Markets Served
Independent stores wear every hat and answer to no OEM. In Canada you also answer to a provincial regulator and to CASL. You need marketing and technology that punch above their price — and that keep a record you can produce.
The challenge
There’s no factory co-op or corporate marketing team. Every tool has to earn its keep and deliver ROI you can see, or it’s gone.
Owner, marketer, desk manager, BDC. A partner that takes marketing and communication off your plate gives you back your day.
Registration and advertising standards are provincial — OMVIC in Ontario, AMVIC in Alberta, the Vehicle Sales Authority in British Columbia — while CASL is federal and puts the onus of proving consent on you. Records that hold up matter more when there’s no compliance department behind you.
How we help
Each layers onto what you already run — start with one, add more when you're ready.
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View product →Why independent dealers choose Vicimus
Most independent stores already own a DMS, a CRM and a website. The research says the systems do not talk to each other and nobody is actively mining the data — which is a different problem from needing another tool, and it is the one that costs you repeat business.
Baseline figures come from DealerSignals’ Tech Adoption Index, a May 2026 scan of 1,760 US dealership websites, which found the average dealer running 3.8 of 15 core retail-technology categories — with CRM, DMS and F&I appearing far less often than customer-facing storefront technology. Marks in the first column describe that measured baseline and the maturity tiers it supports, not any particular dealership and not any named vendor. “Build it in-house” describes assembling the same capability from separate tools plus internal staff time. Every store differs; if this does not describe yours, that is worth a conversation rather than a correction.
What good looks like
In their words
“Maria and the team at Vicimus are one of the best and most reliable vendors I have ever worked with. The level of customer service has been first class — better than most vendor relationships I have experienced in over 20 years.”
Julia Shauf“Bumper has got it right — the right message to the right people at the right times.”
Kristi AlguireReady to start?
A 20-minute conversation is enough to see whether we're a fit. No long-term contracts, no tools to rip out.
