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AI Voice Receptionist
Up to 40% faster: Eliminate awkward silences and improve caller engagement with AI Voice Receptionist
Provide your clients with an AI Voice Receptionist that can talk with their customers just like they would. Nearly instant responses ensure interactions remain lively, engaging, and effective whether customers are speaking with a human or an AI colleague.
Why it's Important
In natural voice conversations, the two-second mark is considered a critical cliff threshold. When silence lasts longer than two seconds, listeners often wonder if something is wrong, and the likelihood of the user disengaging increases exponentially with every additional second.
Previously, the AI Voice Receptionist sometimes paused
just
long enough to make conversations feel slow and awkward. Recent improvements have reduced the response time to eliminate awkward silence, and make AI interactions feel more like a real-time human experience.What's Included
- Up to 40% faster response initiation:AI responses now begin significantly faster than previous versions.
- Reduced latency:Response delays have been cut from a range of 2.2–2.8 seconds down to just 1.35–1.89 seconds.
- Streaming delivery:New technology that eliminates wait times by delivering voice in real-time.
- Natural conversation feel:Near-instant responses that keep users engaged and prevent them from questioning the connection.
How to Access
Available to all accounts with Conversations AI Pro or Premium. To take advantage of these speed improvements, you must use one of the supported 3-model flow providers:
- Open AI > AI Workforce > AI Voice Receptionist > Configure.
- Navigate to the Speech settings to define the model powering the AI's voice.
- Select one of the following providers from the dropdown menu:
- Deepgram Aura-2
- ElevenLabs Flash v2.5
- OpenAI GPT 4.0mini Speech
Note: These speed improvements do not affect the OpenAI Realtime Voice model.
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Reputation AI
Vendasta Services
AI Receptionist
Promotion Extended: Get expert setup for $0 for your AI Reputation Specialist

Accelerate your time-to-value by securing a professional setup for AI Reputation Specialist at no cost. We are waiving the $129 setup fee and the offer has been extended
until March 31, 2026
.Why this matters
This "done-for-you" service ensures that your AI employee is optimally fine-tuned to your business goals from day one. Software alone is only as effective as its implementation; this promotion removes the technical complexity, allowing you to scale reputation management for high-volume accounts immediately.
What’s included in the setup
- Accelerated time-to-value: We handle branding, technical configuration and fine-tuning so the AI employee is ready to go from day one.
- Expert integration: We manage all backend integrations, including POS system, to automatically trigger review requests based on customer data.
- Zero technical burden: We provide personalized training to ensure you are confident in the system's performance.
How to Get Started
- Reserve your $0 expert setup here
- Offer valid for as many individual client accounts as you wish, provided they are submitted upon approval and upgraded to the Premium edition before the deadline (March 31, 2026).
- Requires Reputation AI Premium ($35/mo) and Monthly Support ($39/mo) with a 3-month commitment.
FAQs
What are the requirements and costs for this offer?
To qualify for the $0 setup, the client account must be on the Reputation AI Premium edition ($35/mo) and include ongoing Monthly Support at $39/mo with a 3-month commitment.
What extra features are included in the Premium edition?
Premium includes autonomous review responses for Google and Facebook, NPS feedback collection to resolve issues privately, and actionable AI insights via a chat-based interface.
How long does the setup process take?
Once you book the service, our team typically completes the full "done-for-you" configuration and technical integration within a few business days.
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AI Receptionist
Available now: Ensure ongoing success for clients with monthly support on AI Receptionist Setup

Ensure your
AI Receptionist
performs the best with our monthly support on every new activation
, now available in Vendasta Services
.AI Receptionist Setup helps busy agencies skip the manual work and get their clients' AI Receptionists delivering results quickly. To ensure these results continue after the initial build, all new activations now include
mandatory monthly support ($49/month USD) for the first three months
, renewing month-to-month thereafter.Why this Matters
Partners have expressed the need for support beyond the initial setup. While the initial implementation gets the service live, ongoing support in the first few months is critical for:
- Ensuring correct configuration and routing
- Refining workflows based on real-world usage
- Minimizing early-stage friction
Support will ensure consistency and peace of mind with every new activation.
What’s Included
- Edits to settings and configurations
- Updates to automations, capabilities, and prompts
- Troubleshooting and technical performance optimization
- Professional setup of booking and eCommerce functionalities
How to add support to an existing AI Receptionist
If you purchased AI Receptionist Setup
between July 16, 2025, and March 10, 2026
, and you would like to add support, you can purchase it through the Marketplace here.
We are excited to announce a major expansion to Vendasta’s AI workforce. Starting today, Conversations AI is no longer just for unlocking an AI Receptionist that answers phones and chats—it is a powerful engine that allows you to build a suite of specialized, Custom AI employees designed to help local businesses scale without increasing headcount.
While we are highlighting three "hero" roles today, these are powerful examples of what you can build using Vendasta’s flexible Custom AI employees framework. To help you hit the ground running, we have provided detailed, step-by-step instructions in our documentation to show you exactly how to configure these roles for your business.
Specialized roles you can build today
Using our custom framework, you can now deploy specialized AI employees to handle the heavy lifting of sales, support, and data analysis:

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AI Inside Salesperson:
Turn every inquiry into a qualified opportunity. You can build an AI Inside Salesperson that uses a mandatory discovery gate to confirm a business can serve a customer’s needs before booking a spot. It handles objections naturally and ensures your team only spends time on high-value "winners."- Best for:Lead qualification, appointment booking, and inbound sales consulting.
- View the step-by-step setup guide for the AI Inside Salesperson
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AI Support Agent:
Empathetic, resolution-first support 24/7. Configure an AI Support Agent that uses the HEARD framework (Hear, Empathize, Apologize, Resolve, Diagnose) to handle customer frustrations. It resolves common questions instantly and only escalates to a human teammate when necessary.- Best for:Troubleshooting, FAQs, and empathetic customer service via chat and SMS.
- View the step-by-step setup guide for the AI Support Agent
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AI Data Analyst:
Stop guessing and start deciding with data. The AI Data Analyst acts as an internal strategy partner, using the AIR framework (Analyze, Interpret, Recommend) to turn raw numbers into clear business signals. It tells you exactly what to do next to close a deal or recover a detractor.- Best for:CRM insights, sentiment analysis, and proactive business
- View the step-by-step setup guide for the AI Data Analyst
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How to get started
These roles are available as blueprints for all partners with Conversations AI active. To build your first specialized AI employee:
- Navigate to AI > AI Workforcein the Business App.
- Select Create Custom AI Employee.
Open the corresponding help article above to copy and paste the specialized role prompts.
The sky is the limit
Remember, these three roles are just the beginning. You can use the custom AI employees framework to build any role your business-to-business operation needs by defining your own unique purpose, capabilities, and knowledge sources.
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AI Workforce
Schedule recurring tasks and reminders with new time-based automation triggers
Run routine tasks on a daily, weekly, or monthly schedule by using the new "On a schedule" trigger, now available in Automations within both Partner Center and Business App.

Execute repetitive functions without repetitive work
Automate routine actions, such as sending client reminders or invoking an AI Employee, on a recurring basis without needing an external event to kick off the workflow. The "on a schedule" trigger provides the foundation for more automated workflows and scales how AI employees can perform regular jobs for a business.
The "On a schedule" trigger includes several flexible configuration options:
- Daily:Run the automation at a specific time every day.
- Weekly:Select specific days of the week for the automation to run.
- Monthly: Run on specific days of the month or use the "End of month" option to account for varying month lengths (28th, 30th, or 31st).
- Custom windows:Set specific Start and End dates to control exactly when the recurring schedule is active.
- Timezone support:All schedules run based on the automation’s specific timezone setting, ensuring actions happen exactly when intended.
Why it matters
Previously, automations were "reactive," meaning they only ran when a specific event occurred, such as a failed payment or a new contact being created. To handle regular, recurring tasks, users often had to trigger workflows manually or rely on external tools like Zapier.
Now, users can automate consistent notifications and actions to happen at the exact same time every day, week, or month. This allows both partners and their SMB clients to focus on higher-value work instead of manually managing repetitive reminders and routine administrative jobs.
How to access
- Navigate to Automations > Create automationin either Partner Center or Business App.
- In the trigger selection, find the Time-based category and select On a schedule.
- Configure your desired frequency (daily, weekly, or monthly), time of day, and optional start/end dates.
- Add your automation steps, such as sending a notification, creating a task, or invoking an AI employee.
- Save and turn on the automation.
FAQ
Can I set a schedule to only run for a specific date range?
Yes. Use the Start date and End date fields to control the window of time that the schedule remains active.
What happens if I select day 31 for a monthly schedule?
The automation will only run during months that have 31 days. To ensure an automation runs every month regardless of length, use the End of month option.
What timezone does the schedule use?
The schedule uses your specific automation's timezone setting. All configured times are interpreted based on that selection.
March 17th
marks the release of Vendasta CRM AI
, the self-updating sales solution built for businesses of any size. Grow revenue without adding headcount by capturing sales conversations, automating data entry and surfacing the insights you need to close more deals.
Why Vendasta CRM AI?
- Get a CRM that updates itself:Say goodbye to manual data entry. The AI Sales Assistant automatically updates contact and company records based on meeting details and sales activities, giving sales reps more time to focus on selling.
- Turn sales calls into actions and insights:Gain complete visibility into every deal without being on every call. Built-in meeting recording for Google Meet and ad-hoc Microsoft Teams meetings captures conversations and provides AI-generated summaries and action items for faster follow-up.
- Turn your team into rockstar sellers:Every rep can perform like your best with Sales Coaching. The AI scores interactions on sentiment and sales methodology (like BANT or MEDDPICC), surfacing clear opportunities for improvement.
- Stay on top of every opportunity:Stop digging through data. Simply ask the AI Sales Assistant questions like "What was the outcome of my last meeting with Acme?" to get instant, contextual answers and find hidden opportunities within your pipeline.
What’s included in CRM AI?

Meet your AI Sales Assistant
Imagine a CRM that works for you, and not the other way around. CRM AI unlocks the AI Sales Assistant that automatically extracts meeting outcomes, updates records, and surfaces opportunities so your team can focus on selling instead of digging for info or doing the updates themselves.
- Organize data and find growth:Reduce manual updates by automatically keeping the CRM accurate without reps needing to perform manual data entry.
- Surface insights instantly:Use a natural-language chat interface to get answers from CRM instead of digging for information.
- Improve CRM hygiene:Ensure every interaction is logged accurately by extracting outcomes directly from sales activities.

Conversation Intelligence
- Capture every conversation:Ensure no meeting details are missed and no opportunities are lost by recording and transcribing every call.
- Get shared visibility:Access a unified record of meetings, summaries and action items directly within the CRM for better team collaboration.
- Improve follow-up accuracy:Close deals faster with clear, AI-extracted action items that allow you to follow up with total confidence.

Sales Coaching
- Make every rep a top performer:With AI sales coaching on every call, drive consistent performance gains and improve win rates.
- Standardize sales methodologies:Get teams to follow sales frameworks like BANT, MEDDPICC, or SANDLER automatically.
- Get reps up to speed faster:Get new reps to sell like seasoned professionals with AI surfacing topics, opportunities and conversation scores.
CRM Custom Objects
- Adapt to your specific industry:Customize your CRM modules to support your business or industry’s unique workflows.
- Track what matters to you:Create custom fields and categories to manage specialized data like equipment, properties, or vehicles, all within a single system.
- Grow without complexity:Get the flexibility of enterprise CRMs without the operational overhead of implementation and maintenance associated with them.
Why it matters for your business
CRM AI isn’t just about managing customer details. By capturing all sales activities and conversations, you provide the context necessary for the Vendasta AI Workforce to take over manual work. The result is a smarter, self-updating CRM that helps sales teams improve win rates and grow revenue with less effort.
Join the launch event
Want to see CRM AI in action? Join us on March 18th for our "Meet CRM AI" launch event! Here from industry experts, and early adopters to learn how to leverage this new product to win more customers.
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AI Workforce
AI Voice Receptionist
Deliver natural and reliable 24/7 call handling with AI Voice Receptionist
Help SMBs provide a great customer experience and capture more leads Vendasta's AI Voice Receptionist. Thanks to recent updates, the AI Voice Receptionist is now more natural, and ready to impress with its ability to respond intelligently.
An AI Employee that Speaks like a Human
Recent updates to the AI Voice Receptionist focus on creating a seamless, human-like interaction for every caller.
Available now
- More natural conversation: With semantic voice activity detection, the AI Voice Receptionist identifies natural pauses and speech patterns to know exactly when to listen and when to speak, reducing interruptions and delivering a positive customer experience.
- Focused listening: With more advanced noise reduction, the receptionist filters out background noise to clearly hear and accurately respond to callers in busy environments.
- Personal greeting: With CRM caller recognition, the receptionist automatically identifies and greets callers by name if they are already saved in your CRM.
- Expanded language support: With more multilingual voices available, businesses can create an AI Voice Receptionist that fits their brand, and speaks the language(s) of their customers.
- Enhanced stability & intelligence: Improved instruction following and stabilized performance ensure requests are handled more accurately.
Coming soon
- Appointment booking: Currently, callers must supply their email address to book an appointment over the phone. The AI Voice Receptionist will soon be able to book appointments using only a caller's phone number.
- Easier voice selection: A new interface featuring filters will make finding the perfect voice for any brand easier and faster.
Why it’s Important
First impressions matter, and a glitchy or robotic automated system can cause potential customers to hang up. These updates eliminate awkward interruptions and communication friction, ensuring the AI Voice Receptionist listens and speaks at the right moments, even in noisy environments.
By identifying known callers by name and following complex instructions more accurately, the receptionist builds immediate trust with the caller.
How to Access
AI Voice Receptionist is available to all accounts with Conversations AI Premium. Manage settings for each AI Voice Receptionist in
Business App > AI > AI Workforce > AI Voice Receptionist > Configure.
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Reputation AI
Vendasta Services
AI Workforce
AI Reputation Specialist
Limited time offer: Get expert setup for $0 for your AI Reputation Specialist
Accelerate your time-to-value by securing a professional setup for AI Reputation Specialist at no cost. We are waiving the $129 setup fee through March 10, 2026.

Why this matters
This "done-for-you" service ensures that your AI employee is optimally fine-tuned to your business goals from day one. Software alone is only as effective as its implementation; this promotion removes the technical complexity, allowing you to scale reputation management for high-volume accounts immediately.
What’s included in the setup
- Accelerated time-to-value: We handle branding, technical configuration and fine-tuning so the AI employee is ready to go from day one.
- Expert integration: We manage all backend integrations, including POS system, to automatically trigger review requests based on customer data.
- Zero technical burden: We provide personalized training to ensure you are confident in the system's performance.
How to Get Started
- Reserve your $0 expert setup here
- Offer valid for as many individual client accounts as you wish, provided they are submitted upon approval and upgraded to the Premium edition before the deadline (March 10, 2026).
- Requires Reputation AI Premium ($35/mo) and Monthly Support ($39/mo) with a 3-month commitment.
FAQs
What are the requirements and costs for this offer?
To qualify for the $0 setup, the client account must be on the Reputation AI Premium edition ($35/mo) and include ongoing Monthly Support at $39/mo with a 3-month commitment.
What extra features are included in the Premium edition?
Premium includes autonomous review responses for Google and Facebook, NPS feedback collection to resolve issues privately, and actionable AI insights via a chat-based interface.
How long does the setup process take?
Once you book the service, our team typically completes the full "done-for-you" configuration and technical integration within a few business days.
Vendasta is retiring the legacy
Proposal Builder
.Final deadline:
Please download any proposal PDFs you want to keep by Friday, February 13, 2026
. After this date, Proposal Builder will be removed from Partner Center and proposals will no longer be accessible.
Key Dates
- December 1, 2025:Proposal Builder is no longer available to new partners.
- Friday, February 14, 2026:Last day to view and export proposal PDFs.
- After February 13, 2026:Proposal Builder is removed from Partner Center.
What to Use Instead
Use Vendasta’s
simplified ordering workflow
to quote, approve, and fulfill in one place. You can still attach your own branded proposal PDFs (made in Google Docs, PowerPoint, etc.) to orders.What You Need to Do
- Start using the ordering workflowin Partner Center.
- Download your proposal PDFs by Friday, February 13, 2026.
- Attach your own proposal PDFs to new orders when needed.
Thanks for helping us keep Vendasta simpler and more consistent across quoting, orders, and invoicing.
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AI
Now Available
MatchCraft
Optimize TikTok Campaigns with MatchCraft
Manage campaign budgets and performance reporting for all ad campaigns in one place with Vendasta MatchCraft, where TikTok joins Google, Bing, Meta, Linkedin, Programmatic, and Yelp.

What's New in MatchCraft
If you run TikTok campaigns, this update is for you! You can now:
- Manage TikTok campaign budgets in MatchCraftjust like you do for Google, Bing, Meta, Linkedin, Programmatic, and Yelp.
- Access performance reportingfor TikTok campaigns within the same consolidated MatchCraft reporting experience.
- Centralize cross-platform analysisto better understand campaign effectiveness across channels.
Why it's Important
Running campaigns across multiple ad platforms creates unnecessary complexity. Switching between dashboards, consolidating data, and assembling proof-of-performance reports costs agencies and their clients valuable time. MatchCraft simplifies ad campaigns without sacrificing performance.
By bringing TikTok budgets and reporting into MatchCraft, you can:
- Save timeby managing all major ad platforms from a single, familiar interface.
- Get better insightswith cross-platform performance data in one place.
- Report on performance easilywithout manually stitching data together.
How to Get Started
All MatchCraft Connect users can now connect their TikTok accounts to the platform. Please contact your Account Manager to enable TikTok and learn more.
Once connected, all campaigns created in TikTok can be managed from MatchCraft.
Reporting is available in:
- Performance > Optimization(segment, ad group, ad, age, and gender)
- Merchant Center & Printable Report(segment, ad, age, and gender)
- Reports > Custom
TikTok campaigns remain read-only in Connect, but deep links to the TikTok Ads Manager UI make it easy to switch between platforms for creation and edits.
Don't have MatchCraft Connect and want to learn more? Keep reading!
Why MatchCraft?
MatchCraft makes it easy for you or your advertising teams to turn ad spend into valuable conversions. Leverage MatchCraft’s AI-powered advertising solutions to streamline ad creation and optimize campaign performance. From intelligent ad spend allocation to automated bidding and budget management, MatchCraft’s AI ensures your ads perform at their best.
With a single platform for search, social, and display, Vendasta MatchCraft delivers full visibility into how your campaigns perform. With transparent insights into spend, pacing, and results, you can optimize with confidence and give clients the clarity - and outcomes - they expect.
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