New Mitchell 1 Manager/Manager Plus Version 5.7 Offers Exclusive Selection of Parts Vendors

POWAY, CA — The latest version of Mitchell 1’s Manager/Manager Plus Version 5.7 offers a new feature — a selection of parts vendors and catalogs including the industry’s three premier parts providers — NAPA, CARQUEST and O’Reilly.

As the latest in a series of product enhancements, the new Manager/Manager Plus Version 5.7 offers several new key features:

• Support for three new high-speed internet connections to order directly from a selection of parts vendors including NAPA, CARQUEST and O’Reilly.

• New high-speed connectivity for distributors using “AConneX” technology.

• A web button that provides wider access to Mitchell1 support options like ‘Manager Online Forum’

• A 350-page User Guide that can open from Manager via the Help menu

• Easy access to Customer Retention Management (CRM) marketing tools and report options providing improved customer statistics at a glance, such as:

• Lifetime dollars spent

• Number of lifetime invoices

• Invoice dollar average

• Average number of yearly visits

• Last visit date

Manager/Manager plus Version 5.7 also features a dynamic referral field that makes it easier to record data on-the-fly and a new Customer List that makes it easy to find and associate a ‘friend.’

More customer information is readily available in direct view via Snapshop – which now includes ready access to customers’ e-mail addresses, birthdays, remarks and referral information.

A source field tracks media that brings customers into the shop, providing validation of media buys for future marketing plans.

End of Day reporting is available with two options: the user can batch-process 50-plus reports at one time for a specified date range or by when a shift ends; and a Confirm Line Item(s) Deletion now prompts the user when a line is deleted from an order.

For more information, visit: www.mitchell1.com.

_______________________________________

Click here to view the rest of today’s headlines.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has finalized a Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard, FMVSS127, that makes automatic emergency braking (AEB), including pedestrian AEB, standard on all passenger cars and light trucks weighing up to 10,000 lbs. by September 2029.

“The new standard requires all cars be able to stop and avoid contact with a vehicle in front of them up to 62 miles per hour and that the systems must detect pedestrians in both daylight and darkness,” NHTSA states. “In addition, the standard requires that the system apply the brakes automatically up to 90 mph when a collision with a lead vehicle is imminent, and up to 45 mph when a pedestrian is detected.”