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About
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The key to Automotive Financial
Administrators’ success with our clients has been
unparalleled customer service, cutting edge aftermarket
products underscored with financial strength & security and
the creation of innovative & intuitive dealer centric
applications. As you’ll see below, we have tasked our
development team with creating powerful, user friendly
applications that address the fundamental needs and desires
of our client base, you. Whether giving your dealership the
ability to laser print buyers guides or manage your online
inventory, our applications are designed to make your life
just a little bit easier. Best of all, they're free to
any active client! To
view a demo of any of these applications, please contact us today for a free, no obligation consultation by calling
(877) 232.9455 x100 or by emailing your request to
info@e-afa.com.
The
DigitalDashboard is a web based application that
integrates all of Automotive Financial
Administrators’ software solutions onto one
platform. The DigitalDashboard was designed with a
simple, intuitive interface that can be grasped by
users of any skill level. The DigitalDashboard DMS,
or Dealership Management System, adds even more
functionality and is designed
to manage your dealership. All the
features listed below are available on the
DigitalDashboard and free to active clients of
Automotive Financial Administrators.
DigitalDashboard Highlights
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DealerTrack Integration |
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Laser
Delivery Forms |
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iFollowUp |
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eFax
Internet Faxing |
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Inventory Upload Services |
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RateGuide |
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Laser
Buyers Guides |
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Lead
Management System |
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eMenu |
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Laser
Hangtags |
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AutoText Lead Capture |
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Used
Vehicle Window Stickers |
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Virtual
Inventory |
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Vehicle
Flyers |
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CVR
Electronic Titling Integration |
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DealerTrack Integration
- Quick and easy upload of deal information to
DealerTrack |
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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! |
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eFax
Internet Faxing
- Effortless internet faxing directly from
DigitalDashboard |
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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 now 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
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Laser Buyers Guides
- Laser print clean, crisp & professional looking
buyers guides |
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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. |
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Laser
Hangtags
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print standard hangtags or create a custom hangtag
of your own |
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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. |
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Laser Delivery Forms
- Say goodbye to impact printers & laser print
delivery paperwork |
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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. |
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Used Vehicle Window Stickers & Vehicle Flyers
- Print detailed window stickers & flyers |
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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! |
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Inventory Upload Services
- Eliminate double entry by uploading to all your
sites at once |
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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. |
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Lead Management System
- Collect, Distribute & Manage your customer leads |
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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. |
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AutoText Lead Capture
- Text vehicle information to customers and capture
new leads |
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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! |
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iFollowUp
- Follow-up letters the easy way...we do it for you! |
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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. |
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RateGuide
- Electronically rate service contracts and print
custom brochures |
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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. |
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eMenu
- Print professional, fully customizable F&I menus |
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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. |
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