IAS Announces Availability of SmartDealerProducts Software Without Warranty Sales Commitment

AUSTIN, Texas, March 13 /PRNewswire/ -- IAS announced today that the SmartDealerProducts suite of software will be available to all dealerships in the United States and in Canada, with or without a commitment to sell IAS warranty products. Since the inception of SmartDealerProducts in 2001, the software has only been available to dealers who sell a minimal number of IAS' various F&I warranty products. Under this condition, the software has been and will continue to be free to dealers.

With this additional pricing plan; however, the SmartDealerProducts suite will now be available to thousands of dealerships who otherwise would not have access to the software. Dealers can now choose to use the software without a product commitment for a small monthly license fee, or with a product commitment for no monthly fee. Either way, dealers use the software on a month to month basis without a long term contract.

"We are very excited to offer a way for all dealers to take advantage of our software suite. We're giving dealers the choice -- sell our top of the line warranty products and get the software for free or pay a small monthly fee," says Matt Nowicki, director of IT for IAS. "Either way, dealers will get the best suite of F&I software on the market for substantially less than our competitors charge, and without being locked in to a lease or other long- term contract. And our software is fully loaded out of the box -- we won't nickel and dime our customers on added features like OFAC lookups and electronic VSC rating."

The SmartDealerProducts suite includes the SmartMenu desking and F&I menu generation tool, the SmartEye digital audio/video recording and archival tool, and the SmartTrac multimedia F&I sales presentation tool. For more information, contact Kris Wiley at (800) 346-6469 x8989 or email sales@iasdirect.com .

About IAS

Innovative Aftermarket Systems (IAS) is the leading provider of F&I aftermarket programs to automotive dealerships. IAS offers a variety of products including, GAP, Invisible Phantom Footprints, Theft Avert, Super Polyshield, The Preferred Advantage, R.O.A.D. InTire, among others. Additionally, IAS' flagship software suite, SmartDealerProducts, provides revolutionary F&I software solutions for dealerships and their customers. IAS' training department, SmartDealerUniversity, provides ongoing training and feedback to ensure continued penetration, ethical presentations and increased profits for IAS dealership customers. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, IAS has hundreds of certified agents throughout the United States and provides technology solutions and aftermarket products for many of the top-100 dealer groups.