ACV ClearCar Alternative for Car Dealerships

Buy more cars straight from local owners with opt in seller leads delivered only to your store, then work every one with texting, calling, trade capture and desking in one CRM.

ACV is best known for its digital wholesale marketplace, where dealers buy and sell used vehicles backed by condition reports. ClearCar is the consumer acquisition side of ACV. In public terms, it gives a dealership an instant offer experience that vehicle owners can use, most often from the store's own website, so the store can buy cars straight from the people who drive them, with ACV's wholesale market knowledge behind the offer.

The appeal is easy to understand. A car bought from a local owner skips the lane, the buy fee and the transport, and a store that already sells wholesale through ACV likes keeping direct acquisition close to that marketplace. For a used car manager short on the right units, buying from the driveway instead of the auction is the most profitable supply there is.

How offers are calculated, how the program is packaged and what it costs vary by store and change over time. Confirm current pricing, terms and the scope of the program with the vendor directly. This page spends its time on what dealers gain when they move their direct acquisition line to LeadLocate.

An offer tool on your website works the traffic your website already earns. LeadLocate adds supply on top of it. The Marketplace Acquisitions plan delivers opt in seller leads: local owners who filled out a vehicle offer request and asked a dealership to contact them about buying their car. Every lead in the zone you draw is delivered to you and only you, prescreened at capture with the questions you choose, and backed by a replacement review, so a bad lead costs you nothing.

The second gain is where the owner lands. Every request arrives in a full CRM rather than an inbox of offer notifications. The first text can fire automatically the moment the request arrives, the acquisition manager calls from the browser softphone or the phone app with the call recorded and transcribed, and the appraisal appointment goes on the shared calendar. Every text, call, email and voicemail sits on one communications timeline on the lead record, so anyone on the desk can pick up the conversation.

The third gain is that the same system sells the car. Inventory Link merchandises the unit you buy, DealTracker desks the retail deal, and SecureWebX takes the next buyer's credit application. One login, one customer record, one team working from the same screen.

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You start in Leads Manager. Draw the territory in the zone editor, check the zip stats and the market scan, choose the campaign type, pick the prescreening questions, and set up Custom Offers if you want a specific offer message in front of owners. See Samples previews the sample ads before anything runs. Our team builds and runs the campaigns on the webXintel Ads Network from those selections, and the network is included with every plan.

Owners who respond fill out a vehicle offer request describing the vehicle and asking to be contacted. Each request arrives in the CRM as a lead with the vehicle on the record, routed by your distribution rules to the buyer on duty. Round robin spreads the work across a team, and Manager Lead Copies put a manager on the feed so every request also reaches the desk by email and in the CRM.

Seller leads are inbound and opt in. Every owner on the list asked a dealership to call. That is why the first conversation sounds like a customer service call instead of a cold pitch, and why appraisal appointments set from these requests tend to hold. Marketplace Acquisitions starts from $999 a month, and the full workflow is on the vehicle acquisition software page.

Features and packaging change on both sides. Verify every detail that matters to your decision with the vendor before you sign.

Owners who want to sell usually ask more than one buyer, and the first real person to answer tends to set the terms. LeadLocate is built around that first minute. Automated Templates send the first text the moment the request lands, from your store's number, and texting runs as RCS with automatic SMS fallback and delivery status on every bubble, so the buyer knows the message arrived.

Then the call. Click to call from the lead opens the browser softphone, or the rep calls from the phone app, and the call is recorded and transcribed. Call Alerts check transcribed calls for the words your managers choose, such as payoff, title or lien, so the desk hears about the car that needs attention before the appointment. The phone validator and email validator show a validity dot right on the lead before anyone dials.

Owners who are ready next month go into Follow Up Processes, multi step drips per lead type, and a voicemail drop reaches a whole list in one pass for the second and third attempt. Scheduled sends let a buyer write the Saturday reminder on Thursday. The follow up runs on the system, so a busy week on the lot never costs you a car.

Appraisals go wrong when the information going into them is wrong. The trade-in form captures photos and a VIN scan, so year, make, model and trim come from the vehicle itself. Document AI reads VINs and documents on the same record, and each lead carries up to five vehicles of interest plus trade-in lines, so the car the owner is selling and the car they might buy next live in one conversation. The trade in capture and VIN scan page walks through the flow.

The identity scanner reads a driver license and insurance card into the customer record, and the Deal Jacket takes title, registration and payoff paperwork from a phone camera by QR code, so documents land in the deal file instead of a salesperson's camera roll. Customer Profile keeps one shared buyer record with encrypted personal information and the co-buyer on it.

When the number needs a book reference, SecureWebX worksheets include Kelley Blue Book QuickValues book-outs, and your appraiser still sets the figure. You keep full control of what you pay, and the owner hears the number from a person at your store who has seen the car.

Plenty of owners who ask for an offer end up trading against a purchase once someone treats them like a customer. The Buyers and Sellers Hybrid plan puts shoppers and sellers in one account from $1,599 a month, so the acquisition buyer and the sales floor work from the same record. Inbound buyer lead plans start from $799, every lead exclusive inside your zone.

DealTracker desks the deal with cash, finance and lease structures, a fifty state tax matrix, semimonthly payment frequency, trade credit caps and three lease tax methods, with the trade value you set flowing straight into the structure. The customer deal page carries the numbers to the owner's phone with PIN access and e-signature, and the desking tool page shows the full build.

If the next car needs financing, SecureWebX collects the credit application through an apply link sent by text and shares it with the lender you choose through a secure Send to Lender share. The customer leaves with real numbers on their own phone, and your store keeps both sides of the transaction.

Your account is set up for you, usually the same day you sign. In week one, draw the zone, pick the prescreening questions and Custom Offers in Leads Manager, and connect your website forms to your form intake link so every owner who submits on your own site lands in the CRM beside the seller leads. Load your acquisition text templates into Automated Templates so the first reply goes out in your words.

In weeks two through four, work every request the same day and book every appraisal on the calendar. Keep selling wholesale units through ACV's marketplace if that is where they belong. Then measure four things: owners reached, appraisal appointments set, cars bought, and landed cost per unit against the same car bought at auction with the buy fee and transport counted. The activity, company and management reports show the first three without a spreadsheet.

We cannot guarantee how many cars you will buy or what they will cost, because that depends on your market, your appraisal and how fast your team calls. What LeadLocate gives you is exclusive supply, the tools to work it and the reports to read the result. Plans are month to month. Call 844-376-2274 or contact us to map your territory.

What does a store gain by moving direct acquisition from ClearCar to LeadLocate?

A steady line of opt in seller leads from local owners in your zone, your own website forms landing in the same CRM, and texting, calling, trade capture, desking and credit applications to buy the car and sell the next one.

Are the seller leads shared with other dealers?

No. Every lead in the zone you draw is delivered to you and only you, prescreened at capture with the questions you choose, and backed by a replacement review.

Who sets the price we pay for a car?

Your appraiser. Owners request an offer and ask to be contacted, your buyer sees the vehicle and sets the number, and SecureWebX worksheets include Kelley Blue Book QuickValues book-outs when you want a reference.

Can we keep selling wholesale units through ACV?

Yes. Keep the ACV marketplace for the units you wholesale. LeadLocate brings more owners to your desk and gives your team the CRM to buy and retail the cars you keep.

Do we need a DMS connection or an inventory feed?

Neither is required. The CRM, texting, calling and desking run from day one, Inventory Link can import inventory from your website, and a feed connects if you have one.

What does LeadLocate cost?

Marketplace Acquisitions starts from $999 a month, inbound buyer leads from $799, the Buyers and Sellers Hybrid plan from $1,599 and CRM Only from $199. Every plan with leads includes the CRM, month to month.

We will map your territory, turn on opt in seller leads and show the CRM, trade capture and desking working together. Month to month, no long term contract.

Prefer to talk right now? Call or text 844-376-2274.