Pentana Solutions has built dealer management software for the Australian automotive industry since 1974, and its flagship product, eraPower, is the closest thing the local market has to a default DMS. It’s a fully integrated, cloud-based platform covering accounting, service bookings, parts inventory, showroom vehicle sales and CRM in one system — and, by Pentana’s own figures, it’s used by around 60% of Australia’s roughly 2,500 new-car franchise dealer sites, including groups like Eagers Automotive and Inchcape.
That scale is exactly why the eraPower integration matters for EvalExpert customers. Most franchise dealer groups appraising trade-ins in Australia are running eraPower on the back end, and every one of those appraisals eventually needs to become a deal record. EvalExpert’s integration removes the re-keying step in between: the moment an appraisal is completed, it pushes straight into eraPower as a deal-ready record — condition assessment, photos and recommended price attached, no separate step required.
That’s deliberately a one-way push, not a two-way sync — and that’s the point. A single, reliable push means there’s exactly one version of the truth: what the appraiser captured in EvalExpert is what shows up in eraPower, with no risk of the two systems drifting out of sync or a field getting overwritten by a stale update. For dealer groups running eraPower across multiple sites, that consistency matters more than it sounds — the same push behaves identically whether the appraisal came from an appraiser on the yard, a customer replying to an SMS, a QR code scan after hours, or a form on the dealership website.
The practical effect for showroom and F&I teams is that by the time they open the deal in eraPower, the trade-in is already there — vehicle condition, photos and the recommended price, exactly as the appraiser recorded them. No re-typing the VIN, no re-uploading photos, no chasing down what was agreed. That’s less time between a customer walking in with a trade-in and a deal actually progressing, and fewer chances for a transcription error to creep in between the yard and the showroom desk.
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