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/ How boat dealer management software works

One file per customer. One list of leads. One place for every boat.

A marine DMS for the front of the store: what they browsed, every call and text, what they bought and their service history, in the same place your reps, your office and your owner look.

Website & chatFormsPhone calls & textsMarketplacesBoat showsRep QR cards/ ONE RECORDCustomer fileWebsite & feedsDeal to titleService historyDashboards
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/ The customer file

Every customer, one file.

What they browsed, every call and text, what they bought and their service history. The sales manager, the service writer and the owner look at the same file.

31% of leads matched to their earlier website visits
BoaterOS customer file: tabs for communication, ownership and service, deals and documents, with source, tags and consent (personal details blurred)
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/ Leads in

Every lead lands in one list, already labeled.

Web forms, chat, phone calls, texts, marketplace leads, manufacturer leads and a rep's QR code. Spam and solicitors get archived before anyone calls them.

Lead attribution: up 300%+
84% of tracked calls linked to a lead automatically
BoaterOS lead list with source labels, status and follow-up counts (names and staff blurred)
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/ Deal to title

One closeout checklist, deposit to title in hand.

Prices can be changed only by the deal's rep or an admin, F&I numbers only by an admin, and won deals lock. Close the deal and the buyer is recorded as owner of the hull, engines and trailer.

BoaterOS Deal Closeout: overdue, title work and signature counters over the closeout queue (deal and customer columns blurred)
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/ Inventory out

Enter the boat once. It goes everywhere.

Upload the factory order form and the system builds the record. One boat, one price, on your website, BoatTrader, Boatmart, BoatNV, Facebook, Google Merchant and Google Ads. Listings go live the moment they're saved.

BoaterOS new vessel wizard: pick the scenario (new boat order, delivery, trade-in, brokered boat, manual entry) and the next steps adapt
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/ Communications

Calls, texts and email from your people's own lines.

Everything lands on the customer record without anyone typing a note. Voicemails are written out. Block a solicitor once.

Communications logged: up 68%
90% of voicemails transcribed automatically
BoaterOS communication history: every call with duration, result, recording and time, across the whole dealership (staff and numbers blurred)
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/ Reports

Live dashboards that match the rows behind them.

Revenue, the lead funnel by channel, inventory aging and customer lifetime value.

BoaterOS command center: inventory, leads, service and marketing counters with alerts for aged stock and incomplete customer profiles
/ AI, fenced in

It drafts, reads and suggests. People decide.

Drafts in your rep's voice

From the customer's own file, sent from the rep's own mailbox and line.

Stops when they answer

The moment the customer replies, calls or texts.

Reads, never changes

Ask the business a question in plain English. The AI can read your data, never change it.

Ships switched off

One master switch and 29 named triggers. You decide when automated follow-up turns on.

/ What you'll need

Two platforms it runs on. Modules it can add.

Required

Microsoft 365

Staff sign-in, email and calendar.

In development

Google Workspace

Sign-in, Gmail and Google Calendar for dealers on Google instead of Microsoft 365. Support is being built now.

Required

RingCentral

Phones and texts from each rep's own line, with calls, texts and voicemails on the customer record.

Separate module

Twilio

Business texting and calling on a Twilio number, offered as its own module for dealers who are not on RingCentral. It is in development.

Optional

Call tracking

Tracked numbers on your ads and listings. A new caller becomes a lead with the source and recording attached.

Optional

Contact enrichment

Fills in missing contact and household details on new leads, so reps know who they are calling.

Optional

Full document management

E-signature from the deal, signed PDFs filed back to the record automatically, and documents stored on the customer and deal. E-signature covers brokerage documents today.

BoaterOS is the boat dealer management system for the front of the store: website, leads, CRM, marketing, inventory, deals, brokerage and service requests on one record. Your accounting system stays where it is, with accounting integration on the roadmap.

/ Next step

See it on a working dealership's screens.