4Dealership vs. Dealer-Mate Comparison Chart

CDK is a secure, SOC 2-compliant dealership software solution provider who’s fully integrated for all areas of the automotive dealership — from the Front Office, Back Office, Service and Parts, and all areas in between. Our mission is to help dealers sell and service more cars and run more efficient operations by developing solutions and services that streamline workflows, most notably the CDK Dealership Xperience Platform. Dealers can choose from six scalable suites—Foundations, Fundamentals, Vehicle Inventory, Modern Retail, Fixed Operations, and Intelligence—tailored to franchise, independent, and multi-rooftop needs. With over five decades in automotive software and 15,000+ dealers served, CDK offers scalable suites tailored to any dealership size — all with secure infrastructure, real-time data flow, and measurable performance impact.

Vehicle Acquisition Network (VAN) is an advanced vehicle sourcing platform built for auto dealerships that want to acquire more used inventory directly from private sellers. Rather than relying on auctions or trade-ins, VAN helps dealers identify, contact, and acquire vehicles from consumers in their local market—faster, more affordably, and at higher margins. VAN’s platform includes live FSBO listings, VIN decoding, market valuation tools, automated outreach, CRM-style lead management, and team performance tracking. The software integrates with major trade-in tools like KBB ICO and AccuTrade, and scales to support solo buyers or entire acquisition teams. For dealers who want results without adding headcount, VAN also offers a Managed Buyer program—an all-inclusive service with a dedicated buyer who handles outreach, negotiation, and appointment setting on your behalf. Vehicle Acquisition Network is trusted by hundreds of franchise and independent dealers across North America.

Bullseye is the visionary store and dealer locator platform that wins more customers. Beyond just a standard locator, Bullseye enables companies to engage customers with local content, increase lead capture, drive traffic, and improve relationships with dealers, agents, and other partners. With SEO-friendly landing pages, automated real-time lead management, and more, Bullseye is the locator that partners love. Easily integrate partner pages on your website to showcase their work with your products, build trust with customers, and turn your ordinary locator into a lead generating machine. With 20 years of experience, Bullseye includes all the features you'd expect from a modern locator: user-friendly search interfaces, a robust API, in-depth reporting, 3rd-party integrations, and extensive tools to manage locations, users, categories, and custom data fields. It's a comprehensive solution to manage all your location data and drive customers to stores, dealers, agents, and more.

Build a store locator, product finder, partner or dealer locator, where-to-buy feature, agent, hospital or physician finder in minutes with MetaLocator. Feature-rich and highly-configurable locator software. Search by zip code, address or auto-detect the user location. Complete with integrated mapping and automatic geolocation. Mobile-friendly with full support for all languages and address systems. Analytics and business intelligence tools for full optimization and user-path visibility. Manage locations, settings, data quality, analytics and more in our comprehensive web-based control panel. Access over 300 features for exact and complete control over your location content and search applications. Complete security for banking, medical and secure Websites. Our support, design, and development teams are available and able to work seamlessly with your team to help get you up and running or to design and build custom solutions.

Partful is a 3D Explosion Parts Catalog and Work Instructions Platform. Wow your customers, dealers and end-users with the sleekest part ordering experience. Showcase your products and parts in stunning 3D. Let your customers and dealers instantly find the right parts and click to order in one exploded view. No more incorrect orders, only a superior customer experience. Our customers include Lotus Cars, IDEX, Lear Corporation, Maeving, BRP and more. Our Work Instructions let you customise and provide your end users a unique training experience in stunning 3D. It allows your end users to instantly find the right instructions and steps. Say goodbye to digging through stacks of PDF manuals trying to match things up. And say hello to an immersive training experience at your finger tips.

Bidlogix provide auction software to auction houses around the globe. We offer timed auction software, webcast auction software along with an optional invoicing management system. Our software is embedded on your site with fully customisable styling. Based in Brighton, UK Bidlogix started providing auction software in 2013. Our 2 in-house development teams are constantly evolving the product with in excess of 10 auctions per day being run using our software. Our software can cater for the largest of auctions, all in real-time and can support multiple languages.

Built through collaboration with global banks, HERE Enterprise Browser provides enterprise security, workforce productivity and seamless integration of enterprise AI. HERE’s Chromium-based, zero-trust security model includes integration with Microsoft Entra and other IDPs, app access controls, data loss prevention controls, executable protection and auditability for compliance. HERE supercharges productivity through app interoperability and Supertabs that combine multiple tabs into persona or task-based dashboards. It provides federated enterprise search to Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Salesforce and other platforms. HERE also has its own Notification Center and an AI Center that enables integration of enterprise AI models into end user workflows. The company is backed by major banks and IQT, the not-for-profit strategic investor that accelerates the introduction of groundbreaking technologies to enhance the national security of America and its allies.

Polonious is an ISO27001 certified secure, extremely flexible and highly configurable investigation workflow solution. The system includes features such as process centrism, workload management, reporting, dynamic dashboards, case reports, integrations and more. With our process and compliance focus, you can ensure your investigations are fully compliant with applicable regulations, with minimal extra effort or stress. With Polonious, you can run detailed reports on case outcomes, timeframes, and finances, and break that down across case types, investigators, and even down to investigation status. So you can prove your value up the chain, but you can also identify any problem areas and improve your efficiency.

Kechie is a fully integrated Enterprise Resource Planning Software with a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform that simplifies the user experience and has the latest in cloud technology. Kechie is easily configured to the scalable needs of your growing business. The robust engine enhances real-time visibility and tracking on all transactions from CRM, Sales, Inventory Management, WMS, Logistics, Procurement, Manufacturing, and Finance, which will streamline your operations and ultimately increase your profitability. It is quick and easy to implement without the expensive price tag. Sold in separate packages – inventory and warehouse management, manufacturing, and finance – or a fully configured ERP system to include all of these individual tools. Let us show you how to manage your business processes more efficiently and effectively.

Quick Consols is a financial reporting tool for companies and groups that need monthly or annual consolidated accounts. Handles consolidation complexities for groups with multiple year ends, multiple currencies, different charts of accounts and ERP systems with a slice and dice approach to reporting. The app supports partial consolidations. Use our business unit function to create different views of your group, right down to cost centre or profit centre level. Our Analytics module creates visually rich graphs and charts with a slice and dice approach to seeing your consolidated numbers the way you want with a wide range of custom options. Use the financial statements module to prepare your statutory accounts, whether they're annual, half yearly or quarterly using our custom built templates no matter the underlying Accounting Standards you use. Quick Consols is high tech and high touch which means consultants available to assist with your implementation and support.