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title: "Call Tracking for Car Dealers"
image: "/assets/images/posts/call-tracker-car-dealership.jpg"
url: "https://calltracker.io/industries/car-dealerships/"
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A dealership's phone rings from more places than almost any other business, and then the call lands on one number and gets passed from the receptionist to Sales to Service. By the end nobody can say which ad paid for it or whether anyone booked the appointment. Call tracking for car dealerships fixes both halves: it ties every call to the source that produced it, and it gets the call to someone who can sell a car or book a service.

#### Give every lead source its own number

Put a different tracking number on your Autotrader inventory than on Cars.com or CarGurus, and every call to that number is a call that site produced. The same goes for the postcard, the radio spot and the billboard. On the website, [dynamic number insertion](/integrations/dynamic-number-insertion/) swaps the number per visitor, so a call carries the source channel, the landing page, and for Google Ads the click ID that lets it go back as a conversion. The [reports](/features/call-analytics/) then answer the question the general manager asks: which of these produces calls, and which just produces an invoice.

#### Route Sales, Service and Parts without a receptionist

Advertise one number and an [IVR menu](/features/ivr-menu/) splits the callers: press 1 for Sales, 2 for Service, 3 for Parts, with each option running its own handling. Sales uses [simultaneous ring](/features/simultaneous-ring/) across the desk, the floor phone and the salespeople's mobiles, so the first one free takes the customer. Service rings the service desk and falls through to a [voicemail with a transcript](/features/voicemail-and-voicemail-transcription/), so a customer describing a noise at 7am leaves a message the advisor can read.

#### Record the calls your BDC should hear

Phone skills decide whether an internet lead becomes an appointment, and most stores have no way to hear those calls. [Call recording](/features/call-recording/) applies to every call, and [AI transcription](/features/ai-call-transcriptions/) lays each one out with the caller and the salesperson on separate lines. The review panel is where that becomes coaching: work down the day's calls, tag the ones that booked, put a value on them, and see at a glance which ones a manager has already reviewed.

#### Several rooftops, one account

A dealer group wants each store's calls, numbers and users kept apart, and the group's marketing manager wants to see all of it. [Multiple companies](/features/multiple-companies-agency-call-tracking/) gives each rooftop its own company on one account, with its own trackers and reports, and users who see only their store. Usage is broken out per company at billing time.

#### Start tracking your dealership's calls

Get thousands of local and toll-free numbers across 300+ US and Canada area codes, with recording, routing and analytics on every plan from $37 a month. Want the setup walkthrough? Read [call tracking for car dealerships](/blog/2026-09-12-call-tracking-for-car-dealerships/).