Autos Valls

Customer story · Autos Valls

From the office WhatsApp to one agent serving each customer in their own language

At Autos Valls WhatsApp was answered from the office phone, between the counter and the calls. With Bota, calls and WhatsApps, sales, questions and support requests, land in one place, are handled in each customer's language with its reservation system behind, and the team is sized to the season.

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12
languages already served by the same agent
81%
of sales handled by the AI with no team involved
47%
of conversations arrive outside office hours
Country
Menorca, Spain
Channels
WhatsApp, phone and web

In brief

  • Autos Valls, a tourist car rental company in Menorca with an airport desk, operates with Bota on WhatsApp, phone and web, integrated with its reservation system.
  • 81% of its sales conversations are handled by the AI with no team involved and almost half arrive outside office hours.
  • The same agent has already served in twelve languages, from Spanish and English to Polish, Dutch or Hungarian, and replies in whichever the customer uses.
  • Before Bota, WhatsApps were answered from the office phone, whenever the counter allowed it; now they land in a shared inbox and the team is organised around the season.

The situation

Autos Valls is a tourist car rental company in Menorca with an airport office and several branches, and a highly seasonal operation: in high season it runs at full capacity and in low season there are hardly any tourists on the island or cars on the road. WhatsApps were answered from the office phone, between customers at the counter and the calls, with no overall view of the channel.

With such a tourist profile, customers also write in whatever language they speak, and serving them all well, at any hour and in the middle of the season, asked a lot of a team that has to grow and shrink every year.

The solution

Bota unified omnichannel management: calls and WhatsApps land in Bota, in a single inbox for the whole team, and not only sales: questions and support requests too. Bota quotes and books in the customer's language with real availability and rates from its reservation system, confirms bookings automatically when there is enough lead time and, when a person is needed, the alert arrives with the summary, the full conversation and a reply already drafted.

Language stops being a problem for the team as well: the customer's conversation is translated in real time and what the agent writes is translated into the customer's language. And Bota's back office gives the team tools to coordinate: create teams, assign and escalate conversations, step in when needed and measure process quality, response times and use of resources, conversation by conversation. That is how Autos Valls sizes the team to the season without service suffering.

Results

Eight out of ten sales conversations are handled by the AI with no team involved, almost half of all conversations arrive outside office hours and the same agent has already served in twelve languages. Autos Valls also has service metrics: what gets asked, how long replies take and which conversations needed a person, and uses that data to organise the team around the season.

At seasonal peaks, Bota has handled up to twelve sales conversations started within the same hour and close to thirty in a day, each in the customer's own language.

Capabilities that make the difference

  • One inbox for the whole team

    Calls and WhatsApps, sales, questions and support, land in one place. Anyone in any office sees the full conversation.

  • Service in the customer's language

    Bota detects the language and replies in it, whatever it is: twelve already served at Autos Valls, with the same information and the same rules.

  • Simultaneous translation for the team

    When a person steps in, the customer's conversation arrives translated in real time and what the agent writes is translated into the customer's language, with a reply already drafted.

  • Teams organised around the season

    Create teams, assign and escalate conversations, step in and coordinate from Bota's back office, to grow in high season and shrink in low season without losing quality.

  • Real availability and prices from its reservation system

    Every quote comes from the reservation system, with the rates and vehicles available at that moment, and the booking is confirmed there.

  • Automatic confirmation with enough notice

    Bookings with margin are confirmed instantly; last-minute ones go through the team. Autos Valls sets the rule.

  • Quality metrics conversation by conversation

    Quality score, customer sentiment, response times and handover reasons, from the panel itself.

  • Verified operational knowledge

    Pickup and return, incidents and assistance, insurance, pricing and requirements: answers approved by the company, identical on every channel.

WhatsApp used to be answered from the office phone, whenever we could. Now everything lands in one inbox, we see every conversation and in high season the team keeps up with all of it.

Autos VallsAlberto Valls · General Manager, Autos Valls

Frequently asked questions about this story

How does a car rental company serve each customer in their own language on WhatsApp?

Bota detects the language of each message and replies in it with the same information and the same rules, with no closed list of languages. At Autos Valls the same agent has already served in Spanish, English, Italian, Portuguese, French, German, Polish, Dutch, Catalan, Russian and Hungarian; and when a person steps in, the conversation is translated in real time both ways.

What happens to the WhatsApps each office used to answer?

They all land in Bota, in a single inbox, together with the calls: sales, questions and support. Bota handles most of them and, when a person is needed, any team member picks it up with the full conversation in view.

Does Bota quote with real availability and rates?

Yes. Autos Valls runs on its reservation system: Bota quotes with real availability and rates and confirms the booking in the system.

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