Workshop Quote Follow-up on Autopilot

Natalia follows up your pending quotes and repair orders by outbound call or WhatsApp, for the workshop as well as new and used cars. No follow-up slips through the cracks.

N Natalia Team, AI experts for automotive
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A service quote sent on Friday. The customer doesn't call back. The advisor moves on. Three weeks later the quote is forgotten and the job was done elsewhere.

Quote follow-up is where revenue leaks the most quietly at a dealership. These are customers already interested and already quoted, whom nobody calls back.

Why workshop quotes are never followed up

Following up a quote takes time and consistency. You have to note the send date, plan the call-back, pull the file, call at the right moment. Between two customers at the counter, this follow-up always slips.

Repair orders awaiting approval meet the same fate. The customer asked to think it over, the advisor was meant to call back, nobody did. The car leaves without the job.

On the sales side, a new-car or used-car quote with no follow-up is a hot prospect going cold. The first to re-contact the customer often wins the deal. At a dealership, that's almost never you.

How Natalia follows up your quotes

Natalia tracks every quote issued, triggers the follow-up at the right moment and keeps a record of every exchange.

Right-timed follow-up

Natalia schedules the follow-up to your rules: 48h after sending, before expiry, or on the date agreed with the customer.

Every quote tracked

Service quote, repair order, new-car or used-car offer: every pending document is picked up, none forgotten.

Qualified outbound call

Natalia calls the customer back, recaps the quote, answers simple questions and records the decision.

WhatsApp follow-up

If the customer doesn't pick up, the follow-up goes out on WhatsApp. 45% reply rate, versus 6% for email (source: Gartner).

Status kept current

Accepted, to call back, declined: every quote has a clear status, pushed to the team and your management tool.

Handover

Customer ready to sign or a technical question: Natalia hands over to the advisor with the follow-up history.

Call and WhatsApp, whatever works

Email follow-up ends up in spam or ignored: only 6% reply. Natalia combines two channels that get an answer, the outbound call and the WhatsApp message, which reaches a 45% reply rate.

The message is personalised: quote reference, job concerned, deadline. No generic template that reeks of automation. The customer replies in the conversation, Natalia understands and moves the file forward.

You set the cadence and the number of follow-ups. Natalia never pushes beyond what you allow, so it never damages the customer relationship.

What you recover

Quotes that would have stayed unanswered come back to the workshop or the showroom. You turn quoting work already done into revenue, with no extra effort from your teams.

Your advisors no longer feel guilty about not calling back. The follow-up runs in the background; they only step in once the customer is ready to decide.

Follow-up only pays off if the first call is answered. See how Natalia answers before the call is missed.

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Frequently asked questions

Which quotes can Natalia follow up on?

All of them: service quotes, repair orders awaiting approval, new-car and used-car offers. Natalia tracks the issue date of each document and triggers the follow-up according to the rules you define, without forgetting a single file.

Which channel does Natalia use to follow up?

An outbound call first, then WhatsApp if the customer doesn't pick up. The message recaps the reference and content of the quote. WhatsApp gets a 45% reply rate versus 6% for email, which clearly changes the return on your follow-ups.

Won't automated follow-up annoy customers?

You set the cadence and the number of follow-ups. Natalia never pushes beyond that. The message is personalised. As soon as the customer replies or wants to decide, the exchange moves to a human advisor.

Does Natalia update quote status in our tools?

Yes. Each quote gets a clear status: accepted, to call back, declined. That status is pushed to your team and your management tool. You keep an up-to-date view of everything pending, with no double entry.

Turn pending quotes into revenue

See how Natalia follows up your workshop and sales quotes, by call and WhatsApp.