DriveCentric API
A partner API exists for pushing lead, consumer, and vehicle data into the CRM, but nothing is publicly documented. Access runs through the Partner Program: intake form, overview call, and a signed data agreement before docs are released. There is no portal, sandbox, or published OAuth flow.
Frequently asked questions
DriveCentric scores F on the API Report Card. A partner API exists for pushing lead, consumer, and vehicle data into the CRM, but nothing is publicly documented. Access runs through the Partner Program: intake form, overview call, and a signed data agreement before docs are released. There is no portal, sandbox, or published OAuth flow.
Without a usable official API, teams fall back on manual exports, file drops, or one-off vendor integrations. The other option is an unofficial API layer like Supergood that automates the authenticated web app directly.
DriveCentric is an AI-powered automotive CRM headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, founded in 2010 by David Fultz, John Kohlmeyer and Philip Fusz.
Auto Dealer Management. A car shopper submits a lead from the dealer's website, an OEM site, a third-party listings site (Autotrader, Cars.com, CarGurus) or a walk-in/phone inquiry.
Medium-high inside North American auto retail.
DriveCentric holds the operating customer and sales record of a franchise car dealership: every inbound lead (dealer site, OEM site, third-party listings, walk-in, phone, chat) with source attribution; every customer and household record with contact history, conversation transcripts across text/email/video, credit-prequal flags and equity position; every CRM activity (calls, texts, emails, video messages, AI agent conversations, appointments, showroom visits, test drives, BDC notes); every desked deal (vehicle, trade-in, F&I product mix, payment grid); call recordings and CTI metadata; marketing automation campaign sends and engagement; automotiveMastermind predictive behavior scores and private OEM incentives synced in real time; and continuous data exchange with the connected DMS (CDK, Reynolds, Dealertrack, Tekion) plus inventory, appraisal, credit and OEM-program partners.
Modern. DriveCentric was founded in 2010 and built on a cloud-native, mobile-first architecture from inception, which is the foundation of its UX advantage over the legacy VinSolutions/Elead/DealerSocket stack.
API access is sales-gated through the Partner Program with required intake form, overview call, and signed data agreement before any API documentation is released, no self-serve developer signup. DriveCentric's partner page itself warns of delayed response times due to 'high partner interest,' indicating partner-onboarding capacity is a bottleneck. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include VinSolutions Connect CRM (Cox Automotive), Elead CRM (CDK Global), DealerSocket CRM (Solera), Tekion ARC, ProMax, AutoRaptor. Graded alternatives appear under "More from the report card" below.
Grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? We check six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and roll them into a letter grade. Grades get re-verified, and they only move on evidence.
Yes. Supergood maintains an unofficial DriveCentric API and MCP server so AI agents and internal tools can read and write DriveCentric data. See the DriveCentric integration docs at supergood.ai/docs/drivecentric-api.