Autoniq Alternative for Car Dealerships

Your buyers keep the appraisal app they trust at the sale. LeadLocate adds a sourcing line outside the lane and gives the sales floor an app built for the conversation.

Autoniq is known as a buyer's app. It brings vehicle history, valuation data, market information and auction details onto one phone screen, so a used car buyer walking a lane or a lot can scan a VIN and see what a unit is worth before the bidding starts. The idea is one screen in place of a stack of printouts, guide books and separate logins.

Its home is the wholesale purchase: fast decisions, a lot of VINs, and a clear number in hand before the car crosses the block. That is a focused, valuable job, and a buyer who trusts their app is worth protecting. Stores that send a buyer to the sale every week tend to build their whole appraisal habit around a tool like this.

Features and pricing change, and the data included can vary by package, so confirm current capability, pricing and terms with the vendor directly.

Keep the app your buyers rely on. Autoniq tells a buyer what a car is worth. LeadLocate brings the store more cars worth knowing about and more people to sell them to, then gives the whole team a CRM to work both. There is nothing to untangle, because one tool lives in the lane and the other lives in the conversation with the public.

The fit shows up in the used car manager's week. Monday through Wednesday, the buyer is at the sale with an app in hand. Meanwhile, the offer requests that came in from local owners over the weekend are sitting in LeadLocate, already texted, already scheduled, and waiting for an appraisal slot. The buyer's valuation discipline applies to both sources. The difference is that one of them arrives without a buy fee or a transport bill.

Nothing about the buyer's routine has to move. LeadLocate adds a second door for inventory to come through and a better way to sell what comes through either door.

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Features change on both sides. Confirm anything that drives your decision with each vendor directly.

A sourcing line that runs outside the lane. Every store at the sale is reading similar data on similar units, and the bidding reflects it. The Marketplace Acquisitions plan puts a different source in front of your buyer: local owners who filled out a vehicle offer request and asked to be contacted by a dealership. You draw the zone in the Leads Manager zone editor and pick the prescreening questions, and our team runs the campaigns from those selections. Every lead in your zone is delivered to you and only you, prescreened at capture and backed by a replacement review.

Retail buyers for what you bring home. Inbound buyer leads arrive in the same CRM as a mix of VIN specific interest and open shoppers, and Inventory Link puts the units in front of them through your feed or an import from your website, per salesperson inventory sites and an embeddable inventory widget.

A system for the conversation itself. The CRM keeps every call, text, email and voicemail with a customer on one timeline, records and transcribes calls, and runs Follow Up Processes so an owner who said maybe next month hears from you next month. The auction buying software guide covers the lane side of this picture.

A buyer's app and a salesperson's app do different jobs, and the LeadLocate app is built for the second. It carries the Workspace, the lead inbox, texting and email, the VoIP dialer and call logs, Deal Chats, the calendar with Quick Schedule, the inventory list with a detail sheet, and DealTracker desking with the deal jacket. A rep standing next to a customer's trade can run a VIN lookup, scan a driver license into the customer record and text the customer a photo of the unit they asked about, all without walking back to a desk.

The bottom dock keeps the five things a salesperson does most within a thumb's reach: Text, Call, New Lead, Email and Team. Team Chat lets the rep ask the used car manager for a number in a channel the whole desk can see, and a Quick Access PIN gets them back into the app in a second.

For an acquisition team, that means an offer request can be answered from the lot, the service drive or the sale itself. The buyer values the car with the app they trust, and the salesperson keeps the owner engaged with the app built for the conversation.

A consumer purchase is a relationship sale in miniature. The owner wants a fair number, a simple process and to be treated like a person, and the store that responds first and keeps the thread warm usually wins the car.

LeadLocate is built around that thread. The offer request arrives with the vehicle detail and the prescreening answers. Automated Templates send the first text right away, RCS with automatic SMS fallback lets the owner send photos of the car back in the same thread, and the phone validator shows whether the number is valid before a rep spends time on it. When the owner calls in, business hours routing and a Forward Calls To ring list put the call on a phone that gets answered, and Call Alerts flag the calls where words you choose, such as payoff, come up so a manager can step in.

On appraisal day, the DealTracker trade in form takes photos and a trade VIN scan, the identity scanner reads the driver license into the record, and the deal jacket collects title and payoff paperwork by QR from a phone camera. If the owner is replacing the car, desking picks up from the same record. The consumer vehicle acquisition software page covers this workflow in more depth.

Day one: the account is set up for you, usually the same day, and contacts import in one pass. Set your zone in the zone editor, check zip stats and the market scan, choose the campaign type and prescreening questions, and preview sample ads with See Samples.

Days two and three: set Automated Templates and Follow Up Processes for the seller and buyer feeds, put your used car manager and buyer on Manager Lead Copies for the seller feed, and connect your website forms so requests from your own site land in the same inbox. Record a company voicemail greeting in the browser and build the Forward Calls To ring list from your users.

The rest of the week: load inventory into Inventory Link from your feed or your website, install the LeadLocate app on every phone that works a lead, and book a Live Training session for the team. Your buyer keeps working the sale exactly as before, and the remote vehicle appraisal guide is worth a read if you want owners to send photos before they drive in.

The Marketplace Acquisitions plan starts at $999 a month, Inbound buyer leads at $799, and the Buyers and Sellers Hybrid plan at $1,599 for both. The CRM comes with every lead plan because it is what receives and delivers the leads, and everything is month to month. See the pricing page for current details.

Compare the two sourcing lines on the number buyers already live by: landed cost per unit. For each car bought from a local owner, add what you paid and your recon. For a comparable lane purchase, add the hammer price, the buy fee and transport. Track time from request to first text, appraisals set and cars bought in the reports, and read what to expect from car sales leads before the first month so your team knows how shoppers and owners behave.

We cannot guarantee request volume, acquisitions or sales results, because those depend on your market, your numbers and your speed. LeadLocate gives your team the supply, the tools and the tracking to find out quickly. Call 844-376-2274 and we will map your zone.

Does LeadLocate replace Autoniq?

LeadLocate runs beside it. Your buyers keep Autoniq for auction and lot appraisals, and LeadLocate adds opt in seller leads, buyer leads, and the CRM, texting, calling and desking the rest of the team uses.

Does LeadLocate have a phone app for salespeople?

Yes. The LeadLocate app carries the lead inbox, texting, email, the VoIP dialer, call logs, Deal Chats, the calendar, inventory, DealTracker desking, Team Chat, VIN lookup and driver license scan.

Can we scan VINs in LeadLocate?

Yes. Document AI handles VIN scanning and document reading, the DealTracker trade in form takes a trade VIN scan, and the phone app carries VIN lookup. Valuation stays with the tools your buyers already use.

How are seller leads generated?

Local owners fill out a vehicle offer request on one of our landing pages and ask to be contacted by a dealership. Our team runs the campaigns from the zone, campaign type and prescreening questions you choose in Leads Manager.

Are the leads exclusive?

Every lead in your zone is delivered to you and only you, prescreened at capture, and backed by a replacement review, so a bad lead costs you nothing.

Is there a contract?

Every plan is month to month with no long term contract, and the CRM is included with every lead plan.

We will map a zone around your store, set your prescreening questions, and put local owners in front of your buyer. Month to month, no long term contract.

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