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Yes Eric we do combine our inventory in many different ways.  We have a single DMS account for our entire group where everything is differentiated by company number.  This allows us to not only combine and split inventory efficiently, but also customer records, parts, accounting and anything else that is in our DMS.


As long as you know our stores' numbers (Honda = 1, Toyota = 2, etc) then you can write all kinds of rules around us.  We have been able to do some very cool stuff with this in our CRM, marketing campaigns, and fixed ops programs.  The simplest thing is inventory.


Here is a search on our website for Used Nissans.  We do not carry Nissan new, so this is a good search for this example:  Used Car VA | Norfolk Virginia Beach Used Cars For Sale - notice the store name on the location in each vehicle pane (no need to click into the listings).  If you do click "View Details" then you'll get the address and map to the applicable store.  This is all pretty easy, but it is only easy because we set our DMS up to be a large single database.