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Total Dealer Solutions Save time, reduce risk, and protect profits with accurate inventories, streamlined reconciliation, and obsolete parts management.

The smoothest counts are won in the weeks beforehand.Preparing for a physical inventory is really about making your depa...
10/19/2026

The smoothest counts are won in the weeks beforehand.

Preparing for a physical inventory is really about making your department easy to count. Clean data and an organized floor let your counters move fast and land an accurate number the first time.

Most of it is small stuff that piles up, like bin locations that need updating, special orders to organize, superseded parts to relabel, and clutter to clear out. Knock it out early and it stays out of your way once the count starts.

Give yourself the runway and count day takes care of itself.

Our guide walks through exactly what to prepare and how to get ahead of it.

Start now. Prep guide's in the comments.

Mark Payne grew up in the car business, from pulling weeds on his dad's dealership lot at age 9 to owning his own franch...
10/15/2026

Mark Payne grew up in the car business, from pulling weeds on his dad's dealership lot at age 9 to owning his own franchise. He's spent his career across sales, finance, service, and parts, and he built Total Dealer Solutions around what he learned.

On Monday, October 19, he's bringing that experience to the AICPA Dealership Conference stage.

His session is a live demo of the TDS Proven Process, the mix of on-site counts and software that gets dealerships to clean, trusted parts numbers. You'll see how expert physical inventory, daily reconciliation, and a dealer-to-dealer marketplace work together to close variance, surface hidden losses, and rebuild trust between parts and accounting. He'll share real client results too.

If your parts and accounting numbers keep drifting apart, this is the session to catch.

Solving Dealership Parts Problems Through Physical Inventories and Software Solutions
Monday, October 19, 3:20 PM
Grand Ballroom 1-2, Exhibit Hall

Come see us at booth #303. The link with the full details on Mark's session is in the comments.

Every dealer has chased a part that nobody seems to stock anymore. The customer's waiting, the OEM says backordered, and...
10/12/2026

Every dealer has chased a part that nobody seems to stock anymore. The customer's waiting, the OEM says backordered, and the clock keeps running.

Somewhere out there, another dealer has that exact part sitting on a shelf.

PartsFisher connects you to a verified network of franchise dealers selling genuine OEM parts, including the discontinued and hard-to-find ones. Source what you need from a real dealership, often below OEM retail, and get your customer handled.

No brokers. No mystery sellers. Just dealers buying from dealers.

Read how dealers source smarter. Link's in the comments.

Reconciling parts to the general ledger quietly eats days off your team's month. Most parts managers can only guess at t...
10/08/2026

Reconciling parts to the general ledger quietly eats days off your team's month. Most parts managers can only guess at the real hours it costs them.

PartsRec handles it automatically. It reconciles your parts to the GL every day, so discrepancies surface the same day they happen and get fixed while they're still small. Your team wins those hours back. Your books stay clean all month long.

We built a calculator to put a real number on it. Plug in a few details and see the hours and accuracy PartsRec brings back to your department.

Check your savings with our ROI calculator. Link's in the comments.

Total Dealer Solutions is heading to the 2026 AICPA® Dealership Conference, October 19-20 in Nashville, TN. We'll be tal...
10/05/2026

Total Dealer Solutions is heading to the 2026 AICPA® Dealership Conference, October 19-20 in Nashville, TN. We'll be talking about parts inventory, recovery, and reconciliation with the dealership finance pros who live it every day.

Our President, Mark Payne, takes the stage Monday, October 19 at 3:20 PM. He's running a live demo of the TDS Proven Process, showing how dealerships tighten up their parts counts and stop the losses hiding between parts and accounting.

During the show, stop by booth #303 to meet the team and see PartsCount, PartsRec, and PartsFisher up close. Bring your toughest inventory question and we'll answer it.

Check out the link in the comments for more information. See you in Nashville!

Good parts inventory management comes down to three numbers telling the same story.- Your shelf. What's actually sitting...
10/01/2026

Good parts inventory management comes down to three numbers telling the same story.

- Your shelf. What's actually sitting in the bins right now.
- Your DMS. What the system says you have.
- Your general ledger. What the books report you own.

When those three agree, every call downstream is solid. What you reorder, what you write off, what your controller reports. When they drift apart, you're managing fiction, and it usually surfaces at year-end when it's expensive to fix.

Keeping them aligned takes steady habits all year, well before the December rush. Cycle counts, monthly reconciliation, and one clean annual count to reset the baseline.

Our new guide breaks down where the numbers drift, the habits that keep them honest, and why every system still needs one true count to build on.

Read the full guide. Link's in the comments.

MYTH. A clean count is accurate for about a day, then it starts to drift. An unposted receipt. A core stuck in the back....
09/28/2026

MYTH. A clean count is accurate for about a day, then it starts to drift. An unposted receipt. A core stuck in the back. A return that sits for two weeks.

Small gaps, every week, quietly widening the space between your parts numbers and your books.

By your next count, the variance is back and bigger.

PartsRec keeps your parts and accounting teams on the same numbers, updated every day. The gaps show up while they're small and easy to fix, so the clean count you just paid for actually holds.

If you just wrapped a fall count, PartsRec keeps it clean.

See how it works: https://na2.hubs.ly/H080Lkn0

Meet Amanda Sharetts, Team Trainer for PartsRec at Total Dealer Solutions.Amanda came to TDS with a background in custom...
09/24/2026

Meet Amanda Sharetts, Team Trainer for PartsRec at Total Dealer Solutions.

Amanda came to TDS with a background in customer service and inventory management, and she puts both to work every day. Her job is to make PartsRec click for the teams learning it.

She takes a new process, breaks it into plain, simple steps, and shows people exactly where the value shows up in their day. That's what drives her, delivering service that makes a real difference for our clients and partners.

Away from training, you'll find Amanda baking, taking a hot yoga class, or at a punk rock festival.

Thank you for everything you do, Amanda!

09/22/2026

👀 Are you keeping an eye on your freight costs?

Freight charges may seem like a small piece of the puzzle, but over time, they can have a real impact on your parts department’s profitability.

Paying attention to the details matters. Regularly reviewing freight expenses can help uncover unnecessary costs, protect your margins, and keep more money where it belongs, on your bottom line.

Small details can add up to BIG dollars. 💰

Walk your back shelves and you'll spot money you forgot you spent.The slow movers. The overstock. The special order nobo...
09/21/2026

Walk your back shelves and you'll spot money you forgot you spent.
The slow movers. The overstock. The special order nobody ever came back for.

You paid the OEM for every one of them. Today they just sit there, tying up cash and taking up space your fast movers could use.

Most parts departments write that stock off as a loss waiting to happen. Here's a better way to see it. Every part on that shelf is stored value. And somewhere out there, another dealer needs it right now.

That's the whole idea behind PartsFisher, the dealer-to-dealer marketplace built for franchise dealers. Your aging stock becomes another dealer's quick fix, and you book the cash.

Ready to turn those shelves back into cash? Click the link in the comments to see how PartsFisher works and list your first parts this week.

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1007 N Federal Highway #387
Fort Lauderdale, FL
33304

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