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Farming Equipment

Dealer Quoting Experience

Lead UX Researcher
Goal

Rebuild dealer trust by redesigning the end-to-end quoting experience. Identify the friction points that push dealers toward their own workarounds and define a credible path to a unified, reliable sales tool.

Research

15 dealer interviews across 5 dealerships · 3 dealership sizes · 5 internal stakeholder interviews · 3 prototype feedback sessions

Dealer research affinity mapping in Miro
Frameworks
Experience journeyJobs to be donePrototype design & testing

Mapping the full salesperson journey from first customer conversation to presenting a quote revealed where distrust in manufacturer systems forces dealers into time-consuming workarounds, and where redesigning those moments would have the most impact.

Current dealer quoting experience journey map
Insights
"Dealer trust is broken — past delivery failures mean new features alone won't drive adoption"
Dealers have built their own workarounds that work; they won't abandon them until [the manufacturer] proves reliability
Salespeople need a ballpark price within seconds of a walk-in, but current tools require 45–120 minutes to build a quote
Programs change up to 3× a month, making dealers too nervous to trust automated program logic in quotes
Impact
Business opportunities identified
Near term
Inventory Tool

Gives an instant view of inventory prices, adjusted for cash or finance, discount programs, margin, and select costs. Logic is owned and guaranteed by the manufacture, eliminating fear of charge-backs. Delivered via API to work in any system.

Manufacturer accountable for accuracyWorks across all systems
Long term
Quoting tool roadmap

The Ballpark, Explore, and Quote prototypes bring this vision to life, demonstrating what a workflow-aligned, dealer-trusted quoting experience could look like built on Salesforce.

Prototypes tested
Inventory Tool
Inventory Tool
Instant pricing on inventory with discounts, margin & costs
Ballpark
Ballpark
Quick trade-in estimate to open the conversation
Explore
Explore
Side-by-side model & year comparisons
Quote
Quote
Customer-ready, compelling quotes

"Hone in on the Inventory Tool — get the first step done right first and build on that. If you have dealer engagement from that, you will have dealer engagement past that."

— Internal business leader
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