After more than a year of dedicated development and collaboration with dealers, DealerSocket will officially release iDMS at the company’s User Summit next week in San Antonio. DealerSocket highlighted that iDMS marks the first of several upcoming product launches for the company’s full-scale, integrated technology platform tailored to independent and buy-here, pay-here dealers.

“Our independent platform’s seamless integrations will provide tremendous flexibility for each product suite, including iDMS,” said Jennifer Lee, DealerSocket’s vice president of product strategy. “Once all our independent products have launched on the platform, users will be able to access tools based on their job role, rather than by product line.”

The company explained iDMS is a highly integrated solution including flexible accounting, powerful desking, an integrated lender portal, integrated service shop management, unsurpassed workflow and queuing processes, and robust reporting analytics.

Director of product and engineering Jeff McCurry added, “One of the most useful benefits of iDMS is its scalability for all sizes of success. This platform can help small- to mid-size dealerships get to the next level, as well as allow larger stores to reach maximum efficiency in their operations. iDMS will scale as your dealership grows, so you will not be faced with future software decisions.”

The new solution merges the best features of FEXDMS and AutoStar Solutions — along with adding some original features along the way. DealerSocket highlighted iDMS users can take advantage of 10 features, including:

• Seamless integration with DealerSocket’s other products, including CRM, digital marketing and inventory management platforms

• A streamlined experience, including a single login and highly intuitive user interface

• 100 percent web-based, cross-browser, cross-platform functionality, with a special focus on mobile devices so dealers can access iDMS in the F&I office, on the dealership lot, or while running errands

• Buy-here, pay-here decisioning and integrated lender portal, so dealers can finance a deal without leaving the platform

• Real-time accounting integration with QuickBooks, as well as flexible general ledger (GL) account creation and mapping, which give dealers granular control of GL transaction accounting

• Comprehensive desking solution for both BHPH and independent retail dealers

• Robust collections, such as stacked promise-to-pay and dynamic queuing functionality

• Multitasking capabilities through an extra communication module at the bottom of each screen

• Seamless integration with DealerSocket CRM and other DealerSocket products

• Detailed reporting leveraging the best from AutoStar and FEXDMS, including the ability to reorganize past reports using new criteria

Demos of iDMS will be conducted at DealerSocket User Summit, which runs Monday through Wednesday at the JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country Resort and Spa. To register, visit usersummit.dealersocket.com/ind.