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GuestLot vs Standard Fleet

Standard Fleet is a direct alternative for shops. Its dealerships and body shops offering covers digital access, vehicle location, and odometer monitoring for inventory and customer vehicles.

GuestLot centers the visit: know where a customer's Tesla was last reported, keep condition and handoff records together, and prepare a report the shop can choose to share. Compare the complete drop-off-to-pickup workflow in each product.

LAST REVIEWED SEPTEMBER 15, 2026

Where Standard Fleet is strong

Standard Fleet lists Total Recon Auto Center as a customer and explicitly describes locating and moving vehicles at collision centers. Its platform is relevant to shops as well as rental and company fleets. Its FAQ lists support for more than 30 automakers, with compatibility depending on the vehicle.

The published pricing table includes location and odometer data, with digital keys, geofence alerts, trip tracking, and Tesla app access scheduling in Professional. Enterprise includes additional integrations and configurable reporting.

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Which tier the shop features are actually on

The headline number on the pricing page is the Core tier, and Core is not the tier a shop ends up on. Reading the published feature table straight down, the split is unambiguous: the reason a body shop gives for buying — stop handling physical keys — is a Professional feature, and so is letting a second person log in.

So the comparison a shop should run is against $24 per vehicle per month, not $18. GuestLot uses a flat $179 per location per month however many authorized Teslas are connected, which puts the crossover at roughly seven or eight vehicles connected at once. Below that the per-vehicle plan is cheaper; above it the flat one is.

Ask how short visits, vehicle replacement, proration, and shop volume affect your quote. Monthly check-ins are not necessarily the same as billable connected vehicles, so multiplying every check-in by a monthly rate would be misleading in the other direction.

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Questions

Which Standard Fleet plan does a body shop actually need?

Probably not the entry one. Standard Fleet's published pricing table puts web and iOS dashboards, live location, odometer readings, and hardware telematics in Core Telematics at $18 per vehicle per month. Digital keys are not in Core. Neither are vehicle immobilization, trip tracking, speed and geofence alerts, service and maintenance alerts, Tesla app access scheduling, or multiple user logins — all of those begin at Professional, $24 per vehicle per month. API integrations, configurable user roles and permissions, and custom reporting are Enterprise, priced on request. So a shop whose reason for buying is the one on Standard Fleet's own dealerships and body shops page — stop handling physical keys — is pricing Professional, not Core. So is any shop with more than one person who needs to log in, because multiple user logins sit on the same tier. Prices and tiers above were read from the published table on September 15, 2026; confirm current terms with the vendor before you budget.

How does Standard Fleet's per-vehicle price compare with GuestLot's flat price?

They are metered differently, so the answer depends on how many vehicles are connected at the same time rather than how many cars you see in a month. Standard Fleet publishes per-vehicle monthly rates. GuestLot is $179 per location per month, flat, whatever number of authorized Teslas are connected. Against Professional at $24 per vehicle the two meet at about seven or eight vehicles connected concurrently: below that the per-vehicle plan costs less, above it the flat plan does. Against Core at $18 the crossover is around ten, but Core has no digital keys, so for most shops it is not the tier being compared. Ask both vendors how a short visit is counted, how mid-month swaps and proration work, and whether a disconnected vehicle still bills — a car in the shop for two days is not obviously billed like one held for a month, and that assumption is where a per-vehicle estimate usually goes wrong.

Is Standard Fleet for a shop's own vehicles or for customer cars?

Both, and it says so. Its dealerships and body shops page describes enrolling and managing digital access for inventory and customer vehicles, and quotes Total Recon Auto Center's general manager on locating and moving cars in collision centers. Its FAQ states support for more than 30 automakers, so it is not Tesla-only — which matters if your lot is mixed. The real difference is what each product is organized around. Standard Fleet is organized around a vehicle as a fleet asset with a continuous record. GuestLot is organized around a single visit that opens and closes: condition at intake, staff handoffs, authorized Tesla readings with their timestamps, hand-back, and an owner report the shop can choose to share. Evaluate on that shape, not on feature counts — a shop that genuinely runs a fleet is better served by fleet software.

Can either product disable a customer's car?

Standard Fleet lists vehicle immobilization and anti-theft mode with recovery keys from Professional upward. That fits an owner disabling something it owns — a rental unit, a repossession, a company vehicle. GuestLot has no immobilization command and is not planning around one. Its cardless path uses an owner-approved virtual key and Tesla's authenticated command service for lock, unlock, and temporary keyless driving, only while a visit is active, with control consent recorded and pairing and connectivity confirmed. Expiry blocks new commands; it does not stop a drive already under way, and it does not remove the owner's own Tesla keys. That is a deliberate boundary rather than a missing feature: a shop does not own the car it is working on. If the vehicles are yours and you need to be able to stop one, that is a fleet product's job, and Standard Fleet is the one of the two that does it.

On the last of those, security and product limits sets out what an active visit permits and what expiry does and does not end.

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