AutoVision Alternative for Car Dealerships

Keep AutoVision on appraisal and pricing inside Reynolds. Put LeadLocate beside it for opt in seller leads, exclusive buyer leads, a full CRM and desking.

AutoVision is part of the vehicle management lineup at Reynolds and Reynolds. Its public positioning centers on the used vehicle department: appraising units with market based pricing, building comparison sets against similar vehicles in your market, watching competitor prices and movement, and managing each vehicle from the moment it is acquired through reconditioning, inventory and merchandising. Because it sits inside the Reynolds world, it is built to work alongside the Reynolds retail management system that many franchise stores already run.

For a used car manager, that is a daily discipline. The appraisal number is anchored to what the market is doing this week, the price on an aging unit moves on evidence instead of habit, and the whole department works from one view of every car on the lot. Stores that run it well treat it the way a sales desk treats a pencil: it is where the decision gets made.

Packaging, modules and terms are set by the vendor and change over time. Confirm current pricing and terms with Reynolds and Reynolds directly, and ask what is included at your store's level of the product.

In our conversations with dealers, the search almost never starts with the appraisal math. It starts with one of three pressures that sit next to it.

The first is supply. A pricing tool tells you what a car is worth. It does not put the next car in front of you, and in most markets the used department is short on units it can buy right, not short on opinions about value. Every store bidding at the same lanes with the same data spreads the shortage around rather than fixing it.

The second is the conversation. Appraisals get booked by people on phones. If the BDC is working from a separate CRM, a spreadsheet and a personal cell phone, the owner who asked about selling a truck on Monday is still waiting on Wednesday, and the best appraisal number in the building never gets quoted.

The third is the stack. Stores pay for a DMS, an inventory tool, a CRM, a texting vendor, a phone vendor and a lead source, and every one of them reports its own version of the month. Consolidating the customer side onto one platform is where the savings and the clarity usually live.

None of those is solved by replacing the appraisal engine. All three are solved by what runs beside it, which is exactly where LeadLocate is built to win.

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The clean split looks like this. The dealer management system you run keeps the vehicle record and the accounting. AutoVision keeps the appraisal, the comparison set and the price. LeadLocate owns supply, the conversation and the deal the customer sees.

That division matters because each piece is strongest where it is designed to be. Your used car manager keeps the screen he already trusts. Your salespeople and BDC get a CRM where every text, call, email and voicemail for a customer lands on one timeline on the lead record. Your acquisition effort gets a steady line of local owners who asked to be contacted about selling, delivered to your store and only your store.

Nothing about this requires a new connection into your Reynolds setup. LeadLocate operates without DMS access or an inventory feed, and Inventory Link can import inventory from your website so priced units show up in the CRM, on the phone app and on salesperson sites without an IT project. If you do have a feed, Inventory Link ingests it with VIN, trim, mileage, price and photos. Our Reynolds and Reynolds page covers the wider picture for Reynolds stores.

Supply on both sides of the lot. In Leads Manager your store draws its zone in the zone editor, picks the campaign type, sets the prescreening questions and Custom Offers, and previews sample ads with See Samples. Our team builds and runs the campaigns from those selections on the webXintel Ads Network, which is included with every plan. Buyer leads arrive as a mix of VIN specific shoppers and open shoppers describing what they want. Seller leads are opt in: local owners who filled out a vehicle offer request and asked a dealership to call them. Every lead in your zone 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.

A CRM that works the phone. Texting with MMS, RCS with automatic SMS fallback, a VoIP softphone in the browser, click to call, call recording with transcription, voicemail drop, email with domain authentication, a phone validator and an email validator with results shown right on the lead, Follow Up Processes, Automated Templates and a shared calendar with round robin.

The deal the customer sees. DealTracker desking covers cash, finance and lease with a fifty state tax matrix, trade credit caps and three lease tax methods, and customer deal pages carry PIN access and e-signature. SecureWebX adds apply links, online credit applications and a secure Send to Lender share to the lender your store chooses.

Features and packaging change on both sides. Confirm anything that will drive your decision directly with each vendor.

Here is how an opt in seller lead moves through a Reynolds store running LeadLocate beside AutoVision.

A local owner fills out a vehicle offer request inside your zone and answers the prescreening questions your store chose. The lead lands in the CRM and the first text goes out from your Automated Templates while the owner still has the page open. A manager copy lands with the used car manager at the same moment, so the person who will appraise the car sees it at the same time as the rep who will call.

The rep calls from the softphone. The call is recorded and transcribed, and Call Alerts can flag the words your store chooses, such as trade in or payoff, so a manager knows which conversations need attention without listening to all of them. If the owner texts photos, they sit on the lead record. The trade-in form captures photos and a trade VIN scan, and the trade info scanner reads the details straight into the record.

The appointment goes on the shared calendar with a reminder. Your manager runs the appraisal in AutoVision the way he already does. The number goes back to the owner by text or on a call, and the whole exchange stays on one timeline. Our acquisition platform page walks through the same flow in more depth.

Every car bought this way arrives without a buy fee or transport, and often at a cost that makes it worth retailing. That is the supply problem a pricing tool was never designed to solve.

The morning in a store running both looks simple. The used car manager opens AutoVision and works pricing, aging units and the appraisal queue. The BDC opens the LeadLocate Workspace and sees overnight leads, reminders, appointments and to-dos in one place, with an unread badge on every call and text that came in after hours.

Salespeople live in the CRM and on the phone app. When a shopper asks about a unit, the rep taps the vehicle button in the text or email composer and attaches the car with photos and price as an MMS or email. Inventory Link keeps those units current from your feed or your website, so the price the used car manager set is the price the customer sees in the message.

When a customer is ready to talk numbers, DealTracker builds the pencil and shares it on a customer deal page branded to your store. Deal chat keeps the back and forth in one thread with photo drops. If financing is involved, the customer fills out a SecureWebX apply link from a phone, and the application arrives with stipulations and document uploads ready to work.

Managers read activity, company and management reports that cover the whole customer side. The dealer management system you run keeps its role as the book of record, and AutoVision keeps the number.

Because LeadLocate runs beside AutoVision instead of replacing it, you can prove the value on your own numbers without changing a single process on the pricing side.

Start with acquisition. Draw a territory around the store, turn on seller lead flow for a month, and track three numbers: owners reached, appraisal appointments set, and cars bought. Compare the landed cost of those units with what the same cars cost at auction once fees and transport are added. That comparison is the whole argument, and it comes from your books, not a brochure.

If follow up is the bigger gap, move one team onto the CRM for three to four weeks and measure time to first response, touches per lead before the trail goes cold, and appointments set. The migration checklist keeps the move orderly when you are ready to bring the rest of the store over.

Plans start with CRM Only from $199 a month, Inbound buyer leads from $799, Marketplace Acquisitions for seller leads from $999, and the Buyers and Sellers Hybrid Plan from $1,599, all month to month. Full detail is on the pricing page. We cannot guarantee how many cars you will buy, how many leads a month brings or what anything sells for, because that depends on your market and your team. What we do is put the supply and the follow up in front of you and let your numbers decide. Call 844-376-2274 and we will map a territory before you commit to anything.

Does LeadLocate replace AutoVision?

Keep AutoVision for appraisal, market pricing and the inventory lifecycle inside Reynolds. LeadLocate runs beside it and supplies exclusive seller and buyer leads, a full CRM with texting, calling and transcription, DealTracker desking and SecureWebX credit applications.

Do we need a Reynolds connection or an inventory feed?

Neither is required. LeadLocate operates without DMS access. Inventory Link can import inventory from your website, or ingest your feed if you have one, so priced units appear in the CRM, on the phone app and on salesperson sites.

Are the seller leads exclusive to our store?

Yes. You draw your zone in the Leads Manager zone editor, and every lead in it is delivered to you and only you, prescreened at capture with the questions you choose and backed by a replacement review. Seller leads are local owners who asked a dealership to contact them.

Can our used car manager see acquisition leads right away?

Yes. Manager Lead Copies put a manager on a lead feed so every lead it delivers also reaches the manager by email and in the CRM, beside the rep who owns it.

What does it cost to run LeadLocate beside AutoVision?

CRM Only starts at $199 a month. Marketplace Acquisitions for seller leads starts at $999, Inbound buyer leads at $799, and the Buyers and Sellers Hybrid Plan at $1,599. Every plan is month to month with no long term contract.

Can salespeople send a priced unit straight to a customer?

Yes. A vehicle button in every text and email composer attaches the unit with photos and price as an MMS or email, drawn from Inventory Link, so the customer sees the price your manager set.

We will map a territory around your store, show seller and buyer leads landing in the CRM, and let your landed cost per unit make the case. Month to month, no long term contract.

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