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Automotive professionals discuss ringless voicemail (RVM) technology and whether dealerships should adopt it for customer communications. While several services exist that enable direct-to-voicemail messaging, a critical legal warning emerges: the TCPA now covers these practices, creating legal liability for dealerships using them for unsolicited marketing. The thread concludes that RVM can be used legally only in specific, compliant scenarios—such as service follow-ups or declined repair notifications for existing customers—when integrated through compliant platforms like Talk Options.

There are some really great ways RVM can be used at a dealership. Most manufacturers require a follow-up call after service. A larger percentage of these calls go to voicemail already, so why not use RVM. My company Talk Options allows a service manager to record one thank you voice mail to service customers and then it can be sent x number of hours upon the close of an RO to every service customer on a daily basis. We are currently integrated with CDK, AutoSoft and DealerTrack. This is within TCPA since the customer just did business with you.

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The other great way to use this feature is for declined service work. Service advisors can record a customized message to customers who may have declined certain repairs and have it arrive at a future date.

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If anyone would like to learn more about this, please reach out to me: 585-749-2015

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Automotive professionals discuss ringless voicemail (RVM) technology and whether dealerships should adopt it for customer communications. While several services exist that enable direct-to-voicemail messaging, a critical legal warning emerges: the TCPA now covers these practices, creating legal liability for dealerships using them for unsolicited marketing. The thread concludes that RVM can be used legally only in specific, compliant scenarios—such as service follow-ups or declined repair notifications for existing customers—when integrated through compliant platforms like Talk Options.

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