DMS vs Quickbooks: Finding The Right Fit For Your Dealership
Are you using QuickBooks for your dealership?
Check out how it compares to a more focused dealership performance software, such as Ideal.
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Customer Focus and Orientation |
No specific focus made for everyone
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Preferred Dealers |
No preferred dealers due to the commitment to all types of businesses and industries.
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Areas of Business |
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| Grows with the industry and develops features based off the needs and feedback from dealer reviews. |
Product Development and Innovation |
Based off feedback from a variety of businesses, neglecting specific dealer needs as a result. |
KEY FUNCTIONALITIES
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All-In-One System |
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| Allows dealers to monitor and manage all their departments and processes from a single interface. |
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Helps businesses, some of which may be dealerships, monitor and manage their accounting and point-of-sale operations. |
Floor Planning |
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Tracks units sold, but not paid to determine exactly how much the dealership owes to the floor checker. |
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Does not provide any sort of floor planning, making floor checker visits needlessly expensive. |
Price List Updates |
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Provides dealers with automatic manufacturer price updates due to integrations with key industry suppliers like Stihl, Suzuki and many others. |
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Does not allow automatic manufacturer price list updates, leading to manual entry and errors. |
Purchase Order Creation |
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Automatically generates complete part information for purchase order forms, helping dealers save time. |
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Does not automatically generate complete part information for purchase order forms, leading to manual entry and errors. |
Warranty Reconciliation |
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| Allows dealers to automatically reconcile warranty claims. |  |
Does not provide any sort of automatic warranty reconciliation, leading to additional time spent on hunting down each claim. |
Tech Efficiency |
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| Keeps dealers updated on the efficiency and profitability of their technology both individually and as a unit. |  |
Does not provide dealers with an effective way to track efficiency, leading to lost profits. |
Product Updates |
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| Values dealership feedback and makes it a priority when developing future updates. |  |
Does not provide updates based on dealer feedback. |
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