Modern Service Technology for Kia Dealerships

Improve customer communication, streamline advisor workflows, and enhance the service experience with digital inspections, automated updates, online approvals, and mobile payment solutions.
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Deliver a Better Service Experience

Solutions designed to help dealership service departments improve transparency, efficiency, and customer satisfaction.

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Create a Connected Customer Journey

From appointment scheduling to vehicle pickup, UpdatePromise helps dealerships keep customers informed every step of the way. Deliver digital inspections, service updates, recommendations, approvals, and payments through one connected experience.

Core Service Department Solutions

Through our integration with InfoMedia Americas, dealerships can provide customers with accurate service pricing information and a more transparent service experience.

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Appointment Scheduling

Provide a simple online scheduling experience.

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Digital Vehicle Inspections

Build trust with photos, videos, and technician recommendations.

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Online Service Approvals

Allow customers to review and approve work from anywhere.

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Automated Customer Updates

Reduce inbound calls by keeping customers informed automatically.

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Mobile Payments

Create a faster, more convenient checkout experience.

Service Price Guide Integration with InfoMedia

UpdatePromise integrates with InfoMedia Americas Service Price Guides, helping dealerships provide customers with accurate maintenance and service pricing information during the scheduling process.

This integration supports a more transparent customer experience while helping service departments deliver consistent pricing information online.

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Benefits for Kia Dealership Service Departments

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Increased Transparency

Provide customers with pricing and service information before they arrive.

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Improved Customer Experience

Deliver a modern, digital-first service experience.

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Streamlined Service Operations

Reduce manual communication and repetitive advisor tasks.

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Convenient Digital Approvals

Keep repair decisions moving even when customers aren't onsite.

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See UpdatePromise in Action

Watch how dealerships are improving communication, transparency, and customer convenience throughout the service journey.

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Frequently Asked Questions

UpdatePromise’s Consumer Experience Management System (CEMS) comes in three
main packages, however, can be modularly tailored within each package to fit the
dealership’s needs.

UpdatePromise CEMS

UpdatePromise’s hands-on approach on creating successful Fixed Ops processes and
results can result in meeting the following standards for all dealerships.

  • 85%+ Service Appointment Show Rates
  • 85%+ Vehicle Check-Ins Opened on a Tablet
  • 85%+ of all ROs have an MPI sent with Media
  • 200% Response Rate to Inbound Messages from Customers
  • 10% of all Payments are made my Online Bill Pay
  • $610M Average dealership Merchant Volume
  •  10%+ Increase in Customer Satisfaction

90%+ Minimum Positive Score for Post-Delivery Feedback Reports

Because the UpdatePromise Consumer Experience Management System (CEMS) has been developed to be module*, dealerships are able to build/create a tool that fits their needs (features, number of employees, monthly RO count, etc.) without compromising how many tools they use or pay for.

Connect with a Consumer Experience Expert to receive an customized quote!

*Minimum product requirements for basic functionality (such as SMS communications or to process mobile payments) may apply.

Implementation can take up to 6-8 weeks from signed quote to in-person training, the
dealership’s collaboration is crucial to timeline and implementation process. See the full
implementation process here.

A dealership’s implementation process can take anywhere between 6-8 weeks, and the
timeline heavily depends on the dealership team’s availability, responsiveness and
collaboration to gather all the necessary information/data fr set-up and training.

  •  Step 1: Signed Agreement
  • Step 2: Kick-Off Call
    (i) Meet all of your team leaders who will be training and handling your
    implementation process from start to finish.
  • Step 3: Change Management Visit
    (ii) Receive an on-site evaluation survey and a welcome orientation for your
    dealership.
  • Step 4: Virtual Training
    (iii) Live data validation with the dealership and champion training will take
    place in anticipation of the in-person training team arriving.
  • Step 5: In-Person Implementation Training
    (iv) Your assigned training team and team lead will be on-site for a minimum
    of 5-days to train and assist your team.
  • Step 6: Client Success + Premier Support
    (v)Dealerships can expect follow-up meetings to review data and metrics on
    a weekly basis during the launch, and at a minimum of once a week for
    the first four weeks post-launch.

 

Our mission is to impact millions of consumers’ lives, one industry at a time; and our vision is to become the Amazon of the Automotive Industry.

UpdatePromise’s history begins in 2009, when Curtis Nixon, President and CEO of UpdatePromise, establishes a pilot program with Farmers Insurance to rollout UpdatePromise across the country to all contracted Collision Repair Centers… read more here.

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