Navigating the service lane can be overwhelming for customers, but with the right tools, dealerships can turn uncertainty into understanding.
In this ongoing series, we’ll break down each stage of the service buying journey—from check-in to repair approvals, payments, and more. Check back weekly as more iService content is added.
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With Payments, iService and Lightyear payment processing is a breeze. Your dealership gets a fully integrated, mobile-ready or in-person payment solution that transforms the customer and employee experience. Accept text-to-pay, digital wallets, and traditional cards, all through the customer’s mobile application, or in person via smart terminals that connect directly to Lightyear.
Here’s what you get:
- – Faster Checkouts with card-on-file, wireless terminals & mobile pay
- – Error-Free Accounting thanks to seamless Lightyear integration
- – Lower Costs by passing processing fees directly to the customer
- – Stronger Security with fraud prevention & PCI-compliant infrastructure
- – Smarter Insights through real-time reporting and reconciliation
From vehicle deposits to repair orders, Payments works across departments to help you get paid faster, more transparently, and with fewer surprises.
Let’s talk about how Payments can upgrade your profitability and your customer experience.
How much technician productivity are you losing chasing down approvals on quotes?
Leading with the technician’s MPI and Video MPI builds trust and plants the seeds for a mental commitment before the customer sees a quote. With iService quoting your team can send clear, compelling repair estimates straight to your customer’s phone for their approval often while the vehicle is still on the rack.
This proven process has yielded both gross profit increases of over 20% and higher CSI scores.
Let’s talk about how iService quoting can help your team secure more work without having to chase down approvals.
Today’s customers expect more than just the repairing of their vehicle. They expect an experience. With the iService Customer Portal, you deliver value throughout their visit.
From service status updates to mobile-friendly quotes to payments, iService turns every service interaction into a loyalty building customer experience.
Here’s how we help you create value beyond the repair:
- ✅ Mobile-First Experience: Keep customers informed with real-time updates, technician-recorded Video MPIs, and interactive approvals, all from their phones
- ✅ Mobile Payment: Reduce friction with text-to-pay
- ✅ Financing Options: Gives customers a financing option that they can explore without having what could be a difficult conversation with the customer live
- ✅ Value My Vehicle: Soft sell advertisement that allows customers to value their trade using your parameters to help source used car acquisition and additional new car sales
- ✅ Proven Impact: Dealerships using iService report over 20% increases in gross profit and significantly improved customer satisfaction scores
Reach out to us today to explore the full iService customer engagement solution!
“Where’s the route sheet?”
That question gets asked way too often in busy service lanes.
One paper goes missing, and suddenly techs are stalled, advisors are scrambling, and customers are waiting.
It’s not a people problem—it’s a paper problem.
No more misplaced paper sheets—just a fully digital, real-time service workflow that maximizes efficiency.
iService’s Digital Route Sheet gives techs and advisors live visibility into every job:
- ✅ Vehicle status
- ✅ Next steps
- ✅ Priority tasks
It keeps your entire team on the same page from check-in to checkout.
Pair it with HD video MPIs, and you’ve got a workflow that builds customer understanding and profit.
Curious what this could look like in your lane?
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What if your customers felt fully informed and fully in control every step of the way?
With iService, our integrated texting solution turns your service lane into a transparent, customer-centric experience that builds trust and drives profits.
Here’s how it works from appointment to payment:
- 24 Hours Before: Customers receive an automated reminder—clear, branded, and customizable.
- Upon Arrival: Send a friendly welcome or a disclaimer link (your choice!) right to their phone. Set once, then let automation do the rest.
During the Appointment:
- A technician recorded video is shared via text, showing real issues in real time.
- Technician name and credentials build credibility
- Videos can auto-send, be resent, or additional photos or videos can be added later as needed
- Customers receive an interactive quote.
- Optional financing or vehicle appraisal links.
Ready to Pay: Trigger a text-to-pay request when approved. Customers get a confirmation and receipt, and you get seamless integration with your DMS.
After the RO Closes (Optional): Automatically notify customers with a thank you, survey, or a future service teaser
Your Settings, Your Brand: Every message is customizable for all or personalized by customer. Choose your flow, your disclaimers, and your touch points.
iService empowers your team while giving your customers the clarity they crave and the “easy yes” everyone is looking for when it comes to additional service work.
Let’s talk about how this can fit your dealership’s workflow.
Ready to text smarter?
Drive approvals and more customer pay gross profit by empowering your most trusted team – your technicians – to educate customers.
When customers see the issue firsthand by a trusted technician, they understand it and often pre-approve the repair. This superior customer experience leads to higher satisfaction, more approvals, and higher customer pay gross profit.
Why Video MPI Works:
- Visual Proof – 90% of customers are visual – seeing is believing
- Better Understanding– Almost no one knows what a leaky ball joint (below) is and why it’s so important to get it fixed. That’s why it is important to show the customer what you’re recommending them.
- Higher Engagement, More Approvals – In the age of video, you are meeting customers where they want to be for their desired customer experience.
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Digital Multi-Point Inspection (MPI) helps your service department run smarter and faster while generating more gross profit.
- Faster Inspections – Streamlines the process allowing techs to capture and send recommendations in real-time, with exceptions for items selected pre-populated as jobs/lines for quoting.
- Better Documentation – High-quality video proof and detailed reports – customers can see MPIs via text in their portal or techs can print them.
Stay tuned as we continue to dive deeper into the key features and modules of iService in the coming weeks!
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No More Waiting – A Faster, Smarter Service Experience
This means:
- Stronger Consumer Experience – A smooth, hassle-free start and finish to every visit with a streamlined process and eSignature approval of Repair Orders and Service Invoices
- Improved Efficiency – Service advisors enjoy an efficient process defined by the dealership without being so heavy as legacy tools in the market so they can focus on customer needs
- Mobile Check In pairs great with our Online Service Scheduling and Document Management solutions:
- Online Service Scheduling – Customers can book appointments whenever it’s convenient for them will you control your availability
- Document Management – Automatically archives all eSignature Repair Orders and Service Invoice. Incremental supporting documents can easily be scanned in. This results in drastically lower expense through the reduction in printing, paper shuffling, filing, scanning, storage, and third party tools
See how these features transform the customer experience.
Your service lane should be a profit center, not a bottleneck—but too often, customers hesitate on repairs simply because they don’t understand the need.
That’s where iService comes in.
With iService, customers see exactly what your technicians see, creating transparency, more understanding, and higher approvals. The result? A smoother process and up to 20% more gross profit.
iService seamlessly integrates into your workflow—from scheduling to payments—giving customers an easier “yes” and helping your team work smarter.
This is just the beginning. Over the coming weeks, we’ll explore how iService’s game-changing features can transform your fixed ops performance. Stay tuned!
