How Tata Motors’ ideal dealers transformed vehicle lifecycle management

100%

lead visibility

80%

improvement in follow-up rates

2x increase

in field accountability

Industry
Automobile, Featured
Company Size
100
Most Impactful Feature

In this story

Features & Its Impact

Automated lead capture
All enquiries flow into Telecrm without manual entry.

Smart lead tagging
Leads auto-tagged by source, status, and team.

Call and WhatsApp tracking
Every interaction logged to avoid missed follow-ups.

On-field visit tracking
GPS check-ins with photos bring full accountability.

Cross-department handovers
Sales, service, insurance, and scrap sync seamlessly.

Lifecycle automation
Customer journey tracked from test drive to scrapping.

we struggled with Excel and outdated tools. There was no tracking, no accountability, and we kept losing opportunities

Ideal Dealers is one of Bihar’s leading Tata Motors-authorised dealerships, with 7 outlets and a team of 150+ professionals. They weren’t just selling vehicles.

They were managing the entire vehicle lifecycle — from new car bookings to servicing, insurance, and even scrapping old vehicles after 10–15 years.

The goal was simple: deliver a smooth, reliable experience at every stage of ownership.

 

Where things started breaking

Earlier, with Tata’s in-house CRM, we had to delete old lead data due to system limitations, which made it difficult to manage long-term prospects

Everything looked fine from the outside. Sales were steady, walk-ins were happening, and the team was working hard.

But internally? The system was breaking, there was chaos in the enquiry management, no tracking, no accountability.

Ideal Dealers was still running the entire customer journey — sales and post-sales — through manual Excel sheets and an outdated CRM.

An outdated crm

So, Ideal PV was managing the entire vehicle lifecycle on an outdated CRM with a cap of just 3,000 leads. Once they crossed that limit, older leads were deleted, even if they were still warm or likely to convert.

For a business where the customer lifecycle runs 10 to 15 years, this made no sense. It was costing them opportunities they could have converted months, even years, down the line.

Every department was on a different page

Sales, insurance, service, or scrap maintained its own Excel sheet with no sync.

A customer would walk in to buy a car:

  • The sales team would create an entry in excel manually.
  • Once the car was delivered, there was no automatic handover to the service team.
  • The insurance team had no clue
  • If that same customer needed insurance or came back for scrapping 10 years later, the other departments had no idea who the person was.

No one was on the same page. And that meant lost follow-ups, missed service reminders, and broken customer relationships.

Manual lead assignment and distribution.

Leads came from field visits, Tata Excel sheets, car melas, Facebook, and more. But distributing those leads? That was a whole process.

Managers would sit with spreadsheets, manually download, pick leads, and forward them on WhatsApp or calls. It led to delays, confusion, and uneven distribution. Some reps were flooded with leads, others had too few, and many leads didn’t reach anyone at all.

The worst part? Nobody knew what was happening.

Once a lead was assigned, there was no way to know what happened next.

  • Did the sales rep make the call?
  • Was the customer interested?
  • Was a test drive offered?

No one knew. There was no audit trail of calls, no dashboard, no daily report. Just verbal updates and scattered WhatsApp messages.

And when the car was sold?

Ideally, once a car is sold, the service team takes over. Insurance steps in for renewals. Scrap team comes in when the vehicle’s life is done. But that’s not how it worked. Handoffs between teams were manual and unreliable. Often, they didn’t happen at all.

For example: A customer who just bought a car didn’t even get a call for their first free service simply because no one remembered to share the details.

The Turning Point

After months of trying to make it work, the team at Ideal Dealers knew something had to change.

They weren’t short on leads. They weren’t short on effort. But without visibility, without structure, they were stuck.

They needed a system that could keep up with the entire journey of a car and its owner — from the first test drive to final scrappage 15 years later.

So they turned to Telecrm.

The Telecrm solution

Ideal Dealers didn’t just get a new CRM—they created an ecosystem.

They set up dedicated workspaces for every team

  • Sales handled leads, bookings, test drives, and deliveries
  • Service picked up post-delivery, managing free services, reminders, and follow-ups
  • Insurance worked alongside both, managing renewals and upsell opportunities
  • Scrap came in at the end, offering customers a clean, trusted exit after 10–15 years

When a car was delivered, the lead moved to the service team automatically. When it was time to renew insurance, the reminder was already scheduled. And when the car reached the end of its life, the scrap team was ready.

Here’s what changed

One place for every lead

Now, every lead from walk-ins, Tata dumps, car melas, and Facebook ads goes straight into Telecrm. Leads are automatically tagged by source, status, and assigned team.

When the sales manager opens Telecrm, they see everything: who’s working on what, what’s pending, and what needs action.

Call logs, follow-ups, full transparency

Every call whether incoming or outgoing is tracked inside the CRM. No more verbal updates. No more “I called, but forgot to log it.”

The system shows:

  • When the lead was contacted
  • What was discussed
  • Who followed up and when
  • If a test drive was scheduled

Even WhatsApp conversations are visible right inside the lead profile.

On-field visits are now trackable

Reps doing test drives or client visits now check-in via GPS and upload a photo.

So if someone says “Visited 5 clients today,” the manager can see:

  • Location pins
  • Timestamped images
  • Which lead was visited

This alone brought a 100% increase in accountability.

No lead limit. No data loss..

With Telecrm, there’s no 3,000-lead limit. They now store older leads, nurture cold ones, and set up future follow-ups instead of deleting anything. If someone isn’t ready today, they’re marked as “Future Maybe” and followed up automatically later.

Lifecycle automation across 3 workspaces

Once the car is delivered, the customer’s profile is automatically moved to the Service Workspace. No manual entries or follow-up chaos. Just timely reminders for free services and regular checkups.

Years later, when the car is ready to retire, Telecrm shifts the same profile to the Scrap Workspace. The scrap team reaches out, offers a pick-up, and within days the customer is back, buying a new Tata car. That’s not just automation. It’s a full-circle customer loop. One that’s tracked, nurtured and reactivated entirely inside Telecrm.

The impact: From scattered efforts to a connected sales engine

We evaluated several CRMs alongside Telecrm, but what stood out was how easy Telecrm is to use and take action on. It gives us clear visibility into calls, lead conversion, and field tracking. Telecrm lets us retain and track everything, making the whole process from capture to conversion much more streamlined.

Telecrm didn’t just help Ideal Dealers fix follow-ups, it transformed the way the entire dealership worked. Earlier, teams operated in isolation and leads often slipped through the cracks, leaving opportunities unnoticed. Today, with Telecrm in place, the teams work in sync, every enquiry is tracked, and nothing gets missed.

100%

Visibility into sales funnel

But the real win?

Customers now experience care throughout the entire journey.

From test drive to delivery, and from free service to final scrapping, Ideal Dealers shows up every single time.

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