Industries · Car Dealerships

A phone system that keeps sales, service and parts calls out of voicemail.

Dialerportal runs your dealership on a Cloud PBX built for how a store actually works: a department menu that separates sales, service and parts, queues sized for your BDC, after-hours handling for the Sunday trade-in enquiry, and every call logged against the customer record in your CRM.

What you get

Built for the way a dealership answers the phone

Most stores lose deals at the switchboard, not on the lot. This Cloud PBX puts service bookings, test-drive requests and parts enquiries in front of the right person the first time they call.

Sales, service and parts on one number

An IVR auto-attendant greets the caller and sends them to sales, service, parts, finance or collision instead of whoever happens to be nearest the front desk. Service advisors stop fielding trade-in questions and salespeople stop taking oil-change bookings. Options can be added or renamed yourself as departments move around the store.

Queues sized for your BDC

Put your BDC team in a call queue so a customer asking about a used truck waits for the next available rep rather than hearing a busy tone. Calls can hunt down a list, ring the whole group at once, or overflow to the showroom floor when the queue backs up. Advisors on the drive can sit in the service queue only, so their extension never lights up with sales traffic.

Evenings, Sundays and holidays covered

Business-hours routing knows the service lane closes before the showroom does, and that the parts counter keeps different hours again. Out of hours, callers reach an AI voice agent that can take a service booking request or answer questions about hours and stock, and anything it can't handle drops to voicemail-to-email so the BDC opens Monday with the enquiry already in the inbox.

One system across every rooftop

Group stores run three rooftops or thirteen on the same platform, each with its own local DID, its own greeting and its own department menu. Port the numbers your used-car ads and service reminders already carry, and add toll-free lines for group-level sales or a recall campaign. Transfers between rooftops are internal, so a Ford customer looking for a Chevy trade-in is handed over rather than told to call back.

Every call lands on the customer record

Calls, recordings and notes sync into HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Zoho or GoHighLevel, so the appraisal conversation and the test-drive follow-up sit on one timeline. Click-to-call lets a BDC rep work a list of unsold showroom traffic or lapsed service customers straight from the record without rekeying numbers.

Text the customers who won't pick up

Two-way SMS on A2P 10DLC handles what phone calls miss: confirming a service appointment, telling a customer the loaner is ready, or nudging a trade-in lead who went quiet after the appraisal. Replies land in the same thread as the call history, so nobody chases a customer twice.

See where the store drops calls

Dashboards show call volume by department and by rooftop, which hours the service queue is overwhelmed, and how many enquiries never got answered. Call recording gives sales managers real trade-in and test-drive conversations to coach from instead of secondhand accounts of what was said.
How it works

From front desk to full department routing

Keep your existing store numbers, map your departments, connect the CRM, and have the phones answering properly the same week.

01

Port your store numbers

Bring across the main line, the service number and any tracking numbers running on your used-car listings, so nothing on your window stickers or service reminders has to change.

02

Map the departments

Build the menu for sales, service, parts and finance, then set the ring groups and queues for your BDC, advisors and floor staff. Set separate hours for the showroom and the service lane.

03

Connect the CRM and go live

Link HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Zoho or GoHighLevel so calls log against the customer, then have staff take calls from the browser or the mobile softphone. Setup runs in hours, not weeks.

04

Tune from the numbers

Check which department is abandoning calls at 10am on a Saturday, adjust queue overflow and after-hours handling, and use recordings to tighten how the BDC handles trade-in and test-drive enquiries.

AI voice agents

An AI voice agent for the calls that come in after the lot goes dark

The service drive shuts before the showroom, the showroom shuts before your customers finish work, and the trade-in calls keep arriving on Sunday. A Dialerportal AI voice agent answers those calls in natural conversation, works alongside the Cloud PBX rather than in place of your BDC, and hands anything it should not handle to a person.

Service bookings taken after the lane closes

A customer calling at 7pm about an oil change, a brake noise or an open recall gets a conversation instead of a voicemail box. The agent checks what they drive and their mileage, books them into an open slot on the drive schedule, and notes whether they need a loaner or the shuttle. It can also move or cancel an appointment a customer already has.

Trade-in and test-drive callers qualified overnight

When someone calls off a used-car listing, the agent takes the year, make, model, mileage and rough condition of what they are driving now, plus how soon they want to be in something else. For a test drive it captures the stock number or the vehicle they saw and the times they can come to the store. It never puts a figure on the trade: the appraisal stays with your used-car manager.

Stock, hours and the questions that fill voicemail

Most out-of-hours calls are simple: is the silver truck from the ad still on the lot, what time does the parts counter open on Saturday, does the service lane take walk-ins, which door is collision drop-off. The agent handles those directly so the BDC does not open Monday to forty messages that could have been answered on the spot. It will not quote payments, rates, approval odds or tax treatment, and anything touching financing goes to a person in F&I.

Hot buyers handed straight to the desk

If the caller wants to come in this afternoon or is asking about a unit that has been sitting, the agent warm transfers them to the BDC or the sales desk while they are still on the phone. When the store is closed or everyone is tied up in the Saturday rush, it takes the details instead and logs the call and its outcome against the customer record in your CRM, the same as any call a person answered.

Explore the platform

The tools behind your car dealerships phone system

Car Dealerships run on the same Dialerportal platform that powers cloud PBX, VoIP and call centers for businesses worldwide.

FAQ

Dealership phone systems, answered

What general managers and fixed ops directors ask before switching the store over.

It is a Cloud PBX built around dealership departments. An auto-attendant splits sales, service and parts, ring groups and queues distribute calls to your BDC and service advisors, business-hours rules cover the showroom and the drive separately, and voicemail-to-email catches whatever comes in overnight. Calls sync to your CRM, and multi-rooftop groups run every store on one system. It starts at $19 per seat per month, month to month.

Yes, and that is the main reason stores move over. The auto-attendant gives each department its own option, and each option points at a ring group or queue you control: BDC agents in one, service advisors in another, the parts counter in a third. You can set separate hours per department, so a service call at 6pm gets after-hours handling while the showroom is still open and taking sales calls.

Put your advisors in a queue rather than on individual extensions, so calls hold for the next free person instead of hitting a busy line or rolling to a dead voicemail box. Set overflow so a long wait spills to the BDC. After hours, an AI voice agent can capture the booking request, and voicemail-to-email delivers anything left over to the service inbox so it gets called back first thing.

Yes. Each rooftop gets its own local numbers, greeting and department menu, while everything runs on one platform with one bill. Staff transfer between stores as internal calls, so a customer at the Toyota store can be handed to the Honda store without being told to hang up and dial again. Reporting rolls up across the group or filters down to a single location.

Dialerportal integrates with HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Zoho and GoHighLevel. Inbound and outbound calls log against the customer record automatically, along with recordings, so an appraisal call and the follow-up two days later sit on the same timeline. Click-to-call works from the record, which speeds up unsold-traffic follow-up and service reactivation lists without anyone typing numbers by hand.

Setup runs in hours rather than weeks. There is no PBX to install in the back office: staff answer from a browser or the mobile softphone, so a salesperson on the lot takes calls on the store number from a phone in their pocket. Number porting is the longest part and runs in the background while you keep taking calls. Support is US-based and answers in about 30 seconds.

It answers the calls the store cannot: the 8pm service booking, the Sunday afternoon trade-in call, the Saturday overflow when every BDC rep is already on a line. In natural conversation it books or reschedules service work, qualifies a trade-in or test-drive lead, answers stock, hours and location questions, and warm transfers a ready buyer to a person. It does not appraise vehicles, quote payments or discuss financing terms, and it escalates all of that to your team. Every call is logged to the CRM.

Stop losing service bookings to a busy signal

See how your store handles a Saturday rush of sales, service and parts calls at once, or talk to a person at 1-888-488-8138.