When a prospect enquires about a car, a two-wheeler, a test drive or a service booking, the first reply decides whether they convert or ghost you. This is a Meta-approved WhatsApp lead qualification template built for Indian automotive businesses — dealerships, multi-brand showrooms, EV outlets, service workshops and used-car platforms. It captures the two or three facts your sales team actually needs (model interest, budget band, buying timeline or fuel preference) inside a single tappable message, so a raw enquiry becomes a scored, ready-to-route lead within seconds. Copy the body, drop in your variables, get it approved once, and fire it the moment a lead lands.
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Hi {{1}}, thanks for your interest in the {{2}} at {{3}}! To match you with the right advisor, could you tell us your buying timeline for {{2}}? Reply below or tap an option — a specialist will call you back the same day.
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Template at a glance
A utility-category WhatsApp template that qualifies automotive leads instantly by asking one focused question with quick-reply buttons — approvable in about a day and sendable via InfiQ on transparent ₹ pricing.
Fire this the instant a lead arrives — from a Click-to-WhatsApp ad, a website enquiry form, a marketplace listing, a missed call-back or a walk-in follow-up. Speed is the whole point: automotive buyers shortlist three or four options and the dealer who replies first usually books the test drive. Because the message is a direct, transactional response to an action the customer just took (they enquired about a specific model), it belongs in the utility category rather than marketing. Keep the send tightly coupled to that trigger event — sending it days later, or to a cold list, breaks the utility justification and should instead go through a marketing template with an opt-out line.
A qualification message works only if it feels like a human advisor typed it, not a broadcast. Use {{1}} for the buyer's first name and {{2}} for the exact model they asked about — 'Creta' or 'Royal Enfield Hunter 350', never a generic 'our vehicles'. {{3}} anchors it to the specific showroom or workshop branch so the buyer knows which location is responding. Then let the quick-reply buttons do the qualifying: swap the three options to match your sales funnel — timeline (This week / This month / Just exploring), budget band, or fuel type (Petrol / Diesel / EV). One tap routes the lead to the right advisor and the right pipeline stage, with zero typing from the customer.
Submit this as Utility with clear sample values for every variable — Meta reviewers reject templates whose placeholders read like open-ended marketing hooks. Keep the copy strictly informational and tied to the enquiry: the moment you add a discount, an offer or promotional language ('Save ₹50,000 this month!'), it becomes a marketing template and either gets rejected as mis-categorised or must carry an opt-out line. Avoid all-caps shouting, excessive emojis and vague URLs. Give the variables realistic samples (a real model name, a real branch) so the reviewer can see the message is a genuine transactional reply. Do this once and the template is reusable across every lead, forever.
Since Meta moved off per-conversation billing on 1 July 2025, WhatsApp charges per delivered message by category. This template bills at the utility rate — meaningfully cheaper than marketing — and the free 24-hour service window means any follow-up replies you send while the customer is actively chatting incur no additional template charge. Through InfiQ you get transparent ₹ pricing (ex-GST), so you can forecast cost per qualified lead against your test-drive-to-sale conversion and see payback clearly. For a high-intent action like lead qualification, the utility rate per delivered message is a small fraction of the margin on a single vehicle or service job.
Keep a small library so your team always has the right variant on hand. A shorter version trims to name plus one qualifying button for the fastest possible reply on high-volume ad campaigns. A service-desk version swaps the buying-timeline question for a service type or preferred slot. And because a large share of Indian automotive buyers respond better in their own language, a Hindi or regional-language build of the same utility template lifts reply rates noticeably — each language variant is submitted and approved separately.
Open it in InfiQ with the body, variables and buttons already filled in. Pick a name, submit for approval, and you can be live on the official WhatsApp Business API in about 2 hours.
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