Ideal is the only dealership management software you need.

Most dealerships struggle with keeping their operation organized and free of human error.

That’s why we built a dealership management system that puts all your processes and departments in one place, increasing your productivity and creating more opportunities for growth.

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30+ years of industry experience

2500+ dealers

96% of dealers have never switched from Ideal

Automate Your OPE Dealership Operations with Ideal

  • Sales
  • Service
  • Parts & Inventory
  • Accounting
  • Reporting

Reduce Transaction Time

Reduce transaction time with instant access to up-to-date inventory, work order status and customer profile.

Shorten transaction time even further with our mobile point of sale app, TargetPOS.

Keep Deals Profitable

View which units have been on your floor the longest and calculate deal profitability on the fly.

Shorten Response Time

Keep a single shared customer profile so that everyone in your dealership can get instant access to all pertinent customer information, respond faster and make each conversation with a customer more personal.

Reach More Customers

Communicate with more customers using text messaging and scale up your customer interactions without compromising quality with TargetCRM.
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Stay Organized

Create, update and track work orders and customer history in one place that everyone in your dealership has access to.

Improve Technician Productivity

With easy access to the system, your techs can quickly clock in and out, update work orders, move between jobs and spend more time turning wrenches.

Optimize Your Schedule

Maximize your shop’s efficiency and keep an even workflow by managing and updating your appointment, service and delivery calendars on the fly.

Track Warranty Claims

Never lose track of your warranty claims and always collect money in a timely manner.

Collect More Profits

Increase profits by adding a percentage mark-up for parts allocated to your service department for work orders.
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Track in Real-Time

Always know what’s in stock and easily manage inventory levels at all locations.

Stay on Top of Special Orders

Track your special orders to ensure nothing falls through the cracks.

Stay Lean

Eliminate over or under-ordering parts by setting up seasonal stocking levels and getting suggested order recommendations.

Expedite Ordering

Streamline ordering with integrated purchase order management to eliminate ordering errors and ensure timely inventory.

Control Price

Quickly set price levels and rules on your entire inventory.
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Keep All Data in One Place

All transactions from each department flow into your General Ledger so you can stay on top of all income and expenses in real time.

Know Your Numbers

Get a clear picture of your financials with easy access to on-demand financial statements. Customize reports to suit your dealership’s needs and focus on metrics that matter the most to you.

Optimize Cash Flow

With accurate detailed accounting and a complete view of your operations, you can easily identify areas to eliminate unnecessary costs and target opportunities to increase revenue.

Optional Quickbooks Interface

Want to keep using the accounting tool you already know and love? Quickbooks interfaces directly with Ideal to automatically sync journal entries, create bills for vendors and generate separate bills for each floor-planned serialized product from one simple interface.
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Track in Real-Time

Save hours by automatically updating key metrics and tracking your dealership’s performance in real time. Customize reports to fit your dealership’s operations.

Be Proactive

With the right data at your fingertips, you can instantly uncover hidden trends and identify opportunities for growth.

Automate Reporting

With a click of a button run reports that industry leading experts Bob Clements recommends you should be looking at on a daily, weekly and monthly basis.

Provide Insights for Departmental Managers

Prepare reports specific for Sales, Service, Inventory and Accounting so that departmental managers can see what’s happening at their dealership each day.
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Discover Why Ideal is the Trusted Choice for Dealers

Justin Ishmael, Parts Counter Salesperson, Crescent Springs Hardware

Ideal is a big part of our success because it gives us the ability to bill people for parts and service. Given how streamlined it makes our work order process, it saves a lot of manhours – alternatively we would have to calculate parts totals, tax totals, labor totals and grand totals by hand, which is very time-consuming. The system keeps us ahead of the game when it comes to the financial side of things. We can help the company business-wise in other ways, while Ideal runs in the background and keeps us organized.

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Extend the Power of Ideal with TargetApps

Enhance your dealership’s operation by using next-generation digital tools that communicate directly with Ideal.

TargetCRM

Easy, Fast & Simple Customer Interactions.

TargetWeb

Maximize your Dealership’s Online Presence with a Powerful Website.

TargetPOS

Sell Effortlessly from Anywhere.

TargetPay

Fuss-free Financials and Payments for Your Dealership

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Book a Demo

Meet with one of our dealership experts to see how Ideal can work for your dealership.

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