ERA-IGNITE vs. vAuto Conquest

ERA-IGNITE works well for day to day operations at Car Dealerships. It will maintain your customer records. It is lacking a little in mainlining employee records, as you have to switch back and forth between ERA "blue screen" (older version) and IGNITE "point and click" (newer version). Overall, though it will get the job done.

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vAuto Conquest has made both my GM and GSM's lives far easier. Being able to immediately see comps for like vehicles across your designates market with specific attention paid to optioning is crucial to providing both accurate trade appraisals as well as setting pricing for used inventory. It does an excellent job. It does not have much usage on the fixed ops side, other than the fact that increasing the below-line gross of sales lowers the needed fixed-ops absorption and makes it possible for there to be greater movement in sales pricing in general.

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• I like when you are punching journal entries, checks, etc. you get the schedule balance at the bottom. That is very beneficial.
• Payable checks are well done. You can pay by invoice or vendor.
• There are numerous reports that you can create in RMI to help with any specific reporting that is needed.

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• Provides an exceptionally simple interface to see what is desirable in the market
• Can be set to automatically adjust pricing based on turn rate and market demands
• Integrates very well with the other products offered by Cox Automotive

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• The Financial Statements can only be printed on legal and instead of scrolling through it to look at it you have to navigate it at the top with the arrows.
• Their time clock is not user-friendly. You cannot just pull up one person and look at their time and make changes. You have to go through like you want to print, look at the time for the employee to find errors, then back out and go into a different screen to correct.
• Giving employees access to different functions is a nightmare. It is not at all laid out the way Ignite is used, and there are numerous hidden check boxes.

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• Show me comps for my unit across different model years
• Make full MSRPs available for retrieval
• Show me original MSRP price of my appraisal
• Allow me to require options to be selected prior to closing appraisal when appropriate
• Show me an alert for a recall with no remedy

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Customer service has been a primary selling point of all the products we use through Cox Automotive. They have been great on every level, from implementation and setup to post-install support to technical support, they go far above and beyond the norms I have seen in other companies within this realm.

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It's been so long since I have used a competitive product to vAuto, it is no longer found on the list. If the other product were an Apple product, it would compare to an old iPod. Whereas, vAuto is a new iPhone

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• Creating numerous reports on ERA-IGNITE is beneficial in seeing where you are getting the best ROI and where you are lagging.

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• strong impact on speed to market and turn
• strong impact on evaluating the proper listing price
• strong impact on prediction of reconditioning budgets

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