Gateway2Lease fully integrates with Leaselink

Leasing broker Gateway2Lease has fully integrated Ebbon Automotive’s e-procurement platform, Leaselink, with its back-office system to handle and process all new vehicle orders and deliveries.

The leasing broker, which supplies around 4,500 new cars a year for a variety of different manufacturers, elected to use Leaselink to fully automate its business processes and give them more direct communication with supplying vehicle manufacturers.

Director Rob Marshall said: “We wanted to fully capitalise upon its benefits, continuing to automate as much of our business as possible, and fully integrating Leaselink with our back-office system gave us the best option to achieve that.”

Since the start of this year, more than 100 leasing brokers have signed up to use Leaselink, which is also currently utilised by around 40 of the country’s largest leasing companies.

The impetus has been largely fuelled by several vehicle manufacturers, most notably BMW, Toyota GB and Volvo Car UK, mandating the use of Leaselink for all leasing brokers they work with.

Claire Hughes, Ebbon Automotive’s head of commercial partnerships, “Leaselink delivers a number of benefits to brokers, including greater visibility of the whereabouts of new vehicles within the supply pipeline thanks to a direct feed from the OEM’s, allowing brokers to provide accurate information to their end customers.

The Ebbon Automotive business area within the Ebbon Group comprises Leaselink, MoDel and Stockviewer, the campaign management solution. The other business areas within the Group are Ebbon Compliance and Ebbon Intelligence.