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Cox Automotive’s inventory management system for the automotive industry allows you to centrally manage and distribute your inventory to market-leading advertising destinations. Seamless integrating with our range of products and services, SmartPublisher allows you to configure specials and campaign pricing, as well as maintaining accuracy and consistency of your vehicle descriptions and pricing wherever they are displayed online.

As a SmartPublisher user, you can upgrade your experience to SmartPublisher PRO to be in control of which cars are listed on which advertising destination to maximise profitability and reduce your spend on enquiries and leads.

As we are not an advertiser, we don’t have any conflict of interest with third-party advertisers or have any say in the way you decide to spend your marketing budget.

Powerful dashboard

Manage and edit your vehicle inventory via our powerful dashboard. Details, pricing, and images can be edited from one single place to ensure accuracy and consistency of your vehicles’ descriptions wherever they are published, including your own website

DMS integration

We accept data from all dealer management systems (DMS) and other data sources, making automated integration easy

Unlimited destinations

You can easily select, update and control where your inventory is published. Single or unlimited advertising destination packages are available

Real-time updates

Update your own website instantly with photos, price changes, vehicle additions and removals. With fast data exporting, you can quickly distribute your data to all the sites you advertise on

Vehicle descriptions

We are a licensed distributor and publisher of both Glass’s Guide and Redbook and can accommodate any publisher’s preference for vehicle descriptions in the data that we provide

Single point of data access

As your primary data aggregator, we can gather your data from any number of sources and provide your search with a single source of consistent data

We give you total control of your inventory data and help you to streamline your advertising process

Enhance your SmartPublisher experience by upgrading to SmartPublisher Pro

Gain access to our Rules Engine and Performance modules to set and configure powerful rules based on your inventory data and real-time market conditions to meet your dealership preference.

SmartPublisher Pro puts you in control of which cars are listed on which advertising site to maximise profitability and reduce your spending on enquiries and leads.

In addition, enjoy a much richer Export Destinations experience with extra features only available to SmartPublisher Pro users such as:

  • Publishing status
  • Publishing history
  • Ability to bulk re-list vehicles
  • Lead Pausing
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Save on advertising spend with Lead Pausing

Lead Pausing in SmartPublisher gives you the flexibility to automate the withdrawal of high-demand stock from a variety of advertising websites once the lead count reaches your pre-set threshold whilst allowing your sales team to maximise the conversion ratio on leads currently attracted by a vehicle.

You don’t need to apply Lead Pausing across all the classified websites you advertise. Instead, you have the freedom to select only the ones that you want to remove your vehicles from once they reach the number of leads you set.

Leads coming from your Cox Automotive Website do not count towards the total number of leads in Lead Pausing.

Unlimited users at no extra cost

You can add unlimited users to your account to access our Dealer Dashboard. Users can have different access levels depending on your dealership’s requirements.

Discover the Smart Publisher Packages

SmartPublisher

SmartPublisher Pro

View inventory

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SmartPublisher Pro

Vehicle purification

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SmartPublisher Pro

Create new item

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SmartPublisher Pro

View photos

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SmartPublisher Pro

Export destinations

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SmartPublisher Pro

Powerful dashboard

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SmartPublisher Pro

Real-time updates

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SmartPublisher Pro

Choose your vehicles descriptions

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SmartPublisher Pro

Single point of data access

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SmartPublisher Pro

Unlimited users at no extra cost

SmartPublisher

SmartPublisher Pro

Access to Rules Engine

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SmartPublisher Pro

Access to Performance modules

SmartPublisher

SmartPublisher Pro

Upgraded export destinations experience

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SmartPublisher Pro

Lead Pausing

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SmartPublisher Pro

Frequently Asked Questions

What is automotive inventory management software?

SmartPublisher is an innovative inventory management system for the automotive industry. It allows dealerships to take control of their inventory, enabling them to aggregate their car yard’s stock and direct where and when to retail to streamline the advertising process and reduce costs. 

How can vehicle inventory management maximise profit?

SmartPublisher is an automotive distribution software that allows you to streamline and have full control over your pricing and advertising strategy. With the ability to upgrade to SmartPublisher Pro, our automotive inventory management software allows you to be in control of which cars are listed on which advertising site to maximise profitability and reduce your spending on enquiries and leads.

Why is inventory management important?

When looking to effectively and efficiently manage your inventory at scale, no software can compare with SmartPublisher. From an intuitive dashboard, you can benefit from a bird’s eye view of your inventory to ensure each model you hold is a positive on your balance sheet.

While allowing you to manage your inventory in bulk, our automotive distribution software treats every model uniquely. As a result, you can manage and tailor each listing’s pricing and exposure to ensure your margin isn’t eaten away by overspending marketing campaigns.

Who can benefit from automotive inventory management software?

SmartPublisher and SmartPublisher Pro have exclusively been developed for car dealers needing tailored solutions to manage their inventory, pricing models and digital retailing. Through a rules-based metric, you can reduce your time spent individually listing your stock and spend more time on what matters most in your business.

What are the advantages of automated inventory management?

The advantages of SmartPublisher include;

  • Restrict listings on fast-moving models.
  • Manage and distribute vehicles to market-leading destinations.
  • Effectively manage your spending on excess leads.
  • Manage leads with real-time updates.
  • Pause publication on vehicles awaiting product descriptions and images or models that are fast selling.

Ready to get started?

We’re here to help! Learn more about SmartPublisher or other Cox Automotive products and  solutions by completing the form and our team will be in touch.

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