VINCUE NEXT25 Revealed: The Launch of VINCUE CATALYST

On April 22, 2025, VINCUE hosted our first-ever VINCUE NEXT, an annual virtual software summit where we share everything the industry needs to know about what’s next for automotive, and what’s next for VINCUE.

At NEXT25, we made the biggest announcement in our company’s history: VINCUE CATALYST, a major software release packed with powerful new features, best-in-class integrations, and a completely reimagined way to display, organize, and manage data across your operation.

CATALYST isn’t just a name, it’s a core principle.

This release is based almost entirely on the feedback, challenges, and opportunities shared by our dealer community. It’s also the next generation of the VINCUE platform, completely reimagined and reengineered to move faster, think smarter, and work the way you do. It’s not just an update, it’s the start of everything we do next.

Our dealers are our catalyst, CATALYST is the start of everything we do next.

With CATALYST, we didn’t just redesign how VINCUE looks. We rethought how it feels to use. The new User Interface (“UI”) is what you see, the User Experience (“UX”) is how it works. Together, we built an experience that reduces noise and increases clarity, helping you focus on what matters most, faster.

We heard your feedback: too many tools, too much data, not enough guidance. So we stepped back, talked with users, studied workflows, and rebuilt from the ground up.

CATALYST is packed with real upgrades that make your day-to-day faster, clearer, and more strategic. Three of the biggest? A brand-new VINCUE Dashboard, a smarter Appraisal Screen, and reimagined New & Used Inventory page, all designed to help you work faster and win bigger.

The all-new Dashboard completely changes how you see, and steer, your dealership’s performance. Built from the ground up using real dealer feedback, it’s designed to help you turn insight into action across every part of your inventory strategy.

Sharper tools, clearer visibility, and smarter decisions, powered by features like:

• User-Specific Customization & Built-In Team Accountability: Your dashboard, your way. Each user gets a personalized view tied to their goals, tasks, and performance, plus clear team scoreboards linked to user-defined metrics.
• CTM + PTM+ Buckets & Deeper Investment Insights: Easily track your competitive strategy and spot market shifts in real time, so you can adjust with confidence. Go beyond age and price, new investment buckets show where you’re aging out and where PTM+ targets need attention.
• Smarter Acquisition Tools: A sharper, goal-specific scoreboard and Buy Plan view keep your team aligned and focused on filling stocking gaps intentionally.
• Live Attribution & Online Performance: Real-time data like click rates, MTD leads, and retail ad performance give you instant feedback on your pricing and strategy, right from the dashboard.

The new Appraisal screen is cleaner, faster, and easier to use, but make no mistake, it’s still packing all the power under the hood. We’ve reengineered the appraisal experience to guide users to better outcomes, using predictive signals and smarter insights at every step.

That upgraded experience comes to life through features like:

• Intuitive Process: A streamlined layout encourages consistency and allows you to better understand the insights on the screen signaling you to the best outcomes.
• Predictive Average Days to Sale: Forget guessing. Get real-time guidance based on how your store actually performs with similar vehicles.
• Enhanced Market Signals: See instantly whether your dealership tends to outperform the market, or when it’s time to play it safe.
• CTM + PTM+ Indicators: The most accurate customer value signals in the industry. This gives you ability to pick up gross and turn you may have left behind before.
• OEM-Linked Competitive Sets: Powered by the most comprehensive build data available, VINCUE CATALYST helps you identify true “like mine” vehicles and price with precision.

By combining all these signals into a single, intuitive screen, VINCUE CATALYST turns every appraisal into a strategic opportunity, and helps your entire team appraise like pros.

If you’re a sales manager, you probably live inside your inventory screen. It’s not just a list of cars, it’s the launchpad for nearly everything you do. That’s why the new and used inventory pages in VINCUE Catalyst are such a big deal. This update turns your inventory screen into a true command center, designed to save time, drive performance, and simplify decision-making.

• One Screen, All The Answers: Everything you need, pricing, performance, attribution, and lifecycle stage, is right there, in one place. Whether you’re at the store or group level, it’s built for fast and informed decisions.
• Workflow Automations: Tasks that used to take three clicks now take one, or none. Tagging and tracking vehicle status from recon to retail has never been easier.
• Actionable Alerts, Right on the Page: With live signals showing where attention is needed, you can instantly spot opportunities and remove friction.
• Built for Speed and Strategy: Managers are saving hours every week by eliminating the back-and-forth. From pricing to merchandising to performance tracking, everything moves faster, with better results. Easily track every vehicle through its lifecycle, from recon to retail.

With VINCUE CATALYST, your inventory screen isn’t just a dashboard, it’s your competitive edge. And this is just the start.