Product Overview

 Deal Desking

Desking is our specialty. Other vendors have been trying to add desking to their product for years. It is very difficult to implement a desking system that prices to the penny with your DMS system which is why so few companies have real desking capabilities. Several companies will say they have desking but when asked the tough questions they really do not.

Here is a summary list of the Desking features:

  •   Ability to desk Retail, Balloon, and Lease deals simultaneously.
  •   Print Pencils that compare Retail vs. Balloon, Retail vs. Lease.
  •   Wide variety of AB Pencils and 4 Squares.
  •   Payment Grids that find the right payment for a customer.
  •   Dealer Specific Custom Header and Footers with logos and graphics.
  •   State specific tax calculations with override capabilities
  •   Tight Integration with real-time inventory.
  •   Maintains the status of each deal during the entire buying process.
  •   Updates and displays profitability indicators as each field is entered.
  •   Calculates GAP, Disability, Credit Life, and Extended Service Contracts.
  •   Multiple Offer Sheets, Buyers Orders, Wash Slips, Sold Tags, etc.
  •   Two-Way Deal integration with R&R, ADP, and EDS.
  •   Add, Remove, Edit Accessories on the fly and print out We Owes forms.

Sales Department

Save-A-Deal is very easy to learn and use especially for Sale Persons who only has access to a limited part of the system. It primarily functions as a Lead Manager and Daily Work Plan for Sales Persons, organizing their day so management does not have to.

Summary list of features for Sales Persons:

  •   Enter and Edit new Leads and view Notes from Sales Managers, Admins, and F&I.
  •   View Drivers License Photos while reviewing a lead.
  •   Set Appointments and Follow Up Dates.
  •   Select Vehicles from Inventory and view MSRP and List prices only.
  •   View lists of Hot Leads, Birthdays, Guests, Telephone Calls, Appointments, etc.
  •   Lists are automatically updated as Leads and Deals are worked.

Finance Department Menu

We added Menu selling features to Save-A-Deal over three years ago before it was popular to have a menu. The most important aspect of menus is the presentation or final output that is presented to the customer. We have the most professional looking color menu report on the market. Ask for a copy of one.

Summary list of F&I features:

  •   The most Professional Color Finance Menu Report on the market.
  •   Support for Disability, Credit Life, Gap, and Extended Contracts.
  •   Integrated with the Desking System. No need to reenter data.
  •   Customizable Menu Text for each product.
  •   Ability to turn each product on-and-off while working with the customer.
  •   Customizable Report Headers and Footers including legal text.
  •   Simple user interface without a large number of features that never get used.
  •   Reconcile Reserves and Enter Callbacks

Inventory Management

Our Inventory Selection and Management features are so well implemented we sell it as a separate product. Finding Inventory in a DMS system can take as many as 20 clicks to specify all criteria and several screens and reports may have to be pulled. Some dealers print out a new list every day and leave it at the Sales Desk. Why go through the trouble of clicking 20 times to find a specific vehicle when you can make 4 clicks.

Inventory View and Search features:

  •   Quickly locate vehicles by Make and Model.
  •   Synchronized automatically every 30 minutes with R&R, ADP, and EDS.
  •   Security displays accounting and other costs sensitive features to managers only.
  •   Display older available vehicles at the best time, when it is first selected.
  •   Create Deals and Leads direct from Inventory.
  •   Ability to sort and exclude any row in inventory on any of the 30+ fields.

Save-A-Deal Reports for Sales and General Managers

A system is only as good as its reports which is why we have a wide variety that each gives insight into the inner workings of your dealership. In addition we make sure that the reports display statistically meaningful information so decisions that affect the dealership are not made based on the information on one deal.

Our reports are organized into the following categories:

  •   Inventory Reports by age, make, model, and new/used.
  •   Production reports for the Sales Manager, Finance Manager, and Sales Person.
  •   Dealership Weekly Status Reports.
  •   Advertising costs per deal and Profitability by Source Reports.
  •   Appointment and Follow-up by Salesperson reports.
  •   Sixteen different types of Booked Deal Reports
  •   Dead, Future, and Bought Elsewhere Reports
  •   Wholesale and Dealer Trade Reports

Internet CRM Capabilities

The Internet is a very important aspect for a car dealership and as much as 10-40% of leads can originate from the internet. Save-A-Deal has a MailStation that distributes emails based on a variety of rules including round-robin, salesperson characteristics such as new/used, and by lead provider. This provides the only INTEGRATED Internet, Desking, and F&I Menu solution in the market place.

The MailStation supports the following:

  •   Lead Distribution by Round Robin, NewUsed, and Lead Provider.
  •   Supports XML and Plain Text Emails.
  •   Automatically creates a deal with the stock number of the vehicle and assigns it.
  •   Stress tested to handle 6000 leads per hour.
  •   Stores a copy of the original email in a Processed Folder for future reference.
  •   Reformats difficult to read XML messages into an easy to read mail message.
  •   Capability to Forward emails to Blackberries.

Drivers License Scanner

Drivers License Scanning is an important part of a Front-end DMS system. It provides a easy way to get every customer into the system along with correct address and personal information. This information is stored and available for retrieval whenever a deal is displayed.

The License Scanner supports the following:

  •   OCR processing of the leads address and birth date.
  •   Searching by any address, name, birth date, salesperson, or vehicle information.
  •   Ability to print Guest Sheets and the Drivers License image.
  •   Also allows the receptionist to sent messages to each salesperson.

DMS Integration

Integration with Inventory and Booked/Finalized Deals is a critical component of Save-A-Deal. We offer two-way integration minimizing retyping of deal information with ADP, Reynolds, and EDS. One way integration with UCS is supported on a limited basis through a daily administrative process.

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