Staying Compliant While Working Remotely The rapidly changing circumstances around the COVID-19 pandemic forced dealerships to adapt quickly. In areas where shelter-in-place or stay-at-home orders led to closed showrooms, some dealership personnel even relocated…
New in Compliance for 2020
The regulatory landscape changes every year, so staying compliant with all of the laws and regulations that apply to your dealership can be a challenge. But if you don’t stay on top of it,…
What Dealerships Need to Know About Electronic Signatures
In the year 2000, Tiger Woods became the youngest golfer to win a career Grand Slam, the original Mini ceased production, and the U.S. passed the E-Sign Act (Electronic Signatures in Global and National…
Drive to Success: Innovation and Drive for your F&I Strategy
The F&I process, for most dealerships, generates significant potential profit for the business. But regulatory compliance, buyer frustration, and shrinking margins are daily hurdles that threaten to make the F&I process a losing battle.…
3 Questions You Should Ask About Your F&I Compliance Technology
Advanced automotive retail technology offers streamlined dealer workflows designed to improve the customer experience and ultimately enhance your profits. These workflows can provide other crucial benefits, including regulatory compliance safeguards and protections against consumer fraud, integrated across the sales and F&I workflow. Here are three questions to…
Minimize Risk and Help Ensure Compliance on Every Deal
It’s understandable that dealers do not enjoy having to think about compliance. The myriad, ever-changing laws, rules and regulations that apply to each deal can be confusing and frustrating. But non-compliance can lead to thousands of dollars in fines, class-action penalties,…
How Operations Oversight Aids in F&I Compliance
It seems that you can’t read the news without learning of yet another massive corporate data security breach. As much as we all hear about the importance of safeguarding customer information, studies show that a majority of data breaches are caused by employees. In your showroom, that…
5 Ways to Make Sure Your Compliance Program Is Effective
Compliance can be a costly part of doing business as a dealership. A 2022 article in Auto Dealer Today estimated that the average dealership spends between $162,385 and $276,925 per year to address regulatory…
What’s New for Lenders in 2019
As conference season kicks off, we’re looking forward to meeting with lenders at AFSA and NADA to share the latest updates about Dealertrack Lender Solutions. There’s a lot going on within Dealertrack Lender Solutions,…
Emil Banga Named to the Auto Remarketing 40 Under 40 Class of 2018
Emil Banga, senior director of product management for Dealertrack, has been named to Auto Remarketing’s 40 Under 40 Class of 2018. This distinction honors young professionals taking leadership roles in the auto industry and…
Streamline Operations and Boost Satisfaction
Think for a moment about the interactions your dealership has with your customers. How many people really want to spend more time buying or servicing a vehicle? They want to get in, get out, and…
Keeping Aftermarket Products In Line: F&I Compliance Tip
Aftermarket products are important to dealerships’ bottom line. Recent NADA research has shown that 50 percent of profits for the average dealership come from the sale of aftermarket products. A majority of these profits…