An Ohio-based general agent believes the F&I industry is ignoring a paradigm shift and a chance to deliver what consumers really want: a better experience.
The tablet-driven, fixed-price F&I process at Asbury’s Q Auto stores didn’t perform as well as the traditional F&I process employed at the group's core stores, but officials said they are happy with the new format’s progress.
Auto/Mate’s Option/Mate Mobile is a mobile-optimized version of its F&I menu solution. It is compatible with all tablet devices, officials said.
Officials with the F&I product provider said at last week’s NADA Convention & Expo that the company didn’t just develop a tablet menu, it developed a mobile F&I process.
Menu expert says technology can’t solve everything. He breaks down five behaviors that can doom a dealership’s bottom line.
The noise has died down since the first tablet-based F&I menu hit the market in early 2011. But for dealerships like Bowling Green Lincoln Auto Sales, the mobile menu has delivered as promised.
Ford and Lincoln service centers are putting tablets in the hands of advisors in dealership service lanes as part of two new phases of the SMART Technology program that launched in early 2014.
The Mad Marv-moderated compliance panel at Industry Summit 2014 addressed supposed menu-governing regulations, the hybrid manager, tablet menus and the CFPB.
The editor searches for the origins of a mythical menu requirement and explains how even nonexistent rules can help promote compliance.
Should the base payment be listed on the F&I menu? The magazine’s legal wiz weighs in on this hotly debated issue.
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