Your Appointment Setting Agent Confirms Every Visit While You Sell
The AgentWorks Appointment Setting Agent takes the confirmation calls, reminders, and no-show follow-ups off your BDC and your salespeople. It confirms every showroom appointment through the channel the customer prefers, reminds them the day before and the hour before, works the no-shows, and tracks show rate by lead source. The Appointment Setting Agent keeps the appointment alive until the customer walks in; your salespeople take it from there.
What it takes off your plate
Every sales manager knows the gap. The BDC sets a good number of appointments, but the confirmation calls go to voicemail and nobody calls back. Show rate tracking is a tally on a whiteboard or a report nobody trusts. When a customer does not show, the lead drops into the CRM and sits, because the salesperson is on the lot with somebody else.
The cost lands on the floor. A salesperson clears time for an appointment that never comes. A customer who meant to come in and simply forgot buys somewhere else. And the manager has no honest way to tell which lead provider sends buyers and which sends tire kickers.
What the Appointment Setting Agent does, step by step
The work starts with the customer and ends in the CRM.
- Confirms the appointment. As soon as an appointment is set, the agent sends a confirmation by text through Twilio or by email through Gmail, whichever the customer asked for, with the time, the salesperson's name, and the vehicle they asked about.
- Reminds the day before. It sends a reminder the day before and asks the customer to reply to confirm or reschedule.
- Handles the reply. A yes marks the appointment confirmed. A "can we come Saturday instead" gets open times from the salesperson's calendar in Google Calendar and a new booking. A question about price or trade value goes straight to the salesperson; the agent does not quote numbers.
- Reminds the hour before. It sends a short note an hour ahead with the address and who to ask for.
- Tells the salesperson. When the customer confirms or cancels, the salesperson gets a message so they can plan the day.
- Follows up on no-shows. If the customer does not arrive, the agent reaches out that day with an easy way to rebook, and follows up again if there is no answer, before handing the lead back to the BDC.
- Tracks show rate by source. Every appointment is tagged with its lead source, so set, confirmed, shown, and sold are counted by provider. A provider whose customers confirm but rarely show stands out quickly.
Where the work is recorded
An agent that cannot write down what it did is a chatbot. The Appointment Setting Agent records its work where your store already looks.
In the CRM, such as DealerSocket, each customer's record shows the confirmation, both reminders, every reply, the reschedule, the no-show follow-up, and the outcome, in order. When the customer calls in, whoever answers sees exactly where the conversation stands.
The appointment itself sits on the salesperson's calendar with its current status. The next morning the sales manager opens one view and sees today's confirmed appointments, yesterday's no-shows and whether they rebooked, and show rate by lead source for the month. That last one is the report the manager takes into the conversation about where to spend on leads.
What your people do instead
Your salespeople stay with the customer at hand: the family on the test drive, the buyer sitting at the desk waiting on numbers, the fleet account manager walking the lot. Your BDC stays on the phone with fresh leads instead of redialing voicemails. That time on the floor is where customer satisfaction in a dealership is earned, and it belongs to people.
The AgentWorks Appointment Setting Agent keeps the confirmations, reminders, and follow-ups moving around them. For other parts of the store, read how to deploy the Internet Lead Response Agent and own the first minute of every web lead and how to deploy the Service Reminder Agent and turn missed appointments into booked ROs.
One next step
Showroom appointments may not be where your store loses the most. The free Industry Assessment shows which workflow an agent should take first at your dealership, and the automotive industry page lays out every agent built for stores like yours.
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