AI alerts for car dealers, plus a daily briefing on your phone

AutoDealer.io does, through Telegram. Each person on your team connects their own Telegram account, and the assistant sends one morning message a day when there is something to report, plus alerts about leads, deals, aging cars and title work. They go to your staff, not to customers. The dashboard itself sends no phone notifications, so Telegram is how an alert reaches a phone today.

About your own store, and only your own staff receive them. They cover your leads, deals, cars, title work, floor plan and in-house loans: a lead assigned to you, a car that has been on the lot 60 days, a title past its due date. Nothing on this page is sent to a shopper or a customer.

Owners and managers get the dealership’s numbers: sales this month, deals in progress, leads that need attention, tasks and inventory. Everyone gets their own day: appointments, tasks due and open leads. It arrives once a day, between 7 and 11 AM dealership time, and you cannot choose the time. A schedule can run a briefing at a time you pick, but its result lands in the assistant chat in the dashboard, not on Telegram.

The usual reasons: there was nothing to report and nothing on your plate, the topic is switched off under Settings, Notifications, or it is not yet morning where your dealership is (Eastern Time is used when no time zone is set). Messages also pause while the assistant is turned off, over its monthly AI allowance, or the subscription is not active. You get one a day, so nothing is added after it has gone out, and on Telegram quiet hours hold it until they end.

The person the lead is assigned to, usually within about 15 minutes. If Lead routing is switched on, a website lead is assigned as it is saved, round robin or by workload, and that person gets the alert. A website lead with nobody assigned shows on the dashboard bell for owners and managers but sends no Telegram alert, and if it is still not contacted a day later it is named to owners and managers in the morning. Quiet hours hold a phone alert until they end.

Owners and managers get an aging inventory alert when an available car reaches 60 days on the lot, counted from its acquisition date, and again at 90. Each car is named once at each mark, not every morning. The morning message also counts the cars past 90 days. You can ask the assistant which cars are aging, and it answers from your inventory with its sources listed.

On Telegram, standard cards such as a new task or a lead update carry Approve and Reject buttons with the card’s number. Money, irreversible actions and emails the assistant drafted have no button: you review and decide those in the dashboard, which also opens in your phone’s browser. A typed yes never approves anything, because a typed reply cannot be tied to one exact proposal.

Yes. Set quiet hours on the Telegram card under Settings, Notifications, or send /quiet 21-7 to the bot for a nightly window in dealership time. Alerts that come up in that window arrive when it ends, each as its own message. /quiet 2h pauses them for two hours and /quiet off turns it all off. Replies to your own messages are never held, and neither is the dashboard copy.

No. Each person connects their own Telegram and switches their own topics on or off. Lot-level alerts, such as aging cars, overdue titles, stalled deals, past-due in-house loans and the dealership’s numbers, go to owners and managers. A salesperson gets their own new leads, tasks and day. The assistant answers each person within their own role, on Telegram as in the app.

Telegram is the phone channel that is built today. It is a free app, and each person links their own account from their own login, so the assistant knows who it is talking to and applies that person’s role. And no, it does not message your customers: Telegram here is a private chat between one staff member and the assistant.

There is no app in the App Store or on Google Play. The dashboard works in your phone’s browser and can be added to your home screen, where it opens full screen. It needs a connection and sends no phone notifications. Telegram covers the rest on a phone: the morning message, alerts, questions to the assistant and approvals for eligible cards.

There is no extra charge. The morning message, the alerts and the Telegram connection are on every plan, and Telegram itself is a free app. Like the rest of the assistant, they run within your plan’s monthly AI allowance. And yes, it works in Spanish: the assistant writes to each person in the language they chose in their profile, and the buttons under a card read Aprobar and Rechazar.