Instead of Voyager
Stop waiting on Gateway DMS for a quote, a report or a change to Voyager. Own your dealer system.
We build your version around how your dealership sells, services and stocks, bring your Voyager customers and stock across, and run it for you while the yard keeps trading.
Gateway DMS publishes no price for Voyager. Its site sells it in modules and asks you to phone or fill in a contact form, so each dealership is quoted privately.
- check_circleYour data in a database you own
- check_circleOpen source, no lock-in
- check_circleBuilt and run by Enterprise DNA
What a Voyager dealership is paying for
A price you only hear on the phone, for records you already own
Under the screens, Voyager keeps a short list of records: customers, units in stock, sales contracts, work orders, parts and invoices. Gateway DMS prints no price for any of it. The site lists departments and modules, then sends you to a call or a form.
Modules priced behind a phone call
Gateway describes Voyager as modular, so you use what you need. What each module costs is not on the site. You find out from a representative, one dealership at a time, with nothing public to compare against.
Software kept off the cloud
Gateway says plainly that it does not host Voyager on the cloud.
Your ledger and payroll tied to the dealer system
Voyager runs the general ledger, BAS, creditors, debtors and payroll inside the same product as the yard and workshop. Convenient while you stay, and one more thing to untangle the day you want to change any part of it.
Dashboards the vendor designed
Gross profit enquiries per vehicle and dashboards come built in. A question those screens were not built for, such as which buyers never brought their unit back for a service, goes to Gateway or waits.
Nothing published on getting your data out
The Voyager site says nothing about exporting your own customers, stock or service history. Ask Gateway before you need it, not after.
Years of history in one vendor's format
One dealer quoted on Gateway's own site has run Voyager for sixteen years. That is a long record of every unit, deal and service job, sitting in a system only one company can change.
What you get instead
The dealer record you keep, asked for in plain words
Stock
Every unit on the lot, and what it is costing you
Cars, utes, trucks, bikes, vans or tractors, each with the days it has sat, the money spent getting it ready and the floorplan interest it is running up.
- check Days in stock, preparation cost and floorplan interest on one line per unit: the figure a vendor dashboard does not show
- check Aged units listed with what they have cost to hold, so the call to reprice or wholesale rests on a number
- check No unit goes into stock without an odometer reading
- check Your aged line and floorplan rate are settings you change by asking
Sales
From enquiry to handover with the checks on the record
Quotes, deposits, sales and deliveries move through steps that each leave a record behind, and every lost deal keeps its reason.
- check No handover without a security interest search on record
- check Gross per salesperson that already counts the preparation spend
- check Every lost deal keeps why it was lost, so the pattern shows by month
- check The free version's checks follow New Zealand dealer law; Enterprise DNA writes your state's rules into your version
Workshop and parts
Jobs finished, notes written, invoices sent
Customer work and in-house preparation share one list of jobs. Preparation lands in the unit's cost, never on a customer's invoice.
- check A job does not close without the technician's notes
- check Every completed job with no invoice is named before it becomes a write-off
- check Parts that have not moved, and what is tied up in them
- check Every customer who bought or serviced a unit and has gone quiet, with their phone number
Yours
Your records, your name on the paperwork, your accountant
Plain records in a database you own, documents in your own brand, and the books left where they belong.
- check Sale agreements, service histories and statements produced in your branding
- check Sales, invoices and parts movements handed to your accountant or bookkeeper in one export
- check Run it on a server you choose or one Enterprise DNA looks after for you
- check Open source under the MIT licence: no vendor to leave
Make it yours
Design your own Voyager replacement
Everything starts from the open-source base. Then it gets your name, the parts you run, your rules and your data from Voyager. Try it here, and we build the real one.
2. What it runs
3. Make it fit
4. Your colour
Answered from your own database
Good morning. Here is what needs you today.
We build it from the open-source base, bring your Voyager data across and run it for you.
Switching
How to switch from Voyager
A move involves getting your records out, matching them to the new database, checking the results and running both systems side by side before you switch.
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Request your Voyager records
Ask Gateway DMS for customer, stock and service history files. Voyager does not publish how its data is exported, so check with Gateway what your account can provide. If it allows CSV or Excel exports, use those and confirm which files and fields are included before you start.
- 2
Load the records
Use the available import process to load the files into Dealership's database. If the import offers a test run, use it before loading records for real. Confirm which records the import can take and how the fields in your Voyager files match the fields in the new system. If you have Enterprise DNA run the setup, it handles getting the data out and matching it up.
- 3
Review the import results
Check the import results before relying on the new records. The importer can identify rows it skips, so review those and find out whether the cause is missing information or a field that needs mapping. Check a sample of customer, stock and service records against Voyager, and resolve any differences you find before treating the new database as your operating record.
- 4
Run both side by side
Keep Voyager available for a short period while you use Dealership for day to day work. Compare customer, stock and service records in both systems, and check that new entries and updates appear as expected in the new database. Use the overlap to catch anything that needs correcting before you depend on Dealership alone.
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Switch off Voyager
Once the records and day to day work check out, move your team to Dealership and arrange to end Voyager. If Voyager also handles your ledger or payroll, arrange the move to accounting and payroll software your accountant already knows before switching those parts off. Keep the records and exports you need for your business before closing the account.
Where the real effort goes
The work is usually less about loading rows and more about matching your own fields, processes and rules, then deciding how much history to bring across. Some records may need checking or mapping before they fit the new database. If you have Enterprise DNA run the setup, getting the data out and matching it up is part of the work.
Not ready for a call?
Get your Voyager switch plan by email
We will send you the step-by-step plan for moving your business off Voyager, what the move really involves, and how we would do it for you.
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Rather talk it through? Book a call arrow_forwardTwo ways to switch
Try it yourself, or have Enterprise DNA build and run it
Open source
Try it yourself
Free
- 1 Clone dealership-for-claude-code from GitHub
- 2 Run npm run demo and open the folder in Claude Code
- 3 Type /attention to see what the demo dealership needs today
- 4 Ask Gateway DMS for CSV files of your customers and stock, then ask Claude Code to match the columns and do a dry run before importing
Omni by Enterprise DNA
Have Enterprise DNA build and run it
One setup fee, then a monthly retainer
- check We get your customers, stock and service history out of Voyager and check each record as it lands
- check We set it up for what you sell, whether cars, trucks, boats, caravans or farm machinery, with your own steps and your state's rules
- check We connect your accounting and payroll, and build a web front end for the workshop if you want one
- check It runs inside Omni, our managed Command Centre, beside the rest of your business, with no server at the dealership to look after
Questions
Instead of Voyager, answered
Voyager also runs our ledger, BAS and payroll. What happens to those? expand_more
They move to accounting and payroll software your accountant already knows. The dealer system keeps every sale, invoice and parts movement and hands them over in one export. Keeping the books out of the dealer system means you can change either one without moving both.
Can we get our records out of Voyager? expand_more
The Voyager site does not say how. Ask Gateway DMS for customer, stock and service history files. If you have Enterprise DNA build your version, getting the data out and matching it up is part of the work.
We sell farm machinery and boats, not just cars. Does it fit? expand_more
A unit is a unit: something with a serial number, a cost, days on the lot and a service history. The free version is set up for vehicles. Enterprise DNA sets your version up for what you actually sell, with the fields and steps your trade needs.
Our technicians clock on and take photos in the field. Do we lose that? expand_more
The free version has no phone app. Enterprise DNA can build a web front end for the workshop into your version, reading and writing the same records.
We have more than one site. Does it cope? expand_more
Yes. Every site can sit in one database, with stock, gross and aged units reported site by site and across the group, and you decide who sees which site's numbers. Enterprise DNA sets that up in your version.
Find out what Voyager is really costing your dealership
30 minutes with Sam. We go through which Voyager modules you pay for, which ones your yard, workshop and parts counter actually use, and what your own version would look like. If it fits, we build it and run it. If not, take the free version and try it yourself.
Dealership for Claude Code is free and open source, published by Enterprise DNA.
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