Website platform upgrades announced

News release

ARI Network Services, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARIS) announced today that it has upgraded its award-winning powersports dealer website platform.

“ARI’s development team is focused on delivering enriched product offerings that fuel our organic growth strategy and further our commitment to the continuous innovation of our market-leading technology solutions,” said Brad Smith, ARI Vice President of Product Management. “With this release, our team has reimagined major unit shopping to create an engaging user experience that funnels shoppers from image-rich OEM product descriptions to exploring a dealer’s available inventory and ultimately submitting the leads that fuel a dealer’s primary profit centers – new and used major unit inventory sales.”

Highlights of the upgrade include:

Inventory Showcase: Driven by fully SEO-optimized, action-oriented lifestyle images, ARI’s new OEM Showcase automatically loads current model year units to the dealer’s website and makes it simple for shoppers to browse entire OEM catalogs and see what units the dealer has in stock.

Enhanced Search: ARI’s faster Smart Search Bar auto-fills as the visitor types, suggesting potential matches across in-stock unit inventory, available OEM units not in stock or the website’s parts, garments and accessories content.

Real-Time Quotes: With ARI’s new “Best Price” feature, customers simply fill out a form, and the dealer’s website generates an automatic email response delivering the dealer’s pre-populated best price for the unit. The “Make Offer” lead type additionally allows site visitors to open a price negotiation via an easy-to-use form.

Simplified Inventory Management: Auto-fill search helps the dealer select the vehicle, and once selected, Command Center automatically populates all fields with OEM information and images.