The Way it Works

Lets look at our app on the iPhone. After the initial login with the customer’s email address or welcome code, the app turns into a shop specific screen, featuring your logo, shop name and phone number. Next time the app is launched, it goes directly to the shop-specific page. Let’s see how easily your customer engages with you:

1. Tapping the phone number calls your shop.
2. Tapping “Save Money” shows the promotion, configured on your AV Dashboard. Read the next tab to learn how to set this up.
3. The vehicle image can be uploaded by you or the customer. Annual mileage and personalized service interval are also displayed.
4. The next service due date is shown, together with …
5. … your detailed recommendations from the last visit.
6. Tapping opens the “Schedule Appointment.”
7. Once the appointment date is selected and other details have been added, you customer can select whether the promotion should be added to the appointment (see below the “schedule appointment” page).

App only specials and promotions

By configuring a special, when your customers press the Save Money button in the app, they will see your promotion and request an appointment to redeem it.

To configure your promotion, go to MyShop > Customer Messages. Here you will see the option to write the message and choose an expiration date.

The special will look like this in the app when the customer hits Save Money. They can use this special and request an appointment, and you will be notified via email and a notification on your dashboard that the customer wants an appointment and they they would like to use the special.

Appointment Calendar

As usual the appointment shows up on your AV dashboard and in your email inbox for quick response.

Push Notifications

Let’s take a quick glance at the push notification: Once you configured and sent a promotion or any other message to your customers using your AutoVitals dashboard, the app icon on the iPhone shows how many messages are there to check and (if configured) the promotion pops up on the iPhone screen.

Can you see how this simple and clear user experience will engage your customers? Scheduling automotive appointments will no longer be a hassle or a chore, but a quick and painless tap of a mobile device.

To send a push notification to your app customers, go to MyShop > Customer Messages.

But how will your customer know about the mobile application?

Your customers will learn about the app and the benefits it offers in several ways

1. After the customer visits your shop, they will be sent an activation email inviting them to set up their online Service Center account, as well as download the mobile app. Read more about this activation email and what else we send your customers after the visit click here, and specifically read the tab called ‘What does the Activation email do?’. The welcome code needed to log in will be provided in this activation email as well as the link to download.
2. We highly recommend talking to your customer about the mobile app when they drop off their vehicle, or pick it up. A conversation with the service adviser about the benefits of the mobile app is by far the most effective way of getting customers to download the app. When doing this, you may need to help a customer find their welcome code manually. This is easily done from the TVP. Just click on the customer name > Communication settings > Push Notifications. Here you will see a welcome code which is needed when the customer downloads the app.

You can also find the customer’s welcome code from the Vehicle and Driver Directory. To learn how to find the code, or resend the activation email, read this article, specifically the tab called ‘How do I resend a Service Center activation email?’.