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Customer, Vendor & Dealer Portals for Auto Dealers.

Self-serve portals that take the phone calls out of doing business with you. Designed and shipped for auto dealers, not generic templates with auto dealers swapped in.

Why this matters

Why auto dealers need Business Portals built around their unit economics.

Most auto dealers are operating on sites or software stacks built three to five years ago for a different version of the buyer. Inventory feeds from the DMS to the website and third-party listing sites break or lag, so VDPs show wrong prices and sold units. The infrastructure decisions that compound are the ones made with the operator in the room, not the ones made in a vacuum.

Inparlor's Customer, Vendor & Dealer Portals engagement for auto dealers reflects that. We build the portals your customers, vendors, and dealers log into to do business with you without picking up the phone. The deliverables below are scoped against the unit economics, your AOV and retention.

Where most agencies treat auto dealers as another vertical to learn on, we treat the vertical as the starting point. The DMS, CRM, and website are separate systems that don't share data, so staff re-key leads and inventory by hand. We will tell you on the first call which of those constraints is binding and which is solvable inside the engagement.

What we deliver

Scope built for auto dealers.

  • Two-week paid discovery with a fixed-bid proposal at the end
  • Role and permission model mapped to your account types
  • Authentication and account provisioning via Auth.js or Clerk
  • Customer portal: orders, invoices, documents, and support tickets
  • Vendor or supplier portal scoped to your procurement flow
  • Dealer or partner portal with tier-based pricing and protected catalogs
  • Document storage on S3-compatible object storage with access controls
  • Live integration to QuickBooks or NetSuite for invoice and order data
Auto Dealers benchmarks

Real numbers from the vertical.

minutes vs. hours

Inventory feed sync lag

10-30%

Online credit-app completion

$1,800-$4,500

Front + back gross per sale

<25%

Service bays booked online

48 hours

Business Portals proposal turnaround

Our Auto Dealers-specific approach

How Business Portals runs in auto dealers, operationally.

  • Role and permission model first

    Before any screen gets built, we define who sees what, customers, vendors, internal staff, and what each role can do. Permissions are the foundation, not a setting bolted on after the portal ships and someone sees data they should not.

  • Self-serve order and invoice flows

    Customers place orders, check status, and pull invoices without emailing anyone. The flows that flood the phones and inboxes today become self-serve, so the team handles exceptions instead of routine lookups.

  • ERP and accounting kept in sync

    The portal reads and writes against the systems of record, so orders, inventory, and invoices stay consistent with the ERP and accounting tools instead of drifting into a parallel copy nobody trusts.

  • Phased rollout, one audience at a time

    We launch to one user group, internal staff or a pilot set of customers, prove the flows, then widen. Each audience comes online when its workflows are solid, so a rough first version never hits everyone at once.

FAQ

Auto Dealers buyers ask us this most.

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