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Looking at a DealerCenter alternative

DealerCenter, from Nowcom, is a widely used dealer management platform for independent dealers, covering the DMS, CRM, websites and lender submission. If you are weighing AutoEdge against it, this page says plainly what AutoEdge does — and what to ask either vendor.

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Where the two overlap

Both are aimed at independent dealerships rather than franchise stores, and both cover inventory, a CRM, desking, lender submission and a dealership website. A buyer's real question is rarely the feature list — it is how much of the work still lands outside the system.

What AutoEdge does

  • A double-entry general ledger that posts from the deal, with period close, receivables, payables and bank reconciliation in the same product.
  • Pricing guidance on live comparable listings for every VIN, ranked by what is at stake rather than listed alphabetically.
  • Recorded lifecycle dates, so time-to-front-line and recon cycle are measured against your own standard.
  • A website on your own domain built from live inventory, with four designs and a draft-and-publish fence.
  • An hourly inventory feed, so a dealership already running another system can bring its book across and keep it in step.

Questions worth asking either way

  • Does the accounting live in the same system as the deal, or does it export to a bookkeeper?
  • Can you see what needs attention today, or only search for it?
  • Who can change the website, and how long does a change take to appear?
  • What happens to your data, your photographs and your stock numbers if you leave?
  • Is an automated action ever taken on a customer record without a person deciding?

Moving across

AutoEdge imports an existing inventory export and keeps the stock numbers already on your tags, and the hourly feed can keep both systems in step while you evaluate. Nothing about the move requires switching everything on the same day.