2025 Highlights
December 22, 2025
It’s been another jampacked year at Autofinity as we’ve revamped ViHUB in line with feedback from our end users and client requirements as well as cemented relationships with our established customers, welcomed new ones and forged even more alliances. We’re looking forward to an even better 2026.
ViHUB dashboard enhanced
Autofinity launched its new, intuitive dashboard for its vehicle inventory management and marketing platform ViHUB, designed to align with daily tasks of dealership teams, at AM Live in November.
Live from Q126, the new dashboard design follows six months of investigations and liaison with a variety of end users. As well as regular details such as make, model, mileage and price, users can see vital vehicle information such as allocation (whether vehicles are pipeline, demos, retail or trade), the number of days a vehicle has been in stock, and the last time a price adjustment was made.
The dashboard automatically creates a ‘to do’ list of the day’s priorities incorporating issues such as overage stock, problems with individual vehicles such as mileage or price discrepancies or lack of images and new stock which requires attention such as when a manufacturer is about to take payment but the vehicle has yet to be sold.
New integration product Feeds Agent
Dealer groups which have developed a bespoke vehicle inventory management system can now piggy-back Autofinity’s technology for advanced integration, monitoring and automation.
Feeds Agent enables dealers to integrate supplier systems, dealer management system and online marketing channels to their stock inventory management system. Thus, providing a single overview of each vehicle including courtesy and employee cars as well as pipeline stock and new cars, in one place for simple, flexible stock integration and marketing with their partners.
Percayso partnership
Autofinity and Percayso Vehicle Intelligence (PVI), a specialist in real-time, whole-market automotive data, announced a new partnership in November.
Dealers using the Autofinity platform have direct access to Percayso data, which provides vehicle-specific valuations; market demand insights to see how fast similar vehicles are selling in the market; and full vehicle provenance in one place. Information is based on the 750,000 retail prices Percayso gathers daily and its analysis of over 1 billion live and historic vehicle adverts.
Partnership with Clarity Automotive
Autofinity announced its collaboration with Clarity Automotive, led by Clare Freemantle, in July. Clare’s wealth of experience in automotive retail, blending high-level operational knowledge with hands-on digital expertise, has already helped shape the redevelopment of the ViHUB dashboard.
Automation can save dealers £1 million plus per year
Early in 2025, Autofinity calcultated that dealer groups can save more than £1 million per year simply by streamlining their used car online merchandising.
Autofinity’s chief solutions officer Chris Banks crunched the numbers following discussions with a number of dealer groups. The analysis identified 21 separate tasks to merchandise a single vehicle and each task was assigned the time taken to complete which could be as little as one minute once a week.
Initial set up was calculated to take 46 minutes at an hourly rate of £13 which translated to £20.15 per vehicle. Ongoing weekly maintenance of 142 minutes (two hours and 22 minutes) per vehicle cost £30.77 for dealership staff to complete.
Once applied to a stock holding of 2,000 vehicles, the initial merchandising set up cost amounted to £40,300. Working on an average 45 days in stock and a turn rate of 8.11, those figures translate to an eye-watering £326,878. Factor in ongoing updates and administration costs whilst vehicles remain in stock and marketed on websites and portals, the cost spirals to £61,533 per week (for a stock of 2,000 vehicles) or £266,644 per month. The annual cost is a whopping £3,199,733.
However, with Autofinity’s ViHUB automating many of these task, dealer groups can save more than £1 million per year.
AM Live
A big thank-you to all of you who visited us at our stand at AM Live this year where we provided demos of our newly launched dashboard.
Our vision
Our belief that automotive retailers should determine their own tech agenda and select the applications that work best for their business is at the heart of our business strategy for 2026.
Elsewhere in the market, large suppliers are snapping up smaller companies which have developed applications typically to meet specific dealership tasks. Autofinity, though, has adopted a dealer group led strategy with integration as an alternative to the traditional one-stop-shop ‘ecosystem’ approach that has become common in the sector.
With some larger suppliers now building ecosystems of proprietary tools, we believe open integration offers a genuine and preferable alternative. It means dealer group leaders can make their own decisions about which applications to use for specific tasks; it overcomes the issue of duplication such as when a group favours one application but an OEM specifies another to meet manufacturer standards; and legacy licences are not a problem because ViHUB acts as a bridge between unconnected systems.
We would like to thank all our clients for their support this year and we look forward to working with you in 2026.
