DeskLot Features

With the Enterprise version you can enter an unlimited number of dealership accounts, thus, keeping dealer inventories separate. This is perfect for window sticker printing and data collection companies as well as dealer groups who want to manage multiple lots from one location.

With the internal backup and restore, you can make sure your data is safely stored on an external or network drive in case of a computer failure. It is also a great way to transfer data from one computer to another. Backup can also remind and prompt you to do a daily or weekly backup.

DeskLot has an extensive built-in help system which is context sensitive... meaning, when you press F1 from a particular screen, it will bring up the help relevant to that particular screen.

DeskLot uses Microsoft Access® databases for flexibility.

DeskLot supports up to 50 photos per vehicle.

Automatically have an overlay/watermark added to vehicle photos when you add them. Set the location, transparency and transparency color for amazing looking overlay banners or borders on your images. Overlay just photo 1, or overlay them all.

Automatically have a different overlay/watermark added to CERTIFIED vehicle photos when you add them.

With just the VIN, DeskLot can give you most data about the vehicle, narrowed down by trim level, such as Year, Make, Model, Trim, Generic, Trim Level Specific, and Optional Equipment, Engine, Transmission, Factory Colors, MSRP, MPG values, Class, Doors, Engine Cylinders, Body Style, Model Code, and more.

VIN decoding via the NHTSA vPIC Internet-based VIN decoder is built-in.

For users who don't use the VIN exploder, DeskLot can be set to remember what vehicle data you've entered in the past, so that it can automatically populate vehicle editing drop downs. For example: After the first time you enter a Chevrolet Malibu, each time after that you enter Chevrolet, the drop down list for Model will present you with Malibu as a Model choice. The same goes for Trim. DeskLot also remembers Fuel Types, Interior and Exterior Colors, Engines, Transmissions, Body Styles and Categories. The object here is that after you've manually typed something once, in the future you shouldn't have to type it again, but rather can just select it from a drop down list.

For users who don't use the VIN exploder (and for those who do), you can customize a list of common equipment items that are available for vehicles. Then, adding equipment is easy. Just arrow key through the check list and tap space to select each equipment item that is on the vehicle.

Print windows stickers and buyers guides in batch by checking off multiple vehicles in the vehicle list, or print them one at a time via the vehicle edit screen.

Use whatever window sticker forms/labels you like from whomever you like. We don't force you to purchase ours. Print on blank or pre-printed forms.

Depending on how many different types or warranties that you offer for your vehicles, you'll want to choose whether to use "Static" or "Dynamic" buyers guides. With "Static" buyers guides, you hard code within the actual sticker configuration what warranty data (such as systems covered, percentage of parts and labor) and what check marks (such as No Warranty) that you want printed on the buyers guides. This is great for dealers who only have one or two warranty types since it saves the time by not having to select a warranty when adding each vehicle. With "Dynamic" buyers guides, when adding each vehicle, you select a warranty for that specific vehicle. Then, the buyers guide sticker configuration dynamically populates the buyers guide with the warranty information from the vehicle record rather than just filling in the warranty information with the same thing for each vehicle. Dynamic buyers guides work best for dealers that have many different types of warranties. This way, you don't have to try to remember what buyers guide sticker to print for a particular vehicle since the warranty data is coming from what warranty was selected for each vehicle.

Now included, buyers guide templates for Spanish FTC labels.

Over 60 window sticker templates are included to help you get up and going quickly. Just add your logo and you're good to go.

Print as many stickers are you need. We don't charge print fees.

Import vehicle data from local delimited text files such as CSV, Tab, Pipe, or custom delimiters.

Import vehicle data from a local Microsoft Access® database.

Export vehicle data to a local delimited text file for importing into another software package, for opening in Excel®, or for emailing to another party.

DeskLot has a very powerful and customizable engine for exporting vehicle data and photos to remote 3rd party inventory providers. In fact, it's the same basic technology that we use at WalkTheLot.com on the servers for our WebLot product to automatically send thousands of inventory feeds for the multitude of dealers who usewebLot. Additionally, our staff actually use DeskLot to create the inventory export configurations that the servers use to send feeds to the wide variety of 3rd parties that we send data to. Inventory data can be sent as most any type of delimited text file. Photos can be set to be renamed how the 3rd party wants them to be named. Data conversion rules applied. The file(s) optionally zipped, then sent off via FTP or Email.

Got quite a few imports, exports or web publishing configurations to be sent and don't want to baby-sit them waiting for one to finish before manually started the next one? With the Batch function, you can check off all of the data imports and exports that you want to be sent, and in what order. They'll send one after the other automatically until they all are complete.