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11/05/2024 Market Pricing Valuations

Autodeals now offers powerful Market Pricing Valuations designed to help dealers price vehicles with greater accuracy and confidence. The system delivers up-to-date Retail, Trade-In, and Loan values by analyzing real-world market data—including vehicles sold in the past 90 days and current listings actively for sale across the marketplace. This dual-source valuation model provides a more complete picture of market behavior, ensuring your pricing strategy reflects actual buyer trends—not just book values. With these real-time insights, dealers can better align asking prices with market demand, optimize trade-in offers, and confidently structure loan values based on credible, data-backed benchmarks. This advanced pricing strategy empowers dealers to: *Maximize profit margins without overpricing *Stay competitive in fast-moving markets *Justify pricing to customers with transparent market data *Make more informed lending and risk management decisions By putting real-time market intelligence at your fingertips, Autodeals continues to elevate the tools independent dealers need to compete, win, and grow in today’s data-driven automotive landscape.

04/10/2025 New Feature Release: Initial Accounting Export Capability

We’re pleased to announce the launch of the initial Accounting Export functionality, now available in the Accounting Reports section of the Autodeals platform. This powerful new feature enhances your ability to analyze and share key financial data directly from the Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet reports. As part of this release, users can now export detailed transaction data for custom date ranges—making it easier to collaborate with accountants, prepare for audits, and maintain external records. Key Enhancements Include: * A new “Export Transactions” option has been added to the top section of both the Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet reports. * Export is available when viewing reports at the DETAIL level, ensuring full visibility into each underlying transaction. * Users can define Custom Date Ranges to generate precise, targeted exports tailored to specific periods or accounting cycles. This export functionality supports better financial oversight, allows for seamless integration with external accounting tools, and enables your dealership to maintain consistent financial documentation outside of the Autodeals system. Whether youre preparing for tax season, reconciling accounts, or reviewing operational performance, this new tool gives you the flexibility and transparency you need. Stay tuned—this is just the first phase of a broader set of upcoming accounting and reporting enhancements designed to simplify financial management across the board. If you have any questions or need assistance using the new export feature, our support team is here to help.

01/20/2025 Security Update: Enhanced Login Protection Now Enabled

As part of our ongoing commitment to protecting your data and securing your dealership operations, Autodeals has implemented an advanced security upgrade to further safeguard the login process. This latest enhancement includes the integration of Cloudflare’s industry-leading security tools, adding multiple layers of protection against unauthorized access, bots, and automated intrusion attempts. As part of this upgrade, you will now notice a human verification prompt during each login session. What’s Changing: *Enhanced protection against brute-force attacks and credential stuffing *Cloudflares threat detection network actively monitors suspicious login behavior *A new human verification step will appear to ensure only legitimate users access the system *Faster response to security threats through real-time filtering and mitigation While this new step may add a moment to the login process, it significantly increases the overall security of your account—especially for users accessing Autodeals from public or shared networks. Your dealerships data, customer information, and financial records are critical assets. These new safeguards are part of a broader strategy to stay ahead of evolving cybersecurity threats and ensure that every login is legitimate and secure. We appreciate your understanding as we roll out these protections and remain committed to providing a secure, reliable platform for all Autodeals users. ? If you have any questions or experience issues with the new login process, our support team is ready to help.

12/10/2024 Now in BETA: Advanced Automated Workflows for Deals, BHPH, Servi

Autodeals is excited to announce the BETA release of our next-generation Automated Workflow Engine, now available to select customers. This powerful enhancement builds on our current workflow capabilities and represents a significant leap forward in dealership automation, intelligence, and operational efficiency. With this update, workflows can now be configured to support critical dealership functions—including Deal Structuring, Buy-Here-Pay-Here (BHPH) Financing, Service Department Operations, and Market Source Lead Management. These intelligent workflows trigger actions, assign tasks, send communications, and notify staff automatically—reducing manual effort and increasing follow-through on every process. Key Benefits of the New Workflow Automation: *Automatically route leads by source and status *Trigger task actions such as review requests or follow up service requests *Schedule payment follow-ups and loan management tasks for BHPH accounts *Instantly notify sales or service staff when key milestones are reached *Track accountability and reduce bottlenecks in daily operations This BETA launch is designed to give early adopters a first look at the platform’s intelligent automation framework, which can be tailored to match your dealership’s specific processes, team structure, and business rules. By expanding workflow automation across multiple departments, Autodeals empowers dealerships to scale operations, reduce overhead, and ensure a consistent customer experience—every time. This is not just an upgrade—it’s a major step toward full operational intelligence for independent dealerships. ? Interested in becoming a BETA partner or learning how these new workflows can transform your dealership? Contact us today for early access and personalized onboarding.

12/06/2024 Introducing the Next Generation of Dealer Websites—Now Available

Autodeals is proud to announce the launch of our Next Generation Website Platform, delivering a fully integrated, modern digital experience designed to help independent dealers attract more leads, showcase inventory, and close more deals online. Built with a sleek, mobile-responsive design, these new websites offer a contemporary look and feel that reflects the professionalism of your dealership. Whether your customers are browsing from a desktop, tablet, or smartphone, your inventory and brand will shine with fast load times, intuitive navigation, and visually appealing layouts. Key Features Include: *Seamless integration with your Autodeals inventory—no double entry required *Real-time updates for pricing, photos, and vehicle details *Built-in lead capture and credit application tools *Custom branding, banners, and homepage configuration *Mobile-first design optimized for today’s car buyers *Optional features like service scheduling, customer reviews, and blog integration With these websites, your online presence becomes a true sales channel—not just a digital brochure. This is more than just a facelift. It’s a complete digital retailing solution built to help your dealership grow. ? Ready to upgrade your online presence? Call us today to schedule a demo or learn how you can get started.

11/05/2024 Market Pricing Valuations

08/22/2024 BHPH/Leases Fees Enhancement

New enhancements have been released for BHPH and Lease deal structures, bringing greater precision and flexibility to the way fees and payments are posted and tracked. This update introduces smarter handling of add-on fees and significantly improves the posting of partial payments across all key financial components—including fees, payments, interest, and principal. Now, when a customer makes a partial payment, the system intelligently allocates the amounts according to your defined payment hierarchy, ensuring each portion is accurately applied. For dealerships that manage a high volume of payment plans or charge custom fees—such as late fees, service charges, warranties, or delivery add-ons—this enhancement simplifies the accounting process and increases transparency. Dealers can now easily post, allocate, and track these additional charges without relying on manual workarounds or disconnected systems. By automating fee recognition and partial payment allocation, Autodeals continues to streamline in-house financing workflows and reduce the margin for error in everyday BHPH and Lease operations. This update is part of our ongoing mission to help independent dealers operate with confidence, accuracy, and full visibility into their revenue streams.

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About Autodeals

At Autodeals, our mission is to provide the foundation independent dealerships need to compete, grow, and thrive in an increasingly digital world.

Built by industry professionals with real-world dealership experience, Autodeals combines sales, CRM, service, accounting, websites, messaging, rentals, and workflow management into one integrated platform. By eliminating inefficiencies and connecting every part of the dealership, we help our customers operate smarter and focus on what matters most—serving their customers and growing their business.

Autodeals is more than software. We are a long-term technology partner committed to helping dealerships succeed.