129/mo (250 minutes), Advanced $249/mo (500 minutes), Enterprise $439/mo (1,000 minutes). See every plan.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Gala appropriate for handling calls about a daycare?
- Yes. Gala is positioned as a scheduling and information assistant for care services, not medical and not therapeutic. It never diagnoses or advises on a child's health. Anything health-related is routed directly to your director.
- Can Gala manage our daycare waitlist priorities?
- Yes. We configure your priority rules at onboarding: siblings, employees, neighborhood, date of inquiry. Gala captures new families, places them correctly on the list, and notifies the director when a spot opens.
- How does Gala handle the morning drop-off rush at a daycare?
- Gala handles unlimited parallel calls. Even when 12 parents call at 8 a.m. with sick-day reports, late-arrival notices, or pickup changes, every call is answered in seconds and routed correctly.
- Does Gala integrate with Procare, Brightwheel, or other daycare software?
- Not yet as native integrations. Procare, Brightwheel, Lillio, HiMama, and Kangarootime can be connected as a custom integration during setup. Calendar bookings sync to Google Calendar; payment processing for waitlist deposits is set up during onboarding.
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Contact: contact@gavion.ai · +1 (514) 534-1298 · +1 (855) 505-0607 (toll-free) · Québec, Canada · Service across Canada in English and French.