NuDMS ("New DMS") is an open-source dealer management system where AI agents do the busywork, managers approve what matters, and the whole thing runs on hardware your dealership owns. Move more cars, treat customers better, and take your DMS bill to roughly zero.
Demo uses a fictional dealership and example data. No signup, no sales call, no "let's set up a discovery session."
For decades, dealerships have rented their core operating system from a handful of legacy vendors like CDK, Reynolds and Cox. You pay every month, forever, for the privilege of accessing your own data.
Long contracts, per-module fees, and integration "certification" tolls. Your customer and deal data lives in someone else's system, on someone else's terms.
The DMS is one of a dealership's biggest software line items, and it mostly buys you green screens, swivel-chair workflows, and a support queue.
In June 2024, cyberattacks on CDK Global took its systems offline and left thousands of dealerships writing deals and ROs by hand for days. When the stack is centralized, one bad week is everyone's bad week.
Keep the boring, regulated parts boring. Put the intelligence on top of a clean data model and an event bus, and keep humans in charge of anything that matters.
GL, contracts, title, payroll. Small, auditable, and deliberately dull, the way accounting should be.
One Customer ID and one VIN record across sales, F&I, service, parts and communications. No more "which Jordan Rivera is this?"
Every change (a trade appraised, an RO opened, a deal funded) is an event. Modules, agents and integrations subscribe instead of polling each other.
Agents draft follow-ups, structure deals, chase recon, flag funding issues and prep ROs. Managers set autonomy per agent, and every action goes to an audit trail.
A dashboard and chat where managers approve, edit, coach and handle exceptions. Agents propose; people dispose.
One system, one data model, no per-module invoice. Multi-rooftop from day one.
Acquisition, appraisal, recon tracking, pricing and aging, all on one VIN record.
Desking, payments and trade equity, with agent-drafted structures for manager approval.
Menus, contracts, and lender and funding workflows, with compliance checks built in.
Appointments, ROs, multipoint, and a service-lane-to-sales handoff that actually happens.
Counter, special orders, stock levels and RO allocation.
General ledger, schedules and month-end, tied to the events that created them.
Customer 360 with households, consent, and a unified timeline.
Onboarding, staff records, permissions and the paperwork in between.
NuDMS runs on on-prem hardware or a VM that you own. If the internet goes down, the showroom keeps working. If a vendor has a bad week, it isn't your bad week.
docker compose up on your own VMNuDMS is licensed under Apache-2.0. Read the code, run it, fork it, and extend it. There's no "community edition" with the good parts removed.
No license fees, no per-seat or per-module pricing. Your DMS cost drops to roughly the price of the hardware it runs on.
A NuDMS support provider offers paid appliance setup, remote support, migration from your current DMS, and certified connectors. That's the whole business model.
Integrations subscribe to the event bus. Connecting your CRM shouldn't need a certification fee and a six-week wait.
Yes. The software is Apache-2.0. Revenue comes only from optional services (appliance setup, remote support, migration, certified connectors) provided by a NuDMS support provider. You can do all of it yourself if you'd like.
On hardware or a VM your dealership owns. Backups are encrypted with keys you hold. Cloud AI is off unless you turn it on, and PII is stripped before any request leaves.
No. Managers set autonomy per agent. Anything material (pricing, deal structure, customer messages, money) can require approval in the dashboard or chat, and everything is logged.
Your DMS keeps running. It's on your hardware, the code is open, and your data is in standard Postgres. That's the point.
Updates are signed, and nothing installs until you approve it. If something misbehaves, roll back.
Migration is one of the optional services a NuDMS support provider offers. Because integrations are outbound-only and event-driven, you can also run alongside your existing system during a transition.
Yes. Dealer groups get multi-rooftop support with shared customer and VIN records and per-store permissions.