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Talk about a rock-solid brand moment. 🪨💜

And while we may be a little biased, we think it's the perfect reminder that Informativ’s solutions ROCK. 🤘

From fraud prevention and compliance to credit, payments, and a faster showroom, we’re proud to help dealers build Smarter Deals & Safer Sales.

Putting in the miles. Building relationships. Bringing the sock game. 🧦 🔥

Trish Smith hit the road for a multi-day dealership tour from DFW to Houston and across South Texas, celebrating big wins with Forbes Todd Auto Group and welcoming Texan Hyundai near Katy to the Informativ family!

And can we take a moment for those socks? 👏

Want your own pair? Request a demo through the link in our comments and we can send you some Informativ style of your own!

Name an excuse for giving dealers bad payment data.

“We’ve always used estimates!”
“It’s too complicated!”
“Close enough is good enough!”

Survey says….❌❌❌

When monthly payment is the number car buyers care about most, “close enough” isn’t much of an answer.

For years, accurate real-time payments were difficult to deliver because they required bringing together credit-qualified rates, incentives, taxes, fees, lender logic, trade equity and more. But the technology has caught up and vague payment estimates are no longer acceptable.

Especially as digital shopping and AI become a bigger part of how consumers make vehicle decisions, platforms need payment data that matches what the customer will get at the dealership.

So we’ll ask again:
Name an excuse for giving dealers bad payment data.

We’ll wait. 😏

See why accurate, credit-qualified monthly payments aren’t just a feature, but a growth driver at the link in the comments!

Illinois dealers are being asked to move faster on every deal while fraud, compliance risk, credit costs, and affordability challenges keep getting more complicated.

On Thursday, October 15, join the Illinois Automobile Dealers Association and Informativ for our joint webinar: Stop Fraud, Cut Credit Spend, Protect Every Deal: A Playbook for Illinois Dealers

Curtis Knievel, Vice President of Business Development at Informativ, will share practical ways dealerships can strengthen the process from the first customer interaction to the first pencil.

We’ll cover how to:

🔹 Stop fraud before a bad deal gets started
🔹 Build stronger compliance guardrails
🔹 Control unnecessary credit bureau costs
🔹 Navigate negative equity and affordability challenges
🔹 Structure accurate, fundable deals

📅 Thursday, October 15
⏰ 12:00–1:00 PM CT

Register for the IADA webinar at the link in the comments!

A beautiful day, a great course and even better company! ⛳️

Ward Carroll and Carol Sanford from Informativ had a fantastic time connecting with golfers and industry friends like Ken Garff Automotive Group and Karl Malone Auto Group while handing out plenty of golf balls and other course essentials at the Origence CUDL Utah Golf Tournament last week!

Thank you to everyone who played and to the event organizers for bringing together such a great group! 💪

Some conversations are interesting. Others leave you with 100 notes and a healthy amount of concern. 😳

After hearing Doug Fusco of Informativ break down today’s biggest dealership compliance and fraud risks with Sam D'arc on the Car Dealership Guy Daily Drive podcast, Christian Crain of Crain Automotive admitted the conversation was “terrifying.”

The good news? He was taking notes.

Want to hear the conversation and find out what had Christian feverishly taking notes?

Watch the full interview at the link in the comments!

A great couple of days at the 2026 Lithia & Driveway and Southern Oregon University Golf Tournament in Medford, Oregon! ⛳️

Michael Byrd, David Domm, Teresa Bordenet and Mark Richardson had a fantastic time teeing it up with Steve Meager from Lithia & Driveway and others, connecting with industry friends and supporting an event focused on driving futures forward.

Thank you to Lithia and SOU for hosting such a memorable event at Rogue Valley Country Club!

The California CARS Act takes effect October 1. Is your dealership ready for the new requirements—and can you prove it?

On Thursday, October 8th Franjo M. Dolenac, Partner at Scali Rasmussen, and Mark Richardson, National Director at informativ. will explain how the law impacts:

• Advertising and first written responses
• Pricing and payment presentations
• Optional products
• Three-day cancellations
• Record retention
• Dealership workflows from the first customer interaction through the completed deal

Whether you’re reviewing existing policies or identifying gaps between policy and practice, this educational webinar will help your team understand how to build a compliant, consistent, documented, and defensible sales process.

Reserve your spot at the link in the comments! 👇

Permission to pull credit and permissible purpose are not the same thing!

A consumer saying “yes” to a credit check is important, but under the FCRA, businesses also need a legitimate permissible purpose for accessing that consumer’s credit report.

That means your process needs more than permission. It needs the right transaction, the right authorization, and documentation connecting the two.

Whether you’re in automotive, financial services, property management, or another industry that relies on consumer credit, understanding the distinction matters.

Learn what businesses should know before pulling credit at the link in the comments!👇

🚨 LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER!

Tomorrow, we’re taking the daredevil moves out of the dealership sales process and showing how better guardrails can lead to faster, more profitable deals.

Join National Automobile Dealers Association and Informativ’s Curtis Knievel for Daredevil Deals: 5 Ways Dealers Turn Fraud Prevention & Compliance Into Faster, More Profitable Deals on Wednesday, September 16.

Curtis will break down five areas where everyday process gaps can quietly increase SG&A, slow down deals and erode profit:

🔹 Fraud: Catch identity, synthetic, document, deepfake and internal fraud before a loss hits the P&L.
🔹 Compliance: Build secure, repeatable guardrails that protect NPI without adding more manual work.
🔹 Affordability: Use a credit-qualified first pencil to uncover the right deal structure faster and reduce unnecessary re-desking.
🔹 Credit Costs: Control unnecessary hard pulls and turn rising bureau expenses into real savings.
🔹 Training & Turnover: Create processes that stay consistent, even on a chaotic Saturday or with a brand-new employee.

The goal isn’t more steps, headcount or complexity. It’s a more efficient, profitable and protected sales process from the first customer interaction through the deal.

Taking risks may run in the Knievel family. They shouldn’t be built into your dealership process.

Register now at the link in the comments!