Families Calling at the Hardest Moment Deserve a Person.

Families call when someone has just died. Allison answers with care, captures what your director needs to respond, and routes the call to the on-call funeral director without a voicemail in between.

A voicemail at this moment is not acceptable

First-call notifications arrive at any hour. The family is in shock and they need a calm voice and a clear next step, not an automated menu or an answering service script.

Your directors cannot be at every visitation, every removal, and every phone line at the same time. The call still has to be answered the right way.

Pre-need inquiries and existing-family questions land alongside the first-call notifications. Each needs a different response and the wrong tone in either is a permanent impression.

How Allison Solves This

Every feature below is included on every plan. No add-ons, no feature gates.

Compassionate First-Call Handling

Answers first-call notifications with care, captures the family contact, location, and current circumstances, and routes immediately to the on-call director.

Director On-Call Routing

Pages the on-call director by SMS the moment a first-call comes in. The family hears back from a person within minutes, not in the morning.

Pre-Need Intake

Handles pre-arrangement and pre-need planning inquiries with a different tone and a callback scheduled with your pre-need counselor.

Service Information

Reads visitation times, service locations, livestream links, and out-of-town family details from your knowledge base so callers get the information they need without waiting.

Get Started in 15 Minutes

Share your on-call rotation, pre-need counselor schedule, and standard tone guidance. Allison is configured in 15 minutes to handle first-call, pre-need, and service-information calls with the care your families expect.

Quality You Can See

A first-call handled poorly is a wound that does not heal for the family. Watchtower scores every first-call for tone and routing so you know every call met the standard your firm holds itself to.

Built for Funeral Home Answering Service

First-call notification: "My mother just passed away at home, I do not know what to do next"

Pre-need inquiry: "My husband and I want to make arrangements ahead of time"

Service information: "What time is the visitation for the Johnson family?"

Out-of-town family: "I am flying in for my uncle's service, where is it?"

Clergy or florist: "I am the officiant for the Smith service, can I confirm the start time?"

Example Knowledge Base

Hours
Office hours 9 to 5. First-call notifications answered 24 hours a day by Allison and routed to the on-call director.
Directors On-Call
On-call rotation read from the calendar. Allison reaches the director on duty via SMS within one minute of a first-call.
Pre-Need Counselor
Pre-need inquiries scheduled with our pre-need counselor, typical callback within the same business day.
Transport
Removal service area covers the county. Out-of-area removals coordinated through partner firms.
Clergy Network
Partner clergy across denominations available; we coordinate the introduction at the family's request.

Your knowledge base is fully customizable from the dashboard.

Common Integrations

SRS Computing, FuneralTech, Halcyon (funeral management software)
Google Calendar for the on-call rotation
Zapier for SMS paging the on-call director

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Ready to Get Started?

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