AI receptionist for car dealerships in Portsmouth
A Portsmouth dealership lets roughly 46 calls a week ring out. Callwise answers all of them on your existing 023 number, books the work and sends you the transcript.
- Keeps your 023 number
- Answers on the first ring
- No per minute fees
- Live in 24 hours
Ring +44 330 912 2553. It answers, and you can try to catch it out.
What the phone looks like for a Portsmouth dealership
Portsmouth and the wider Hampshire has a population of around 550,000, built on defence, maritime and a dense terraced housing stock. That produces a lot of phone calls, and for a dealership working across Southsea, Fratton and Cosham most of them arrive at the exact moment nobody can pick up.
A buyer who cannot reach you about a specific car simply rings the next dealer advertising a similar one.
Callwise answers on your own 023 number. Customers ring the number they already have, it is answered on the first ring by something that sounds like a person, and the job is booked into your diary before the caller has thought about trying anybody else.
When Portsmouth calls go unanswered
- evenings, when people browse listings
- Sundays, when many showrooms are shut
- while every salesperson is with a customer
What Portsmouth callers want
- whether a car advertised online is still available
- booking a test drive
- part exchange values and finance
What a Portsmouth dealership loses to the phone
£78,900
a month, at one site
Around 46 missed calls a week, assuming only a third would ever have booked, at £1,200 a customer. Callwise costs £499 a month, whatever the volume.
What it does for Portsmouth dealerships
Answers is it still available
Books test drives into the diary
Takes part exchange details
Covers evenings and Sundays entirely
Portsmouth dealerships ask us
Do we keep our 023 number?
Yes. Your existing 023 number stays exactly as it is and keeps ringing your phones. Calls only reach the assistant when nobody picks up, or at the hours you choose, so nothing about how Portsmouth customers reach you changes.
Do you work with dealerships outside Portsmouth?
Yes. There is nothing local about how it works, so Portsmouth and everywhere across Hampshire is covered the same way, along with the rest of the UK. The local part is your number and your customers, and both stay yours.
When do buyers actually ring?
Evenings and Sundays, because that is when people browse listings. Those are exactly the hours most showrooms are closed or thin on staff.
Can it confirm a car is still there?
If your stock list is available to it, directly. Otherwise it takes the registration or stock number and gets an answer to the customer fast.
Will it discuss finance?
It explains what you offer in general terms and books the appointment. It gives no personal recommendation and no approval.
Hear it answer, then decide
Ring it and ask what a Portsmouth customer would ask. It is the same assistant your callers would get, so if it does not convince you on the phone it will not convince them either.
Talk to our AI assistantNo form, no sales call. Thirty seconds on the phone with the thing itself.