ADF (Auto-lead Data Format) uses XML to export and import automotive customer leads, providing a structured way to handle this data. XML (Extensible Markup Language) ensures easy transmission and organization of lead information for automotive dealers.
What are the benefits?
ADF provides a simple and flexible way to represent automotive customer leads that is beneficial for dealers, service providers, and consumers.
For Dealers
- Sell more cars by efficiently managing leads
- Improve customer service and reduce manual data errors
- Consolidate leads from various sources
- Lower training costs and support future sales automation tools
For Service Providers
- Streamline lead transmission to dealerships
- Eliminate dependence on faxes
- Enhance information exchange with partners and vendors
- Boost dealer and consumer satisfaction
For Consumers
- Experience faster, more accurate service due to efficient lead processing
Five Key Categories of Information for ADF
These are five different categories of information that you can obtain for ADF
- Lead (prospect) details
- Vehicle information (year, make, model)
- Customer data (name, phone number, or email)
- Vendor (dealership) details
- Service provider information
Information required to make a lead
- Date and time
- Vehicle: year, make, model
- Customer: name, and either a phone number or email address
- Vendor: name (of the dealership)
Why do we need to know about ADF?
For one of our products, the Pop-up Lead Form, we need to send the leads to the CRM of your dealership. To send these leads, we format the information that we receive from the leads using ADF and email those ADF leads to your CRM.
ADF is also widely used in the automotive industry to present and use this lead data. In the automotive industry, ADF is the format that is used to send and present data from providers to the CRM. From the CRM, the information will be given to dealerships and salesmen to reach out using these leads and to get them to come into the car dealership and purchase a vehicle.
What does Orbee need to start creating ADF leads?
When setting up the Pop-up Lead Form, we will first get in contact with your dealership and get the information from your CRM. CRMs may have different requirements for customer lead forms.
- For example, one CRM system may only require your customers' name and phone number; others will only need their name and email address