EV Dealer Software for Electric Vehicle Specialists

Electric vehicle buyers arrive having read more than your salesperson has, ask about range and incentives before price, and expect to finish the deal on a phone. LeadLocate is built for that shopper and that sale.

The unit is different in ways that change the conversation. Range, battery capacity, charging speed and efficiency ratings replace horsepower and fuel economy as the first questions, and on a used EV the battery's condition is the whole appraisal. Manufacturer programs move often and vary by make and trim, so the offer on the window can be stale by the weekend. Leasing carries a bigger share of EV deals than it does for most segments, which puts the lease pencil, the residual and the tax method at the center of the desk instead of the edge.

The buyer is different too. An EV shopper has usually spent weeks in forums and spec comparisons before submitting a form, and arrives with precise questions: which trim has the larger pack, what the efficiency rating is, whether a home charger comes with the deal, what the incentive on the window actually requires. They text rather than call, they want the answer with a picture attached, and many of them would rather review and sign a deal at home than sit in a finance office.

Software written for the commodity sedan sale handles none of that well. LeadLocate was written around the conversation, the data on the unit and the remote close, which is why it fits an EV specialist. This page walks through the pieces that carry the weight, named as they appear in the software, and you can see each on the recorded demo before you speak with anyone.

Four do most of it. Inventory Link holds the vehicles, decodes each VIN through an automotive database that carries government safety and efficiency data, and merchandises them on an inventory website, in an embeddable widget and on brand offer pages that carry the current manufacturer programs for the makes you sell. EZ Desking inside LeadLocate CRM pencils cash, finance and lease from one screen with a multi pencil grid and a goal seek solver, which is how you show an EV shopper three lease terms side by side and solve for the payment they named. The two way texting inbox is where the range and charging questions get answered, with a vehicle button that drops the unit, photo and price into the message. SecureWebX runs the credit application on a phone and shares it securely with the lender you choose.

Around those sit the tools an EV store leans on more than most: Deal Jacket for the battery health report and the charger installation paperwork, uploaded from a desk or read in through a phone camera by QR intake; the Incentives Showroom inside the deal view so the salesperson sees the program on the exact unit; Jax, the AI assistant inside the CRM, which answers the rep in English or Spanish and helps draft the reply to a technical question; and the customer deal page where the buyer reviews, chats and signs from home.

All of it runs on one login, on the desktop and in the LeadLocate mobile app, so the person walking a customer around the charger has the same record, the same specs and the same deal as the desk.

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Connect the feed your inventory provider produces, or let Inventory Link import your vehicles from your own website with your permission, or add a unit by hand in the portal. Every VIN runs through decode and the automotive database, so the listing shows the real trim and the government efficiency rating rather than the three words someone typed at intake. That single detail matters more for an EV than for anything else on a lot, because efficiency and range are the first two things the shopper compares. Stock number overrides keep your numbering, and stock imagery covers a unit that arrived without photos until yours are taken.

The inventory website builder publishes the collection on a site of its own with AI assisted copy you correct with what you know, and per salesperson inventory sites give each rep a page under their own name. The embeddable inventory widget puts the same live units inside the website you already run. The vehicle finder, called Locate, lets a shopper type what they want in plain language, a specific pack size and trim for instance, and finds the closest match in your index, with the request landing in the CRM and the vehicle attached.

Brand offer pages are where EV merchandising earns its keep. Inventory Link builds a page for each make you carry, with the current manufacturer offers from the OEM incentives engine, which covers more than twenty makes, in six offer card formats with a lead form and a Schedule a Visit sheet beside them. When a program changes, the page changes. The same programs show in the Incentives Showroom inside the deal view, so the number the shopper saw on the page is the number the salesperson desks.

Open EZ Desking from the lead or from the Unit field. The lease structure carries the residual, the money factor and three lease tax methods, with a 50 state tax matrix behind it and centralized deal defaults so every salesperson starts from the store's numbers. The multi pencil grid lays three terms across the screen, and the goal seek bays solve backward from the payment the shopper named. Cash and finance sit on the same screen for the buyer who changes their mind halfway through, and the semimonthly frequency is there for the one who is paid that way.

Trades on an EV deal are often the gas car the buyer is leaving behind, and trade in capture records up to two of them on the lead: the VIN read through the phone camera with an odometer step, photos, and the registration, title and payoff documents pulled in through a QR scanner, with allowance, payoff, tax credit method and cap carried onto the worksheet. When the trade is itself an EV, the battery report goes into the Deal Jacket with everything else.

Then the deal leaves the building. The customer deal page gives the buyer a private, store branded page unlocked by a one time passcode where they review the vehicle, the numbers and the documents, chat with the salesperson with photo drops, and sign. The digital retail controls add a build step, a document review, a deal review and a shipping quote for the buyer who wants the car brought to them. Print packets with payment ranges cover the buyer who still wants paper, and PencilRecap produces a shareable recap sheet of the pencil for the one who wants to think about it overnight.

Yes, through SecureWebX. Each store gets branded apply links, and a salesperson texts one from the CRM in the same thread where the range question was answered. The buyer completes the five step application on their phone, personal, residence, employment, income and review, with a co-applicant if needed, ITIN as well as SSN, a down payment and a trade section, and signs the consent with versioned terms. The application lands in the SecureWebX inbox with status, assignee, amount and notes, and an abandoned application feeds back to the CRM so someone follows up on the shopper who stopped at step three.

Each apply link is customizable with extra sections, custom fields, document uploads and disclosures, so the store can ask for a utility bill for a charger program or a copy of the lease on the car being returned. Send to Lender is a code gated, expiring, revocable, watermarked share of the application to any lender of the store's choosing, with a response portal for the lender and a decision webhook back. It is a secure share rather than a lender portal integration, which means it works with a captive, a credit union or a specialty lender the same way. Stipulations with upload to fulfill, supporting documents, OFAC screening and adverse action notices generated from the record complete the file.

Worksheets attached to the application run the same cash, finance and lease math as CRM desking and print a deal recap PDF for the lender; a pencil built in the CRM pushes into SecureWebX rather than being rekeyed. When the lender or your DMS wants the application in its own format, the export formats cover STAR XML, fixed width, CSV and JSON over the transport they expect.

Start with what you own. Brand offer pages, the inventory website, the widget, the vehicle finder and the Lead Pages landing page builder all put a lead form and a Schedule a Visit sheet in front of the shopper, and every submission lands in the LeadLocate CRM inbox with the vehicle attached. The free live chat widget for your dealer site answers the first range question while the shopper is still on the page. Follow Up Processes run multi step drips per lead type, and Automated Templates answer each feed's new leads the moment they arrive, which is how a store keeps pace with a shopper who submitted four forms at four stores in one evening.

Then add advertising. Leads Manager is the campaign builder in the CRM, with a zone editor, zip stats, a market scan and the offers you want to run. Our team launches and manages every campaign from the selections you make there, either on the managed webXintel Ads Network or through your own connected ad accounts. Our EV shopper advertising page covers how those campaigns are built for this buyer. Financing campaigns run under fair lending rules and never narrow an audience by age, income or ZIP.

The Inbound plan delivers buyer leads in your zone, a mix of VIN specific and open shoppers, every submitted lead in the zone delivered to you and only you, prescreened at capture and backed by a replacement review, so a bad lead costs you nothing. EV shoppers are one part of the demand in any zone, and the what to expect page lays out how zone volume works so you pick the plan that fits your market. The car leasing leads page describes the lease ready shopper many EV stores are looking for.

LeadLocate is the sales, merchandising, deal and credit application layer for an EV store. Charging network management, charger installation scheduling and energy billing live with the charging companies and your electrician, and this platform leaves them there. The same goes for the DMS side: accounting, deal posting, title and registration, OEM reporting, parts and the service drive stay in your dealer management system and your shop, and SecureWebX hands the finished application to that system in the export format it expects rather than trying to be one.

That division is deliberate. A store that keeps its accounting and title work in a system built for that, and its selling in a system built for selling, is never hostage to one vendor for everything, and it keeps the month to month promise real. When an EV specific piece is missing for your store, a battery report field on the deal page for instance, it is available on request and our team puts it in production for your dealership.

Everything named on this page is part of the platform subscription, not a separate purchase, and the full list is on the all features page. The desking engine's universal field set already covers auto, RV, powersports, marine, buy here pay here and fleet, so an EV store that also sells an electric motorcycle or a commercial van desks it on the same screen.

LeadLocate is built so your store keeps selling. Your EVs keep showing on your own website, because Inventory Link reads the feed or the site you already publish and hands the listings back enriched with range, battery size and charging speed. Every lead, every deal page, every apply link, every photo and every text your team has sent is saved on the customer record and stays on it, so a shopper who asked about range six months ago is still a name your BDC can open and work today. Your phones ring on your own numbers, your chargers charge, your website is still your website and your DMS keeps doing what a DMS does. Each product is its own application under one login, which is why the store's phones, the store's DMS and the store's site all stay the store's own, and why an EV specialist who signs up gets a platform rather than a dependency.

Starting is month to month with no long term contract. Most EV specialists are software first, so they begin with CRM Only from $199 a month, which is the whole platform without a lead program: LeadLocate CRM, Inventory Link, DealTracker, SecureWebX, the mobile app and Jax. Add the Inbound plan for buyer leads when the zone is right. The current figures for every plan are on the pricing page. Give us your website address and we will show you your own EVs inside Inventory Link, on a brand offer page with the current program attached, and in a text message before you decide anything.

Does the listing show range and efficiency data for each EV?

Every VIN is decoded through an automotive database that carries government safety and efficiency data, so the listing shows the real trim and the official efficiency rating rather than whatever was typed at intake. The same decoded record appears in the CRM, the mobile app and the vehicle button in every text and email composer.

How do manufacturer EV incentives get onto my pages?

The OEM incentives engine inside Inventory Link carries programs for more than twenty makes. Brand offer pages show the current offers in six card formats with a lead form beside them, and the Incentives Showroom shows the same program on the unit inside the deal view, so the number the shopper saw is the number the salesperson desks.

Can I desk an EV lease with the right tax method and residual?

Yes. EZ Desking pencils cash, finance and lease from one screen with three lease tax methods, a 50 state tax matrix, centralized deal defaults, a multi pencil grid to compare terms and a goal seek solver that works backward from the payment the shopper named. Included with every LeadLocate CRM plan.

Is LeadLocate EV charging software?

LeadLocate is the sales side: inventory, merchandising, texting, desking, the customer deal page and the credit application. Charging network management and energy billing stay with the charging companies and your electrician, and the platform leaves them there, the same way it leaves accounting and title work to your DMS.

Do I need an inventory feed or DMS access to start?

Neither is required. Connect a feed if you have one, let Inventory Link import your vehicles from your own website if you do not, or add units by hand in the portal. Financing applications export to your lender or DMS in the format they expect once you are ready.

What does it cost an EV dealer to start?

CRM Only starts at $199 a month and includes the whole platform without a lead program. The Inbound plan starts at $799, Marketplace Acquisitions at $999 and the Buyers and Sellers Hybrid Plan at $1,599. Every plan is month to month with no long term contract; the pricing page carries the current details.

Give us your website address and we will show you your electric vehicles inside Inventory Link, on a brand page with the manufacturer offer beside them, and in a text message before you decide anything. Month to month, no long term contract.

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