Fox Dealer Alternative for Car Dealerships

Your website and your ads bring the shopper to the door. LeadLocate answers the phone, texts back in seconds, and keeps every conversation moving until the deal is signed.

Fox Dealer, often called Fox Dealer Interactive, is a dealer website and digital marketing company. It is publicly known for dealership websites together with the marketing work around them: search engine optimization, paid search, social and display advertising, and reporting on how those campaigns perform. Stores usually buy it as a bundled relationship, with the site and the advertising managed by one vendor.

That bundle suits a store that wants one company accountable for how its brand looks online and how much traffic reaches the site. The site, the ad budget and the monthly report come from one place.

Everything a shopper does after they call or submit a form, though, runs through the store's own phones and CRM. That is where most stores looking for an alternative find the gap they actually want closed.

Services, packaging and pricing change over time. Confirm current scope, pricing and contract terms with Fox Dealer directly before you decide.

The trigger is rarely the website itself. It is usually something the sales manager sees on the floor.

Calls that ring out. Paid campaigns drive the phone, and on a busy Saturday half those calls reach voicemail. Nobody knows which ones mattered until the shopper has bought elsewhere.

Follow up that depends on memory. A rep texts from a personal phone, forgets the second touch, and the lead goes cold on day three. The CRM shows a lead that was never worked.

No lead supply beyond the site. When traffic dips, lead volume dips with it, and the store wants people who asked to be contacted, delivered to the store and nobody else.

Too many logins. Website vendor, chat vendor, phone tracking, CRM, credit application tool. Each has its own report, and none of them agree.

Every one of those is solved behind the website, in the system that receives the shopper. That is the system LeadLocate is.

Leave your number and a lead specialist calls you back to answer your questions about pricing, coverage, and setup. Mon - Sat, 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM Pacific.

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

Exclusive local leads. In Leads Manager your store draws its zone with the zone editor, chooses the campaign type, writes the prescreening questions, sets Custom Offers and previews sample ads with See Samples. Our team builds and runs the campaigns from those selections on the webXintel Ads Network, included with every plan. 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 phone system that belongs to the CRM. Tracking numbers per source, an IVR call flow builder, business hours routing, call recording with transcription, Call Alerts, voicemail drops and a browser softphone with click to call.

Texting built for a sales floor. SMS and MMS with delivery status on every bubble, RCS with automatic SMS fallback, Texting Chatbots, bulk texting and trackable short links with click stats.

Desking the customer can see. DealTracker EZ Desking covers cash, finance and lease with a fifty state tax matrix, and customer deal pages carry e-signature.

Website tools included. Lead Pages, personal salesperson websites, a free live chat widget and custom domains with self service DNS.

SecureWebX credit applications through branded apply links, launched from the same login.

Features, packaging and pricing change. Confirm anything that drives your decision with each vendor directly before you sign.

Digital advertising makes the phone ring, and the phone is where most dealer marketing money is won or lost. LeadLocate treats calls as leads, not as a separate system.

Every source gets its own tracking number, so every call carries the campaign that produced it. Caller ID name lookup shows who is calling. The IVR call flow builder lets the store set options, upload audio and keep revisions, and business hours routing sends calls to the right people at the right time. The Forward Calls To ring list is built from your own users, so a call reaches a salesperson rather than a general line. The virtual receptionist can be switched on or off, with press 5 call screening.

Every call is recorded and transcribed, and the transcript opens in a lightbox on the lead. Call Alerts check transcribed calls for the words your store chooses, such as trade in, payment or cancel, and a manager picks All Calls or Alert Calls Only. A sales manager coaches from the transcript instead of from memory.

When a call is missed, the answering service controls and missed call handling keep the shopper in the conversation, and the call lands on the same communications timeline as every text and email. Our call transcription page shows how stores use transcripts in daily coaching.

Most leads are lost on day two, not day one. The shopper answered the first text, the rep got busy, and the conversation died. LeadLocate keeps the cadence running so the rep can focus on the people ready to talk.

Automated Templates answer each lead feed the moment a lead arrives, with a first text or email written for that source. Follow Up Processes run multi step drips per lead type, with defaults you can restore any time. Scheduled sends let a rep write a text, email or voicemail drop tonight and time it for nine in the morning. Reminders, appointments and to dos sit on the Workspace, and snooze and bulk clear keep the list current to the minute.

Round robin assignment spreads leads evenly across the team, and Manager Lead Copies put a manager on a feed so they see every lead beside the rep who owns it. Notifications arrive on screen, by sound, by email and by text, with per user preferences.

Jax, the bilingual AI assistant inside the CRM, drafts texts and emails in English or Spanish from the composer, and AI merge fields personalize a bulk message without a rep typing each name. The Phone Validator and Email Validator show a validity dot on every lead, so the cadence goes to numbers and inboxes that actually reach a person. See texting and calling in one CRM for the full rundown.

A move from a website and marketing vendor goes smoothly when every entry point is repointed in order.

Start with ownership: confirm the domain, the ad accounts and the tracking numbers are in the dealership's name. Ask for an export of your pages, photos and content in writing, and list the URLs that receive traffic so each one can be redirected.

Then connect the site to the CRM. Every account has its own form intake link, and any website form that posts to it creates a lead with the fields mapped, with the first text going out automatically. The free live chat widget drops onto any site, and the Inventory Link widget puts your live vehicles on any page. Stores that want their site on LeadLocate edit it from the Website menu in tabs for business info, branding, menu links, social media, inventory and analytics, with their own domain pointed through the self service DNS editor.

Visitor analytics inside the CRM show sessions, sources and top pages from the first day, so you can compare traffic against the weeks before the move. The website migration checklist walks through each step in sequence.

Days one to five. The account is set up for you, usually the same day. Import contacts, set statuses and distribution rules, connect website forms, and draw your zone in Leads Manager.

Days six to fifteen. Assign tracking numbers, build the IVR call flow, record greetings, and turn on Automated Templates and Follow Up Processes for each lead type.

Days sixteen to thirty. Train the team with the video library and Live Training, both included with every plan, and compare time to first response, calls answered and appointments set against the month before.

Plans are month to month with no long term contract. Inbound buyer leads start at $799, Marketplace Acquisitions seller leads at $999, and the Buyers & Sellers Hybrid Plan at $1,599. CRM Only is $199 for stores bringing their own lead sources, and Skip A Month is $199 for a slow stretch. Every plan with leads includes the CRM, because the platform is what receives and delivers them. See every plan on the pricing page.

We cannot guarantee lead counts, close rates or sales results, and no vendor can. What we deliver is every lead in your zone, a phone and text system that answers fast, and follow up that keeps going. Watch the recorded demo or call 844-376-2274.

Is LeadLocate a replacement for Fox Dealer?

It replaces the parts of the relationship that decide sales: lead supply, phones, texting, follow up and reporting. Website tools come included, and your store makes its selections in Leads Manager while our team runs the campaigns on the webXintel Ads Network.

Can we keep our current website and use LeadLocate?

Yes. Connect your website forms to your form intake link, drop in the free live chat widget, and every lead from the site lands in the CRM with the first text sent automatically.

Are calls recorded and transcribed?

Yes. Calls are recorded and transcribed, the transcript opens on the lead, and Call Alerts flag calls that mention the words your store chooses.

Are the leads exclusive to our store?

Yes. 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.

Do we need a DMS connection or an inventory feed?

Neither is required to run the platform. Inventory Link ingests a feed when you have one and imports inventory from your website when you do not.

How long is the contract?

There is no long term contract. Every plan is month to month, so your store decides every month.

We will map exclusive leads around your store and show the phones, texting and follow up working on one record. Month to month, so you decide every month.

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