Sharebox Joins the Tekion Strategic Partner Program to Streamline Secure Key Management for Dealerships
The partnership offers secure, contact-free key management, enhancing convenience and operational flexibility for service departments and customers.
Pleasanton, CA, Nov 12, 2024– Tekion, innovator of the first cloud-native platform serving the entire automotive retail ecosystem, today announced a strategic partnership with Sharebox, a leader in secure, automated key management solutions. This collaboration integrates Sharebox directly into the Automotive Retail Cloud (ARC) platform via Tekion's Automotive Partner Cloud (APC), offering dealership service departments a seamless, contact-free solution to optimize workflows, enhance customer satisfaction, and improve transparency.
Through this partnership, mutual dealer partners can access the Sharebox Service Station configuration within ARC, providing real-time alerts and a completely digital and secure way to monitor key access securely. Customers can experience a streamlined and flexible key drop-off/pick-up process, unlocking assigned lockers from their phones, creating a smooth, contact-free service experience.
Our partnership with Sharebox brings dealerships a unique, secure solution for key management, empowering them to offer a more efficient, customer-friendly experience,. By integrating Sharebox directly, we’re providing dealers with a streamlined and more tailored service solution, simplifying key control, enhancing transparency, and allowing service teams to focus on high-priority tasks.
Bill Kennedy, Business Development Director at Tekion.
Our partnership with Tekion represents a significant step forward in modernizing dealership operations through secure, digital innovation. By integrating Sharebox’s automated key management solution within Tekion’s Automotive Retail Cloud, we’re enabling dealerships to streamline their workflows and provide customers with a seamless, contact-free service experience. This collaboration underscores our commitment to enhancing efficiency, security, and convenience for both service teams and customers.
Arne Eivind Andersen, CEO of Sharebox
This partnership with Sharebox aligns with Tekion's commitment to modernize automotive retail by enhancing dealership workflows and elevating the customer experience. Through seamless integration in Tekion’s ARC platform via APC, this partnership enables certified partners like Sharebox to deliver innovative, efficient solutions directly to Tekion dealers and OEMs. By prioritizing operational ease and customer convenience, Tekion and Sharebox are setting new standards in automotive service. For more information, visit www.tekion.com.
About Tekion
Positively disrupting an industry that has not seen disruption in over 50 years, Tekion has challenged the paradigm with the first and fastest cloud-native automotive platform that includes the revolutionary Automotive Retail Cloud (ARC) for retailers, Automotive Enterprise Cloud (AEC) for manufacturers and other large automotive enterprises and Automotive Partner Cloud (APC) for technology and industry partners. Tekion connects the entire spectrum of the automotive retail ecosystem through one seamless platform. The transformative platform uses cutting-edge technology, big data, machine learning, and AI to seamlessly bring together OEMs, retailers/dealers, and consumers. With its highly configurable integration and greater customer engagement capabilities, Tekion is enabling the best automotive retail experiences ever. For more information, visit www.tekion.com.
About Sharebox
Sharebox’s self-service kiosks enable dealerships to provide convenient, secure key drop-off and pick-up options that streamline service operations and improve customer experience. The automation of this traditionally manual process reduces wait times and eliminates friction in the service process.
Sharebox revolutionizes key management with secure, automated self-service kiosks. Dealerships can offer customers a 24/7 solution for easy key drop-offs and pickups, reducing operational bottlenecks and enhancing customer convenience. Our solution saves time, optimizes dealership efficiency, and provides a modern, contactless customer experience. For more information, visit https://sharebox.global/