Business Software for vAuto

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.

Informativ’s Dealership Compliance Software delivers a showroom- and remote-deal centered digital compliance platform (formerly Dealer Safeguard Solutions/DSGSS) designed to enforce a consistent, auditable, and fraud-resistant vehicle-sales process. The system eliminates paperwork by enabling digital collection of buyer/co-buyer data and document uploads, supports the creation of a “digital deal jacket” for each transaction (including dead deals), and maintains required records for years in secure cloud storage. It enforces compliance with regulatory obligations, including the FTC Safeguards Rule, FCRA requirements, and privacy laws by automating policy workflows, ID scans, and fraud detection. Informativ’s multi-layered engine scans over 250 barcode/ID formats, flags synthetic and identity-fraud risk, and halts non-compliant deals. The software also supports mobile and desktop interfaces for in-store and remote sales environments, enabling early soft-pull credit pre-qualification.

Founded in 2018, Spyne is an AI-native automotive retail technology company headquartered in Gurugram, India, with operations across the US and India. We help dealerships, OEMs, and automotive retailers automate customer engagement, vehicle merchandising, and dealership operations through AI. Our flagship products, Vini AI and Studio AI, enable dealerships to engage customers 24/7, qualify leads, create studio-quality vehicle photos, generate AI-powered car virtual tours, and streamline inventory merchandising. Trusted by 3,600+ dealerships across 65+ countries, Spyne has processed 10M+ vehicles, created 1M+ car virtual tours, and integrates with 50+ automotive platforms. Backed by $25M+ from Vertex Ventures, Accel, Storm Ventures, and Alteria Capital, Spyne is building the AI dealership of tomorrow.

Elevate profits with the only end-to-end service experience solution. Ready to maximize your dealership’s fixed ops revenue? Drive owner loyalty through one service experience platform. Xtime increases customer retention by transforming the ownership experience for automotive manufacturers and dealership service departments, thus increasing customer satisfaction while boosting dealer revenue and profitability. Xtime is a software solution that works by delivering the experience consumers demand, one that emphasizes value, convenience and trust. Xtime developed Spectrum, the industry’s first fully integrated, cloud-based auto repair shop management software that helps dealerships create an outstanding automotive ownership experience and turn one-time customers into repeat buyers. From the first touchpoint to checkout and beyond, Spectrum creates the high-quality automotive service experience customers expect, and drives the growth automotive parts and service operations need.

Mia is an AI-powered conversational agent tailored for car dealerships that automates inbound and outbound customer communications 24/7. It handles calls, texts, and emails, understands multiple languages, and books appointments or routes inquiries based on a dealership’s operations. Mia integrates with dealership systems (inventory, CRM, service scheduling) to provide consistent, intelligent responses aligned with brand standards. It can function across sales, service, and reception workflows, converting missed connections into revenue while freeing human staff from repetitive tasks. Mia offers always-on availability, even after hours, and delivers conversational continuity, multilingual handling, and seamless escalation to staff when needed.

Autotrader B2B is a suite of digital marketing, retailing, advertising, and analytics solutions for automotive dealerships designed to help dealers connect their inventory with in-market car buyers, capture high-quality leads, and close more sales on Autotrader and partner sites like Kelley Blue Book. It offers tailored Franchise and Independent dealer solutions, including listings packages that put new, used, and specialty vehicles in front of motivated shoppers with flexible exposure options, enhanced merchandising tools, and real-time performance analytics so dealers can optimize which vehicles draw the most interest. Its digital retailing tools enable shoppers to start the buying process online by estimating payments, valuing trade-ins, and applying for financing from any device, helping dealers move deals forward before in-store visits. Distance retailing features allow dealers to reach buyers beyond their local market by highlighting delivery and virtual selling options.

nVision from Autotrader is a data analytics platform built for franchise car dealerships that centralizes and visualizes performance metrics so dealers can see exactly how their marketing is performing, which vehicles and campaigns engage shoppers, and where opportunities for improvement lie. It consolidates leads, sales, inventory, shopper behavior, promotions, and market comparisons into clear dashboards with straightforward reporting and practical recommendations that eliminate guesswork and jargon. With features such as real-time performance monitoring, daily inventory attention insights, connected advertising and sales analytics, and audience exploration, dealerships can follow up with the right prospects, understand what drives engagement, and make smarter decisions to optimize their advertising plans and grow revenue. nVision also tracks digital retailing engagement and competitive rankings, helping dealers spot trends, identify slow-moving inventory, and measure campaign ROI.

Auction Edge is a unified automotive remarketing platform designed to help independent auto auctions manage operations, connect buyers and sellers, and run both physical and digital auctions through an integrated ecosystem of tools. It provides a complete, all-in-one solution that combines auction management systems, online marketplaces, simulcast bidding, and data analytics into a single environment, allowing auctions to handle everything from inventory intake to final sale and reporting. It includes core systems such as EDGE ASI and EDGE AuctionOS, which manage inventory, customer data, transactions, payments, and title processing, while ensuring high performance, security, and ease of use for auction staff. Auction Edge also connects auctions to a large dealer network through its EDGE Pipeline marketplace, exposing inventory to tens of thousands of buyers and enabling online purchasing and simulcast participation in real time.

Flai is an AI communications platform built for car dealerships, designed to answer customers any time, across any channel, the way the best dealership employee would. Your best people know exactly how to turn an opportunity into an appointment; the problem is, they cannot be everywhere. Flai takes care of calls, SMS, and email before the team takes care of customers, helping dealerships never miss a single call, re-engage existing customers, turn recalls into booked appointments, follow up with leads instantly, capture after-hours prospects, and re-engage cold leads. For service, every call gets answered, appointments get scheduled, customers can be identified when they call, open recalls can be surfaced, and routine maintenance outreach can happen automatically. For sales, Flai follows up with leads just like the best rep would, checks inventory to answer questions accurately, alerts the team when human attention is needed, and can create leads in the CRM.