This was developed for a specialised used car supermarket chain.
In addition to the functionality you would expect in a showroom system it also has
a number of unique features: -
Customer interaction - linked to user friendly pods located in the showroom, prospective
customers can select vehicles and produce quotations on their own.
Mobility / high availability - support for hand held terminals linked directly to
Cap Black Book allows for vehicle valuations anywhere, even away from the showroom.
Secure business practices - links to HPI for vehicle checks (Stolen, Written off,
Outstanding finance)
HPI checks - real time vehicle checks inform staff of stolen/ suspect/ written off
vehicle and also the finance status of p.x. vehicles
vehicle valuation - p.x. vehicles are valued using industry standard data for an
up to the minute price.
standard PC - system runs on “off the shelf” PC - no special hardware or software
requirements.
mobile access - PDA computer gives salesman system access anywhere, in the showroom,
in the car park, even on the road.
user interaction - customers can pick a vehicle and get a quote themselves
multi user - centralised data held on main server