The 5 Steps to Getting your Auto Dealer’s License in North Carolina
The North Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles – Dealer Unit put out their updated “NC DMV Minimum Dealer License Requirements” form back in June of 2020. Not much has changed in this update but here are the 5 things you need to do in order…
How to Create a Buyer’s Order for a Bank
If your customer plans to get financing from their own bank or lender it is common practice for the bank to request a buyer’s order or bill of sale. Printing one is easy with our Prepare a Quote screen. First, From the Getting Started menu…
Facebook Helps Businesses with Storefront Posters
Create your own custom business posters to place on your storefront. You can create messages that say “We’re Open” or “Please Wear a Mask” and much more. Staying connected to your community is very important as we face new challenges, restrictions, mandates, and more. Keep…
Does Your Software Run on a Mac?
We get this question quite often and although the answer itself is straightforward there happens to be an important follow up question worth reading below! But going back to the question of does Dealer Solutions run on a Mac, the answer is no. As we…
How to Print Mailing Labels
QUESTION: I would like to create a contact list for label printout of all contacts who bought from the dealership. I found the report to print contacts but can I export them into a spreadsheet to create mailing labels? ANSWER: We actually have a…
New South Carolina LAW 553 Revision July 2020
A new dot matrix and eLAW 553 Retail Installment Contract was released on July 1st 2020. These new contracts will reflect the South Carolina late fee law changes to took affect on 7/1/2020. Minimum late fee is now $8.40 and Maximum late fee is now…
Keeping Your Customers Informed During COVID-19
With shelter-in-place and stay-at-home orders by our local governments it’s very important to communicate to your current and potential customers how your dealership is operating. This article will guide you through that process. Quick Links Update your business listing on Google (Help page) Update your…
How to Install Updates
Updates to your KGI DMS can be found on the home screen of your software. When you sign in to Dealer Solutions look for the Alerts box to the far right. This box will turn yellow when updates are available. The steps are quite easy…
Year End Label Printing
A popular feature in the KGI DMS is printing mailing labels for everyone who purchased a vehicle over the past calendar year. This is a great time saver when it comes to sending out Christmas cards to all of your happy customers! From the Home…
6 Things You Do that Facebook Hates
Crush it on Facebook just by knowing what NOT to do. As Facebook evolves the success of your business page will depend on your understanding of what Facebook likes, and more importantly, what they don’t.