For car sales

They said they would think about it.

Almost nobody buys on the first visit, and almost nobody comes back on their own. Cardr makes sure you leave the forecourt with their details and a note, then writes the message that brings them in again.

The whole trade turns on the second visit, and the second visit is something you cause. They take a test drive, they say they will think about it, and whether they return depends on whether anyone contacts them and whether that contact is specific. Cardr captures their details on the forecourt with nothing for them to install, holds what they actually wanted against the name, and drafts the follow-up so it goes out that evening.

The real scene

The forecourt, after the test drive.

Twenty minutes of genuine interest, then a walk to their own car and a week of silence.

Where it happens

The forecourt

Twenty minutes of genuine interest, then a walk to their own car and a week of silence.

  • Twenty minutes Genuine, engaged interest, followed by a walk back to their own car and a week of silence.
  • They shop Yours is the third forecourt of the day. Being the one they can still find on Thursday is the whole job.
  • Outdoors Wind, rain and a phone with 8% battery. Paper does not survive the walk to the car.

Every constraint above is what decides the format. A card that fails any one of the three does not get used a second time, however good it looks.

The relationship in this trade is with a person, not a dealership. They came in for the car, but they come back for the salesperson who was straight with them, and they will not find that person again if they have lost the name. A printed card from a pile on a desk is not memorable and does not carry a phone number they will still have in a fortnight.

The follow-up also has to be specific to survive. “Just checking in” is exactly what every other dealer sends, and it reads as pressure. “The one you drove is still here and the finance figure came back better than I quoted” is a different message, and it depends entirely on you having written down what they drove and what they were worried about.

Which is the case for capturing it at the moment rather than at the end of the day, when there have been six more people and a delivery.

The card itself

What it looks like on the phone.

Not a mock-up. The artwork below is drawn by the same function that draws the inside of the signed .pkpass file, in the same colours the real pass carries, so this is what Wallet shows.

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An example card in the oxford design. The holder is invented; the rendering is not. All eight designs are on Pro, three on the free plan.
What you get

The second visit, caused on purpose.

  • Their details on your side. Two-way exchange on the free plan, so a test drive produces a contact rather than a name on a form somewhere.
  • What they actually wanted. Notes and tags per contact: the model, the budget, the part-exchange, the thing they hesitated on.
  • Follow-ups written from that. Fifty a month on Pro, specific enough to be worth reading.
  • Reminders before it goes cold. In this trade the window is days, and a nudge on day three is worth more than a discount on day thirty.
  • The relationship follows you. Change dealership and every customer who saved your card gets your new details on their phone.
  • No DMS integration. Cardr does not connect to your dealer management system. It exports to CSV and vCard on Pro, and that is the honest extent of it.
Questions

Car sales, answered.

Does it connect to our dealer management system?

No. Cardr has no integrations of any kind. It exports contacts to CSV and vCard on Pro, which covers getting them into another system manually. If the dealership mandates that every lead lands in the DMS automatically, Cardr does not do that.

Can the sales floor share one account?

No. There is no team account and no shared lead pool, so each person would have their own. That is a genuine limitation for a dealership and worth weighing before anybody signs up.

Does the customer need an app?

No. The pass goes into Apple Wallet, which is already on every iPhone and cannot be deleted. Android users open your page from the QR code and save you to their contacts. Nothing to download and no account to create.

What happens if I move dealership?

Edit your card once and every customer who saved it sees the new dealership, address and number on their phone. In a trade where people follow the salesperson, that is the most useful thing on this page.

What does it cost?

Free forever for the card, the Apple Wallet pass and the two-way exchange, with no card details taken. Pro is £12 per person per month, or £9 a month billed annually, adding the contact memory, drafted follow-ups and reminders, with a sixty-day money back guarantee.

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