Auto Broker Software: Sell Cars Without a Lot

The platform that treats no lot as a business model rather than a problem: brand offer pages connected the day you sign up, a credit application link in every text, a desking worksheet for a car sitting at another dealer, and a deal page your client signs from anywhere.

An auto broker sells the car the client wants without owning it first. The client describes what they are after, the broker sources it from a dealer or an auction, negotiates the price, arranges the financing and the delivery, and earns a fee or a spread for the work. No lot, no floorplan, no service drive. A good broker runs on relationships and speed: the client who bought last year sends a colleague, and the colleague expects an answer in an hour, not a visit to a showroom.

Most dealer software assumes a lot. It wants an inventory feed before it will show a car, a DMS before it will desk one, and a rooftop address before it will take a credit application. A broker has none of those, so the usual answer is a general purpose contact manager, a spreadsheet for the numbers, a PDF for the application and a personal phone for everything else. Every client detail lives in someone's head, and the day the broker takes a vacation the business stops.

Auto broker software, the way this page uses the term, is the whole sales side of a brokerage built around the fact that there is no lot: clients, conversations, the offers you advertise, the deal, the credit application, the signature and the delivery. The LeadLocate for auto brokers page walks a broker's day hour by hour; this page is about what the product does. The industries hub describes every dealer type the same way.

Four features do most of the work. The first is auto broker inventory mode in Inventory Link, which is the reason a broker can use the platform at all. Switch it on and the broker gets brand offer pages connected instantly for the makes they work, with the current manufacturer programs from the OEM incentives engine and a lead form beside each offer. The broker advertises what they can get rather than what they are holding, and every request lands in the CRM with the vehicle attached.

The second is the Customer Profile, one shared buyer record with co-buyer support and encrypted personal data, holding the car the client wants, the car they are trading and every call, text, email and voicemail in one communications log. That record is the brokerage. The third is the Two Way Texting Inbox, on the desktop and the phone app, with MMS for the photos the sourcing dealer just sent, delivery status on every bubble, and trackable short links so the broker knows the client opened the window sticker.

The fourth is SecureWebX, which puts a branded credit application link in every text so the application is signed before the car is even located. Around those sit EZ Desking for the numbers, customer deal pages for the signature, Follow Up Processes for the client who buys every three years, the Referral Program for the colleague who was sent over, and the rest of the LeadLocate CRM, including a personal website for the broker under their own name.

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This is the question a broker asks first, and auto broker inventory mode is the answer. There is no feed to connect and no lot to photograph, so Inventory Link builds brand offer pages for the makes you work, each with the current OEM programs from the incentives engine for more than twenty makes, laid out in six offer card formats so a lease special, a finance offer and a cash incentive each look like what they are. One shared confirmation screen follows every submission, and the Schedule a Visit sheet and the request sheet rise from the bottom of a phone screen the way a shopper expects. The brand offer pages page shows the layouts.

A dealer page pulls the whole brokerage together under your name, with the offers, the lead forms and your contact details in one place, and the embeddable inventory widget drops the same offers into any website you already run. The vehicle finder lets a shopper type the exact car they want, and the request lands in the CRM with the description attached, which for a broker is the start of a sourcing job rather than a search result.

When you do hold a unit, a trade you took or a car you bought to flip, the add a vehicle screen in the portal lists it by hand with photos and a decoded VIN, and the vehicle button in every text composer drops it into a message. Inventory Link also carries a directory of transport carriers and service providers for the day a car has to move from the sourcing dealer to the client's driveway.

Open the lead, press Start New Deal, and type the unit into the Unit field; nothing has to exist in an inventory for the worksheet to run. Choose Cash, Finance or Lease, set the term and rate, add the client's trade with its payoff, and the payment recalculates as you type. The 50 state tax matrix handles the client's state, three lease tax methods cover the lease client, the multi pencil grid puts the sourcing dealer's number beside your two alternatives, and goal seek bays work backward from the payment the client named. Deal defaults are centralized, so every deal starts from your fee structure.

The client then gets a customer deal page, branded to you, that opens with a PIN and shows the pencil, every revision and a place to sign, which the deal pages with e-signature page walks through. Deal Chat lets the client ask a question on that page and you answer it in the CRM, a PencilRecap sheet is the one page version they forward to a spouse, and digital retail on the deal page adds document review, deal review and a shipping quote for the client who is across the country.

The Deal Jacket collects the license, the insurance card and the trade title through a QR code from the client's own phone camera, the driver license scanner fills the customer record from the card, and the Road to Sale checklist shows what is done and what is missing on every deal in the Desking menu. Duplicate Deal handles the client who wants the same structure on a second car. The desking tool page makes the general case for desking inside the CRM.

SecureWebX is the secure credit application system in the platform, and it fits a broker because the application travels by link and the broker chooses the lender. Every account gets branded apply links, each customizable with extra sections, custom fields, document uploads and disclosures, and the broker sends the link from the texting inbox or the email composer. The client completes five steps, personal, residence, employment, income and review, adds a co-applicant when there is one, enters an ITIN where that is the right number, notes the down payment and the trade, and signs with consent captured against versioned terms. An abandoned application feeds back to the CRM so the broker follows up on the client who stopped at step three.

Inside the dealer console, the application inbox and pipeline show status, assignee, amount and notes. Send to Lender shares an application with any lender you choose, the credit union your client belongs to or the bank that likes your paper, as a code gated, expiring, revocable, watermarked link with a lender response portal. Stipulations get uploaded to fulfill, adverse action notices generate from the application record, OFAC screening runs, and state specific disclosures are yours to add and edit. The credit pull itself runs on your own bureau account.

Worksheets in SecureWebX carry the same cash, finance and lease pencils as CRM desking, and a pencil built in the CRM can be pushed straight onto the application. When the sourcing dealer or the lender wants the application in a particular format, SecureWebX exports it in the format they expect. Two factor authentication, encryption at rest and a full audit log sit under all of it, which is what a client wants to hear about a form carrying their social security number.

A broker lives on referrals, so start there. The Referral Program is a standalone page with referral campaigns, a shared referral code and real rewards for the client who sends a colleague, and Design Studio prints the business card, the referral card and the NFC card you hand over. Follow Up Processes run the long drip on the client who buys every three years, Bulk Email carries the new lease programs to your list from your own authenticated domain, and Bulk Texting reaches everyone about a month end program with a live do not call lookup and the DNC Blacklist protecting every send.

Then the inbound side. Lead Feeds Manager takes every source you already pay for and pushes each lead into the CRM the instant it arrives, on its own feed with its own Automated Templates. Lead Pages builds a landing page for a single program in an afternoon, the free live chat widget turns a browsing shopper into a text thread, and every source carries a tracking phone number so you know which one the call came from. The personal website under your own name carries the offers, the chat widget and the booking link.

LeadLocate's exclusive lead plans reach local buyers who asked to be contacted, delivered exclusively in your zone, and a broker who wants inbound volume can add Inbound from $799 a month on top of the software; the auto broker lead generation page covers that side in full. Leads Manager, the self service campaign builder with a zone editor, zip stats and a market scan, runs a managed path on the webXintel Ads Network or connects your own ad accounts. What consumers do once they submit a form is covered plainly on the what to expect page, and the how to sell more cars playbook covers the habits that turn a lead into a client.

Both, and the distinction matters less than brokers expect. The LeadLocate CRM is the same product a franchise store runs, and the platform around it is the same: Inventory Link, SecureWebX, DealTracker desking and deal pages, the phone app, the marketing tools and Jax, the AI assistant inside the CRM that answers a rep in English or Spanish. What changes for a broker is which switches are on. Auto broker inventory mode replaces the feed, the Unit field replaces the lot, and the apply link replaces the finance office.

What stays outside the platform is whatever your business keeps in an accounting package, and the licensing that is between you and your state. There is no requirement for a lot, a feed or a DMS to open an account, and one login launches every product with single sign on, so a broker with two agents adds them from User Management with the roles they need and removes them the same way.

The platform is built so a broker keeps selling. Every text and photo you have sent is on the client's phone, every deal page you have shared keeps its PIN, every application a client finished is safe in the console, and your tracking number keeps forwarding to your own ring list, so the next inbound call reaches you the same way the last one did. What the platform replaces at a typical brokerage is the personal phone, the spreadsheet, the PDF application, the separate e-signature subscription and the landing page tool, which is most of what a broker was paying for one piece at a time.

Start with CRM Only, from $199 a month, month to month with no long term contract. It is the whole platform without a lead plan: the CRM, EZ Desking, SecureWebX, Inventory Link in auto broker inventory mode, the phone app and the marketing tools. Add Inbound later if you want local buyers on top.

The first week looks like this. Turn on auto broker inventory mode and pick the makes you work, so the brand offer pages are live. Import your client list, turn on the apply link so it goes in every text, record the voicemail greeting in the browser, set the booking hours on your calendar and put the chat widget on your personal website. Then broker a car the way you always have, except that the conversation, the pencil, the application, the signature and the delivery are in one record you can open on a phone at the sourcing dealer's lot. A specialist walks through all of it on a live account when you ask through the contact page.

Can I use dealer software with no lot, no feed and no DMS?

Yes. None of the three is required. Auto broker inventory mode gives a broker brand offer pages connected instantly, the Unit field on the desking worksheet takes a car that lives at another dealer, and SecureWebX apply links carry the credit application without a finance office.

How do I advertise cars I do not own yet?

Brand offer pages carry the current manufacturer programs from the OEM incentives engine for the makes you work, with a lead form beside each offer, a dealer page under your name and a widget for any site you already run. You advertise what you can get, and every request lands in the CRM with the vehicle attached.

Can a client sign the deal without meeting me?

Yes. The customer deal page opens with a PIN, shows the pencil and every revision, carries Deal Chat for questions, and takes the e-signature. Digital retail on the page adds document review, deal review and a shipping quote for the client across the country.

Which lender does the credit application go to?

Any lender you choose. Send to Lender shares the application as a code gated, expiring, revocable, watermarked link with a lender response portal, and SecureWebX exports it in the format a lender or a sourcing dealer expects. The credit pull runs on your own bureau account.

Is this an auto broker CRM or full dealer software?

Both. It is the same LeadLocate CRM and platform a franchise store runs, with the switches set for a broker: auto broker inventory mode instead of a feed, the Unit field instead of a lot, and the apply link instead of a finance office.

What does an auto broker pay to start?

CRM Only starts at $199 a month, month to month with no long term contract, and includes the CRM, EZ Desking, SecureWebX, Inventory Link, the phone app and the marketing tools. Inbound buyer leads start at $799 a month on top when you want them. The pricing page carries the current figures.

Tell us the makes you work. We will switch on auto broker inventory mode, open your brand offer pages, pencil a car that sits at another dealer and send the credit application link, so you can judge the platform on your own business. Month to month, no long term contract.

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