The product
The operating platform for
CarMarket is dealership management software for the UK motor trade. It brings the activities of an automotive business into one connected environment: vehicles and stock, leads and customers, sales documents, deposits and payments, a public website, social publishing and reporting.
Who it is for
Independent dealerships and automotive businesses.
Used-vehicle retailers, commercial-vehicle dealers, specialist customisers and workshops that sell vehicles, parts and fitted services. Businesses with one site or several, owners who want to see the whole operation, and staff who want fewer systems to log into.
CarMarket is not a listing marketplace and it is not a consumer app. It is the system a dealership runs on, with the public parts, such as your website and your social channels, connected to it.
The problems it removes
Scattered records, repeated work and disconnected channels.
Records that disagree
The stock list says one price, the advert another and the invoice a third. CarMarket holds one vehicle record and generates the rest from it.
Typing the same thing twice
A customer enquiry becomes an appointment, a deposit, an invoice and a warranty. Each step reuses what is already known.
Marketing done when there is time
Posts and listings are prepared from the vehicle record and reviewed before they go out, so publishing becomes routine rather than a chore.
No clear view of the numbers
Costs, revenue, stock ageing and website traffic are reported from the same records, so the figures match the business.
How it fits together
A vehicle's journey through the platform.
The same sequence, whatever the vehicle. Each stage draws on the record created at the first.
Step 1
Vehicle arrives
One record is created with costs, specification and images.
Step 2
It goes public
Your website lists it; posts are prepared for your social channels.
Step 3
Enquiries land
Leads and appointment requests arrive against that vehicle.
Step 4
The sale is documented
Deposit, invoice and warranty come from the same record.
Step 5
Everything reconciles
Analytics, stock status and channels update together.
Principles
How the platform behaves.
- Your data stays yours
- Dealerships own the data they enter. Connected accounts are yours and can be disconnected at any time.
- Review before publish
- Nothing is posted to a connected channel without a review step the business controls.
- Scoped access
- Each user sees only the businesses and roles they have been granted.
- Honest status
- Features are described as they are today, not as they are planned.