For car dealers, importers and showrooms · South Africa
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 Johannesburg and Cape Town or anywhere else answer from one +27 business number, with office hours on Johannesburg time (SAST).
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Every salesperson uses their own phone. When one leaves, their buyers go with them.
EliteTeQ Inbox
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 South Africa write in English, Afrikaans and isiZulu, 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 South Africa 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 South Africa | +27 WhatsApp Business numbers, office hours on Johannesburg time (SAST) |
| Languages | Customers write in English, Afrikaans and isiZulu |
| 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 +27 WhatsApp Business number with you on WhatsApp, on Johannesburg time (SAST), in about 40 minutes.
Add staff with their own logins as Owner, Admin or Agent, whether they work in Johannesburg and Cape Town 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 South Africa, 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 Johannesburg and Cape Town 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 South Africa on your existing +27 WhatsApp Business number. Customers see your business name as they do today, and your team answers from Johannesburg and Cape Town or anywhere else.
South African customers expect a business to answer on WhatsApp the way they message friends. When enquiries come into a branch phone and a manager’s phone, nobody knows who already replied. One shared inbox gives every chat a clear owner.
Customers write in English, Afrikaans, isiZulu and other languages. Your team replies in the customer’s language inside the 24-hour window; template messages are created in English.
Office hours are set day by day for each number. A common setup in Johannesburg or Cape Town: 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.
Retail is dominated by formal chains and shopping centres, with township and informal trade running alongside on a different payment mix. Card is the default and cash is the exception. Scheduled grid interruption is published in advance, which makes it a planning problem rather than a surprise.
Gauteng Province · South Africa's largest city and economic centre
Sandton, the CBD, Rosebank and the southern suburbs behave like separate retail markets spread across a metro too large to service centrally. Car dealerships enquiries from Johannesburg land in one shared inbox, so a quote never waits on one person’s phone.
Western Cape Province · a major tourism, services and technology centre
The summer season fills the V&A, the city bowl and the Atlantic seaboard with international visitors, then empties them; staffing doubles and halves with it. The binding constraint is split-bill table service under load, because the peak-season restaurant trade is where the year's margin is made. Cape Town's retail and hospitality trade has a pronounced summer peak driven by international visitors, which means high card and foreign-currency volumes and staffing that expands and contracts with the season. Car dealerships enquiries from Cape Town land in one shared inbox, so a quote never waits on one person’s phone.
KwaZulu-Natal Province · the busiest port in sub-Saharan Africa
The port drives import and distribution trade year-round while the beachfront fills during domestic holiday periods. The binding constraint is running business-to-business invoicing and seasonal hospitality from one system, through the same grid interruptions as the rest of the country. Durban's economy is built on its port and the import and distribution trade that flows through it, which gives wholesale and business-to-business supply a larger share of local commerce than in Cape Town. Car dealerships enquiries from Durban land in one shared inbox, so a quote never waits on one person’s phone.
Gauteng Province · South Africa's administrative capital
Government, diplomatic and university activity give dependable weekday demand and a quieter weekend than the coastal cities, with more corporate account billing. Pretoria's trade is anchored by government, diplomatic and university activity, giving it steadier weekday demand and a less seasonal pattern than the coastal cities. Card payment dominates and corporate account billing is more common here than in purely retail markets. Car dealerships enquiries from Pretoria 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 South Africa use EliteTeQ Inbox with their own +27 WhatsApp Business number. Staff in Johannesburg, Cape Town or anywhere else answer from their own logins, customers write in English, Afrikaans and isiZulu, and office hours run on Johannesburg time (SAST). 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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