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A WhatsApp AI chatbot for Irish businesses

Ariko is an AI receptionist for businesses in Ireland: it answers your customers on WhatsApp and on your website, 24/7, only from your business's own information. It replies in English — or, once you switch it on, in the language each customer writes in — books appointments into Google Calendar, and hands a member of your team anything it can't answer.

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Built for the way your customers get in touch

Customers text the salon between clients, the physio after hours, and the grinds tutor on a Sunday night. Ariko answers every one of them from what you wrote — hours, services, prices, policies — and books the slot while they are still in the chat.

What Ariko does for a business in Ireland

  • Answers from your business's information. Opening hours, services, prices, policies, directions — whatever you write in, and nothing it has to invent.
  • Books the appointment in the chat. Connect Google Calendar and Ariko offers free times, books, cancels and reschedules.
  • Speaks your customers' language. English for an account opened in English, or set it to answer each customer in the language they wrote in.
  • Runs on your local time. Opening hours and bookings follow your business's time zone, taken from your browser when you sign up and changeable in the settings.
  • Understands voice notes and images. A customer who sends a voice note or a photo gets an answer to it, not a request to type.
  • Answers on your website too. The same information powers a chat on your site, on the paid plans.
  • Hands over to your team. What it doesn't know goes to a member of the team, and you can take over any chat from the shared inbox.

Who it fits

  • Hair and beauty salons — bookings, prices and aftercare questions.
  • Barbers — slots and opening hours.
  • Dentists and clinics — treatments, availability and directions.
  • Physios and therapists — first appointments and rescheduling.
  • Gyms, studios and personal trainers — classes, memberships and trial sessions.
  • Grinds tutors and driving instructors — lessons, availability and prices.

Your number, and Meta's charges

Ariko runs on Meta's official WhatsApp Business Platform. A number on the WhatsApp Business app connects by scanning a QR code, and the app keeps working — Meta added EU numbers to this option, which it calls coexistence, in October 2025. Since 1 October 2026 Meta charges per message, with 1,000 free service messages per number a month; Ireland is priced in Meta's "Rest of Western Europe" group. With Ariko, those charges are included in the subscription (sources).

A conversation, after hours

An illustration: a made-up physio clinic, not a real customer. The bot answers from what the clinic wrote and books into its calendar.

Hi, any chance of a physio appointment Thursday after work?
Hi! On Thursday there's 17:30 or 18:15 — shall I book one?
18:15 would be great
Booked: Thursday 18:15. See you then!

Why businesses choose Ariko

  • Answers from your business, not from a script. Write once what the business does — hours, services, prices, policies — and Ariko answers from it, including questions nobody built a path for.
  • In your customer's language. An account opened in English replies in English, and Ariko can be set to answer each customer in the language they wrote in — or only in languages you allow.
  • Booking inside the conversation. Checks Google Calendar for free times, books, cancels and reschedules.
  • WhatsApp and website, from the same information. Ariko also answers in a chat on the business's website.
  • Your team stays in control. A shared inbox: see every conversation and step in by hand at any moment.
  • Meta's message charges included. No separate WhatsApp bill to top up: the charges Meta makes per message are part of the subscription.
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Frequently asked questions

Can Ariko answer my customers in English?

Yes. An account opened in English replies in English, and you can set Ariko to answer each customer in the language they wrote in — or only in languages you pick, with English as the fallback.

Can I keep my business's WhatsApp number?

If it is on the WhatsApp Business app, yes: you connect it by scanning a QR code and the app on your phone keeps working. Meta calls this coexistence, and added EU numbers to it in October 2025.

Does Ariko book appointments?

Yes, once you connect Google Calendar: it checks free times inside the hours you set, then books, cancels and reschedules from the conversation.

How much does Ariko cost?

You build and test at $0 — No WhatsApp connection on the free plan. WhatsApp starts with the Start plan, $99 a month (charged in shekels: ₪299 a month) with 1,000 messages, and Meta's message charges are included. Full pricing.

What happens when Ariko doesn't know the answer?

It never makes one up. It tells the customer a member of the team can answer and offers to pass the question on; you see it in the inbox and can take over the chat at any moment.

Is Ariko only for WhatsApp?

No. Ariko answers on WhatsApp and in a chat on your business's website, from the same information, on the paid plans.

Sources (checked 27 October 2026)

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