Purpose-Built Dealer Apps for Portland
Portland runs on athletic apparel, food, and software. Your automotive dealer operation deserves software that understands the local tempo — not a generic SaaS built for a market that isn't yours.
The automotive dealer problem in Portland
What's really happening with auto dealerships and service groups here.
The pattern we see
Here's what we hear from Portland auto dealerships and service groups: "service and sales customer data live in two different DMS silos." We've heard it in the Pearl District, we've heard it in Alberta, and we hear it in every Multnomah County intake call. The tools your team uses weren't built for Portland, weren't built for automotive dealer, and weren't built for how your operation actually runs.
How we build for Portland
Not a template. A custom stack, assembled for your operation.
We build the custom software layer your Portland automotive dealer operation actually needs. That means branded inventory search with saved alerts, in-app service scheduling and reminders, and trade-in estimator with photo capture — wired into CDK and Reynolds & Reynolds so your existing stack keeps working. The outcome: unify sales + service customer and pull deals through faster. The benchmark: dealers compress retail delivery time by 30–50%.
Portland's design-forward, DTC-brand, sustainability-minded business community has specific expectations. We design to them. That means a level of polish matched to the Pearl District benchmarks, an operational fit tuned to Multnomah County workflows, and integrations that respect the tools Portland auto dealerships and service groups already depend on — CDK, Reynolds & Reynolds, Tekion to name a few.
What we build
Five services. One retainer. Pick what fits, or stack them.
Branded Mobile App
A native iOS + Android app branded as Portland's automotive dealer leader. Published under your developer accounts, with push notifications tuned to unify sales + service customer and pull deals through faster.
- native iOS and Android from a single codebase
- App Store and Play Store submission under your developer accounts
- push notifications, deep linking, and offline support
Web Application
A production-grade web app your team in Multnomah County uses daily, and your customers reach from any browser. Optimized for the PT cadence your auto dealerships and service groups actually run on.
- production-grade React/Next.js front end
- custom domain, SSL, and CDN delivery
- role-based access and admin dashboards
Custom Internal Software
The internal tool CDK and Reynolds & Reynolds couldn't build for your Portland operation. digital retailing — credit app, deposit, and delivery scheduling, role-based access, and full audit trails.
- back-office operations dashboard
- workflow automation and approval chains
- data import/export and reporting exports
Systems Integration
Make CDK, Reynolds & Reynolds, Tekion — the stack your Portland automotive dealer team already depends on — finally behave as one system. Two-way sync, queue-backed retries, monitoring.
- two-way sync across CRM, billing, and ops systems
- webhooks, API proxies, and queue-backed retries
- monitoring, alerting, and error remediation
Ongoing Product Team
A product + engineering team on retainer. Weekly feature releases, uptime monitoring, and a monthly roadmap built around the Portland automotive dealer market's changing demands — not a fixed-bid handoff.
- monthly product roadmap with your leadership
- feature releases every 2 weeks
- uptime monitoring, patching, and incident response
How we build automotive dealer apps in Portland
Three phases. No surprises.
Design Review
We ship a clickable prototype in week 2 and walk through it with your team — in person when you're in Portland, on video when scheduling won't allow. You approve, we build.
Ship & Iterate
Your app ships within 6–10 weeks. Weekly release cadence after launch, with product-engineering retainer that treats your automotive dealer business like a product, not a project.
Integrate & Migrate
We migrate your existing data from CDK (and whatever else your Portland team already uses) so day-one launch doesn't lose a single customer or record.
Integrations we plug into
Keep the tools your Portland team already knows. We build around them, not over them.
Compliance, architected in
Requirements drive architecture, not retrofits. We scope compliance into the build from day one.
Frequently asked questions
Specific to auto dealerships and service groups in Portland.
Do you work with auto dealerships and service groups outside Portland?
Yes. We serve the full Multnomah County service area within roughly 25 miles of Portland, and we work remotely across the US. Most Portland projects get same-week on-site kickoffs when requested.
What does a automotive dealer app cost for a Portland business?
$850/month, all-in. That covers design, development, hosting, support, and ongoing iteration. No per-seat fees, no per-transaction cuts, no surprise invoices. Most auto dealerships and service groups we work with in Multnomah County recover the monthly cost within the first quarter through unify sales + service customer and pull deals through faster.
Can each rooftop have its own app?
Either a multi-rooftop single app with location switching, or per-rooftop branded apps sharing one backend. We'll recommend the structure that fits your group.
Does it work with our DMS?
Yes. We integrate with CDK, Reynolds, Tekion, and most modern DMS platforms. Sales and service customer data unify in the app without replacing your DMS.
Do we own the code and the data?
Yes. Your codebase, your App Store and Play Store listings, your customer data. If you ever decide to leave, we hand over a clean repo and a documented deployment. No lock-in, no exit fee.
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