Affinitiv Messaging vs UpdatePromise Scan
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Affinitiv Messaging
Facilitates swift and convenient communication for dealerships, enabling employees to chat with customers and colleagues. Streamline operations and maintain close contact with clients and staff through SMS text messaging.
- Employee-to-employee chat
- Customer communication via SMS
- Streamlined service processes
- Automatic message management
- Instant opt-in for customers
- Integration with Affinitiv Suite
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Dealerships now have the ability for their employees to chat with other employees and customers through our application. The Affinitiv Messaging app provides a means of swift and convenient communication to enhance the day-to-day operation of their dealerships. Get the fastest, most direct line to your service customers and employees with Affinitiv Messaging, a dynamic two-way engagement system built on the most immediate communication platform: SMS text messaging. With Messaging, you can streamline your service process and keep in close Messaging with customers and employees no matter where they are. Immediate and Personal Average open rates for mobile messages are over 90%, most within 2 minutes of receipt. Fastest Response Times Customers send and receive messages faster over text than other media methods—usually in under five seconds. Automatic Message Management All communications are tied to the customer and can made visible to anyone using the system controllable through permission settings. Easy, Instant Opt-In Customers respond to a dealership opt-in communication from their cell phone and are sent a confirmation reply within seconds. Fully Integrated Enhance service communications with the ability to connect with customers from any component of the Affinitiv Suite. Total Customer Engagement at your Fingertips Texting is a powerful—and often preferred—means of communication for customers. With Affinitiv Messaging, you respond to customers right when they message you—no waiting for email lag or playing phone tag. Loyal customers can easily opt-in to receive service updates or parts photos, request appointments or even open a live chat. And since Messaging is fully integrated, you can quickly and easily engage customers and answer questions from anywhere within the Messaging App.
UpdatePromise Scan
Streamline automotive service operations with a VIN scanner for quick customer and vehicle history lookups. Manage appointments, check-ins, and inspections efficiently from a tablet, all without leaving the service drive.
- Integrated VIN scanner
- Accelerated customer searches
- Vehicle history lookup
- Manage appointments
- Vehicle check-in
- Multi-point inspections
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UpdatePromise Scan is a Consumer Experience Management System (CEMS) Solution with integrated VIN scanner to accelerate customer searches, pulling up vehicle history and vehicle-specific parts during the Appointment, Vehicle Check-In and Multi-Point Inspection phases. Manage your RO’s from the customer’s Appointment to Payment Process all in one tablet. Better yet, without having to leave the service drive! FEATURES: - Scan a Vehicle’s VIN to search for a customer during the Vehicle Check-In stage for quick and accurate results. - Scan a Vehicle’s VIN to pull up customers’ vehicle history on a Vehicle Check-In. - If you are creating an appointment, you can also utilize the VIN scanner to search for customers - For technicians, scan the VIN when completing a found issue estimate to pull Vehicle-Specific Parts. - Continue your complete Consumer Experience workflow without having to leave the service drive: o Create an appointment or manage appointments o Conduct a Vehicle Check-In Safety Inspection with the customer o View appointment details during the Vehicle Check-In process o Complete or open the Multi-Point Inspection form HOW DOES IT WORK? - Login with your UpdatePromise credentials. - When completing an Appointment, Vehicle Check-In or Multi-Point Inspection, pull up your scanner at the top right corner or bottom left corner of your tablet. - Scan the customer’s vehicle for an accelerated Customer Search experience. - Continue with your workflow as usual, cutting down page loading times. This release introduces an optional integration with Meta AI Glasses, allowing automotive service technicians to capture inspection photos and video hands-free while performing vehicle walkarounds and multi-point inspections (MPI). Instead of holding a phone or tablet, a technician can wear the glasses and stream/record directly into UP Scan, where media uploads to the customer's repair order exactly as it would from the built-in device camera. How it works: With the Meta AI app installed and glasses paired, the user taps the glasses icon in UP Scan, registers the connection through the Meta AI app, grants connection permission, and connects their glasses. A toggle ("Use Glasses Instead of Camera") routes capture through the glasses, and a Preview screen displays a live stream to confirm the connection. Video is captured at 720x1280, 30 FPS. If no glasses are present, the app clearly displays "No active devices" and all standard camera functionality remains fully available — the glasses are an optional accessory, not a requirement.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Affinitiv Messaging at 5.0 against UpdatePromise Scan's 3.5. Affinitiv Messaging also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.6). UpdatePromise Scan's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (29% vs 0%). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Affinitiv Messaging holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: UpdatePromise Scan has 24 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 0% of Affinitiv Messaging's written reviews are positive against 29% of UpdatePromise Scan's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 6 weeks. Both last shipped on October 6, 2026.
| Parameter | Affinitiv Messaging | UpdatePromise Scan |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 3.5 (24 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 28.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 24 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 64 MB | 107 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Loop, LLC | Update Promise |
Customer experience
Affinitiv Messaging
UpdatePromise Scan
In-app purchases
Affinitiv Messaging
No in-app purchases
UpdatePromise Scan
No in-app purchases
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