Your DMS and dealership operations software do different jobs.
A DMS is a system of record. Operations software runs the daily work around each deal. Confusing the two is why so many side spreadsheets exist.
What your DMS is for
The accounting record.
The deal, the money and the inventory as they are booked and posted.
Compliance and reporting.
The system your accountants, your manufacturer and your regulators expect to be right.
Not the workflow around it.
Who is chasing which document, which car is waiting on a part, and who has the key are not what a DMS is built to run.
What operations software is for
Handoffs between departments.
Sales to finance to accounting to delivery, with each seat seeing its own screen of the same deal.
The logs a store keeps on the side.
Recon, wholesale, loaners, we-owes and special orders, kept in one place instead of many files.
Alerts to the people on a deal.
Told when it matters, and only the people who can act.
How the two work together
Read-only.
DealerCockpit reads from your DMS so less is typed twice. It never writes to it.
Your DMS stays the record.
Nothing in DealerCockpit changes what is booked or posted.
It works without a connection.
It works without a connection. Your team enters the deal details, and a connection, where one exists, only saves retyping.
Keep reading
Try it in the beta.
DealerCockpit is in beta and we are looking for dealerships to try it as new features arrive. Not everything works as well as we plan yet.