Vehicle Acquisition Network (VAN)
Vehicle Acquisition Network (VAN) is a purpose-built vehicle sourcing platform that enables car dealerships to acquire high-margin, fast-turning used vehicles directly from private sellers—bypassing auctions, reducing acquisition costs, and accelerating inventory turn.
Today’s automotive market is more competitive than ever. Wholesale prices are climbing, auction fees are rising, and reconditioning delays eat into profitability. VAN solves this by giving dealers the tools and talent they need to target, engage, and acquire for-sale-by-owner (FSBO) vehicles in their local market with speed and efficiency.
With VAN, dealers can:
Access thousands of local private-party listings in real time
Use AI-powered filters to find the most profitable cars
Automate personalized outreach and follow-up with sellers
Track communications, tasks, and acquisition progress in one unified CRM
Eliminate auction fees, transport delays, and wholesale surprises
For stores that lack time or staff to do this work in-house, VAN also offers a Managed Buyer program—a turnkey service where VAN’s expert acquisition team works on your behalf to find, contact, and negotiate with private sellers. It’s like hiring a full-time buyer without the overhead.
Whether you're a single rooftop looking for more control or a large group scaling a private-party acquisition strategy, VAN adapts to your dealership's workflow and goals. Dealers using VAN regularly see faster turn times, higher front-end grosses, and more predictable inventory pipelines.
Trusted by over 250 rooftops across the U.S. and Canada, VAN is how modern dealers compete with Carvana, CarMax, and other direct-to-consumer disruptors—by sourcing smarter, not just spending more.
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Bullseye Store Locator
Bullseye stands out as an innovative dealer and store locator platform that effectively attracts a larger client base. Unlike typical locators, Bullseye empowers businesses to interact with customers through localized content, enhance lead generation, and boost foot traffic. Additionally, it fosters strong connections between companies and their agents, dealers, and other partners.
Partners appreciate Bullseye for its SEO-optimized landing pages and its automated system for managing leads in real time. The platform allows for seamless integration of partner pages into your website, showcasing their work and establishing customer trust.
With two decades of expertise, Bullseye encompasses all the essential features one would anticipate from a contemporary locator service. These features include intuitive search interfaces, a robust API, detailed reporting, third-party integrations, and comprehensive tools for managing users, categories, locations, custom data fields, and location oversight. Overall, it serves as a thorough solution for organizing all location-related information and guiding customers to dealers, agents, stores, and other sites, ultimately driving business success. Furthermore, the platform continually evolves to meet the changing needs of its users, ensuring sustained relevance in a competitive market.
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Toma
Toma is a cutting-edge AI solution tailored for automotive dealerships, designed to develop personalized voice agents that facilitate key operations like scheduling appointments, providing customer assistance, handling parts inquiries, and issuing recall alerts, all while serving as an ever-present virtual team member. This sophisticated platform delivers full receptionist capabilities, managing incoming calls at any hour, confirming and rearranging service appointments, transferring calls when needed, and resolving complex situations through appropriate escalation. Moreover, Toma takes the initiative by launching outbound campaigns, including recall notifications and appointment reminders to reduce no-show occurrences, while also collecting detailed information from callers, such as vehicle details and part numbers, to relay to dealership personnel. By effectively integrating with dealership management systems, Toma taps into real-time data, ensuring seamless, low-latency dialogues that reflect the dealership's up-to-date inventory, service offerings, and operational frameworks. This integration not only improves customer engagement but also streamlines workflow efficiency across the dealership, ultimately leading to enhanced overall performance and customer satisfaction. Additionally, Toma's ability to learn from interactions allows it to adapt and refine its responses, further elevating the dealership's service quality over time.
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Dealer-Mate
Thousands of dealerships depend on dealer management software that caters to diverse dealer specialties. Our comprehensive auto dealer management solution enables seamless management of inventory, sales, financing, accounting, parts and service, customer relations, web marketing, and much more. Dealer-Mate is specifically designed to accommodate any dealership type, incorporating vital modules and tools to optimize operations. This software is intuitive and has undergone extensive market testing, guaranteeing a smooth and reliable experience for users. Since its inception in 1987, Dealer-Mate has focused on developing bespoke applications for the automotive dealership industry. With a strong clientele of over 4,500 across the nation, Dealer-Mate is now employed in every state and province in Canada, showcasing its broad acceptance and dependability within the sector. Furthermore, our dedication to customer satisfaction drives us to consistently update and improve our features, ensuring they align with the changing demands of dealerships. As the automotive landscape continues to evolve, Dealer-Mate remains at the forefront, adapting to meet the challenges and opportunities that arise.
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