Belline in Chicago
AI receptionist for dental clinics in Chicago
A Chicago dental practice hears about the weather before the teeth. On a snowy morning the calls are patients asking whether you are open and then moving the appointment they had. Belline answers from the hours you set, takes the request to rebook, and leaves everything clinical to your team.
- Answers questions
- Captures enquiries
- Takes appointment requests
7 days free · No card · Plans from $39/month Answers in English.
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Talk to BelleIn short
What Belline does for dental clinics in Chicago.
Belline is an AI receptionist for dental clinics in Chicago. It answers a dental practice's customers from your own prices and rules, on the phone, in website chat and on WhatsApp, takes the booking or the request for your team to confirm, and hands everything else to your team.
| Channels | Chat and voice on your website, WhatsApp on a second number you register with Belline and your phone, by forwarding the calls nobody answers - the same information and rules on each, however a customer in Chicago reaches you. |
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| Bookings | For dental clinics in Chicago: For a clinic, Belline takes appointment requests only, and your team confirms every one. It does not book a clinic appointment itself yet. |
| Hand-off | Anything it should not answer, such as a complaint or a price you have not given it, goes to your team in Chicago with what the caller said, and your team can take over any chat from the inbox. |
| Languages | Belline answers in English. |
| Price | 7 days free · No card · Plans from $39/month, per location with no setup fee and no per-call charge; every plan is below. |
Hear the line
Two calls a dental practice actually takes.
The first is the request taken for your team to confirm. The second is the call Belline refuses or hands over - which is the one you are really deciding about.
Chicago, specifically
What a dental practice in Chicago is actually answering.
Chicago is a city of neighbourhood businesses and a downtown that empties at five.
A snow morning reshuffles the day's diary
Chicago winter regularly changes a practice's morning at short notice, and the front desk is on the phone to patients while trying to move the schedule. Belline answers the first question, are you open, from the hours you set, and takes each change as a request with the old time, the new day that suits and a number. Your team decides what happens to the chair.
The Loop at lunch, the neighbourhoods at night
A practice in the Loop or the West Loop is rung by office workers at lunch and before they leave. One in Lakeview or Logan Square is rung in the evening by people who have just got home. In both the front desk is busy when the calls arrive. Belline takes the appointment request, with a name and a number and the kind of visit, and your team confirms it.
Benefits that run out at the end of the year
Many American dental plans have an annual maximum that resets with the plan year, so the last weeks of the year often bring patients trying to use their cover. The extra calls are the same question: do you have anything before the end of December. Belline takes the request for your team. It does not look up a patient's remaining benefit and does not say what a plan will pay.
Directions are an L stop or a permit zone
Many Chicago patients arrive on the CTA, and those who drive are looking at street parking that may need a permit or be metered. In Lakeview, Lincoln Park and the Loop the practical questions are which L stop, which side street and where the nearest garage is. Belline reads your own directions back word for word and takes a message when something is not in them.
Languages on the line
English, with Spanish the most common second language, and Polish, Chinese and Tagalog heard in the neighbourhoods that speak them. Belline answers in English.
In an emergency
Belline gives the instruction you set for the United States: 911 for any emergency, or the nearest emergency room. It takes no appointment request at that moment, because an appointment would be the wrong answer.
Your own number
Keep the Chicago number on your door and your listings. You forward the calls nobody answers; nothing about how customers reach you changes.
What comes down the line
Every call a dental practice gets, and what happens to it.
For a clinic, Belline takes appointment requests only, and your team confirms every one. It does not book a clinic appointment itself yet.
Appointment requests
The patient's name, a number, the kind of appointment and when they would like to come - never the symptoms. Your team confirms the slot; Belline never offers one.
New-patient enquiries
Asked in for an assessment rather than the treatment they named, however confidently they name it, and told what that first visit involves in the words you wrote.
Pain and urgent calls
Belline does not interpret the symptom and does not take it down: the clinical team asks about that themselves. It takes the patient's number and marks the call urgent for them. Where your plan includes live transfer and you have given it a team number, it puts the call through to a person instead.
Practical questions
Opening hours, parking, what to bring, how long an appointment runs, what you charge for an examination. From your own notes, and a message when the answer is not in them.
Cancellations and reschedules
Taken as a message with the appointment the patient thinks they have, so the desk can free the chair instead of discovering it empty.
Emergencies
A caller describing something that is not a dental problem hears the emergency instructions you have given Belline for your country, and no appointment is taken.
Where it stops
The most important thing it does is know what it must not answer.
Belline will not discuss a diagnosis, interpret a symptom, or advise on pain or medication. It is reception, not a clinician. Please do not use it for medical details: anything clinical, urgent or unclear goes to your team - as an urgent callback with the patient's number and no medical details taken down, or straight through to a person where your plan includes live transfer and you have given it a number.
Every channel
Call answering, website chat, WhatsApp and Instagram - one receptionist.
Chat and voice on your website, WhatsApp and your phone, with the same information and the same rules in each.
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Chat and voice on your website
AvailableVisitors type, or tap to talk, without leaving your website. Your team can take over any chat from the inbox.
One line of HTML.
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WhatsApp for your business
AvailableBelline answers a second WhatsApp number you register with it. Your own WhatsApp stays as it is. Chicagoans ring to ask whether a business is open before they commit to the trip, particularly in winter.
You connect the number yourself in your dashboard.
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Instagram
AvailableBelle answers your business’s direct messages. Your team can take over any conversation from the inbox.
Connect your own Instagram account in Belline. Nothing to install.
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Your phone
AvailableKeep your number. Forward calls to Belline when nobody answers or the line is busy. Your phone provider may charge for forwarded calls.
One setting on the line you already have.
How it works
Set up from what you already have.
Most of the work is checking what Belline found. You decide when customers reach it.
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Give Belline what you already have
Your website, price list or brochure. It reads them and drafts your services, prices, hours and the questions a dental practice gets asked every day.
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Check what it found
Fix anything wrong, fill the gaps, and set the rules it must hold. Nothing goes live until you have read it.
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Switch it on
Ring it yourself first. Then forward your line and paste one line of HTML into your website. Customers only reach Belline once you do.
Pricing
Per location, per month.
The same prices as everywhere else in the United States. No setup fee, no per-call charge.
- No per-user fees
- No per-message fees
- No AI surcharge
Every plan includes
- One location
- Books appointments, or takes the request for your team
- Your team can take over any chat from the inbox
Starter
For a small business that wants every enquiry answered.
- 100 voice minutes a month, shared across your phone line and your website's voice button
- Video receptionist · 40 video minutes (each uses 2.5 voice minutes)
- 250 text conversations a month, shared across your website chat, WhatsApp and Instagram
- Up to 2 users on your dashboard
- Keep your number - forward it to Belline
- Answers questions from your own hours, prices and policies
- Summary and full transcript of every call and chat
- Your own words and colours on the website buttons
Growth
For a team that wants urgent calls put through live, and its own rules for what Belline may decide.
- 250 voice minutes a month, shared across your phone line and your website's voice button
- Video receptionist · 100 video minutes (each uses 2.5 voice minutes)
- 600 text conversations a month, shared across your website chat, WhatsApp and Instagram
- Everything in Starter, plus:
- Up to 5 users on your dashboard
- Puts urgent calls through to your team, live
- Your own rules about what it may and may not decide
- Restore earlier settings any time
Scale
For higher-volume teams with more complex reception rules.
- 500 voice minutes a month, shared across your phone line and your website's voice button
- Video receptionist · 200 video minutes (each uses 2.5 voice minutes)
- 1,500 text conversations a month, shared across your website chat, WhatsApp and Instagram
- Everything in Growth, plus:
- Up to 15 users on your dashboard
- Priority support
Only need website chat, WhatsApp and Instagram?
WhatsApp Receptionist
$39 per location, per month Billed monthly. Cancel anytime.
For a business that wants every WhatsApp and Instagram message and website chat answered. 250 text conversations a month, shared across your website chat, WhatsApp and Instagram. No phone line and no voice button - add those any time with Starter.
- Answers WhatsApp, Instagram and your website chat from your own hours, prices and policies
- Text only: WhatsApp, Instagram and website chat, with no phone line and no voice button
- Answers on a second WhatsApp number you register yourself
Compare the plans
| Starter | Growth | Scale | |
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| Price a month, per location | $69 | $139 | $279 |
| Voice minutes a month | 100 | 250 | 500 |
| Text conversations a month | 250 | 600 | 1,500 |
| Users on your dashboard | 2 | 5 | 15 |
| Keep your number - forward it to Belline | Included | Included | Included |
| Answers questions from your own hours, prices and policies | Included | Included | Included |
| Summary and full transcript of every call and chat | Included | Included | Included |
| Your own words and colours on the website buttons | Included | Included | Included |
| Puts urgent calls through to your team, live | Not included | Included | Included |
| Your own rules about what it may and may not decide | Not included | Included | Included |
| Restore earlier settings any time | Not included | Included | Included |
| Priority support | Not included | Not included | Included |
An answering service takes a message. Belline answers the question, takes the details and tells your team what to do next.
What counts as a minute
A minute is time Belline spends on a live call with your caller - on your phone line or through the voice button on your website - from the moment it answers to the moment the call ends, rounded up to the next whole minute. Calls you make from your own test console do not count, and neither do calls cut short by a fault on our side.
What counts as a conversation
A conversation is one customer's thread in your website chat, on WhatsApp or on Instagram in which Belline replies at least once. Everything that customer says in the 24 hours after Belline's first reply is the same conversation. Threads your team answers without Belline do not count.
When an allowance runs out
When an allowance runs out, you choose what happens: move up to the next plan, or stop at the allowance. We tell you at 70%, 90% and 100%. Nothing is ever added to your bill without you choosing it.
7 days free
7 days free: 30 voice or 12 video minutes and 50 text conversations, with your website chat, the voice button on the same page, WhatsApp and Instagram all switched on, plus your phone line where Belline has a line in your country. No card: nothing is charged unless you choose a plan, and on day 8 without one Belline pauses until you do. Standard onboarding is free.
Customer stories
There is no testimonial here yet.
When a dental practice in Chicago agrees to be named, its story goes in this space: what it was losing, what it changed, and what its own team says about it. Until then this space stays empty on purpose. We are not going to write a quotation nobody said, or count customers we do not have.
Running a dental practice in Chicago and willing to talk about it? Write to us and a person answers.
Questions
What operators ask us.
Can it tell patients we are closed because of snow?
Yes, from the hours you have set. Change them when you decide to close and it tells callers the same day. It does not forecast the weather and does not promise a reopening time you have not written.
Will it check how much of a patient's insurance is left?
No. It is not connected to any insurer. It reads back what you have written about the plans you take, takes the patient's request for the end of the year, and your billing team handles the rest.
What does it do with a patient in pain at night?
It takes the call rather than letting it ring out. It does not diagnose, it does not offer a slot, and it does not take down the symptoms. It takes the patient's number and marks the callback urgent for your clinical team. Where your plan includes live transfer and you have given it a team number, it puts the call through to a person instead - that is the line on the Growth card, not on every plan.
Can it quote our prices?
Only the ones you give it, in the words you wrote. An examination fee you have written down, it reads back. A treatment cost that depends on the examination, it does not guess at - it takes a message.
Will it give clinical advice?
No, and it refuses out loud rather than hedging. Asked whether pain after a filling is normal, it says it is not able to advise, takes the patient's number without writing down what they described, and marks it urgent for your clinical team, who go through it with them.
Can it book a treatment for a new patient?
It takes a request for an assessment, not for the treatment. A new patient asking to book a crown is asked in for an examination first, and told what that visit involves in the words you wrote.
Hear it now
Be the caller.
The same receptionist your callers in Chicago would reach. Ask it something hard, then ask for a person.
Free, in your browser, 24 hours a day, up to ten minutes a call.
Keep your number
Forward calls to Belline from the Chicago line you already have. Forward only the calls nobody answers, and your team still picks up first.
Nothing to install
No new handset, no app for your staff, no change to what is printed on your door.
7 days free
7 days free: 30 voice or 12 video minutes and 50 text conversations, with your website chat, the voice button on the same page, WhatsApp and Instagram all switched on, plus your phone line where Belline has a line in your country. No card: nothing is charged unless you choose a plan, and on day 8 without one Belline pauses until you do. Standard onboarding is free.
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