Space Auto Alternative for Car Dealerships

Keep the back office your team already knows and give the front of the store exclusive local leads, a real phone system and follow up that keeps moving.

Independent dealers rarely go shopping for software on a quiet afternoon. The search starts after a week where leads sat unanswered, a salesperson worked customers from a personal cell phone, or a manager could not say which source sold last month's cars. Those are front office problems, and the front office is the part of the store where the right platform pays for itself fastest.

Dealer software splits into two layers that often get sold under one name. The back office runs the deal once it exists: paperwork, state forms, accounting, and account servicing if you carry your own paper. The front office runs everything before the deal exists: where leads come from, how fast they get answered, how many times they get touched, how the numbers are presented to the customer, and what a manager can see about all of it.

LeadLocate is built for the front office, and it is built to be the best at it. That is why so many independent stores keep their dealer management system exactly where it is and move the lead, communication, follow up and desking work to LeadLocate. The office keeps the paperwork routine its staff already knows, and the sales floor gets a platform designed around one job: turning more opportunities into appointments and sold units.

Space Auto is publicly positioned as cloud based dealer software for independent dealerships. Its marketing centers on dealer management work such as inventory records, deal paperwork and the reports an owner reads, alongside tools for managing customers and online listings. It is sold to used car stores that want one login for daily operations.

Packaging, modules and pricing change over time for every vendor in this market, so confirm current pricing and terms with the vendor directly and get the answers in writing. Treat this page as a starting list of questions rather than an audit of another company's product.

What matters for your decision is which jobs each system does best. A back office tool earns its place by keeping titles, forms and accounting clean. A front office platform earns its place by filling the pipeline and making sure no customer waits for an answer. LeadLocate is purpose built for the second job, with lead generation, communication, desking and credit applications designed as one system from the ground up, and it is sold to dealerships, auto brokers and individual salespeople alike.

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The cleanest setup for most independent stores is a division of labor. Space Auto keeps the jobs your office manager runs every day: the deal paperwork, the forms, the accounting and whatever account servicing lives there today. LeadLocate takes everything that happens before a customer signs, and it takes it further than a back office bundle is designed to go.

That works because LeadLocate runs on its own from the first day. Neither a DMS connection nor an inventory feed is required to operate, which is why individual salespeople and auto brokers run on the same platform a busy independent store does. If you have an inventory feed, Inventory Link ingests it. If you have no feed, Inventory Link imports inventory from your website, so your units still appear in the CRM, in the phone app and behind the vehicle button inside every text and email composer.

When a deal is ready for the back office, the handoff is clean. The customer record, the full communication timeline, the desked structure and the credit application are already collected in one place, and SecureWebX can export an application to your lender or DMS in the format it expects. Your office staff start from a complete file instead of retyping a customer from a sticky note.

Nobody has to rip out a working office to fix a leaking funnel. The back office stays settled, and the front of the store gets the strongest set of sales tools available to an independent dealer.

Exclusive local leads. You draw a zone around your store in the Leads Manager zone editor, choose your campaign type and the prescreening questions you want answered, and preview 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. Every lead in your zone is delivered to you and only you, prescreened at capture with the questions you chose, and backed by a replacement review, so a bad lead costs you nothing. Inbound buyer leads bring in market shoppers, and opt in seller leads bring local owners who asked for an offer on their vehicle, which is how independent stores stock the lot without fighting the auction lane.

A communication stack built into the CRM. Two way texting with MMS pictures and delivery status on every message bubble, RCS messaging with automatic SMS fallback, a browser softphone with click to call, call recording with call transcription, voicemail drop, a real email inbox, bulk texting and bulk email. Every call, text, email and voicemail sits on one timeline on the lead record, so a manager can read a twelve minute call in thirty seconds and coach from the transcript.

Follow up that runs on its own. Automated Templates answer every new lead the moment it arrives, Follow Up Processes carry each lead type through a multi step cadence, and Texting Chatbots reply when nobody is at a desk. The Phone Validator and Email Validator show a validity dot right on the lead, so your team stops dialing numbers that were never going to ring.

Independent dealers who want the full picture of the sales side can read the CRM for independent dealerships page.

Features change on every platform, so confirm each row marked for the vendor directly before you sign anything. The LeadLocate column is what your store runs from its first day on the platform, with training included.

Read the table by job rather than by checkmark. The top row tells you where each product puts its engineering, and that is the row that predicts how the rest of the list will feel on a busy Saturday when three customers text at once and the phone is ringing.

Plenty of independent stores still quote payments on a calculator app and a legal pad. LeadLocate replaces that with EZ Desking inside DealTracker: cash, finance and lease structures, a multi pencil grid, a fifty state tax matrix, semimonthly payment frequency, trade credit caps and three lease tax methods. The desking tool page walks through it. When the numbers are right, the customer gets a deal page branded to your store with PIN access, e-signature and a deal chat, so the conversation keeps moving after they leave the lot.

Credit applications run through SecureWebX. You text a customer an apply link, they complete a five step application with co-applicant support on their phone, and the application lands in your inbox with stipulations, supporting documents, OFAC screening and state disclosures handled in one record. When you are ready, the Send to Lender share gives the lender you choose a code gated, expiring, watermarked view of the file, and adverse action notices generate from the same record.

On the inventory side, the vehicle button in every text and email composer attaches a unit with its photos and price, and per salesperson inventory sites and an embeddable inventory widget put your cars wherever your customers look. Deal Jacket collects documents from a phone camera by QR code, and the identity scanner reads a driver license straight into the customer record. It all lives in one login, launched from the same dock.

Moving the front office is a short, well defined project. Work through it in this order and every lead stays visible the whole way.

1. List every lead source. Website forms, listing sites, phone numbers and chat all get pointed at LeadLocate. Your website forms connect to your account's form intake link, and each source can carry its own tracking number so you always know which one rang.
2. Bring your customers with you. Contact import loads your customer list, and merge duplicates cleans it up so one buyer is one record.
3. Tune your cadences. Automated Templates and Follow Up Processes come with defaults you can restore any time. Rewrite them in your store's voice before the first lead lands.
4. Set up the phones. Build the Forward Calls To ring list from your users, set business hours routing, lay out the IVR, and record voicemail greetings right in the browser.
5. Run a short overlap. Keep the old front office tools readable for a few weeks while the team settles in, so nobody hunts for an old conversation.

The migration checklist covers the sequence in more depth. Training is included with every plan: a video training library, Live Training sessions and Schedule Training right from the top bar, so new habits form in days rather than months.

The best way to judge a platform is to watch it run on your own store. Put one salesperson or one team on LeadLocate for three to four weeks and point a defined slice of lead flow at it. Measure three numbers against the same period on your current process: time to first response, follow up touches before a customer goes quiet, and appointments set. Those three tell you more than any demo script.

Month to month terms exist so a store can do exactly that. CRM Only starts at $199 a month for stores that bring their own lead sources, and plans with exclusive local leads start at $799. The full list is on the pricing page. Every plan with leads includes the CRM, because the CRM is what receives and works them.

We cannot guarantee lead counts, close rates or results, and no vendor can. What we can show you is the whole platform working on a real store. The demo is the fastest start, or contact us and call 844-376-2274 to map a zone around your lot.

Do we have to give up Space Auto to use LeadLocate?

No. Most independent stores keep their dealer management system for paperwork, forms and accounting and run LeadLocate beside it for leads, texting, calling, follow up, desking and credit applications.

Do we need a DMS connection or an inventory feed?

Neither is required to operate. If you have an inventory feed, Inventory Link ingests it. If you have none, Inventory Link imports inventory from your website so your units still show up in the CRM and the phone app.

Are the leads shared with other dealers?

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.

What does LeadLocate cost?

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

Can our salespeople work leads from their phones?

Yes. The LeadLocate app for iOS and Android carries the Workspace, texting, email, a VoIP dialer, the calendar, Deal Tracker desking, the deal jacket, inventory and Team Chat, so a salesperson can work a customer from anywhere on the lot.

How do finished deals reach our back office?

The customer record, communication timeline, desked numbers and credit application are already collected in LeadLocate, and SecureWebX exports an application to your lender or DMS in the format it expects, so the office starts from a complete file.

See exclusive local leads, texting, calling with transcription and desking running together on one screen. Month to month, so we earn your business every month.

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