Platform / Follow-up and workflows
On the roadmap
Approve the follow-up, then let it run.
The routine work of a sales floor is the same every day: answer the new lead, confirm the appointment, call back the no-show, follow up the quote. This capability is built to draft that work and run it only where a manager approves.
He agreed to the time at 1:12 but no confirmation went out, and the appointment is on the board.
What actions and workflows is
Sales workflows are the repeatable follow-up sequences a dealership runs after a conversation: lead response, appointment confirmation, no-show recovery and quote follow-up. Pinpoint has these on its roadmap as approved actions first and bounded workflows second. The layer will draft the action and the message, a manager will approve it, and anything that runs unattended will run only inside the scope, the limits and the permissions the dealership configures, with a receipt for each step.
On the roadmap: approved actions and end-to-end workflows are not available today, and the platform proposes next steps for a person to carry out.
How it works
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The conversation sets it off
A workflow will start from something that actually happened in a conversation: a lead that came in and went unanswered, an appointment set but never confirmed, a quote sent with no follow-up planned. The trigger will always point back to the moment behind it.
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The action is drafted
The next step will be written out in full before anything happens: the message, who it goes to, when it sends and what it refers to. A manager will read the draft the way they would read a rep's text before it went out.
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A person approves
Approval will be the gate. A manager will approve one action, approve a sequence, or allow a routine one to run inside set limits. Every permission will be reversible, and turning one off will stop the next step rather than leaving something half sent.
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Receipts close the loop
Every action will leave a record: what was proposed, who approved it, what was sent and what came back. A sent message and an answered customer are different things, and the receipt will say which one happened rather than reporting the task as done.
What a manager sees
- A drafted reply for each new lead, waiting for approval.
- Appointment confirmations queued for the times that were set.
- A no-show recovery step proposed the morning after.
- A receipt for every action: proposed, approved, sent, answered.
Questions about actions and workflows
Will it message customers without me?
No. Every action will start as a draft you can read: the message, the recipient, the timing and the conversation it came from. It will go out when a person approves it, or inside a routine a manager has deliberately turned on with limits. Permissions will be set at onboarding and can be narrowed or switched off at any time.
Which workflows will it run?
The routine ones every store already runs by hand: answering a new lead, confirming an appointment, calling a no-show back the next morning, following up a quote that has gone quiet. The point is not to invent a process. It is to make sure the one you already have actually happens every time.
Does a finished workflow mean the customer was reached?
No. A receipt will say a message was sent and whether anything came back. Sent is not read, read is not answered, and answered is not an appointment or a sale. The record is built to keep those states apart so nobody reports a task as done when the customer never heard from anyone.
Can I use workflows today?
No. Today the platform proposes the next step and a person carries it out. Approved actions come first on the roadmap, and bounded workflows that run inside configured permissions come after. Neither is available now, and no part of the product sends a message to your customers on its own.
What if I want a human to do a step?
Then a human does it. A workflow will be built from steps you choose, and any step can be an assignment to a person rather than something the system sends. Deciding what to automate and what to keep human is a management decision, and the permissions are built to let you draw that line where you want it.
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