Workflow
The real objection to unattended booking is not whether calls get answered, it is whether the calendar is still right in the morning. How live availability, holiday rules, overbooking permissions and staff overrides work in Kareo.
Because availability is checked against Kareo at the moment of the call, two callers cannot be given the same opening. The conflict that would have to be untangled in the morning never gets created.
Your holiday calendar is known. A call on a holiday routes to urgent triage or on-call, and routine bookings are placed on the next open business day per your rules, so nobody arrives to a closed office.
If your protocol allows overbooking or keeps same-day urgent slots, those are configured up front. Nothing gets squeezed into a full schedule because a caller pushed for it at 11 PM.
Overnight bookings are normal Kareo appointments. Staff can confirm, move, edit or cancel them before the patient arrives, using the same workflow as every other appointment on the schedule.
After-hours calls answered
No voicemail, immediate routing
Appointments booked to Kareo
Real-time sync, visible to staff
Urgent triage
Escalation rules based on chief complaint
Patient confirmation sent
SMS, email, or both per preference
Availability is visible in real time, so the AI offers the next available time or a waitlist hold instead. If your practice protocol allows overbooking or same-day urgent slots, those options are configured up front and used only where you permitted them.
Only if you configure it to. Overbooking and urgent same-day capacity are set as rules before go-live, which means the decision is made by your practice during setup rather than by the system during a call.
The office holiday calendar is known. Holiday calls route to urgent or emergency triage, or to on-call, and routine bookings are placed on the next open business day or your earliest available slot according to your rules.
Yes. Every after-hours booking appears in Kareo like any other appointment, and staff can edit, confirm, move or cancel it before the patient arrives.
Compare the overnight bookings against the call log for the same nights. Because they are ordinary Kareo appointments, your existing schedule reports cover them, and any discrepancy shows up as a normal scheduling exception rather than requiring a special audit.
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