RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. – CU Direct , the biggest network of indirect auto lending outlets for credit unions, this morning rolled out an Adroid app for its CUDL AutoSmart vehicle shopping website.
The AutoSMART app connects credit union members looking to purchase and finance a vehicle with both their credit union and the more than 6,000 dealers posting live inventory to CUDL’s AutoSMART website. Members can use the new mobile tool to conveniently shop the more than 650,000 vehicles listed nationwide on the AutoSMART website.
“Our goal was to provide a dynamic mobile app that leveraged the AutoSMART site to further simplify members’ approach to vehicle shopping, while providing our credit unions with an additional tool to stay connected with their members throughout the car buying process, and helping dealers to connect with customers,” said Kip Haas, executive vice president of products and technology at CUDL.
The new Android app, designed specifically for credit union members, replicates features of the well-known CUDL AutoSMART website as a fully functional app for both Android smart phones and Android tablets. CUDL introduced its first AutoSMART mobile app in July of 2010, for the Apple iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch.
The AutoSMART mobile phone app gives credit unions a valuable tool that helps them stay connected to their members through the entire vehicle buying process, improving member loyalty and their ability to retain member financing in-house, and driving more member loans.
The mobile app also has the “Sell Your Ride” feature that allows members to post their personal automobiles for sale through their credit union’s AutoSMART website. Through Sell Your Ride, credit union members are able to upload and post their vehicle’s information, data and pictures to their credit union’s AutoSMART site’s “Private Party” vehicles section, using the site’s inventory program.
