Auto Dealer is giving all its retail companions early entry to its new knowledge resolution Trended Valuations, in addition to to newly enhanced Retail Verify performance to assist handle the complexity and nuance within the used automobile market.

Trended Valuations and enhanced Retail Verify performance is accessible via Auto Dealer Portal, or for these already utilising Auto Dealer’s highly effective suite of API options, Auto Dealer Join, the info, insights and metrics might be built-in into their very own techniques.

The introduction of those new options comes at a time when a number of elements, together with modifications in provide dynamics, electrical car demand, and wholesale traits, are driving complexity and nuance within the used automobile market. In flip, they’re creating uncertainty for retailers, and making pricing methods more durable to handle.

This new layer of intelligence is designed to enhance retailers’ expertise and experience to not solely spot margin alternatives, but additionally drive higher efficiency throughout their forecourts.

Trended Valuations present what a car has been price during the last six months, and the way its worth is forecast to alter as much as six months into the long run. It’s based mostly on a mix of historic valuations, dwell market costs, seasonality, and the age of the spinoff inside the lifecycle of its technology.

Auto Dealer mentioned its forecasts have been confirmed to be on common inside 5% of achieved values as much as six months sooner or later, with this enhancing to three% as much as three months, and simply 1% as much as a month ahead.

Trended Valuations supplies important perception into revenue alternative, worth sensitivity and margin threat. Sellers are utilizing it to appraise a car prior to buy (estimating its valuation after preparation, the pace through which it’ll promote, and the purpose it turns into overage) in addition to managing threat extra successfully by figuring out potential loss-making autos sooner.

Highlighting the broad vary of advantages and purposes Trended Valuations could have in day-to-day operations, Michael MacDonald, enterprise supervisor at TrustFord Bristol, mentioned: “Trended Valuations shall be vastly highly effective for managing part-exchanges, particularly the place new automobile lead occasions can imply the transaction is months away. Having an Auto Dealer branded valuation forecast will assist us handle shopper expectations.

“It’ll additionally assist us handle threat and margin when sourcing with a transparent view ahead, so we don’t get caught. I’ll even have a a lot better view of threat worth on how lengthy I hold vehicles in inventory and know what’s going to occur to guard margin.”

Andrew Muffett, group used automobile purchaser at Allen Motor Group, additionally commented on how having Trended Valuation knowledge shall be invaluable in navigating the disconnect between retail and wholesale traits: “I feel Trended Valuations is important. As retail and commerce markets don’t all the time transfer in sync, a time limit commerce valuation solely tells a part of the story when sourcing and places margin in danger if you hit the retail market.

“Trended valuations will present us with a broader view of retail pricing over time, to chart the trajectory of a car’s previous efficiency and, crucially, the place it’s forecast to go.”

Along with Trended Valuations, retailers now even have early entry to Auto Dealer’s enhanced Retail Verify resolution, which supplies a broad suite of information and metrics, together with Retail Ranking, to offer a exact image of the dwell retail market at each a nationwide and native degree. With a deeper understanding of present market situations, retailers can supply and worth with confidence, and guarantee they’re producing the utmost revenue out of each car. 

Retail Verify displays shifts in provide and demand, supplies real-time market valuations, a aggressive evaluation of worth place towards related inventory out there, and estimates how briskly a car might promote when priced at its market worth. In addition to informing shopping for and pricing methods, retailers can use its distinctive insights to minimise losses and optimise forecourts by figuring out inventory which might be slicing into revenue and require disposal.

Commenting on Retail Verify, Haston Masih, head of enterprise intelligence and pricing at Carshop, mentioned: “The fantastic thing about Retail Verify is that it provides us worthwhile perception into the place a selected car sits out there and the way different retailers are pricing related inventory. We utilise it each day to assist motion our pricing technique and finest optimise margin and stockturn from every car.”

Auto Dealer’s chief product officer Karolina Edwards-Smajda mentioned: “Given the complexity out there, we’ve labored arduous and invested to create the options and the insights that we consider will finest serve our companions, and provides them the arrogance they should act in these altering occasions.

“We are able to already see simply how highly effective and integral our knowledge has turn into in informing key retail choices by the actual fact our valuations knowledge was used over 240 million occasions final yr, which is sort of 100 million greater than in 2022.

“While there’s no query that the yr forward could have its challenges, entry to this highly effective mixture of latest intelligence will guarantee all retailers, no matter scale, have what they should drive their success in 2024.”

Auto Dealer can be launching its new Auto Dealer Perception Academy, its e-learning hub providing bitesize masterclasses. A part of the launch contains up to date masterclasses on sourcing, pricing and understanding metrics to assist retailers use Trended Valuations to its full potential, go to

Each shall be integrated into promoting packages in April, and mixed will assist retailers to make faster and extra worthwhile sourcing, promoting, and pricing choices.