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/ Inventory management for boat dealers

Enter the boat once. Your website, feeds and CRM follow.

One boat record drives your website, your marketplace feeds and your CRM, with one price. Upload the factory order form and the system builds the record.

/ Factory order
/ 01

Upload the order form. The system builds the boat.

Inventory management for boat dealers should start at the factory order. It reads the factory order form, matches it to the manufacturer's specs and builds the inventory record. Someone on your team confirms the match, then the boat is live.

  • Specs matched to the manufacturer
  • A person checks the match
  • Live the moment it is saved
BoaterOS new vessel wizard: pick the scenario (new boat order, delivery, trade-in, brokered boat, manual entry) and the next steps adapt
/ One boat, everywhere
/ 02

One record. One price. Every channel.

Your website, BoatTrader, Boatmart, BoatNV, Facebook, Google Merchant and Google Ads are fed from the same record under one pricing policy. The boat carries one price on every channel.

/ Window stickers
/ 03

Window stickers stored on each boat.

You upload the manufacturer's sticker. BoaterOS keeps it on the boat and sends it to shoppers who ask. It does not generate stickers.

/ Boat history
/ 04

Every boat keeps its own history.

History follows the hull across owners, so a used boat does not walk into your service lane as a stranger. Close a 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)
/ Aging
/ 05

See which boats are getting old.

The inventory aging report sits with the revenue and lead-funnel reports, so the owner can see what has been on the lot longest without asking anyone.

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

What inventory does not do.

The BoatTrader feed is one-way

BoaterOS sends your boats to BoatTrader. It does not pull anything back from BoatTrader into your inventory.

No YachtWorld feed

A YachtWorld feed is not built.

Boats, not hard parts

It tracks boats. Hard-parts inventory is not built.

Window stickers are uploaded

They are stored and sent, not generated.

Not your accounting

Keep your accounting where it is. BoaterOS does not replace your accounting or service billing.

/ Questions

Questions you'd ask.

No. It feeds them. Enter a boat once, and it goes out to BoatTrader, Boatmart, BoatNV, Facebook, Google Merchant and Google Ads with one pricing policy. The BoatTrader feed is one-way.

Sending the same boat listing to several places, such as your website and the marketplaces, from one record. In BoaterOS the record is the source, so a change to the price or photos is made once.

You upload the factory order form. The system reads it, matches it to the manufacturer's specs and builds the boat's record. Someone confirms the match before the boat goes live.

Not today. A YachtWorld feed is not built.

No. It manages boats. Hard-parts inventory is not built.

/ Related

Who uses it

Coming from another system?

The other parts

  • Lead management One list of leads, the source on every one, and each call and text on the file.
  • Website A dealer-owned site fed by your inventory, with a source on every lead.
  • Calls and texts Every call, text and voicemail on the customer file, with the transcript.
  • Reporting Live report pages, lead source on every lead, numbers that match the rows.
  • Integrations What it runs on, what it can add, and what is not built.
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