NextGear Capital introduced this week it's new Rapid Pay tool — a feature built to streamline and speed up funding within its Account Portal platform. This follows the company’s recent February announcement regarding the release of Account Portal’s AutoPay feature. Rapid Pay is designed to simplify the funding process for eligible dealers who want to floor plan […] [Read More]

Dominion Dealer Specialties, a division of Dominion Dealer Solutions, announced Tuesday that it has released a fully-redesigned Inventory Manager (IVM) mobile app to provide dealers with enhanced pricing features that allow dealers to easily manage their inventory wherever they are. This follows news from February that Dominion redesigned its DealActivator solution to provide users with […] [Read More]

Lead generation solution provider DealerDNA announced Monday that it has launched – DealerDNA Synergie – a proprietary marketing engine that plugs into dealers’ existing websites to provide transparent transactions with high-quality leads. DealerDNA Synergie offers performance reporting that equips dealerships with tools to analyze the productivity and lead generation activities of ad campaigns. “For the […] [Read More]

The collaboration to simplify what happens within the dealership finance office continues. Open Dealer Exchange and RouteOne on Tuesday announced a strategic alliance that brings together the organizations to provide streamlined solutions to their partners CDK Global and Reynolds and Reynolds that bridge the gaps, open the entire finance company network and streamline dealers’ processes […] [Read More]

AUL Corp., an administrator of vehicle service contracts (VSC), named a new chief information officer this week. According to a news release, AUL president and chief executive officer Jimmy Atkinson appointed Jose Fleites as the company’s new CIO, bringing more than 25 years of information systems experience to the newly established position. “Having worked on […] [Read More]

The proposed CDK Global purchase of Auto/Mate announced in May 2017 will not be going through. The Federal Trade Commission said it has issued an administrative complaint arguing the merger would be in violation of federal antitrust laws. After being notified of the FTC opposition, the two software vendors jointly agreed to terminate the deal, […] [Read More]

Website provider fusionZONE Automotive announced Tuesday that it has appointed former Autotrader executive Steve Greenfield to serve as company president. As Autotrader vice president of business development and product management, Greenfield lead almost $1 billion of acquisitions — including Kelley Blue Book, vAuto, HomeNet and VinSolutions, the company said. Greenfield most recently served as chief executive […] [Read More]

Subaru of America recently announced that it has named Manheim Southern California Auction its Auction of the Year for the second year in a row in recognition of both sales effectiveness and service quality. Subaru said it tracks and measures its auctions by three key components to choose a winner. The automaker examines auction’s total sale […] [Read More]

Canadian auto sales have enjoyed record sales the past few years — but it looks like those numbers may have topped out in 2017. That’s according to recent Canadian Black Book poll research that shows 51 percent of Canadian automotive consumers are expected to purchase a vehicle over the next two years. But apparently the […] [Read More]

FCA US announced Tuesday that it has awarded 468 Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge, Ram and FIAT dealerships with Customer First Award for Excellence designations this year. The winning group of dealerships achieved the highest level of customer experience recognition in the program's five core areas: people, facility, processes, customer performance metrics and training certification. “The fact […] [Read More]