DriveCentric, the modern CRM and engagement platform built for dealerships, has announced a strategic partnership with Dealer Pay, a dealership-specific payments platform. The collaboration integrates Dealer Pay's compliant payment collection capabilities directly into DriveCentric, enabling seamless progression from customer conversation to revenue without disconnected systems or manual handoffs.
Quick Intel
DriveCentric and Dealer Pay are joining forces to bring payment capability directly into the natural flow of customer engagement inside the CRM. This allows dealerships to orchestrate the entire customer journey—from initial interaction to final payment—within a single, connected platform.
Closing the Gap Between Engagement and Revenue "As the premier customer-centric engagement platform, we believe CRMs should orchestrate the entire customer journey across every touchpoint and every department within the dealership," said Matt Leone, CEO of DriveCentric. "By embedding payments directly into DriveCentric on both mobile and desktop, we're extending the CRM engagement lifecycle through the point of revenue collection—staying true to our core mission of driving better engagement."
"This partnership exists because engagement alone isn't enough anymore," said Julie Douglas, Founder and CEO of Dealer Pay. "Dealers expect systems to deliver outcomes. By partnering with DriveCentric, we bring payments expertise, compliance, and dealership controls into the CRM experience—completing the lifecycle so engagement doesn't stop short of revenue."
Purpose-Built for Dealership Realities Dealer Pay, driven by Vehlo, is the only connected payments platform designed specifically for automotive dealerships. It unifies money movement across sales, service, parts, accounting, and payables—automating transactions, reducing errors, ensuring compliance, eliminating hidden fees, and accelerating every payment. By leveraging Dealer Pay's infrastructure, DriveCentric ensures payments are handled compliantly and in alignment with dealership-specific regulations and accounting needs.
Broader Platform Strategy The partnership reinforces DriveCentric's approach to ecosystem expansion. By integrating best-in-class partners for specialized functions, DriveCentric maintains its focus on real-time engagement, faster decisions, and full dealership visibility while enabling seamless, bi-directional data flow across tools.
The integrated solution is scheduled for availability in Q1 2026. DriveCentric and Dealer Pay will showcase the partnership and discuss its implications for dealership operations during a special keynote-style session at the DriveCentric booth at NADA 2026.
About DriveCentric
DriveCentric is a modern automotive CRM and engagement platform that helps dealerships sell more cars by replacing rigid workflows with real-time customer engagement, faster decisions, and full visibility across the dealership. For more information, visit www.drivecentric.com.
About Dealer Pay
Dealer Pay, driven by Vehlo, is the only connected payments platform built specifically for automotive dealerships. Dealer Pay unifies how money moves in and out of the dealership—across sales, service, parts, accounting, and payables—eliminating disconnected systems and the inefficiencies they create. Purpose-built for automotive, Dealer Pay automates payments, reduces errors, keeps dealerships compliant, removes hidden fees, and accelerates every transaction—so dealers make more money without adding more work. The result is a smoother customer experience, simpler workflows for teams, and stronger profitability across every department.
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