DX1
DealershipSoft and DX1, compared
DX1 bundles a website and marketing around a dealer management system for powersports and golf car dealers. DealershipSoft runs the whole dealership across seven trades, with 9,400+ users behind it and a service department that was never an afterthought. Platinum includes a website too.
It runs the whole dealership
Units in and out, deals and trade-ins, parts, customers, management reporting and the books, with your own accounting package behind it. All of it, in one system. What is unusual is not the coverage. It is how good the service half is.
Most systems in this category were built for the sales floor and had a workshop added to them later, which is why the service module is usually the thinnest part of the demo. This one was built the other way round, and it shows in the things that only bite once you are using it every day. Splitting a job across two technicians. Reopening a closed card without a workaround. Seeing every repair a unit has had under three previous owners, so a trade-in valuation is a fact rather than a guess.
Their two trades, and five more
DX1 says it is for the powersports and golf car industry. We cover both of those, and we have golf buggy dealers running on this today. The difference is what happens when your yard is not only one of those things.
DealershipSoft covers powersports and golf buggies, and also marine, farm machinery, motorcycle, outdoor power equipment, caravan and RV, and the mixed rural yards that sell a ride-on in the morning and take a boat on trade in the afternoon. If you sell quads and buggies and nothing else, either system can do that. If you also take a boat or a tractor on trade, one of them was built for it.
Things you get here that are worth checking for elsewhere
Business intelligence
Included from Gold, not sold as a premium analytics tier. Where the margin actually came from this month, by department, by technician, by unit type.
A full mobile app
Not a technician companion app. Create the booking, open the job, add parts and photos, clock on, complete the inspection and finalise the job, all from the phone. Included, no extra charge.
Unit inspections
Structured inspections against the unit, with photos, that turn into quoted work instead of a scribbled list that never gets sold.
A website, on Platinum
WorkshopWeb is included on the Platinum plan and it is built to be found. We do not run your ad campaigns, but you are not left without a site.
Side by side
| DX1 | DealershipSoft | |
|---|---|---|
| Trades covered | powersports, golf car | powersports and golf buggies, plus marine, farm machinery, motorcycle, OPE, caravan and RV, mixed rural |
| Service department | one module inside the platform | a full department: multi-technician jobs, clocking, parts on the job, inspections, full unit history |
| Track record | powersports focused | 9,400+ users, 8.5m+ invoices processed, $5.1bn invoiced |
| Business intelligence | check with them | included from Gold |
| Mobile app | check with them | yes, and it runs the whole job: booking, job card, parts, photos, clocking, inspection, finalise |
| Unit inspections with photos | check with them | yes |
| Technician clocking | available | yes, and time lands against the unit and the job |
| Service history by serial number | check with them | yes, and it follows the unit through every owner |
| Unit stock, trade-ins, deals | yes | yes |
| Website | yes, core to their offer | included on Platinum |
| SEO and ad campaigns run for you | yes | no |
| Inventory syndication | yes | no, in the United States |
| Accounting | built in, theirs | your choice of QuickBooks or Xero |
| Pricing published | check with them | yes, on the website |
| Free trial without a salesperson | check with them | 14 days on the full plan, no card |
| Users | check with them | one included, additional users $20 a month |
| Sales tax | yes | yes |
| Title and DMV paperwork | check with them | no |
Where DX1 goes further
DX1 runs SEO and lead management as a service, and pushes inventory to marketplaces through their OEM feeds. We do neither. If you want one company running your marketing as well as your back end, that is a genuine difference and it is theirs.
It cuts the other way too. When the dealer management system and the marketing agency are the same company, changing one means changing both. A website is included on Platinum here, so choosing us does not mean going without one.
Where we draw the line
So there are no surprises in week three
We do not run SEO or paid advertising campaigns for you.
No inventory syndication to marketplaces in the United States.
No title or DMV paperwork. Sales tax is handled.
Not built for new car franchises. This is for independent dealers who also run a workshop.
Everything else is on the table for fourteen days, with your own stock file in it.
Questions dealers ask
Do I have to give up my website to use DealershipSoft?
No. Keep the site you have, or take the Platinum plan, which includes WorkshopWeb, a website built to be found. What we do not do is run SEO or ad campaigns as a service.
Does DealershipSoft work for marine, farm machinery or mixed yards?
Yes, and it also covers the two trades DX1 names. DealershipSoft runs powersports and golf buggy dealers as well as marine, farm machinery, motorcycle, outdoor power equipment, caravan and RV, and mixed rural yards.
Is business intelligence an extra?
No. Business intelligence is included from the Gold plan, along with the mobile app.
Is DealershipSoft a full dealer management system?
Yes. Units, deals and trade-ins, parts, customers, management reporting and accounting, as well as the workshop. There are 9,400+ users on the platform and more than 8.5 million invoices have been processed through it.
How much does DealershipSoft cost?
Gold is $279 a month on the yearly plan, including one user. Additional users are $20 a month each. No setup fee, no training fee, no cancellation penalty.
Put your own stock file in it for fourteen days
A demo shows you someone else's data. A trial shows you yours. Fourteen days on the full plan, no credit card, no setup fee, no lock in contract.