More than 600 Volkswagen dealers across the U.S. will soon employ Xtime as their cloud-based, customer relationship management and scheduling platform.  Xtime on Tuesday announced an enterprise-wide agreement with Volkswagen of America to deploy Xtime’s ServiceCRM to all 600-plus dealers in its U.S. network. Currently, more than 200 Volkswagen dealers use Xtime; Xtime reports that […] [Read More]

Looking to the service lane for sales leads may not be a new idea in the dealership world, but two companies have joined forces to offer a new way to automate the process. MPi and TEGA Technologies on Monday announced their partnership and the introduction of Service Turn, which they say is an automated way […] [Read More]

ADP Dealer Services and RedBumper have teamed up to create a new way for dealers to manage their used-vehicle inventories via mobile devices. ADP Dealer Services this week announced its new retail solution called Lot Management, as what the company called the first of many solutions to be wrapped into its Front Office Edge suite […] [Read More]

For dealers listing their used vehicles on Edmunds.com, connecting with used-car shoppers has perhaps become easier thanks to a new offering from the website. Edmunds has released Used Inventory Email Alerts that notify a shopper when a used car matching his or her criteria has been uploaded to the used-car listings on Edmunds.com. [Read More]

Greater visibility and improved analytics in the dealership, without taxing its local area network, is the goal of The Next Up, in announcing a new version of its retail sales process. On Tuesday, The Next Up announced its all-new, 100 percent cloud-based version of the software for 2013, which the company bills as the “only […] [Read More]

As dealerships search for ways to be more environmentally friendly and energy efficient, the companies that serve them are searching for innovative solutions, such as going paperless. One of these companies, Digital imaging solutions firm Canon U.S.A. Inc. revealed Tuesday the launch of Canon Solutions America Inc. — a wholly owned subsidiary of Canon U.S. [Read More]

Dealer.com has received a couple accolades from Google this week as part of the search engine’s Premier SMB Partner Awards. Dealer.com has been named the North American "Best in Quality Accounts" and "Display & YouTube Champion" by Google's AdWords Premier SMB Partner (PSP) program.  [Read More]

Two new patents filed by DMEautomotive point to what the company calls “breakthrough technology” for its dealer-branded mobile app, meant to boost service and sales retention. DMEautomotive on Tuesday announced its filing of two patent applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, for the company’s Driver Connect app. The first patent application pertains to […] [Read More]

With the Super Bowl now less than two weeks away, Cars.com offered dealers a teaser of the spot set to be shown during the first quarter of the NFL’s championship game that annually is one of the most watched events on television. Site officials said they “will bring drama” to Super Bowl XLVII, which this […] [Read More]

VinSolutions has launched a new mobile CRM application— VinMobile 2.0 — that can help dealers stay connected with customers.  VinSolutions’ CRM customers can download the (iOS) app for free for their iPhone or iPad device via the Apple iTunes Store. [Read More]