For garages, service centres and body shops · Nigeria

Stop answering customers from greasy phones.Give your service desk one shared inbox.EliteTeQ Inbox for garages, service centres, body shops and tyre centres in Nigeria

Customers ask “is my car ready?” all day. The mechanic who knows is under a car, the advisor is on the phone, and quotes for new jobs wait until evening.

EliteTeQ Inbox lets your service advisors and front desk answer repair bookings, quotes and “is it ready?” questions from one shared inbox. Every job has an owner, quotes are followed up, and customers get an away message after hours. Staff in Lagos and Abuja or anywhere else answer from one +234 business number, with office hours on Lagos time (WAT).

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  • Repair and service bookings
  • Quotes for jobs and parts
  • “Is my car ready?” updates
  • Tyres, batteries and parts
EliteTeQ Inbox chat screen: the list of customer chats with unread counts and the teammate on each, and an open Messenger chat that started from an ad, with an automatic greeting, a staff reply, an internal comment, the lead stage and the reply-window timer
  1. The ad this customer tapped
  2. Lead stage, one tap
  3. Internal comment, never sent
  4. Time left to reply
A chat on the phone that started from an Instagram ad, with replies from the Instagram app and from a teammate

Real screen · demo workspace with example data

Sound familiar? What garages & service teams in Nigeria tell us

  1. Customers keep asking for updates and nobody knows who has the job.

    EliteTeQ Inbox

    An open customer chat in EliteTeQ Inbox showing the ad it came from, an automatic greeting, a staff reply and an internal comment to the owner

    Each customer is assigned to one advisor, with internal notes from the workshop the customer never sees.

  2. We send quotes and the customer goes quiet.

    EliteTeQ Inbox

    Pipeline filtered to hot leads, with reasons like New from an ad and Waiting for your reply

    Jobs sit on a pipeline from quote to approved to done. Waiting quotes are flagged hot.

  3. We are closed on Sunday, but customers still message.

    EliteTeQ Inbox

    Office hours settings for a WhatsApp number, set day by day in the business time zone

    An away message goes out outside your hours, and the chat waits at the top on Monday.

Every enquiry is a customer deciding where to spend. Don’t let yours wait.

One shared inbox for garages, service centres, body shops and tyre centres in Nigeria.

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 Nigeria write in English, Pidgin, Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo, 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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With EliteTeQ Inbox, you can

  • Repair and service bookings
  • Quotes for jobs and parts
  • “Is my car ready?” updates
  • Tyres, batteries and parts

What is a WhatsApp CRM for garages & service?

A WhatsApp CRM for garages & service is a shared inbox and lead pipeline for the messages garages, service centres, body shops and tyre centres in Nigeria 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 Booking request, Inspection, Quote sent), and shows the owner who answered and how fast.

  • One business number, many staff, each with their own login
  • Every chat assigned to one person, with internal notes
  • A pipeline named after your own steps
  • Reports on reply speed, leads per day and ad sources

EliteTeQ Inbox at a glance

EliteTeQ Inbox at a glance
ProductEliteTeQ Inbox, by EliteTeQ Softwares Limited (Nairobi, Kenya)
What it isA WhatsApp team inbox and CRM
ChannelsWhatsApp Business (official Cloud API, works alongside the WhatsApp Business app), Facebook Messenger, Instagram DMs, Facebook and Instagram comments
Works onAny browser; installs on Android and iPhone
PriceFrom $29 a month; $59 Growth; $99 Business with unlimited people; a year costs 10 months
Free trial7 days, every feature open
WhatsApp numbers1 to 3 included by plan; up to 20 per business (Meta’s limit once the business is verified with Meta)
In Nigeria+234 WhatsApp Business numbers, office hours on Lagos time (WAT)
LanguagesCustomers write in English, Pidgin, Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo
SetupAbout 40 minutes, or done with you on WhatsApp
Last reviewed2026-11-01

How garages & service teams use EliteTeQ Inbox

Real screens from our demo workspace, with example data.

Advisors share the desk

Every advisor answers from their own login; jobs are assigned and transferred with notes.

  • Own login for each advisor
  • Transfer with a note
  • Internal comments
EliteTeQ Inbox chat list with views for All, Mine, Unassigned and Unread, filters by stage, team and category, and each chat’s channel, unread count and teammate

Real screen · demo workspace with example data

Jobs tracked to collection

Move each job from booking to quote to ready, filtered by advisor.

  • Stages you name yourself
  • Hot leads flagged
  • Filter by advisor
EliteTeQ Inbox pipeline board with columns from New lead to Client and Lost, each card showing the customer, the last message, hot-lead reasons and the teammate in charge

Real screen · demo workspace with example data

Hours and greetings

A greeting for new customers and an away message when you are closed.

  • Greeting for new contacts
  • Away message after hours
  • Hours set day by day
Greeting settings for a WhatsApp number: the automatic message sent once to new customers during office hours

Real screen · demo workspace with example data

A pipeline for garages & service

An example you can set up in Settings → Pipeline stages and rename any time.

  1. Booking request
  2. Inspection
  3. Quote sent
  4. Approved
  5. Ready for collection
  6. Lost
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No credit card required · Plans from $29/month

Get your team answering in a day

No installation and no long training.

  1. Create your account

    Register with your email. The 7-day trial opens every feature, no card needed.

  2. Connect your channels

    Link your Facebook Page and Instagram. We connect your +234 WhatsApp Business number with you on WhatsApp, on Lagos time (WAT), in about 40 minutes.

  3. Invite your team

    Add staff with their own logins as Owner, Admin or Agent, whether they work in Lagos and Abuja or from home.

  4. Set up your pipeline

    Name the stages after how you work, for example: Booking request → Inspection → Quote sent → Approved.

  5. Start answering

    Assign chats, follow up hot leads and watch the reports.

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No credit card required · Plans from $29/month

More than a shared inbox. A better way to manage your customer relationships.

A shared inbox helps your team see messages. EliteTeQ goes further, connecting every conversation to lead management, team coordination and sales visibility.

Designed for teams
Employees work with their own logins, roles and responsibilities.
Conversations connected to customers
Every message sits with the customer’s history and their stage on your pipeline, not as an isolated chat.
Visibility for management
See how your team handles enquiries, how fast they reply and where follow-ups are needed.
Grows with your business
Start with a small team, then add people, numbers and a bigger plan as you grow.
Easy to get started
Register online, explore every feature on the free trial, and set up your workspace without waiting for a salesperson.

Simple pricing. No complicated contracts.

The same plans for every industry in Nigeria, 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.

Try Growth free for 7 daysNo card needed · you choose the plan when you pay

Build your package: extra people, numbers and onboarding →

Phones and personal chats vs EliteTeQ Inbox

The difference is that every enquiry has an owner and nothing depends on one phone, whether your team is in Lagos and Abuja or at home.

Phones and personal chats vs EliteTeQ Inbox
Phones and personal chatsEliteTeQ Inbox
Whoever holds the phone answersEvery staff member answers from their own login
Two people reply to the same customerEach chat is assigned to one person
Quotes and follow-ups forgottenWaiting chats and hot leads are flagged
Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp on different devicesEvery channel in the same list
No idea how fast customers get an answerReply speed and leads per person in reports

EliteTeQ Inbox in Nigeria

EliteTeQ Inbox works for garages, service centres, body shops and tyre centres in Nigeria on your existing +234 WhatsApp Business number. Customers see your business name as they do today, and your team answers from Lagos and Abuja or anywhere else.

In Nigeria, a lot of buying starts as a WhatsApp or Instagram message: a price check, a “is this available?”, a photo of a product. When one phone is shared between staff, those enquiries get lost overnight. EliteTeQ Inbox puts them in one list that the whole team can see, from Lagos to Kano.

Customers write in English, Pidgin, Yoruba, Hausa or Igbo, often mixed in one chat. Your team answers the way the customer writes; template messages are created in English.

Office hours are set day by day for each number. A common setup in Lagos or Abuja: 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.

Selling on WhatsApp in Nigeria

Commerce is concentrated in Lagos, the southeast trading cities and the northern market hubs, each with its own pricing culture. Instant transfer displaced cash faster than most markets, and agent networks fill the gap where branches do not reach. Power interruption is a daily operating assumption, not an incident.

Port Harcourt

Rivers State · the centre of Nigeria's oil and gas industry

Demand follows contractor cycles and corporate accounts more than walk-in footfall, and the expatriate-facing venues trade on a different basket entirely. Heavy Delta rainfall knocks out power and connectivity for hours at a time, often in the same season every year. Port Harcourt's retail and hospitality trade is tied to the oil and gas economy and the contractor and expatriate spending that comes with it, which makes demand more cyclical than in Lagos or Ibadan and raises the share of card and corporate account payments. Client enquiries from Port Harcourt get an owner and a follow-up instead of sitting in someone’s personal chats.

Onitsha

Anambra State · one of West Africa's largest market and distribution centres

The main market sets prices for a wide swathe of the southeast, and goods arrive in bulk before being broken down and moved on within days. Trading starts early and volume is relentless. Onitsha is a distribution city first and a retail city second: goods arrive, are broken into smaller lots and move on across the southeast and beyond. Client enquiries from Onitsha get an owner and a follow-up instead of sitting in someone’s personal chats.

Aba

Abia State · a manufacturing and garment-production centre

Production clusters and selling points sit side by side, so the same business often makes goods in the morning and sells them in the afternoon. Orders come from traders in batches rather than from individual shoppers. Aba is known for small-scale manufacturing, particularly garments, footwear and leather goods, much of it produced in clusters of workshops and sold on to traders. Client enquiries from Aba get an owner and a follow-up instead of sitting in someone’s personal chats.

Benin City

Edo State · the commercial and administrative centre of Edo State

Retail concentrates along the ring road and the main market areas, with steady transit trade from the Lagos–southeast route passing through. Most operators run one or two outlets. Benin City serves as the trade and administrative hub for Edo State and a staging point on the routes between Lagos and the southeast, which gives it a steady mix of local retail, transit trade and government-linked services spending. Client enquiries from Benin City get an owner and a follow-up instead of sitting in someone’s personal chats.

EliteTeQ Inbox in every city of Nigeria

  • LagosLagos State · Nigeria's commercial capital and busiest port city
  • AbujaFederal Capital Territory · Nigeria's administrative capital
  • KanoKano State · the commercial hub of northern Nigeria
  • IbadanOyo State · a major southwestern commercial and university city
  • Port HarcourtRivers State · the centre of Nigeria's oil and gas industry
  • OnitshaAnambra State · one of West Africa's largest market and distribution centres
  • AbaAbia State · a manufacturing and garment-production centre
  • Benin CityEdo State · the commercial and administrative centre of Edo State
  • EnuguEnugu State · a southeastern administrative and commercial centre
  • KadunaKaduna State · a northern industrial and administrative centre

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Questions businesses ask us

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Is there a WhatsApp CRM for garages & service in Nigeria?

Yes. Garages & service teams in Nigeria use EliteTeQ Inbox with their own +234 WhatsApp Business number. Staff in Lagos, Abuja or anywhere else answer from their own logins, customers write in English, Pidgin, Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo, and office hours run on Lagos time (WAT). Plans start at $29 a month with a 7-day free trial.

Can mechanics see the chats?

If you invite them. Each person gets a login and counts toward your plan’s people; many garages keep chats with advisors and pass workshop notes internally.

Can we send a “your car is ready” message?

Yes. Reply freely within 24 hours of the customer’s last message, or send an approved template after that.

Does it manage parts stock?

No. EliteTeQ POS handles parts stock and sales; EliteTeQ Inbox handles the conversations.

Can several staff use the same WhatsApp number?

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.

How much does it cost?

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.

WhatsApp rules on this page, from Meta:WhatsApp Business Platform pricing (Meta)Messaging limits (Meta)Message templates (Meta)Business phone numbers and limits (Meta)About the WhatsApp Business Platform (Meta)

Every garages & service enquiry is an opportunity. Don’t let yours get lost in Nigeria.

Bring your channels, your team and every customer conversation into one organised workspace.

No credit card required · Plans from $29/month

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