ACV Enhances Marketplace with New Buyer and Seller Experiences for Dealers

AI-powered recommendations, smarter selling tools, and tailored buying experiences help dealers reduce guesswork, improve efficiency, and maximize marketplace performance

BUFFALO, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ACV Auctions (NYSE: ACVA), the leading digital automotive marketplace and data services partner for dealers and commercial partners, today announced an integrated set of enhancements across the ACV Marketplace designed to help dealers buy and sell vehicles with greater speed, confidence, and efficiency. Built on data from millions of vehicle inspections, marketplace transactions, and years of dealer feedback, ACV’s latest Marketplace updates simplify the wholesale buying and selling experience by removing guesswork for sellers and helping buyers identify the right opportunities faster through intelligent, data-driven workflows.

As rising new vehicle costs and affordability concerns are shifting consumer buying behavior, dealers are facing increased pressure to source, price, and purchase the right inventory to retail more effectively. With wholesale inventory remaining constrained, every buying and selling decision has never been more critical to dealer profitability. ACV’s newly improved digital Marketplace reduces friction by applying broader marketplace intelligence to dealer workflows, further personalizing buying experiences, optimizing selling strategies, and surfacing the information dealers need to make faster, more confident decisions.

“Every enhancement we’ve made has stemmed from direct conversations with our dealers,” said Vikas Mehta, Chief Operating Officer at ACV. “Our dealer partners have told us they want to spend less time searching, less time second-guessing, and more time efficiently running their businesses. Our Marketplace improvements are designed to do exactly that. Whether recommending the best time to launch an auction or personalizing the buying experience around a dealer’s specific inventory sourcing needs, we’re putting actionable insights into their workflow while keeping dealers in the driver's seat.”

A Smarter Marketplace for Sellers

ACV Auctions continues to remove guesswork and gut instinct from the selling equation. Using real marketplace activity and vehicle-specific insights such as the make, model, model year, and associated buyer demand, dealers can now view ACV’s recommended date and time to launch a vehicle to maximize visibility and engagement. Dealers remain fully in control but can now benefit from data-driven guidance to improve outcomes.

Additional selling enhancements include:

• Scheduled Auction – Takes the speculation out of when and how to sell by recommending the optimal launch date, time, and reserve price based on each vehicle and marketplace demand to maximize buyer engagement and sale price.
• Recommended Auction Duration – Offers high-performing dealers the most effective 4-hour and 24-hour auction durations, alongside an enhanced, data-informed listing experience, based on vehicle characteristics such as age and ACV Estimate Range.
• Bidding Engagement Meter – Helps sellers predict success prior to launch, gauging buyer interest through a visual indicator of likely engagement based on Recommended Low Reserve and No Reserve pricing.

A Faster, More Personalized Buying Experience

Built from feedback gathered directly from dealers, ACV’s redesigned buying experience delivers more of what buyers need and less of what they don’t. Dealers can quickly find the inventory that matters most by eliminating unnecessary clicks and distractions throughout the sourcing process, leading to faster purchasing decisions.

The enhanced Marketplace introduces a new Search Results Page experience that speeds up inventory evaluation, making the process feel more intuitive while also providing more time than ever to discover, assess, and act on the right inventory. Dealers reviewing hundreds of vehicles per day can now further personalize their experience, reduce marketplace noise, spend less time sorting through vehicles that aren’t a fit, and move more seamlessly from one buying opportunity to the next.

Additional buying enhancements include:

• Search Results Page – Gives buyers more control by surfacing the right vehicles in less time through streamlined navigation across marketplace lanes, the ability to hide auctions and vehicle cards, and AI-powered Recommended Sorting that personalizes search results based on bidding history, local inventory, and competitive pricing.
• Saved Search – Fine-tunes searches using condition inclusions and exclusions across Exterior, Frame, Mechanicals, Titles, and History to best align with buying strategies.
• Buyer Notes – Captures specific insights, observations, questions, and reminders while shopping by adding 100% private notes on the Vehicle Details Page.
• Recommended Badging – Displays “Priced to Sell” and “Nearby” badges to help dealers quickly identify the most relevant buying opportunities.
• Extended Buying Opportunities – Enables buyers more time to discover and appraise inventory through longer-duration auctions and dedicated preview periods for featured marketplace events

Marketplace Intelligence Built for Dealers

These Marketplace enhancements represent another step in ACV’s continued evolution from a digital auction platform to an intelligence-driven marketplace that empowers dealers to make faster, more informed decisions before, during, and after every transaction.

More information is available by contacting an ACV Auctions representative or visiting ACVAuctions.com.

About ACV Auctions
ACV Auctions is on a mission to transform the automotive industry by building the most trusted and efficient digital marketplaces and data solutions for sourcing, selling, and managing used vehicles with transparency and comprehensive insights that were once unimaginable.

ACV offerings include ACV Auctions, ACV Transportation, ACV Capital, MAX Digital, True360, and ClearCar. For more information about ACV, visit www.acvauto.com.

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Maura Duggan, ACV
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Nicole Curro, Carve Communications
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