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VOCPhone for Car dealers
A buyer ready to spend forty thousand dollars will not hold for ninety seconds.
Car buyers ring about a specific vehicle they have already found online. They are the hottest lead in retail, they are ringing three dealers, and they have exactly no patience for a queue.
Confirms the stock number and books the test drive
Keep every number you already advertise
We own and run the network, so uptime is ours to fix
Australian owned, hosted and supported, 15+ years in market
Stock confirmed · drive booked
Sat 11:20am
Your dealership11:20
Salesperson with a buyer on the lotA live deal that cannot be left.selling
Enquiry on a specific stock numberFound it online, ringing three dealers.08s18s28s39slost
Service booking for a warranty jobExisting customer, second attempt.05s12s20s28slost
One deal progressing. One hot lead gone, one customer annoyed.
Said out loud on every lot
You have said at least four of these this month
These are lead conversion problems that arrive down a phone line on a Saturday.
01
Everyone who can sell is on the lot
Your salespeople are with live customers, which is where they should be. The phone rings into an empty desk.
The agent answers, confirms the stock and books the test drive.
02
Stock availability is the entire question
Is it still there. That is what almost every sales call is, and it is answerable from your inventory.
Answered instantly from what your systems expose about stock.
03
Service and sales fight for the same line
A service booking and a hot sales lead are worth wildly different amounts and get identical treatment.
Separate queues, so sales enquiries never wait behind a service booking.
04
Saturday is your peak and your worst answering day
The busiest day on the lot is the busiest day on the phone.
Unlimited simultaneous calls, so Saturday stops leaking.
05
Finance and trade in questions repeat forever
Do you take trade ins, do you do finance, what is my car worth. The same conversation all day.
Answered consistently, then routed to the right specialist.
06
You cannot attribute your ad spend
You spend a fortune on listings and cannot tell which produced calls, because many were never answered.
Every call logged and summarised against source.
Watch one get saved
7:40pm. The lot is closed. The test drive is booked.
This is the call that used to ring out after hours. Here it is answered by a VOCPhone AI phone agent, from what you told it about your dealership.
It sounds like it is from here. Genuine Australian accents, not a call centre and not a robot reading a script.
It knows your stock and your process. What is on the lot, what is in transit, and how you handle trade ins and finance.
It books test drives. Because a booked test drive is what actually converts a phone enquiry.
It separates sales from service. So the highest value calls never queue behind a warranty booking.
VPVOCPhone AI Agent Inbound · 00:48LIVE
AgentGood evening, thanks for calling Northgate Motors. How can I help?
BuyerI am looking at a silver Ranger on your website, stock number 4417. Is it still available?
AgentLet me check. Yes, 4417 is still on the lot and has not been sold or deposited.
BuyerGreat. Can I come and drive it tomorrow?
AgentAbsolutely. We open from nine. I can book a test drive at 10am or 1pm, and I will have the vehicle brought to the front with plates ready.
BuyerTen o'clock. It is Josh Nguyen. I also have a car to trade.
AgentBooked, Josh, 10am with 4417. I have noted the trade in so an appraiser is available, and texted the confirmation.
What happened after the lot closed
- Stock availability confirmed on the call, which is the whole question
- Test drive booked for a specific vehicle at a specific time
- Trade in flagged so an appraiser was rostered
- Lead and transcript in your CRM before the morning meeting
The number nobody tracks
The hottest lead in retail arrives by phone and rings out
Dealerships spend heavily on listings and digital to generate exactly one thing: a phone call about a specific vehicle. Then the call rings out because everybody is on the lot.
1The buyer has already chosen the car. They are not browsing. They found stock number 4417 and want to know if it is still there.
2They are ringing your competitors in the same minute. Whoever answers gets the test drive, and the test drive usually gets the sale.
3Service and sales share one line. A warranty booking and a forty thousand dollar enquiry queue behind each other.
Hot leads lost, per weekIllustrative. Put your own numbers in.
Calls to the dealership260
Answered by a person158
Rang out or abandoned102
Share that were a vehicle enquiryx 0.30
Genuine vehicle enquiries lost per week31
Average gross per unit$2,900
Lost per weekThirty one leads
Lost per yearAn enormous number
Change the two highlighted lines to your own figures. The arithmetic is the point, not our example. At even a low conversion rate this is the most expensive leak on site.
One number, sorted by value
A hot sales lead should never queue behind a service booking
Publish one number. Behind it, vehicle enquiries reach sales immediately, service bookings have their own queue, and parts never blocks either.
Live call being routedOverflow and after hours to the AI agent
Trading peaks
Plate change and end of year both arrive on a Saturday
Dealership call volume spikes around end of financial year runouts, plate changes and the pre Christmas period. Those are the days your lot is busiest and your phone least likely to be answered.
An AI agent answers every call simultaneously, confirms stock, books the test drive, and stops your most expensive leads going to whichever dealer had somebody free.
Inbound calls across a dealership yearshape, not scale
What your team can realistically answer Overflow the AI agent picks up
Illustrative shape based on typical Australian dealership trading. Your own curve depends on your brands.
It plugs into what you already run
Your phone should know which vehicle is calling
VOCPhone connects to more than a thousand apps and offers open APIs, so a call arrives with a customer attached to it rather than just a number.
SalesforceHubSpotZohoXeroMondayGoogle WorkspaceMicrosoft 365SlackOpen APIs for the rest
Screen pops before you say hello
The caller's name, their history and their open enquiry appear as it rings, so you open with their name instead of asking who is calling.
Click to call from the record
Ring a customer straight from your dealer management or CRM system without typing a number, and every call logs itself against the right file.
Notes that write themselves
Recording, transcript, AI summary and next action land in your CRM. Untimed HD video for up to 30 people is included when a call needs faces.
Why VOCPhone
One provider, one network, one bill
Most providers sell you a phone system that runs on infrastructure they rent. We built ours, which changes what we can promise.
We own the network
Not a reseller reselling somebody else's switch. VOCPhone owns and operates its own Australian network, which is why we can guarantee 99.99% uptime and fix things ourselves.
AI phone agents that sound Australian
Inbound and outbound agents trained on your business. They answer, qualify, book and escalate, in a genuine Australian accent, at any hour.
Desk, desktop and pocket
Apps for Windows, Mac, iOS and Android, plus certified desk and cordless handsets. Untimed HD video for up to 30 people comes with it.
Australian, and answerable
Australian owned, Australian hosted, 24/7 human support, 15+ years in this market, and a price-match guarantee if you find better.
Straight answers
The questions dealerships ask us first
Can it confirm whether a specific car is still available?
Where your inventory or dealer management system can be reached through an integration or an API, yes, and that is the single question most sales calls consist of. It can confirm a stock number is still on the lot.
Where a live connection is not available it captures the stock number precisely, books provisionally and flags it for immediate confirmation, which still keeps the buyer from ringing the next dealer.
Can it book a test drive?
Yes, and that is what converts. A booked test drive with the right vehicle prepared and, if there is a trade in, an appraiser available, is worth immeasurably more than a message on a pad.
It can also apply your rules about which vehicles need a licence check or a deposit before a drive.
Will it interfere with our service department?
It improves it, because sales and service stop competing for the same line. Service bookings get their own queue and greeting with the right job durations, and sales enquiries stop queueing behind them.
It can also handle the constant "is my car ready" calls, which frees your service advisors considerably.
What happens when the AI cannot help?
It hands over, and you decide where. Price negotiation, finance approvals, complaints and warranty disputes can go to a person, a queue, or a manager's mobile.
The caller does not repeat themselves either. Whoever picks up gets the context the agent already gathered. Outside hours it takes the details, texts a confirmation and queues the callback.
What difference does owning the network actually make?
Most providers resell somebody else's switch, which means when something breaks they raise a ticket with a wholesaler and wait, exactly like you would. VOCPhone built and runs its own Australian network, so we fix it ourselves.
It is also why we can put a number on uptime and offer a price match. There is no reseller margin stacked in the middle of your bill.
We run more than one site. Does that work?
That is where it earns its keep. Advertise one number and we route behind it by site, by time of day and by queue, with overflow so a call at a flat out site rings somewhere quieter.
Each site can keep its own greeting and direct number. Reporting rolls up across all of them.
Do we have to change our phone number?
No. Number portability is standard, including 1300 and 1800, so the number on your listings, your signage and years of local search results stays exactly as it is.
We port it across and plan the cutover around your hours, not ours.
Voice over Cloud
Answer the hottest lead in retail on the first ring
Book fifteen minutes. Show us how vehicle enquiries reach you today, and we will show you the version where Saturday stops leaking.
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