J.D. Power Listings Alternative for Car Dealerships

Ratings and values build trust with shoppers. Exclusive leads in your own zone, and the tools to answer them in minutes, build your month.

J.D. Power built its name on measuring what owners think of their vehicles. Its quality and satisfaction studies, and the awards that come out of them, are quoted in manufacturer advertising and on showroom walls across the country. The second half of its reputation is valuation: the used vehicle values many lenders, credit unions and dealers use to book a deal, a guide plenty of finance managers still know by its NADA Guides heritage.

Its consumer website brings those strengths together for shoppers, with research, ratings, vehicle values and car shopping pages where dealers can have their inventory seen. For a store, that means J.D. Power reaches people who care about reliability and fair value, which is a good kind of shopper to be in front of.

Listing products, packaging and pricing change. Confirm current pricing and terms with the vendor directly, and ask how shopper contacts are distributed on any package you hold.

A listing is a shelf. It puts your cars where shoppers browse and waits for someone to raise a hand. That model pays when the shelf has heavy traffic and your team answers every raised hand within minutes. It gets expensive when the traffic is research minded and the same shopper is raising a hand at four other stores in the same afternoon.

Dealers who start this comparison usually see one of three things. The cost per sale from listings has drifted and nobody can tie deals back to specific units. The contacts arrive as emails that sit until someone opens them. Or the store has plenty of shoppers and too few cars, and a listing does nothing for supply.

LeadLocate addresses all three at once. The leads, the lead source on every record and the follow up tools come from one platform, and the seller side exists for stores that need cars as much as they need customers.

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

The first gain is leads that belong to your store. You choose your territory in the Leads Manager zone editor, check zip stats and the market scan for the area, pick the campaign type and set the prescreening questions a shopper answers at capture. Custom Offers shape what the shopper sees, See Samples previews the sample ads, and 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, and each one is backed by a replacement review, so a bad lead costs you nothing.

The second gain is speed. Automated Templates send the first text the moment a lead lands, signed by the salesperson rather than a generic dealership address. RCS messaging with automatic SMS fallback carries a branded message with photos to the phones that support it and a plain text to the ones that do not. Click to call puts the browser softphone one tap from the record, voicemail drop leaves a prepared message when nobody answers, and missed call handling with after hours coverage keeps the store reachable when the floor is empty.

The third gain is a finance path. A value minded shopper is usually a payment minded shopper, and a SecureWebX apply link turns that interest into a real credit application without asking the customer to drive in first.

People who read reliability studies and look up values tend to arrive prepared. They know what the car is worth, they have a budget, and they want to know whether the payment works before they spend a Saturday at a dealership. The store that answers that question first usually gets the visit.

SecureWebX gives your store branded apply links you can drop into a text, an email or a lead page. The applicant moves through a five step application covering personal details, residence, employment, income and review, with co-applicant support, ITIN as well as SSN, document uploads and e-signature with consent captured against versioned terms. On your side, the application inbox tracks status and assignee, stipulations can be requested and fulfilled by upload, and OFAC screening, two factor authentication and encryption at rest come standard.

When you are ready to place the deal, the Send to Lender share gives a lender of your choosing a code gated, expiring, revocable and watermarked view of the application, and worksheets match the CRM desking engine for cash, finance and lease. Applications can also be exported to your lender or DMS in the format it expects. The digital F&I platform page covers the whole flow.

Listing spend is hard to judge because the credit for a sale gets spread across every place a shopper touched. LeadLocate keeps the answer on the record. The Lead Feeds Manager gives each source its own feed, custom source feeds keep third party contacts apart from zone leads, and every call, text, MMS, email and voicemail sits on one communications timeline for that customer.

Your own website joins the picture too. Connect your website forms so each request creates a lead with the fields mapped, and visitor analytics inside the CRM show sessions, sources and top pages on your site. Trackable short links in texts show which customers opened the vehicle link you sent, which tells a salesperson exactly when to call.

That makes the monthly review a short meeting. Cost per delivered lead, time to first response, appointments set and shown, and units sold, all by source, all from the same system. The inventory source attribution page goes deeper on reading those numbers.

Start without a gap. In the first week the account is set up for you, usually the same day. Import your contacts, set your zone and prescreening questions in Leads Manager, and give your finance manager SecureWebX access so apply links are ready before the first lead arrives. Training is included with every plan, through the video library, Live Training and Schedule Training on the top bar.

In the second week, build the follow up. Follow Up Processes run multi step drips per lead type, the calendar booking link lets a shopper pick an appointment time, and reminders go out ahead of every visit. If you have inventory, Inventory Link ingests your feed or imports it from your website, so the vehicle button in the text composer attaches real units with photos and price.

From the third week, run both sources side by side and let the numbers decide how much listing spend stays. Keep your exit plan in writing with every vendor, including us; the CRM data export checklist is built for exactly that conversation.

The Inbound plan for buyer leads starts at $799 a month, Marketplace Acquisitions for seller leads starts at $999, and the Buyers and Sellers Hybrid plan runs both from $1,599. Every plan with leads includes the CRM, because the platform is what receives and delivers them, and CRM Only starts at $199 for stores that bring their own lead sources. Every plan is month to month with no long term contract. Current details live on the pricing page.

Read the result in the activity, company and management reports. Because calls, texts and emails run inside the platform, those numbers are recorded as the work happens, so a manager coaching from them is coaching from facts.

We cannot guarantee lead counts, approvals, close rates or results, and no vendor can, because those depend on your market, your inventory and how quickly your team responds. LeadLocate gives you exclusive supply, the tools to work it and a clean record of what it produced. Call 844-376-2274 and we will map a zone around your store.

Does LeadLocate replace J.D. Power listings?

LeadLocate replaces the listing spend with exclusive leads. Shoppers will keep reading ratings and looking up values. Your store gets buyer and seller leads inside its own zone, plus the CRM, texting, calling, desking and credit applications to turn them into deals.

Are LeadLocate leads exclusive?

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, so a bad lead costs you nothing.

Can a shopper apply for credit before visiting?

Yes. A SecureWebX apply link can go in the first text, an email or a lead page. The customer completes the application with e-signature and consent, and your team works it from the application inbox.

How does the Send to Lender share work?

It gives a lender of your choosing a code gated, expiring, revocable and watermarked view of the application, with a response portal for the lender's reply. Your store decides who sees it and for how long.

Do we need an inventory feed?

An inventory feed and DMS access are not required. If you have a feed, Inventory Link ingests it, or imports inventory from your website, and your real units appear in texts, emails and inventory pages.

What does it cost?

Inbound buyer lead plans start at $799 a month, Marketplace Acquisitions at $999 and the Buyers and Sellers Hybrid plan at $1,599, each with the CRM included. CRM Only starts at $199. All plans are month to month.

We will map a zone around your store, set your prescreening questions and apply links, and show the CRM working real lead flow. Month to month, no long term contract.

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