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The service drive's front office, simplified.

Appointments, repair updates, parts ETAs, and review requests in one workspace. Less phone tag with customers waiting on their car. More five-star reviews.

240+shops & dealers
+1.2★average Google rating
2 minSMS update delivery
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Service driveHearth & Pipe Auto
Live
TO
Tom O'BrienRO #4218 · waiting on part
9:14
JM
James M.Approval needed · brake job
10:22
SR
Sarah R.Car ready · SMS sent
11:08
+1.2★Google rating in 6 months

Customers hate not knowing.

The #1 service complaint isn't price. It's silence. OVirtual makes proactive updates effortless.

PROBLEM 01

Customers in the dark

Auto-send SMS updates: check-in confirmed, repair approved, parts on the way, car ready for pickup.

PROBLEM 02

Approvals via phone tag

Send photos & estimate. Customer taps approve. Job moves. No more 4pm call backlog.

PROBLEM 03

Reviews stay one-and-done

Auto-trigger Google review requests at pickup. Shops on OVirtual gain an average of 1.2 stars in 6 months.

PROBLEM 04

Dispatch & scheduling chaos

Service appointment board with bay capacity, advisor load, and customer reminders built in.

Built for the way service drives run.

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SMS status updates

Templated milestones: checked in, awaiting part, ready for pickup. Customer can reply by text.

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Photo approvals

Snap the worn pads, send to the customer, they tap approve. The job moves while they're at lunch.

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Appointment board

Self-serve booking with bay capacity and advisor load. Two-way SMS confirmations cut no-shows.

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Review automation

Auto-trigger Google review requests on pickup. SMS-first delivery — the format customers actually respond to.

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Invoices & deposits

Card, ACH, Apple Pay. QuickBooks & Xero sync. Deposits taken before parts are ordered.

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Service reminders

Auto-recall by mileage estimate. Bring last quarter's customers back this quarter.

What shops see in 6 months.

+1.2★Google rating

SMS review requests at pickup convert at 4-5× the rate of email.

2 minTo send updates

Templated SMS milestones. Tap, send, done. Customers stop calling for updates.

+22%Recall rebooking

Mileage-based service reminders pull customers back without the staff having to chase.

“I run a 14-person plumbing crew. Dispatch used to be a whiteboard and three group texts. Now jobs, calls, and invoices are all on one screen — and I can see who's running late before the customer does.”

Tom O'Brien · Owner, Hearth & Pipe Plumbing
Compliance

SMS at scale, done right.

10DLC registration handled. TCPA & CASL consent capture built in. Reviews go out through the right channel at the right time — no carrier filtering.

  • 10DLC registration walkthrough on signup
  • TCPA & CASL consent & opt-out tooling
  • SMS marketing compliance archive
  • PCI-DSS via Stripe
  • SOC 2 Type II in progress
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Better updates. Better reviews. Same crew.

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