Overview
The Design Focus
Lead Management
Prioritization & Matching
Offer Creation & Customer Journey
Inventory-First Flow
Portal Suite

One home for the full dealer deal lifecycle.

TrueCar

One home for the full dealer deal lifecycle.

A unified web portal so teams could manage leads, inventory, and offers with shared context and clearer prioritization.

Dealer Web Portal

TrueCar's revenue is driven by lead referrals to dealers. Our web portal served as the single destination for dealers to manage all aspects of their TrueCar relationship and facilitate deals, a conglomeration of vertical tools under one umbrella, much like Google Apps for business.

The core flow connected a CRM on one side with inventory management on the other, ultimately matching inventory to customers. The primary job-to-be-done across all verticals: create offers for customers.

The Design Focus

Offers could be created from multiple contexts, finding a car for a customer, or finding a customer for a car. The new portal I designed focused on:

  • Capturing different flow entry points while keeping deal context visible
  • Centralizing deal funnels for entire teams to share
  • Improving prioritization and sales strategy at an individual customer level

Lead Management

The main customer management experience, designed as a web companion to the mobile app.

Customer leads management

Customer search, which also allowed reverse lookup, starting with a make and model to find matching customers.

Customer search with reverse lookup

Prioritization & Matching

A surface to help dealers understand prioritization, determined by customer funnel stage and propensity to meet customer needs based on configuration and available inventory.

Deal prioritization dashboard

System match recommendations based on customer configurations and available inventory.

System-generated match recommendations

When no high match existed, dealers could search their inventory while referencing the customer's original configuration side-by-side.

Inventory search with customer config reference

Offer Creation & Customer Journey

A preview showing dealers exactly what their customer would see in the offer they were about to send.

Dealer preview of customer-facing offer

Customer status and sales journey, previously unavailable, this provided concise context to help inform sales strategy with each individual customer. Teams could work more effectively together through decentralized visibility.

Customer status and journey timeline

Inventory-First Flow

Inventory management leveraging the same patterns and data constructs as the CRM experience, but through the lens of inventory-first.

Inventory management experience

When entering through inventory, the reverse-lookup experience helped find a customer for a car, especially useful when dealers were prioritizing specific vehicles for business reasons.

Reverse-lookup: finding customers for inventory

Portal Suite

Entry point for other vertical apps within the dealer web portal suite.

Portal suite navigation

Full portal app ecosystem

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