Module::Deals

The deals module supports a simple and an advanced way of entering deals. The simple version is mainly targeted for wholesale deals (cash only) where you can quickly make the sale by selecting the customer, vehicle and the price. In the advanced deal entry, you have the option of selecting different purchase methods such as financing, leasing, or cash. For finance deals you can choose payment periods such as `Daily`, `Weekly`, `Bi-Weekly`, `Monthly`, etc.

Menu selling is a proven technique to boost business office sales while helping to provide the customer with product protection. Our deals module support menu selling by allowing you to predefine menu items such as warranties, insurances, protection packs, etc. and then predefine menus such as `Gold`, `Silver`, `Platinum` which contain the items, or custom create a new menu on-the-fly based on the customers request!

The deals module can automatically calculate insurance premiums for IAP SafeGaurd and First Canadian Standard/Platinum and new types can be supported upon request. You can easily view all deals that have payments pending so that appropriate actions may be taken to collect the payments. Integration with the vehicle module prevents multiple deals on the same vehicle. Integration with the service department shows warnings if the vehicle being sold has any open work orders, in this case an estimated total for the workorders is included in the deal gross profit calculation so that the profit you see for a deal is always as accurate as possible! Each deal supports multiple quotes in which you can vary the purchase options so as to quickly compare differences in total price such as a lease vs. finance. When you receive a cash/cheque deposit for a deal a receipt is entered and printed out so that accounting knows that the deposit was taken. Each deal support multiple trade-in vehicles.

Follow-up letters such as a 30-day vehicle purchase follow-up are standard practice today and AV2 makes it easy for you to print them at any time based on a template report which includes the customers mailing address. Email follow-ups is also supported. If you are having a special promotion the system can print out just the mailing labels should you not wish to print the letters using your own printers.

AV2 supports automated inventory listing export to several vehicle websites such as CarPages.ca and winnipegusedvehicles.com and MotoSeller.com. We are working to add AutoTrader.ca, and CarFind.ca to that list. This gives a dealer an impressive internet presence without any additional work! AV2 exports the vehicle data automatically each night for you! In addition the Business Office can recieve credit applications sent from the dealers website.

The deals module also allows you to keep track of salesperson commission payouts and is flexible enough to handle simple flat price per sale or retroactive increasing commission payout structures. Each deal supports multiple salespersons and per-deal bonuses can be applied. At the end of a pay period you simply print out a report for each salesperson by clicking a button which sums up their profit from all deals within the period as well as any chargebacks. The system keeps track of all payouts which helps to avoid double-paying a salesperson.

There is also a QuickQuote tool which allows you to quickly determine finance payments including insurance if you wish. You can also work backwards by using the roll function to enter a payment amount and then have the QuoteQuote tool determine the vehicle price, and then you can be shown all matching vehicles in the system which match that price!

AV2 also has a PDA interface which allows salespersons to use a wireless PocketPC to calculate a quick quote and display vehicles in the price range. Generic searches for vehicles can also be performed and any service work can be brought up on the spot from anywhere on the lot!

We understand that it is important to save time in the business office and that is why have integrated AV2 with DealerAccess to eliminate double entry of deal information! With one click you can send the customer data, vehicle data, and worksheet data from DealerAccess to AV2 instantly!

Export deals from (or import deals to) DealerAccess using AV2


Using a Pocket PC any salesperson can calcualte a quote


Quickly enter a deal in wholesale mode


You can specify how the profit from each deal will be split


The finance page is very easy to use and can be configued as seen here to display real-time profit at the bottom


Compare different menus before applying them to the deal


The Deal Stats report tells you exactly how much profit you made as well as the commission payout


You can choose from multiple bills of sale, this one is the wholesale BOS


The QuickQuote tool allows you to quickly give a payment. You can also see all vehicles which match to help find the vehicle your customer can afford!