Detailed Features & Benefits

DealerTrack Integration
- Quick and easy upload of deal information
to DealerTrack
With over 22,000 active dealer relationships, DealerTrack has become
the de facto standard for submitting online applications to lenders.
By automating and accelerating the indirect financing process,
DealerTrack saves your dealership valuable time in the sales
process. That time advantage is often wasted by having to
double-enter information into your management system AND
DealerTrack. The DigitalDashboard completely eliminates double
data-entry by submitting deals directly to DealerTrack right from
the DigitalDashboard interface. This completely secure solution
drastically reduces input time and increases accuracy. Once the deal
is transferred to DealerTrack in seconds, the user only needs to
select the applicable lenders and click submit!

eFax Internet Faxing
- Effortless internet faxing directly from
DigitalDashboard
For dealers who routinely fax, a great deal of time is spent
manually faxing documents to lenders and customers. Oftentimes,
these documents are first printed, which is costly, time consuming,
and harmful to the environment. By partnering with eFax,
DigitalDashboard users are able to fax documents, such as credit
applications or service contract brochures, directly from the
DigitalDashboard to either a single fax recipient or numerous
recipients, which can then be stored as fax groups and used for
future faxes. eFax provides a quick, easy and environmentally
friendly method of faxing.

Laser Buyers Guides
- Laser print clean, crisp & professional
looking buyers guides
A universal requirement of all automotive dealerships and something
immediately visible to your customers, the buyers guide says a great
deal about the vehicle for sale AND your dealership. Left with
little alternative, most dealerships must resort to handwriting
their buyers guides. Not only is most of this information redundant
and the process time consuming, the end result is only as
professional looking as the handwriting of the person doing it. With
the DigitalDashboard, your dealership can laser print a clear, crisp
buyers guide pre-loaded with your dealership information and the
vehicle’s information, directly from your stored inventory. The
buyers guides can be printed in seconds and can be reprinted at any
time.

Laser Hangtags
- Laser print standard hangtags or create a custom
hangtag of your own
As a tried and true method of lot advertising, rearview mirror
hangtags have been in use by automobile dealerships for ages. Most
often, hangtags are purchased from various vendors and contain
pre-printed slogans, like “Financing Available” or “Low Miles”.
While these hangtags start out clean and legible, they’re often
completed by whoever has the best handwriting and usually after
several attempts. The DigitalDashboard allows you to maintain a
clean, crisp look throughout the hangtag by printing the entire tag
directly to a laser printer. Not only do you have access to all the
familiar slogans, you can also create custom hangtags on the fly to
say whatever you’d like.

Laser Delivery Forms
- Say goodbye to impact printers & laser print
delivery paperwork
In an industry dominated by multi-part forms and dot-matrix impact
printers, laser forms come as a breath of fresh air to the
automotive dealership. With its sophisticated One Button Printing,
the DigitalDashboard prints all deal documentation directly to a
duplex laser printer, including the aftermarket products, State
required documentation, and finance documents. Laser printing
replaces noisy printers and waste of forms with clean, legible
documents customers have come to expect in any modern day
transaction.

Used Vehicle Window Stickers & Vehicle Flyers
- Print detailed
window stickers & flyers
In partnership with the Wisconsin Automobile & Trucks Dealers
Association and Vehicle Details, the DigitalDashboard provides data
for printing richly detailed, full-color, and customizable vehicle
window stickers and flyers showing trim level options, vehicle
specifications, fuel economy, vehicle reviews, vehicle facts, and
reasons to buy. Vehicle Details scours industry news and trade
publications to find any awards or accommodations, such as Motor
Trend Car of the Year or Consumer Guide Recommended Buy, a vehicle
has been bestowed, which are then added to the vehicle’s record in
their database and printed on the custom stickers & flyers. Provide
your salespeople expertise on virtually any vehicle and give your
customers reasons to buy now!

Inventory Upload Services
- Eliminate double entry by uploading to
all your sites at once
While taking advantage of multiple third-party internet marketing
sites, such as Cars.com and AutoTrader, is critical to your
dealership’s success, the practice of doing so is usually time
consuming and tedious. Posting your new vehicles and removing your
sold vehicles often requires hours of irritating repetition until
all your partner sites reflect your current inventory, at least
until the next vehicle is sold or your next trip to the auction.
Automotive Financial Administrators eliminates the annoying
double-entry by uploading your current inventory from the
DigitalDashboard to your dealership website and all of your
third-party internet marketing sites. Any changes made on the
DigitalDashboard are made on the third party sites without any
additional user intervention.

Lead Management System
- Collect, Distribute & Manage your customer
leads
With thousands of dollars spent attracting and acquiring new leads,
you must be sure that the value of those leads is not reduced
because relevant information is not collected or distributed. The
Lead Management System provides your dealership a multi-user
application to collect, distribute, and manage leads from showroom
traffic, phone ups, internet leads, and third party lead generators.
Having one application to manage your leads will insure proper
practices are implemented in the pursuit of a sale.

AutoText Lead Capture
- Text vehicle information to customers and
capture new leads
Did you know that “Over 50% of the 262 million U.S. mobile phone
subscribers have Mobile Internet access and 75% have text messaging
capabilities.” (InsightExpress, September 2007) or that “There were
over 28 billion text-messages sent in June 2007. Almost 1 billion
per day!” (CTIA Wireless Association)? AutoText puts a unique spin
on the traditional mirror hang tag by providing a vehicle specific
code for your after-hours shoppers to text from their mobile phones
to receive additional vehicle information. Not only does the
AutoText system respond with customizable vehicle & dealership
information, it captures that customer as a new lead for follow-up
by your sales team!

iFollowUp
- Follow-up letters the easy way...we do it for you!
While a key ingredient to building long-term customer relationships,
follow-up letters often become the long forgotten task on the
dealership or salesperson’s to-do list. iFollowUp solves this
problem by facilitating the process of sending follow-up letters on
the dealership or salesperson’s behalf. A delivery thank you letter,
6 month follow-up letter, 12 month follow-up letter, birthday card
and optional survey are all sent by AFA’s corporate office with
first class postage on customized, premium letterhead featuring the
dealership’s logo & return address and the salesperson's, or
owner’s, picture & scanned signature.

RateGuide
- Electronically rate service contracts and print custom
brochures
The RateGuide allows dealership personnel of any experience level to
look up service contract rates in a fraction of the time it takes
for the conventional methods and without the customary margin of
error. From the RateGuide, you can print a dynamic brochure showing
the rate and coverage level for the specific plan you’re presenting
and print the complete contract at delivery. The RateGuide is
available for all service contract programs offered by Automotive
Financial Administrators and even combines plans for clients
utilizing more than one program, allowing you to identify the most
profitable option.

eMenu
- Print professional, fully customizable F&I menus
The eMenu program allows our clients to print professional F&I menus
quickly and efficiently for each and every customer. The menus are
fully customizable, allowing multiple profiles to be stored for
various deal types, such as new, used, finance, and cash. Menus can
be structured with up to two terms and any number of different
product combinations. Multiple print options and menu types are
available for the menu presentation and menus can be stored for
future reference.