The Dealership Settings in AccuTrade provide the essential controls for customizing your appraisal workflow and ensuring efficient operation. As an Acquisition, BDC, or Sales Manager, you can manage user roles and permissions, define how new users are added, and connect crucial Vehicle History Report credentials like CARFAX and AutoCheck. You can also customize your Price Bar to display the most relevant book values and pricing perspectives for your Instant Offer strategy, update your location and language preferences, and add VIP customer rewards to offer monetary incentives for frequent customers.
Master the AccuTrade appraisal process with guides covering everything from connecting your OBD scanner and conducting appraisals in the driveway, showroom, or service drive, to converting prospects into actionable appraisals and utilizing the mobile app for comprehensive vehicle walkarounds. Learn how to complete thorough appraisals, understand dealer acquisition appraisals, leverage historical pricing data, and generate the Universal Condition Report to build customer trust and transparency around your Instant Offer.
AccuTrade provides comprehensive tools to optimize your dealership's vehicle stocking process, from smarter sourcing through auctions using DealerClub and AccuTrade's market insights, to converting Cars.com leads into acquisitions. Learn how to set blocklist rules to focus on desired inventory, create campaigns with QR codes for painless consumer trade offers, and utilize the Automation tab to target specific vehicle prospects. Finally, master the two simple methods for sending vehicles to your inventory tab.
AccuTrade offers a powerful suite of pricing tools, including Price to Market, Wholesale Outlook, and Cost to Market, to help users make data-backed purchasing and pricing decisions. These tools assist in mastering competitive pricing, maximizing profit, optimizing wholesale strategy via DealerClub integration, analyzing exit strategies, and setting effective retail list prices for both used and new inventory based on competitive sets, pack/fee adjustments, incentives, and Days on Market.
AccuTrade's Merchandising and Syndication tools empower dealers to effectively present their inventory online, covering everything from managing vehicle photos and applying branded overlays to adding compelling AI-generated or custom vehicle descriptions. Easily push your fully merchandised inventory directly to leading listing sites like Cars.com and Dealer Inspire from AccuTrade's centralized inventory management system.
AccuTrade streamlines dealership operations from appraisal to exit with seamless integrations. Connect essential tools like Monroney Labels for accurate valuations, VIN-dow Chrome Extension for on-site appraisals, and various DMS providers for real-time data. Manage integrations with DealerClub for auction exit, add third-party solutions, and simplify lead management via your CDK CRM. Set up AccuTrade on your Dealer Inspire website to capture trade-in leads and use the Cars.com integration for instant inventory sourcing. Leverage Hunter integration to turn every dealership visit into an appraisal, maximizing every opportunity.
AccuTrade's Reporting Dashboard provides a suite of tools, including the Inventory Intelligence, Profit Funnel & Trade Capture, and Appraiser Efficiency reports, designed to give dealers actionable insight into their operations. Use the Inventory Intelligence Report to understand vehicle intelligence scores and Days on Inventory for optimizing exit strategies. Leverage the Profit Funnel & Trade Capture reports to maximize front-end gross profit and increase trade captures. Finally, utilize the Appraiser Efficiency Report to identify gaps, increase accountability, and boost front-end gross profit across your appraisal team.
Find answers to frequently asked questions about AccuTrade, covering topics such as troubleshooting your BlueDriver OBD scanner, effective communication strategies with prospects to maximize Instant Offer success, understanding and utilizing your Appraisal Scorecard and the Intelligence Score for confident acquisition and inventory decisions, liquidating vehicles with AccuTrade's guaranteed Instant Offer, and learning how Instant Offer lead distribution works on Cars.com to increase acquisition opportunities.