DealerBuilt vs. SmartDMS Comparison Chart

Vehicle Acquisition Network (VAN) is an advanced vehicle sourcing platform built for auto dealerships that want to acquire more used inventory directly from private sellers. Rather than relying on auctions or trade-ins, VAN helps dealers identify, contact, and acquire vehicles from consumers in their local market—faster, more affordably, and at higher margins. VAN’s platform includes live FSBO listings, VIN decoding, market valuation tools, automated outreach, CRM-style lead management, and team performance tracking. The software integrates with major trade-in tools like KBB ICO and AccuTrade, and scales to support solo buyers or entire acquisition teams. For dealers who want results without adding headcount, VAN also offers a Managed Buyer program—an all-inclusive service with a dedicated buyer who handles outreach, negotiation, and appointment setting on your behalf. Vehicle Acquisition Network is trusted by hundreds of franchise and independent dealers across North America.

Bullseye is the visionary store and dealer locator platform that wins more customers. Beyond just a standard locator, Bullseye enables companies to engage customers with local content, increase lead capture, drive traffic, and improve relationships with dealers, agents, and other partners. With SEO-friendly landing pages, automated real-time lead management, and more, Bullseye is the locator that partners love. Easily integrate partner pages on your website to showcase their work with your products, build trust with customers, and turn your ordinary locator into a lead generating machine. With 20 years of experience, Bullseye includes all the features you'd expect from a modern locator: user-friendly search interfaces, a robust API, in-depth reporting, 3rd-party integrations, and extensive tools to manage locations, users, categories, and custom data fields. It's a comprehensive solution to manage all your location data and drive customers to stores, dealers, agents, and more.

Paladin is an all-in-one retail management platform built for independent hardware stores, lumber and building materials dealers, feed & seed retailers, pharmacies, and specialty retailers. Paladin combines point of sale, inventory management, e-commerce, mobile selling, and managed IT services in a single system. PaladinPOS™ helps retailers manage sales, inventory, pricing, purchasing, customer accounts, and day-to-day operations from one platform. PaladinGo™ extends selling beyond the counter with real-time mobile access to inventory, pricing, and customer information. PaladinShop™ provides a built-in online storefront that keeps inventory and pricing synchronized automatically. PaladinMSP™ delivers managed IT, security, updates, and network monitoring to reduce technology burdens. Serving independent retailers since 1980, Paladin is known for reliable systems, practical retail expertise, and industry-leading U.S.-based customer support.

Partful is a 3D Explosion Parts Catalog and Work Instructions Platform. Wow your customers, dealers and end-users with the sleekest part ordering experience. Showcase your products and parts in stunning 3D. Let your customers and dealers instantly find the right parts and click to order in one exploded view. No more incorrect orders, only a superior customer experience. Our customers include Lotus Cars, IDEX, Lear Corporation, Maeving, BRP and more. Our Work Instructions let you customise and provide your end users a unique training experience in stunning 3D. It allows your end users to instantly find the right instructions and steps. Say goodbye to digging through stacks of PDF manuals trying to match things up. And say hello to an immersive training experience at your finger tips.

Dealerships don't lose customers because of price. They lose them because the phone rings and nobody answers, the customer calls three times for one status update, and the manager finds out about a problem when the survey comes back. Numa is the AI Operating System that fixes this where it breaks: in the daily work. Operator answers and routes every inbound call, so nothing goes dark. Status Updates reaches the customer before they have to call, so advisors stop drowning in callbacks. Voice AI books the appointment in the conversation, so the customer never waits. LiveCSI™ flags upset customers in real time, so managers step in before the CSI score takes the hit. Opportunities goes after declined services, open recalls, and equity moments while they're still warm. One inbox. One shared context. Your whole team working from the same system. Surveys tell you what happened last month. Numa is what happens today.

We are a veteran owned business with over 70% veteran workforce, owned and run by former Navy SEALS. We are also a proud Official Partner of the Navy SEAL Foundation and an Executive Sponsor of the SEAL Legacy Foundation. Are you looking for a new point of sale system for your gun store? Trident 1 is the premier provider of the first all-in-one FFL software designed specifically for the firearms retail industry. Created to replace multiple outdated software systems with one universally integrated solution, Trident 1 streamlines and consolidates ALL systems into a single solution to save you time and money. You can access Trident 1 from anywhere on any device, so you’re always in control of your retail operations. We specialize in retail sales, range management, compliance, industry leading integrations, secure payment processing, and excellent, US based customer service.

Trusted by well over 2,000 of the world's most successful pet care companies and thousands of their pet sitters and dog walkers, Time To Pet is modern pet sitting software. In addition to our basic features like the client portal, integrated scheduling and invoicing, online payments, and more - Time To Pet is complete with advanced features like dedicated mobile applications for both your clients and your team, GPS tracking, text messaging, and Quickbooks Integrations. We also help pet care businesses grow with content, email courses, e-books, and our Local Pet Care marketplace built to connect pet parents with pet care pros. Time To Pet is the best-in-class pet sitting software and dog walking software. Sign up for a free trial today!

Keeper Security is transforming the way people and organizations around the world secure their passwords and passkeys, secrets and confidential information. Keeper’s easy-to-use cybersecurity platform is built on a foundation of zero-trust and zero-knowledge security to protect every user on every device. Keeper’s solution deploys in minutes and seamlessly integrates with any tech stack to prevent breaches, reduce help desk costs and ensure compliance. Trusted by millions of individuals and thousands of organizations globally, Keeper is the leader for best-in-class password and passkey management, secrets management, privileged access, secure remote access and encrypted messaging. Protect what matters at KeeperSecurity.com.

Predict360 is an integrated risk and compliance management software platform for financial and insurance organizations. It integrates risk and compliance processes and industry best practices content into a single platform that streamlines regulatory compliance, improves efficiency, predicts risk, and provides best-in-class business intelligence reporting. Predict360 includes the following Risk Management applications: Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), Risk Management and Assessments, Risk Insights, Issues Management, Peer Insights, Third-Party Risk Management, and Quarterly Certifications and Attestations. Compliance applications are: Compliance Management, Compliance Monitoring & Testing, Complaints Management, Regulatory Change Management, Regulatory Examination and Findings Management, Policy & Procedure Management, and more. 360factors also offers Lumify360 - a KPI and KRI predictive analytics platform that enriches data, predicts performance, and works alongside any GRC.

Macaw AMS is for selling Insurance. Brokers, MGAs, MGUs, Program Managers and Lloyds Coverholders can use Macaw AMS to automate their operating model. Macaw AMS is built with a customer-centric model. It supports CRM, Sales, Underwriting, Rating, Policy Servicing, Claims Intimation and Billing. Self-service portals are available for Customers, Producers and Carriers. The reporting, analytics and visualization capabilities are best-in-class. Macaw AMS comes with in-built Document Management and Task Management facilities. It has several ready adaptors to provide integrated & in-flow facilities for eSignature, Payment, OFAC check, Mass Emailing and Computer Telephony, using 3rd Party Services. Macaw AMS is hosted in cloud and tested for cyber security. Technology-wise, the screens are responsive and can be used from web / mobile / tablet. The database is relational and the core components are written in Java. At the peak, Macaw AMS can process 500-1000 Policies within one day.