Pacifico Auto Group

Pacifico first partnered with Roadster in December 2017 when they launched their Mazda Express Store. Shortly afterward, they began utilizing the Express Storefront for their Ford and Hyundai stores, too. For the first few years, Express Storefront was used primarily as a penciling tool online. They would “Share Details” with every internet lead and then guide the customer through as much of the online purchase process as they were comfortable with before they visited the showroom. They loved the visibility Roadster Admin provided. They could see every VIN that the customer viewed, as well as any deal configurations they made along the way. This empowered the team to have meaningful conversations with their customers, which increased customer satisfaction and led to a seamless transaction in the store.After mastering the use of Roadster online for a few years, Pacifico kicked off training for the showroom to pencil deals with Roadster in-store last December. They were using a different penciling tool previously, but found themselves struggling to drive consistent attachment of quotes to the CRM record, which meant starting over with customers when they walked back in the door.  With Roadster they could see all of the activity in one central location, and pick up where the customer left off -- in essence merging the penciling and CRM functionality (online and in-store) into one primary system.They were just getting their feet wet when COVID-19 threw a curveball and shutdown dealerships across the state of Pennsylvania. Pacifico had to close its doors, with zero ability to sell even online from March 16th to May 1st. Kurt Shadduck, the store’s General Sales Manager spent the down time at home making sure they could sell cars digitally from financing to electronic paperwork via docusign. He wanted the dealership to be ready the minute they were given the green light to transact online.

When the dealership first opened its digital doors in May, they brought back only the leadership team to start, which required managers to use the Roadster system first hand. They would share details with the customer remotely, prompting them to pick a car and upload all of their information within the Pacifico Express Store including trade-in information and any stips the dealership needed to complete the sale. Kurt loved the ease of the process and how he could put the customer to work. Not only did this significantly cut down on paperwork, but they found that customers were just more comfortable in their own space, doing things on their own time vs. waiting at the dealership.In June, Pacifico brought back their 12 sales agents, but between people who couldn’t get on board with the new process, and those who didn’t want to come back, they settled in at 6 shortly there after. Sales in June and July were up year over year, and they did it with a lot less sales people. Each sales agent went from selling 9-10 cars per month to 13-15 per month overnight. 

Fast forward to today and Pacifico is busier than they ever were before. Not only do they have more customers, but they are experiencing unbelievable closing rates in the 45-48% range, something they have never seen before. Even though Pacifico is fully back opened for business, they are still encouraging their customers to complete the transaction themselves (even it if is in-store) so that the sales person can prep the car. They have found that making the customer part of the process, not only saves everyone time, but puts the customer at ease and is truly a win win.

For Mazda in particular, this has not only meant more front end profit, but more backend profit as well. Mazda customers by nature have been hard to upsell historically. By having the products on an ipad, or online and walking customers through them early in the process they have been able to almost double their backend profit to boot.