Auto-Mate Essential’s Product Overview

 

Auto-Mate Essential’s is an easy-to-use dealer website software package which offers full website control and maintenance to both small and large car dealerships.  On the Frontend of the system (Figure 1) is a public website that customers may visit and interact with (browse/search inventory, request test drives, request vehicle quotes, request service appointments, request parts).  While on the Backend of the system (Figure 2) is a private system which allows dealers to easily maintain and update their website (Add/Modify/Delete Vehicles, Modify Their Homepage, Select Featured Vehicle Listings, View Test Drive Requests, View Quote Requests, Access Service Appointments, View Parts Requests).

 

Figure 1: Frontend System - Sample Dealership Website created using the Auto-Mate Essential’s Software Package.

 

 

 

Figure 2: Auto-Mate Essential’s Administration Backend System.

 

 

Administration Backend System – How it works

 

After securely logging into the Administrative Backend of a dealer’s website, the dealer may:

 

1. Manage Their Inventory (Used and/or New)
2. Edit Their Homepage
3. Select Featured New and Used Car Listings to be displayed on the Homepage
4. Access System Quotes
5. Access Test Drive Requests
6. Access Parts Requests
7. Access Service Appointment Requests
8. View Website Statistics

 

 

1. Managing a Dealer’s Inventory

 

Using the Auto-Mate Essential’s Inventory Manager, dealers may:

 

1. Add New Inventory
2. Modify Existing Inventory
3. Delete Inventory
4. Preview an Inventory Listing.

 

for all of the new and used vehicle’s in their inventory

 

 

Figure 3: Used and New Vehicle Inventory.

 

 

Adding Inventory

Adding a new vehicle to the inventory is easy.  Simply click the “Add Item” button (Figure 4) and the Add Inventory Item page will be displayed (Figure 5).  If the user wishes to perform an automated VIN lookup, then they may type the VIN Number into the VIN Number field and click “Automated VIN Lookup”.  Upon clicking the “Automated VIN Lookup” button, a new popup window will display the results of the VIN lookup, including the year, make, model, transmission type, number of doors, vehicle type, City MPG, Highway MPG and Combined MPG (Figure 6).  After clicking continue, the information will automatically be added to the vehicle’s listing.  At this point, vehicle images, pricing information, mileage information, options and other details may additionally be added to the vehicle (Figure 5, Figure 7).  After filling out all of the vehicle’s information and clicking “Add Inventory Item”, the vehicle will be listed on the dealer’s public website, added to the website’s search engine and added to the Backend Inventory System (Figure 8, Figure 9).

 

Figure 4: Managing Inventory.

 

 

Figure 5: Adding a new Vehicle to the Website / Inventory Management System.

 

Figure 6: Automated VIN Number Lookup.

 

Figure 7: Several features available for vehicle listings.

 

Figure 8: After adding a new vehicle to the Inventory System, it will automatically be added to the dealership website.

 

Figure 9: Used Car Search – Vehicle’s are automatically added to the website’s search engine.

 

Homepage Editing

In addition to maintaining a dealership’s vehicle inventory, a dealer may additionally modify their website’s homepage.  Just as a user would modify a document using Microsoft     Word ®, or WordPerfect ®, the homepage manager, allows a dealer to modify their website’s homepage to include important information, such as “Super Sales” or company promotions.  Available are the options to add new text, change text font sizes, font colors, font types, set fonts to bold, italic, add website links, add images, add bulleted points and more (Figure 10). After creating the desired homepage, “Change Homepage” (Figure 10), may be clicked to post the changes to the live website’s homepage (Figure 11).  In addition to modifying the homepage, featured vehicles may be added or removed by using the “Modify Featured Listing” option (available for both new and used vehicles) (Figure 12).  Simply use the drop down box to select the desired Featured Vehicle’s VIN number and a preview of the Featured Listing is displayed.  When the appropriate vehicle’s are selected, the user may finalize their changes and click submit.  The result will be a modified Featured listing as displayed in Figure 12, showing multiple featured vehicles and a link to its listing.

 

 

Figure 10: Modifying a dealership’s homepage on the Backend System.

 

 

Figure 11: The Website’s Homepage was modified using the Backend System of Auto-Mate Essentials.

 

Figure 12: Modify Featured Vehicles.

 

 

Interested in using Auto-Mate Essential's Dealer Website Software for your own dealership?  Contact us now for a Automotive Dealership Price Quote.