For car dealers, importers and showrooms · Ethiopia
A buyer sends a photo of the car from your Facebook ad and asks “last price?”. The salesperson who saw it is off today, and by Monday the buyer has paid a deposit somewhere else.
EliteTeQ Inbox brings every vehicle enquiry from WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram into one shared inbox. Each buyer is assigned to a salesperson, tracked from enquiry to test drive to deposit, and the ad that brought them is recorded. Staff in Addis Ababa and Adama or anywhere else answer from one +251 business number, with office hours on Addis Ababa time (EAT).
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Every salesperson uses their own phone. When one leaves, their buyers go with them.
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Buyers write to the dealership number and every conversation stays in the shared inbox. Reassign a buyer with a note, history included.
We run car ads every week and can’t say which ones sold a car.
EliteTeQ Inbox
Every lead from a Click-to-WhatsApp ad arrives with the ad’s name, and reports rank ads by leads and sales.
Buyers who asked for a quote last week have gone quiet.
EliteTeQ Inbox
Every buyer sits on the pipeline. Quotes still waiting, and leads fresh from an ad, are flagged hot.
Every enquiry is a customer deciding where to spend. Don’t let yours wait.
EliteTeQ Inbox is a customer conversation and CRM platform. WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Instagram DMs and comments land in one workspace your whole team answers from.
Customers in Ethiopia write in Amharic, Afaan Oromo and English, and your team replies in the same chat. Every enquiry below gets an owner, a stage and a follow-up:
Less switching between phones. More enquiries turned into customers.
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A WhatsApp CRM for car dealerships is a shared inbox and lead pipeline for the messages car dealers, importers and showrooms in Ethiopia get every day. EliteTeQ Inbox connects your WhatsApp Business number, Facebook Page and Instagram account, lets several staff answer from their own logins, puts every customer on a pipeline (for example New enquiry, Quote sent, Test drive), and shows the owner who answered and how fast.
| Product | EliteTeQ Inbox, by EliteTeQ Softwares Limited (Nairobi, Kenya) |
|---|---|
| What it is | A WhatsApp team inbox and CRM |
| Channels | WhatsApp Business (official Cloud API, works alongside the WhatsApp Business app), Facebook Messenger, Instagram DMs, Facebook and Instagram comments |
| Works on | Any browser; installs on Android and iPhone |
| Price | From $29 a month; $59 Growth; $99 Business with unlimited people; a year costs 10 months |
| Free trial | 7 days, every feature open |
| WhatsApp numbers | 1 to 3 included by plan; up to 20 per business (Meta’s limit once the business is verified with Meta) |
| In Ethiopia | +251 WhatsApp Business numbers, office hours on Addis Ababa time (EAT) |
| Languages | Customers write in Amharic, Afaan Oromo and English |
| Setup | About 40 minutes, or done with you on WhatsApp |
| Last reviewed | 2026-11-01 |
Real screens from our demo workspace, with example data.
The whole sales team answers from the dealership number with their own logins. Auto-assign shares new buyers out in turn.
Real screen · demo workspace with example data
Move buyers from enquiry to quote to test drive. Filter by salesperson to see who has buyers waiting.
Real screen · demo workspace with example data
Reports show leads from ads against direct messages and rank ads by clients won.
Real screen · demo workspace with example data
An example you can set up in Settings → Pipeline stages and rename any time.
No credit card required · Plans from $29/month
No installation and no long training.
Register with your email. The 7-day trial opens every feature, no card needed.
Link your Facebook Page and Instagram. We connect your +251 WhatsApp Business number with you on WhatsApp, on Addis Ababa time (EAT), in about 40 minutes.
Add staff with their own logins as Owner, Admin or Agent, whether they work in Addis Ababa and Adama or from home.
Name the stages after how you work, for example: New enquiry → Quote sent → Test drive → Negotiating.
Assign chats, follow up hot leads and watch the reports.
No credit card required · Plans from $29/month
A shared inbox helps your team see messages. EliteTeQ goes further, connecting every conversation to lead management, team coordination and sales visibility.
The same plans for every industry in Ethiopia, in US dollars: Starter $29, Growth $59, Business $99 a month. Paying yearly costs 10 months. 7-day free trial, no credit card. Meta’s WhatsApp charges, where they apply, are separate.
The difference is that every enquiry has an owner and nothing depends on one phone, whether your team is in Addis Ababa and Adama or at home.
| Phones and personal chats | EliteTeQ Inbox |
|---|---|
| Whoever holds the phone answers | Every staff member answers from their own login |
| Two people reply to the same customer | Each chat is assigned to one person |
| Quotes and follow-ups forgotten | Waiting chats and hot leads are flagged |
| Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp on different devices | Every channel in the same list |
| No idea how fast customers get an answer | Reply speed and leads per person in reports |
EliteTeQ Inbox works for car dealers, importers and showrooms in Ethiopia on your existing +251 WhatsApp Business number. Customers see your business name as they do today, and your team answers from Addis Ababa and Adama or anywhere else.
In Ethiopia, many customers also use Telegram, which EliteTeQ Inbox does not connect to yet. For businesses in Addis Ababa and beyond that sell on WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram, it puts those chats in one list the whole team shares.
Customers in Ethiopia write in Amharic, Afaan Oromo, Tigrinya and English. Your team replies in the customer’s language inside the 24-hour window; template messages can currently be created in English.
Office hours are set day by day for each number. A common setup in Addis Ababa: weekdays open, Saturday mornings open, Sunday closed. Anyone who writes while you are closed gets your away message, at most once every 12 hours, and the chat waits at the top of the list for the morning.
Addis Ababa holds most formal trade, with regional cities supplying wide catchments over long routes.
Oromia Region · a commercial town on the central industrial corridor
Sitting on the corridor between the capital and the Djibouti route brings transit, logistics and hospitality trade on top of local retail. The binding constraint is holding bulk and unit pricing for a mix of supply and shopper customers. Adama sits on the main corridor between Addis Ababa and the Djibouti route, which gives it substantial transit, logistics and hospitality trade alongside local retail. Car dealerships enquiries from Adama land in one shared inbox, so a quote never waits on one person’s phone.
Sidama Region · a lakeside city with a major industrial park
The industrial park provides a large wage-earning workforce on regular pay cycles while the lakeside draws weekend visitors — two predictable but unrelated demand curves. Hawassa combines a lakeside leisure and hospitality trade with a large industrial park, which gives it two distinct customer bases: weekend and holiday visitors, and a substantial wage-earning workforce with regular pay cycles. That makes demand more predictable than in agricultural towns, and rewards systems that handle both fast table service and everyday convenience retail. Car dealerships enquiries from Hawassa land in one shared inbox, so a quote never waits on one person’s phone.
Addis Ababa · Ethiopia's capital and the seat of the African Union
Merkato trades at enormous scale while the diplomatic and international-organisation districts carry a quite different basket, and both sit in one city. Addis Ababa concentrates Ethiopia's formal retail, hospitality and institutional trade, with a large diplomatic and international-organisation presence alongside the vast Merkato trading area. Mobile money use is growing quickly alongside cash. Car dealerships enquiries from Addis Ababa land in one shared inbox, so a quote never waits on one person’s phone.
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Ask a humanYes. Car dealerships teams in Ethiopia use EliteTeQ Inbox with their own +251 WhatsApp Business number. Staff in Addis Ababa, Adama or anywhere else answer from their own logins, customers write in Amharic, Afaan Oromo and English, and office hours run on Addis Ababa time (EAT). Plans start at $29 a month with a 7-day free trial.
Yes. Connect several WhatsApp Business numbers in one workspace and give each department its own team.
Yes. EliteTeQ Inbox installs on Android and iPhone, and each salesperson signs in with their own login.
There is no ready-made integration. The EliteTeQ API (in early access) lets a developer add leads and send messages from your own system.
Yes. Everyone signs in with their own login, on a computer or phone, and each chat is assigned to one person. The WhatsApp Business app on your phone can stay connected.
Starter is $29 a month for 1 WhatsApp number and 3 people, Growth $59 for 2 numbers and 6 people, and Business $99 for 3 numbers and unlimited people. Every plan starts with a 7-day free trial.
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Bring your channels, your team and every customer conversation into one organised workspace.
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