Questions dealers ask

Auto Expert is a cloud-based dealer management system (DMS) that runs a dealership's service, sales, parts, accounting, and payroll in one platform. It was built by people who've worked the service drive, with a focus on fixed operations.

Yes. Auto Expert is fully web-based, so it runs in a browser with no on-site server hardware to maintain. Your team can use it on a desktop in the office or a phone in the service lane.

CDK and Reynolds are large, established DMS platforms with long-term contracts. Auto Expert is a newer, service-first dealership operating system that runs the transactions and the people side of the store — onboarding, training, HR, payroll, marketing — in one platform, with an agentic AI that reads across all of it.

Auto Expert covers service, sales, parts, accounting, and payroll, plus the operational side of the store — onboarding, training, an internal hub, marketing, and rewards and recognition — in a single platform.

Auto Expert uses straightforward pricing with no five-year contracts. As a founding dealer, you get early pricing in exchange for working closely with the team during the beta. Contact Auto Expert for current founding-dealer terms.

Auto Expert is currently onboarding founding dealers ahead of a wider release. If you want to be one of the first dealerships on the platform, you can request to join the founding-dealer program from the website.

No. Auto Expert does not lock you into a five-year contract the way legacy DMS providers often do. Founding-dealer terms are designed to be straightforward — ask the team for current details.

Yes. Your customer, repair-order, and accounting data is yours, and you can export it. After the 2024 industry outages, data ownership and portability are things every dealer should insist on from any vendor.