Inventory+ Alternative for Car Dealerships

Keep Inventory+ for market pricing and appraisal, and run LeadLocate beside it for exclusive seller and buyer leads, the CRM, texting, calling, desking and inventory merchandising.

Inventory+ is used vehicle inventory management software. In the category it is known for applying live market data to the decisions a used car manager makes every morning: what a unit is worth against comparable vehicles in the market, how to price it as it ages, what to pay on an appraisal and which units deserve more of your stocking dollars. Stores that run a tool like this well replace a gut number with a market number, and they revisit that number daily instead of once a month.

The exact module list, the data sources behind the market comparisons and the way the product is packaged are the vendor's to describe, and packaging changes over time. Confirm current pricing, terms and the modules included in your package with the vendor directly. This page keeps to what the category does in public terms and spends its time on the part that decides your month: what happens to a priced car after the price is set.

That second part is where most of the gross sits. A market price tells you what a car should sell for. Putting a shopper on the phone, answering a text at nine at night, desking a lease correctly across state lines and finding the next trade before the auction does are jobs on the other side of the pricing screen. LeadLocate was built to run exactly those jobs, and it runs them beside the pricing tool you already trust.

If your used car manager lives in a market pricing tool and your aged inventory report looks better for it, keep that discipline exactly where it is. The pricing tool sets the number. LeadLocate is the layer that turns the number into a conversation, an appointment and a signed deal, and it sits comfortably beside whatever inventory software your store runs.

The two meet at the vehicle. Inventory Link, the inventory side of the LeadLocate platform, takes in your units from your feed or imports them from your own website when there is no feed. It decodes every VIN against an automotive database that carries government safety and efficiency data, applies your stock number overrides so the number on the windshield matches the number in the system, and then puts that same car into your inventory website, your embeddable widget, your brand offer pages and every salesperson's text composer. When your website or feed shows a new price, the next import carries it forward, so the vehicle a salesperson sends matches the vehicle a shopper sees online.

None of this calls for a rip and replace. The pricing tool keeps its data and its reports. The dealer management system you run keeps the deal file and the accounting. LeadLocate runs the leads, the follow up, the phones and the desk, and every call, text, email and voicemail for a customer lands on one timeline where a manager can read the whole story in a minute.

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Most inventory tools stop at the listing. Inventory Link keeps going. The inventory website builder fills a template with your live units, drafts the descriptions with AI assisted copy and publishes, and a regenerate brings the site current whenever the lot changes. The same builder produces a site for every salesperson from a template, so each person on your floor has real inventory under their own name. The embeddable widget drops live inventory into any page that accepts a line of HTML, and Locate, the vehicle finder, lets a shopper describe the car they want in plain words and sends the request to your team when it finds a match.

Offers are built in. The OEM incentives engine tracks manufacturer programs for more than twenty makes and shows them in the Incentives Showroom, both on brand offer pages and inside the deal view where a salesperson is working the numbers. Brand pages build themselves with six offer card formats, a lead form beside every offer and one shared confirmation screen. On a phone, the Schedule a Visit sheet rises from the bottom of the screen like a native app, and every request lands in the CRM with the vehicle already attached.

Units that arrive without pictures get promo photos and stock imagery, so a fresh trade is never advertised as a grey box while it waits for the photo lane. And an inventory feed and DMS access are not required to run any of it, which is why franchise stores, independents and brokers work on the same platform. Our Inventory Link overview walks through every module.

Features and packaging change on both sides. Verify every detail that will drive your decision with the vendor before you sign anything.

Pricing sophistication rarely decides a used car month. Supply does. When every store in a market bids at the same lanes with the same data, the shortage is shared evenly and the buy fees and transport come off the gross. The stores handling it best run a second sourcing line that starts with the owner of the car.

LeadLocate runs that line. The Marketplace Acquisitions plan delivers opt in seller leads: local owners who filled out a vehicle offer request and asked a dealership to contact them about buying their car. You draw the territory in the Leads Manager zone editor, you choose the prescreening questions asked at capture, and every lead in your zone is delivered to you and only you, backed by a replacement review, so a bad lead costs you nothing. Plans with seller leads start from $999 a month, and the Buyers and Sellers Hybrid plan puts shoppers and sellers in one account. Our car seller leads page covers how the flow works.

Every seller lead lands with the vehicle on the record, and the trade-in form captures photos and a VIN scan so the appraisal starts from facts. That is where the two products shake hands: the owner comes in through LeadLocate, the number comes from the pricing tool you trust, and the conversation that closes the gap happens by text and phone inside the CRM. The vehicle acquisition software page covers the tooling in more depth.

Once a shopper raises a hand on a car, speed and follow up decide the deal. LeadLocate distributes every lead by the rules you set, with round robin across the team, and the first text can fire automatically from the Automated Templates for that feed. Texting runs as RCS with automatic SMS fallback, with delivery status on every bubble, and the vehicle insert button in every text and email composer drops a formatted card with photo, mileage, stock number and price into the message in one tap.

Calls run through a browser softphone and the phone app with click to call, call recording and call transcription. Call Alerts check transcribed calls for the words you choose, such as trade in or payment, so a manager hears about the calls that matter. The phone validator and email validator show a validity dot right on the lead, voicemail drops go to whole lists, and Follow Up Processes run multi step drips per lead type so no shopper goes quiet because a salesperson had a busy Saturday.

When the customer is ready, DealTracker desking builds cash, finance and lease structures with a fifty state tax matrix, trade credit caps and three lease tax methods. The customer deal page carries the numbers with PIN access and e-signature, and SecureWebX takes the credit application through an apply link and shares it with the lender you choose through a secure, expiring Send to Lender share.

Adding LeadLocate beside Inventory+ is a two to four week project, and nothing about it touches the pricing workflow. In the first days your account is set up for you, usually the same day you sign: the zone is drawn, tracking numbers are assigned to each lead source, and Inventory Link connects your feed or imports your units from your website. Your team gets one login that launches the CRM, Inventory Link and SecureWebX, on the desktop and on the phone app.

In the second week, lead feeds are mapped in the Lead Feeds Manager, the Automated Templates and Follow Up Processes are tuned to your voice, and your website forms are connected so every form fill becomes a lead with the fields mapped. The IVR call flow builder handles routing and business hours, and training runs through the video library and Live Training sessions included with every plan.

Then measure. Track time to first response, appraisal appointments set from seller leads, cars bought from consumers against cars bought at auction with fees and transport included, and appointments set from inventory requests. Set the pass mark before you start so the result is a number, not an opinion.

These questions are worth asking whoever you buy from. Ask how the market comparisons behave on your hardest units, the lifted truck or the high mileage luxury car, rather than on the demo sedan. Ask how comparison sets are built in a small or rural market, where the nearest comparable car may be hours away. Ask what data leaves your store, where it goes and who else benefits from it. Ask what you can export, in what format, and whether you can run the export yourself; our data export checklist works with any vendor, including us.

Finally, ask what the tool needs from your people. Inventory software succeeds on daily use, so the right question is who in your building will open it every morning and what they will do with it.

We cannot guarantee how many cars you will buy, what they will cost or what they will sell for, because that depends on your market, your appraisal skill and how quickly your team calls. What LeadLocate gives you is the supply, the follow up and the tracking to see it in your own numbers. Call 844-376-2274 or use contact us and we will map your territory before you commit to anything.

Does LeadLocate replace Inventory+?

LeadLocate runs beside it. Keep Inventory+ for market pricing and appraisal support, and let LeadLocate handle exclusive seller and buyer leads, the CRM, texting, calling, desking, credit applications and inventory merchandising through Inventory Link.

Can our priced inventory show up in LeadLocate?

Yes. Inventory Link ingests your inventory feed or imports your units from your own website, decodes each VIN and carries the current price into your inventory website, widget, brand offer pages and the vehicle insert button in every text and email composer.

What are opt in seller leads?

Local owners who filled out a vehicle offer request and asked a dealership to contact them about buying their car. Inside the zone you draw, every one is delivered to you and only you, prescreened at capture with your questions and backed by a replacement review.

Do we need a DMS connection or an inventory feed?

Neither is required. Inventory Link can import inventory from your website, and the CRM, texting, calling and desking run from day one. If you have a feed, it connects and your real units are advertised everywhere.

What does LeadLocate cost?

CRM Only starts at $199 a month, inbound buyer lead plans from $799, Marketplace Acquisitions seller lead plans from $999 and the Buyers and Sellers Hybrid plan from $1,599. Every plan with leads includes the CRM, month to month with no long term contract.

How long does setup take?

Your account is set up for you, usually the same day. Most stores have leads, texting, calling and inventory running within the first week, with follow up processes tuned over the following weeks.

We will map your territory, connect your inventory and show you seller leads, the CRM and desking working beside your pricing tool. Month to month, no long term contract.

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