DealersLink® vs TECOBI App

Dealerslink is the most advanced auto dealer inventory management suite. The Dealerslink App allows dealers to manage their inventory, appraise vehicles with FastBook, trade with other dealers on a wholesale marketplace and monitor key analytics. The app books vehicles with J.D. Power, KBB, MMR, Black Book, Galves, CARFAX, AutoCheck, DMS data and uses live retail pricing from competitors with Competition View. **** THIS IS AN AUTO DEALER ONLY APP. YOU MUST BE A LICENSED AUTO DEALER TO USE THIS APP **** Deal direct with thousands of progressive DealersLink® members and access an extra billion dollars of inventory to offer your customers. The App allows you to search for vehicles, place requests, and respond to requests through your Trading desk. It allows you to access FastBook and ExportPro without the vin scanner too. DealersLink® was started by a group of innovative dealers in the late 90’s and is the largest and most efficient dealer direct market in the U.S with over 9 years of active trading. Members use DealersLink® daily to stock their lots with clean reconditioned units, vehicles for their customers, sell inventory without incurring wholesale losses, and manage their inventory with industry leading analytic tools. DealersLink® unlocks a new class of clean upstream inventory that will never end up at auction. These are primarily customer trade units other dealers want to sell.

TECOBI connects dealership customers, conversations and staff. Requires a TECOBI account. Features depend on store setup, permissions and supported devices. 4.0 updates: - Dashboard: arrange/save cards, goals, sales pace and queues, supporting records, inbound call playback, appointment filters and AI Impact. - Pencils: cash/loan/lease editing, target-payment pricing, safer saves/quotes, weight recovery and labeled estimates, PDF controls, blank four-square worksheets and Dashboard pencils. - Appointments: searchable calendar/lineup, closed-hour shading, visit details, corrected statuses and CSV exports. - Auto Bot: enabled stores get page-aware customer catch-up, ongoing chat, live voice, optional Hey Auto Bot while open, historical notes, coaching, Go deeper, supporting records, waiting cues and feedback. - Daily Brief: configured stores can read or listen to a concise sales, AI, appointment, queue, staff and customer-priority recap with supporting records. - Auto Bots: searchable roster, guided setup, wait presets, testing/settings and Specials. - Messaging: Text/Email/Note tools, attachments, emoji/GIFs, saved replies, inventory lists and Pause; clearer bubbles/calls/dates, teammate read/view markers, internal reactions, scrolling and dictation. - Email: dealership branding, subjects/signatures, vehicle/finance/media/document cards, secure file links and sent-email previews. - Videos: Account/My Videos, public YouTube/Drive imports, editable titles/upload progress, blast/preset videos and recipient watch time/sections/sessions/alerts. - Documents: guided setup, field mapping, packages, signed-document viewing and 20 templates, including We Owe, delivery, test drive, trade, insurance, receipts and English/Spanish FTC Buyers Guides. - Credit: clearer applications/Soft Pulls, confirmed Dealertrack results and RouteOne submissions/decisions. Bank sending requires approved setup. - Inventory/Trades/Desk Logs: vehicle/customer cards, sorting/date filters, visit totals, notes/details and unwind dialogs. - Reminders/Notifications: searchable grouped inboxes, quick reminder times, unread/mention filters, mark-all-read, accurate badges, video announcements and recovery. - Reports: charts/filters, searchable My Activity/Team Activity, completed Needs Calls and business-hour call wait, optional CSV emails and separate New Leads/Submissions when capture is enabled. - Users/Surveys/Settings: searchable layouts, per-store job titles/lead preferences, VIN/price/vehicle-link inserts and optional returning-lead/appointment-status call flags. - New Lead/Walk-in: clearer forms, address suggestions that keep suite details, existing-customer results and recovery after canceled ID scans. - Navigation: collapsible menus, saved customer-panel preferences and improved light/dark layouts and keyboard clearance. - Training/Tickets/Monitor: readable lessons/quizzes, ticket priorities/replies and searchable live activity. - API Access: scoped read-only integration tokens, request audits, public AI guide, phone lookup and pagination. - Store Transfers: approved stores preserve permitted history/opt-outs and stop the original store's follow-up. - CRM: better ELead/Fortellis/VinSolutions sync, first-price proof for connected ELead stores, acquisition routing and staff handoffs. - Customer links: mobile forms, Canadian phone validation, newest-year inventory, iPhone video fullscreen, branding and secure pencil previews. Connected website voice/chat uses verified vehicle cards and enabled form suggestions. - Mobile/sign-in: quieter loading, offline/retry/upload/audio states, update recovery, notification settings/calendar controls, email/text security-code choice, autofill and recovery/invitations. - Optional sign-in: Face ID/Touch ID in the new iOS app; desktop passkeys and password/security-code recovery. - Eligible mobile actions: notification replies when biometrics are disabled; app-icon Create Lead/Scan Driver's License shortcuts.