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Text messaging for dealerships and repair shops

Service reminders, "your car is ready", and trade-in offers, sent from a number the customer can text back, which is how most people would rather deal with a service department anyway.

Waybill № 4182 Rate 1 credit / SMS
From
(415) 555-0134 · your number
To
1,850 customers · “Service due”
Your car is due for its 30,000 mile service. Reply BOOK and we will find you a slot this week. Reply STOP to opt out.
Sent 1,850 Delivered 1,847 Cost $36.81

What you would actually send

Service due
Your 30,000 mile service is due. Reply BOOK and we will find you a slot this week.
82 chars 1 credit
Car ready
Your car is ready for collection. We are open until 6 today and 4 on Saturday.
78 chars 1 credit
Trade-in offer
Used stock is short and your model is in demand. Want a no-obligation trade-in number?
86 chars 1 credit

Examples of what dealerships & repair shops send. One credit per 160-character segment; STOP and HELP are handled automatically on every message.

Service departments have a structural advantage most businesses would envy: you know roughly when every customer will need you again. Mileage and time do the forecasting for you. The failure is almost never knowing who to contact. It is the contacting.

Phone calls to service customers reach voicemail. Emails from dealerships have a deserved reputation and get filtered accordingly. Text is read.

The three messages worth sending

Service due. Grouped by last service date or mileage band, with a one-word reply to start booking. This is the message that fills the bays.

Ready for collection. Small, unglamorous, and the one customers most appreciate, because the alternative is them calling you to ask.

Trade-in enquiry. When used stock is short and a customer is driving something you can sell, a no-obligation valuation offer converts far better by text than by email.

Replies, not a one-way channel

A customer who replies “can you do Thursday afternoon” reaches a shared inbox that the service desk can work from. Nobody has to check a separate portal.

What not to do

Do not text the whole database every time there is a sales event. Dealership lists get burned out faster than almost any other category, and once people opt out they do not come back. Segment by what the customer actually owns and when they last visited.

Compliance is not optional here

Vehicle finance and warranty messaging attracts scrutiny, and consent records matter. Opt-ins are recorded automatically, STOP is handled for you, and the carrier registration rules apply before your first send.

No monthly fee. Credits stay while your account is active*, so a slow month is genuinely a slow month.

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