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Auto/Mate 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Auto/Mate
Auto/Mate
3.3
(60)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About Auto/Mate

Auto/Mate is a dealer management system designed to help large and small dealers improve existing processes and provide customers with a quick and clear buying experience. Key features include vehicle merchandising, accounting, service merchandising, parts management, and reporting.

Teams using Auto/Mate can update and maintain their vehicle inventory and view vehicle information with the ability to sort and filter details according to requirements. The built-in accounting system enables managers to streamline workflows, improve communication across departments, and gain control over accounting operations. Additionally, the reporting engine allows users to track various items, including negative parts on hand, inventory, sales, trends, profit, expenses, and G/Ls.

Auto/Mate also lets teams increase service revenue by optimizing repair orders from start to finish. Support is extended via phone and email.

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Auto/Mate Pricing and Plans

Free Trial
Free Version

Basic

Pricing available upon request

No plan information available

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    Auto/Mate Features

    • Popular features found in Auto Dealer
      Accounting
      Contact Database
      Document Management
      Financing Management
      Payment Collection
      Reporting & Statistics
      Sales Floor Management
      Service Department
      Website Integration
    • More features of Auto/Mate
      Activity Dashboard
      API
      Automated Scheduling
      Customizable Reports
      Document Storage
      For Automotive Dealerships
      Inventory Management
      Invoice Management
      Lease Tracking
      New Car Dealer
      Real-Time Reporting
      Reporting/Analytics
      Sales Reports
      Stock Management
      Summary Reports
      Third-Party Integrations
      Used Car Dealer

    Auto/Mate User Reviews

    Overall Rating

    3.3

    Ratings Breakdown

    5

    33%

    4

    22%

    3

    8%

    2

    12%

    1

    25%

    Secondary Ratings

    Ease of Use

    3.2

    Value for money

    2.9

    Customer support

    3.0

    Functionality

    3.3

    DW

    Dajuane W.

    Verified reviewer

    Automotive

    51-200 employees

    Used daily for less than 12 months

    Review source

    Reviewed September 2019

    Dealer Socket

    5

    It is really easy to get your contract and vehicle inventory in one place!

    Ratings Breakdown

    5
    Ease of use
    5
    Value for money
    5
    Customer support
    5
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    I like how you can easily find the vehicles that are you the companies inventory. It's also very easy to set up deals through the software
    Cons:
    Sometimes it crashes by itself. Also I have not found a way to look at vehicles by price instead of the name

    Reasons for choosing Auto/Mate

    I don't know any other ones

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    CK

    Cydelle K.

    Verified reviewer

    Automotive

    11-50 employees

    Used daily for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed October 2024

    Automate is overall great, but could be better in a few areas.

    4

    Pretty good, some changes I don't like, some are ok. Just needs a little bit of improvement.

    Ratings Breakdown

    5
    Ease of use
    3
    Value for money
    3
    Customer support
    4
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    Easy to use, flexible for accounting, and reporting is decent
    Cons:
    Reporting could be improved, some users need multiple windows open as they work on many things at one time, and it doesn't always allow that. Superusers should be able to work in multiple screens and modules at the same time. Also, tends to be a little slow responding at time. I don't like the university being separated from the program now either. And it is hard to find things there too. Also it would be nice to setup recurring AP invoices too, we have a lot of those. Last request, posting of RO's from Service to accounting would be nice to see them right away instead of delayed. Understandable though.

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    DH

    Daniel H.

    Automotive

    11-50 employees

    Used daily for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed August 2018

    Do Not Purchase or Use!

    1

    Current problems are going unanswered and unsupported. Beyond just minor dealer problems. We found a huge error in the code that was causing vehicles sent to Ebay Motors from INV+ to not be categorized properly. After Ebay and us reported the issue in February, there is still no solution in sight, with Dealersocket sticking to their posistion of no ETA and no idea when an update might occur, since its now in different departments hands. This handing off issues from one product or department seems to be the M.O for Dealersocket. When pressured to give an ETA or answer they try and pass the blame onto another department. Support also seems to not know how one product may work with another. On numerous occasions a support agent would have to stop providing support once the issue would move to another product. With only a select few agents that could assist with a cross software issue. IE. An issue in IDMS that was affecting INV+ may never get a proper support person to help figure out a solution. As many have stated. We were unfortunately sold a product that could do everything. Come to find out Dealersocket can do everything, but nothing well. Save your money and look to another product.

    Ratings Breakdown

    1
    Ease of use
    1
    Value for money
    1
    Customer support
    1
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    As others have stated. The product was SOLD as being a one stop solution to a lot of our problems. However, we have come to find out the sales staff would lie to close a sale and promised functionality that was not available.
    Cons:
    IDMS: We have been attempting to use IDMS for over a year now and are still running into huge bugs and issues. The most recent being that if a customer has a " ' " in their name then they are unsearchable. We have also been experiening issues with forms coming from the ignite website platform and creating "deals" when it is just a customer asking a simple question. Another glaring issue with IDMS is that you can not delete a customer from the system. So if you have a customer that was accidently entered twice, too bad, that Joe Smith is now in your system twice forever. CRM: We tried the CRM for 6 months and spent hours importing data and creating templates. Come to find out that when it came to emailing a customer a vehicle brochure. The brochure was hosted by a completely different team and therefore a vehicle brochure would never lead a customer to your website. The brochure is also not customizable so your logo and brand identity could never be incorporated. The CRM also allows for custom timed emails to be sent out. These turned out to require so much finessing and time to create for each scenario that in the end a sales person or BDC would have been better off creating an email themselves and tracking it in the CRM opportunity. INV+: We have been using for years. There have been minor problems when it comes to showing vehicles properly and exporting to 3rd party sites. However, most problems started arising when we made the connection to IDMS....

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    BW

    Bobby W.

    Verified reviewer

    Automotive

    51-200 employees

    Used daily for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed October 2021

    Great Company That Cares About Their Clients!

    5

    It's been great, they're a great company.

    Ratings Breakdown

    5
    Ease of use
    5
    Value for money
    5
    Customer support
    5
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    There are so many good things about this system, but the one thing as a service manager I like the most is they have the option for a service department to schedule by technician which is something that no one else does and I don't know why. I hope they never get rid of this feature because there are still many departments out there that like to schedule that way and they show that they care about ALL of their customers by allowing this.
    Cons:
    Really there are none, they could do better on some of their reports but other than that, the dealership I worked for loved this DMS.

    Reasons for switching to Auto/Mate

    Because we got sick of how expensive reynolds and reynolds was.

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    VR

    Verified
    Reviewer

    Automotive

    11-50 employees

    Used daily for less than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed May 2019

    Decent CRM, but not perfect

    4

    Most of our employees liked working with dealersocket but it did require a good bit of training to be successful with it. We ended up cancelling and going with a less expensive option that works just as well for us.

    Ratings Breakdown

    4
    Ease of use
    3
    Value for money
    5
    Customer support
    4
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    It integrates well into our DMS and website. Dealersocket also offers their own DMS and Web hosting services that work well together, but it still functions great with other providers software.
    Cons:
    The cost was higher than some competitors options. Sometimes the server would go down and we had no access to our customer database. Other glitches that pop up from time to time.

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    JF

    John F.

    Automotive

    2-10 employees

    Used daily for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed January 2019

    Great for geeks (I guess), Not so great for car dealers

    1

    This product may be useful for a large dealership with it's own professional accountants on staff, but it is way too complicated, busy, and confusing for a small company that's just trying to sell cars and service notes. If you're the former, good luck - you're going to need it. If you're the latter, do yourself a favor and find something else. When I retired, I told them to cancel my service. After over a month's worth of emails (they don't return your phone messages), they finally told me I had to pay one more month's bill, because I didn't give them 30 days notice. I asked them to waive that in the interest of good customer relations since I hadn't used the product in over a month and I had been their customer for over 10 years. They refused.

    Ratings Breakdown

    1
    Ease of use
    1
    Value for money
    1
    Customer support
    1
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    After about a three month break-in (learning) period, it was fairly easy to complete a deal in about 30 minutes. That's the only "pro" I can think of. Lots of time spent "chatting" (they don't like to - no, won't - talk to you on the phone) during this break-in period. 95% of the learning was self-taught.
    Cons:
    Customer support - unable to answer the simplest of questions (example - "How much total interest/principal has this customer paid, year to date?" Answer - "Figure it out for yourself."); unable to reconcile the simplest of problems (example - "What is 'non earning principal' and how do you come up with the amount?" No answer.) Support staff are not trained to talk to car dealers in simple, non accountant, non lawyer, layman's terms.

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    MD

    Mike D.

    Verified reviewer

    Used daily for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed July 2018

    Absolutely no support

    2

    Ratings Breakdown

    2
    Ease of use
    1
    Value for money
    1
    Customer support
    4
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    Buy here pay here program and reports are very good. BUT THAT'S IT!! Have plenty of reports and their custom report builder is good. Their CRM (dealersocket) cannot push all of the credit app. info over to their own dms (finance express). Extremely aggravating.
    Cons:
    Their own CRM is not even compatible with their DMS? Go figure. Customer support is by far the worst. Used to be a good product 7 to 8 years ago but then the company was bought out. Went downhill from there. Their reps never call. I have left 5 messages. Never a return phone call. Ever!!Their pricing is by far more than the worth of the product. Anything to do with Dealersocket (IDMS, Dealerfire, Finance Express) is expensive. I finally switched to Frazer after warning Dealer Socket for the last 2 years that I was going to. Hated changing just because of all the customer data that is in there but it was well worth the risk because their product and service is that bad.

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    Kevin G.

    Verified reviewer

    Automotive

    11-50 employees

    Used daily for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed December 2016

    Great Software to Manage Leads

    5

    Dealersocket is a great CRM that makes managing customers easy. The support staff is excellent and checks in frequently to make sure everything is running smoothly. It would be impossible to manage all of our leads without it.

    Ratings Breakdown

    5
    Ease of use
    5
    Value for money
    5
    Customer support
    5
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    Easy to use, custom email templates, great training resources, great support staff.
    Cons:
    Takes some basic training to figure out.

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    VR

    Verified
    Reviewer

    Writing and Editing

    201-500 employees

    Used daily for less than 6 months

    Review source

    Reviewed April 2019

    Dealersocket, a very specific type of help

    3

    Ratings Breakdown

    3
    Ease of use
    3
    Value for money
    3
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    Dealersocket offers the whole suite of things you might need to help manage inventory, finances, and website related issues. I think what this company excels at over other, similar products is their customer service and innovation. Their customer support is unrivaled. I don't have to wait days or even weeks for them to reply to an issue, most of my cases have been solved within the hour, and if not, it has been purely due to my own company's internal issues (lack of experience with / training on this product).
    Cons:
    While the software itself is easy to use and understand, I think that their web integration is lacking. I do not think this is simply an issue with dealersocket, but with most companies that offer similar products. Dealersocket definitely comes close, but I feel like they need to provide more versatility at least from the customers end.

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    Shira R.

    Verified reviewer

    Automotive

    201-500 employees

    Used daily for less than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed January 2019

    THE BEST

    5

    Ratings Breakdown

    5
    Ease of use
    5
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    I think that DealerSocket is the BEST CRM out there. The ability to send text messages to your customers and the be able to see if they opened up an email. Way better than any CRM that I've used.
    Cons:
    NOTHING bad to say at all about DealerSocket

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