GuestLot vs Tessie
Tessie provides Tesla tracking, automation, Supercharging costs, service alerts, and battery health tools for fleet operators. Its drive history includes maps, analytics, and CSV exports.
GuestLot organizes a shop's care of a customer vehicle around one visit, from arrival to pickup. Its focus is the relationship between condition records, staff handoffs, authorized visibility, and an optional owner report.
Compare workflows, not just telemetry
Tessie is a relevant option for Tesla data and fleet operations. We have not established that it cannot support a shop's customer vehicles. Ask each vendor to demonstrate authorization, changing vehicle rosters, access closure, and the report a service advisor would retrieve later.
- Tesla data tools and the shop visit workflow
Published focus
Tesla tracking, automation, and fleet management
Customer vehicle care during a shop visit
Vehicle history
Drive maps, analytics, and CSV export
Visit-scoped readings, activity, and staff context
Location
Vehicle and drive tracking
Last-reported authorized location with a timestamp
Operational records
Confirm the shop workflow with Tessie
Condition notes and key handoffs tied to the visit
Customer handoff
Confirm the required report and sharing workflow
Private report, shared only when the shop chooses
Pricing
Confirm current fleet terms and rotating-vehicle billing
$179 per location per month
Questions to bring to a trial
- Can your advisor complete intake without sharing a customer's Tesla password?
- Can they distinguish a fresh vehicle reading from an old or missing one?
- Can they stop the shop's monitoring and verify access status at pickup?
- Can they retrieve a closed visit with condition notes and preview a customer-safe report?
Owners manage third-party permissions through Tesla. Keep each connection distinct, and do not ask an owner to share their existing Tessie or Tesla credentials with shop staff. Tesla explains how owners review and revoke app access.
Questions
Can a shop use Tessie to track customer cars?
Tessie offers Tesla tracking and fleet tools. Confirm with Tessie how customer authorization, rotating vehicles, access removal, and reporting work for your shop. We have not established that it cannot support that use. GuestLot focuses on a visit record with condition notes, staff handoffs, last-reported authorized location and its timestamp, and an optional owner report.
Should a shop consider Tessie for its own loaner cars?
Tessie is a relevant option to evaluate for Tesla loaners because it offers fleet tracking, automation, battery health, service alerts, and Supercharging cost information. Compare those capabilities with your operational requirements and current fleet terms. GuestLot's focus is documenting customer vehicles during a shop visit.
Can an owner run Tessie and authorize a shop at the same time?
Tesla supports separately authorized third-party applications, subject to vehicle compatibility and telemetry limits. The owner should grant the shop its own permission and review that connection in Tesla's access settings, rather than share an existing Tessie or Tesla login. Check connection status during setup; do not assume telemetry is available just because another application works.