Tuesday

Checkmate Sales Pro: Beginner Skills
10:00am - 11:45am

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In this introductory class, we’ll cover searching your inventory, quoting parts, and promoting quotes to work orders and invoices.


Checkmate Sales Pro: Purchase Orders and Extra Sales
12:00pm - 12:30pm

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This class will elaborate on Sales Pro’s basics, including how to sell parts that aren’t in inventory.


Checkmate Sales Pro: Advanced Skills
1:30pm - 2:45pm

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Join us to learn about Checkmate Sales Pro’s advanced features. This includes Sales Pro’s research capabilities, credits/returns, deposits, pick slips, sending parts to Order Trakker, and more.


Partnering for Success: Trading Partners, Brokering and Duplicate Accounts, Car-Part Messaging and Live Chat, Interchange Contributions
3:00pm - 4:00pm

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In this class, we’ll provide an overview of sales-boosting products and services from Car-Part.com. Trading Partners finds parts from your fellow auto recyclers. When you don't have a part in stock, just press a button to instantly search the inventories of your preferred suppliers. With brokering and duplicate accounts, you can create partnerships to sell partners’ parts under your business name. We’ll also show you Car-Part Messaging (iCPM), a parts-brokering suite for the twenty-first century recycler- quote and request in real-time! Finally, we’ll cover interchange contributions, including peer-to-peer contributions, which can really help sell interchangeable parts!


Data Storytelling with Car-Part Gold: Car-Part by the Numbers
4:15pm - 5:00pm

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In this class, we’ll show you how to turn reports into results using your Car-Part Gold Statistics and Reports.


Car-Part Gold: Part Grading Inconsistency Report
5:00pm - 5:45pm

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Minor inconsistencies in part grading can lead to customer delays, increased workload costs, and supply chain disruptions. We will dive into the Part Grading Inconsistency Report, a critical tool for identifying mismatches between physical part conditions and ARA Part Grading Standards.


Ecommerce Essentials: Mastering First Impressions
6:00pm - 7:00pm

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Online shoppers don’t spend long deciding whether or not to buy something. In this class, we’ll discuss best practices to help your listings stand out, so your parts don’t get ruled out.

Wednesday

Manage Vehicles Like a Pro: AUT and VUC Records in Partmate, Photomate, and Checkmate Inventory Pro
9:00am - 9:45am

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In this class, we’ll show you everything you need to know about vehicle records in Checkmate. What's the difference between an AUT and VUC record? Which do you keep? Which do you delete?


Entering Loose Parts in Photomate and Checkmate Inventory Pro
10:00am - 10:30am

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Theresa will provide a live demo, showing you how to get loose parts into inventory quickly and easily. In addition to showing you the simple process in Checkmate Inventory Pro, we’ll show the process in Photomate, our mobile app.


Checkmate Inventory Pro and Photomate: Editing and Bulk Editing Parts, Plus Adding and Editing Images
10:45am - 11:45am

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Inventory Pro has extensive features for maintaining inventory data. You can save time by editing multiple inventory items at once. With Photomate, our mobile app, you can also edit inventory data when you’re away from your desk. When selling parts online, pictures lead to purchases. We’ll help you make sure your inventory has images, and show you how to edit them in both Inventory Pro and Photomate.


Pricing Parts and Updating your Price Book in Checkmate Inventory Pro, Partmate, and Photomate
11:45am - 12:30pm

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In the Checkmate suite, the Price Book lets you set prices for different interchange options- that way prices can be applied automatically when you inventory. In this class, we’ll show you the benefits of using the Price Book in Checkmate, Partmate, and Photomate.


Partmate Basics (Parts Tab) + New Features (Vehicle Colors)
1:30pm - 2:30pm

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Partmate makes inventorying new vehicles quicker, easier, and simpler than ever before. Learn the whole process in this class and see a demo of Partmate’s new features that make it easy to include vehicle and part colors (primary and secondary) in your inventory data.


ARA Part Grading
2:45pm - 3:30pm

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In this class, we’ll cover the Automotive Recyclers Association’s grading standards for all part types. We’ll show you how and why to grade your parts to ARA standards. We’ll demonstrate in Checkmate, but this grading info applies to every inventory management system!


Advanced Inventory Settings in Checkmate + Advanced Partmate (with Live $martList Demo)
3:45pm - 5:00pm

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Join to master inventorying with the Checkmate suite! We’ll cover stock number sequences, location/maintenance tables, suppressions, marking parts as “Private” or “Review,” dismantling reports, and more! We’ll cover Parts Lists in Partmate, which optimize Partmate for your business and seriously speed up the inventory process. In addition, we’ll demonstrate $martList in Partmate, a feature that helps you identify parts that will lead to profits - and uncover "hidden value" in a vehicle.


eBay for Beginners, with CrashLink and Car-Part Interchange Plus (CPI+)
5:15pm - 7:00pm

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In this intro class, we’ll cover how to start getting your parts listed on eBay with quality photos, detailed descriptions, and part numbers. We will offer tips and tricks to help you along the way. We’ll also show you CrashLink, a program that helps you quickly access OEM information. You can use CrashLink to assign Car-Part Interchange Plus (CPI+) to your parts listed on Car-Part.com marketplaces. CrashLink's Inventory tools enable Powerlink and Pinnacle users to assign CPI+ interchange to parts in inventory.

Thursday

Checkmate Dashboard Gadgets
9:00am - 9:45am

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The Checkmate Workstation Dashboard gives you a real-time overview of your business, with dozens of "gadgets" that display charts and graphs with essential information about sales, inventory, employees, and more. In this class, we’ll show how you can use these gadgets to calculate your business information for today, a day in the past, or for a specific time span.


Checkmate 2025R3: Recycler-Requested Enhancements
10:00am - 11:00am

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The latest version of Checkmate features numerous enhancements requested by our recycler customers. Come see what’s new!


Checkmate 2025R3: eBay Features + Plus a Sneak Peak of What’s Coming Soon
11:00am - 12:00pm

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We’ve added features that make it easier than ever to list parts on eBay, and maintain your listings. You can use Inventory Pro’s search features to prep parts for eBay- or update current listings, right from Inventory Pro! We’ll show you how you can update prices, images, fitment, and more!


Advanced eBay with Car-Part Demand Data
1:00pm - 3:15pm

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Join us to learn how to make and maintain listings that appear in more searches and get chosen by more shoppers. We’ll also cover eBay marketing, researching prices, eBay fitment, item specifics, and much more!


Accelerating eBay Sales with Special Guest, Peter Strack
3:30pm - 5:00pm

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Join us to drive your eBay sales to the next level! We'll show you how to make and maintain listings that appear in more searches and get chosen by more shoppers. We're excited to announce that we'll be joined by Peter Strack, a program manager for PartOutPro, an eBay company. He'll be able to answer questions about what works, what doesn't, and how you can expand your online business.

Friday

Checkmate Accounting & Statements
9:00am-10:00am

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In this class we’ll cover Checkmate’s Accounting feature. Checkmate’s accounting tools provide you with the ability to

• look up customer accounts
• retrieve invoices
• make payments
• issue credits
• issue print and/or email statements

We'll also cover

• how a deposit looks on a customer account before the invoice is posted
• refunding a full deposit to a customer
• what to do when a customer forfeits a deposit
• debits
• paying out cash
• sales tax/the Cash Drawer Report

Checkmate Reports (Including New Reports and Q & A) + Recycler Executive Roundtables Info
10:15am-11:30am

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In this class, we'll show you what Checkmate Reports (including new reports!) can do for your business. We'll be covering sales reports, inventory reports, commission reports, and buying reports, in both the Crystal and Excel formats. You can also ask questions about Checkmate reports. Then we'll share information about how you can join a Recycler Executive Roundtable group. These are designed for recyclers to share ideas and solve common problems of the recycling industry with a peer support group of non-competing recycling facility managers and owners.


New Features! Advanced Photomate and Ordermate
12:30pm-2:00pm

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The latest version of Photomate has new features we’re excited to share with you! We'll kick off this class with a demo of Photomate's latest features, which include the ability to search your Checkmate inventory, and a powerful VIN-decoder that builds descriptions for you. Then we'll demonstrate Ordermate! With this powerful tool, you can now perform work order audits.


New Features! Preview of Future Checkmate Enhancements
2:00pm-4:00pm (approx.)

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Major enhancements are coming to Checkmate! Our developers will present the future of our tech- including both fast-approaching updates and major enhancements that will roll out in coming years. We encourage you to ask any questions along the way. We also welcome you to suggest enhancements you'd like to see in the Checkmate suite (it's a product for YOU, after all!). This is your chance for an exclusive glimpse into the future of auto-recycling software!

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