AI Receptionist for Dealerships
- Answer every call, text, and chat 24/7 so you never
miss a service status check or appointment - Keep your number. Overlay on the DMS, CRM,
and helpdesk you already use - Humans keep judgment on sales leads, VIP, and
complaints, with a full-thread handoff
What is an AI receptionist for dealerships?
An AI receptionist for dealerships is software that answers phone, text, and chat for mid-market dealer groups and auto retail operators. IrisAgent handles service status, service scheduling, and hours, location, and fitment FAQs 24/7, overlays on the DMS, CRM, and helpdesk you already use, and routes sales leads, VIP customers, and complaints to a person with the full thread. Dealer SaaS platforms that serve multi-rooftop groups can layer the same front door on the stack their dealers already run. See the AI receptionist hub for the cross-industry product overview, or the restaurants industry page for another multi-location front-door example.
- Never miss the phone: every call, text, and chat is answered 24/7, including after-hours service status, hours, location, and fitment questions.
- Keep your stack: keep your number and overlay on the tools you already use. No rip-and-replace of the DMS or CRM.
- Humans keep judgment: separate service booking from sales leads on one switchboard, with full-thread handoff when a customer needs an advisor or manager.
By the IrisAgent team · Last updated September 23, 2026
Answer every customer on phone, text, and chat, without adding advisors
- IrisGPT GenAI chatbot and IrisAgent Voice AI resolve 60%+ of routine customer questions: service status, schedule, move, or cancel, hours, location, and fitment.
- Keep your existing customer number. IrisAgent overlays on phone, text, and chat, plus the DMS, CRM, and helpdesk you already use.
- Policies stay consistent across every rooftop, so customers hear the same hours, service rules, and fitment answers no matter which location they reach.
Humans keep judgment. The AI keeps the thread.
- Sales leads, VIP customers, and complaints route to an advisor or manager with the full conversation, so nobody asks the customer to start over.
- Multi-location routing picks the right store and service bay from your rules, which is how you avoid wrong-site appointments.
- Service booking stays separate from sales leads on one front door, while after-hours coverage keeps the line open when the store is closed.
Dealership AI receptionist use cases IrisAgent powers
Built for mid-market dealer groups and auto retail operators that cannot miss a service status check, a service appointment, or a sales lead on the front door.
Service status without a missed "is my car ready" call
Customers ask if their car is ready by phone, text, or chat while the lane is full. IrisAgent answers from your service status rules and only taps an advisor when the request needs a person.
Schedule, move, or cancel service appointments
Book, move, or cancel service by phone, text, or chat. IrisAgent follows your bay, hours, and location rules so the appointment lands on the right rooftop.
Hours, location, and fitment FAQ, including after hours
Answer the questions that hit voicemail after close: hours, location, directions, and fitment. Customers get a consistent answer from your published policies, 24/7.
One front door for service and sales, with full-thread handoff
Keep service booking separate from sales leads on the same switchboard. Sales leads, VIP customers, and complaints route to a human with the full thread instead of a cold transfer.
Measurable impact for dealership teams
IrisAgent helps dealer groups answer every customer and keep advisors on the floor.
Trusted by the software dealerships run on
Dealership questions do not stop at the store. They also reach the DMS and retail software vendors that dealer groups depend on. Tekion, the cloud platform thousands of dealerships run on, uses IrisAgent to support those dealerships at scale.
Grounded answers from Tekion's own documentation and resolved tickets, 5x agent productivity, and more than 300,000 dealership support queries processed.
Read the Tekion case study →operations
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