Likelihood to Recommend The Reynolds and Reynolds Company
ERA-IGNITE works well for day to day operations at Car Dealerships. It will maintain your customer records. It is lacking a little in mainlining employee records, as you have to switch back and forth between ERA "blue screen" (older version) and IGNITE "point and click" (newer version). Overall, though it will get the job done.
Read full review The sales system (Black Bird) is amazing, but if you're looking for a service scheduling solution, keep moving, this is not helpful. Their support doesn't even know what their program can do, online scheduling for guests is AWFUL, and the list goes on and on. Our business didn't even keep it a year because it was that frustrating for our scheduling team, for guests booking online, and ESPECIALLY for our service advisers and service managers.
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I like when you are punching journal entries, checks, etc. you get the schedule balance at the bottom. That is very beneficial. Payable checks are well done. You can pay by invoice or vendor. There are numerous reports that you can create in RMI to help with any specific reporting that is needed. Read full review They are the orginal auto CRM with a full suite Great Mobile App Great integrations Read full review Cons The Reynolds and Reynolds Company
The Financial Statements can only be printed on legal and instead of scrolling through it to look at it you have to navigate it at the top with the arrows. Their time clock is not user-friendly. You cannot just pull up one person and look at their time and make changes. You have to go through like you want to print, look at the time for the employee to find errors, then back out and go into a different screen to correct. Giving employees access to different functions is a nightmare. It is not at all laid out the way Ignite is used, and there are numerous hidden check boxes. Read full review The service scheduler is mediocre at best. It offers very little control over what's coming in and is extremely clunky. Adding a new user is a terrible experience for service. They need to be added to the BlackBird side, then to the scheduler as an adviser, then given permissions as a user, then given override permissions. It's way too complicated. Their support team knew less about their scheduler than I did. I was almost training them within a week. Read full review Alternatives Considered The Reynolds and Reynolds Company
We were using CDK CRM for the sales side of things, which was greatly outdated and DealerSocket absolutely blew it out of the water. However, we were using Xtime for service prior to the switch and after just 10 months, we are back to our original system. We wanted to integrate both sales and service within the same system, which is why we went with DealerSocket, but it's not worth all the trouble it brings.
Read full review Return on Investment The Reynolds and Reynolds Company
Creating numerous reports on ERA-IGNITE is beneficial in seeing where you are getting the best ROI and where you are lagging. Read full review More deals closed No extra cost for marketing tools More sales calls made Read full review ScreenShots