The enquiry lands at 9pm. The test drive books itself.
Dealerloop answers every car buyer and seller in seconds, from your live stock, and books them straight into your calendar. You pay when they walk in.
Book a demoSee pricingBuying enquiries going cold?
The Retail Engine answers every lead in seconds and books the test drive while your competitors sleep.
Retail Engine →Buying sideWant more trade-in stock?
The Acquisition Engine answers private sellers and books appraisals, so you stop bidding for stock on marketplaces.
Acquisition Engine →Two engines. One loop.
The Retail Engine sells the car. The Acquisition Engine buys the next one from a private seller. Every handover feeds the other side. That's the loop, and it runs on appointments that only bill when the customer walks in.
- Retail Engine answers buyers, books test drives, chases quietly until they show.
- Acquisition Engine answers private sellers, books appraisals, keeps your stock pipeline yours.
Life without it, life with it.
| Scenario | Without Dealerloop | With Dealerloop |
|---|---|---|
| The 9pm enquiry | Sits until morning. Most have gone quiet by then. | Answered in seconds, from your live stock, any hour. |
| Weekend leads | A Monday backlog your team chips away at. | Booked into the calendar before Monday starts. |
| Trade-in stock | Bidding against every other dealer on the marketplaces. | Your own seller conversations, appraisals on your hoist. |
| Follow-up | Whoever remembers, whenever they get a minute. | Quiet, persistent, polite, until they book or say no. |
| Cost per shown appointment | A human BDC lands at roughly $200 each, shows or not. | $20, and only when they walk in. |
Every lead source, one conversation.
Wherever the enquiry starts, it lands in the same thread, answered from the same live stock.
Pricing
Retail Engine
Everything includedThe whole selling side, no tiers and no add-ons: every capability in the platform is switched on at this price.
- Every enquiry answered, qualified and booked
- Owner-base nurture and back-in-stock waitlists
- The delivery calendar, e-signing and handover
- Reporting, allocation and Spam Act compliance
Acquisition Engine
Add the buying sideA separate engine for the cars you buy, on the same appointment ladder and the same calendar.
- Answers private sellers before the marketplaces do
- Captures the car: rego, kms, condition, photos
- Books appraisals, with a valuation ready
- Appraisals instead of test drives, same rules
- No-shows
- Reschedules
- Appointments your own team books
We model a 30% close rate; Foureyes reports 40% to 59% in the US, 2024 to 2026. Gross is Deloitte's 2026 Australian used-vehicle benchmark.
How we calculate this
No Australian equivalent to the Foureyes close-rate data is published, so we hold our figure below every published benchmark rather than at it. Deloitte's figure reflects benchmark rather than average performance. Not counted: finance, insurance, aftermarket, service or any downstream revenue on the same customer, and no benchmark exists for the buying side. Your own numbers are what we work through on the demo.
Live before your next weekend rush.
- Day 0
Connected
We plug into your lead sources and stock feed with you on the call. No IT project, nothing to install.
- Day 7
Answering and booking
The AI is on every new enquiry, your team watching every word, and able to take over any conversation, live.
- Day 30
The loop is running
Both engines working, appointments landing, and your first invoice showing exactly which walk-ins you paid for.
The questions every dealer principal asks.
Will it make things up to a buyer?
No. Every reply is grounded in your live inventory feed: it only ever quotes cars you actually have, at the prices you've set, and it never quotes or negotiates beyond your listed figure. It will never deny a car that's in stock, and if it's unsure, it hands to a human rather than guessing.
Do my salespeople lose the lead?
The opposite. The AI does the 9pm shift and the chasing, then hands a warm, qualified buyer to a named rep with the whole story attached: vehicle, trade-in, finance, timeframe. Your team can take over any conversation live, at any moment.
What does it cost?
Each engine, Retail and Acquisition, is $99 per rooftop per month, ex GST, month to month. Beyond that you pay per appointment the AI books and the customer honours: $20 each for the first 100 in a month, $15 to 500, $10 beyond. No-shows are never billed, messages are never billed, and every capability on that side is included at the $99 price: no module tiers and no add-ons.
What's the difference between the Retail Engine and the Acquisition Engine?
The Retail Engine runs the selling side: it answers buyer enquiries from your live stock and books test drives. Dealerloop Acquisition runs the buying side: it answers people offering you their car, captures the vehicle and books the appraisal. They're separate platforms, each $99 a month, sharing one inbox and one calendar.
Can I run just one engine?
Yes. Each engine stands alone at $99 per rooftop per month. Most dealers start with the side that hurts most and switch the other on later. Running one never commits you to both.
Is automated messaging even compliant?
It's built for Australian compliance from the ground up: Spam Act consent handling, automatic STOP processing on every channel, suppression and do-not-contact checks, quiet hours in your timezone, and clear AI disclosure. A handful of rules can never be switched off, no matter what anyone types.
Does it replace my DMS?
No, and it doesn't try to. Dealerloop owns engagement, timing and lifecycle; your DMS keeps the deal, the money and the customer master. Events push across as they happen, and we'll scope deeper two-way DMS integration with you on the demo.
How long does it take to go live?
Days, not months. It sits alongside what you already run, so there's nothing to rip out: connect your lead sources, load your stock feed, and it starts answering.
What if it doesn't work for us?
You're never locked in. Month to month, cancel with 30 days' notice, no exit fees, and your leads and conversations are exportable in full at any time. You stay because it works, not because you're trapped.
Fifteen minutes, your cars, your leads.
We'll point Dealerloop at your live inventory and show you the 9pm enquiry getting answered, then you decide. Every demo request gets a reply from the founder, not a queue.