Tuesday
Sales Pro: Beginner Skills
10:00am - 11:45am
In this introductory class, we’ll cover searching your inventory, quoting parts, and promoting quotes to work orders and invoices.
IMS: Checkmate | Skill Level: Beginner
Sales Pro: Purchase Orders and Extra Sales
12:00pm - 12:30pm
This class will elaborate on Sales Pro’s basics, including how to sell parts that aren’t in inventory.
IMS: Checkmate | Skill Level: Intermediate
Sales Pro: Advanced Skills
1:30-pm - 2:45pm
Join us to learn about Sales Pro’s advanced features. This includes Sales Pro’s research capabilities, credits/returns, deposits, pick slips, sending parts to Order Trakker, and more.
IMS: Checkmate | Skill Level: Advanced
Partnering for Success: Trading Partners, Brokering and Duplicate Accounts, Car-Part Messaging and Live Chat, Interchange Contributions
3:00pm - 4:00pm
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!
IMS: Checkmate, Pinnacle, Powerlink | Skill Level: Beginner to Advanced
Data Storytelling: Car-Part by the Numbers
4:15pm - 5:00pm
In this class, we’ll show you how to turn reports into results using your Car-Part Gold Statistics and Reports.
IMS: Checkmate, Pinnacle, Powerlink | Skill Level: Beginner to Advanced
Part Grading Inconsistency Report
5:00pm - 5:45pm
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 Grading Standards.
IMS: Checkmate, Pinnacle, Powerlink | Skill Level: Beginner to Advanced
Ecommerce Essentials: Mastering First Impressions
6:00pm - 7:00pm
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.
IMS: Checkmate, Pinnacle, Powerlink | Skill Level: Beginner to Advanced
Wednesday
Manage Vehicles Like a Pro: AUT and VUC Records in Partmate, Photomate, and Inventory Pro
9:00am - 9:45am
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?
IMS: Checkmate | Skill Level: Beginner
Entering Loose Parts in Photomate and Inventory Pro
10:00am - 10:30am
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.
IMS: Checkmate | Skill Level: Beginner to Advanced
Inventory Pro and Photomate: Editing and Bulk Editing Parts, Plus Adding and Editing Images
10:45am - 11:45am
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.
IMS: Checkmate | Skill Level: Beginner to Advanced
Pricing Parts and Updating your Price Book in Inventory Pro, Partmate, and Photomate
11:45am - 12:30pm
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.
IMS: Checkmate | Skill Level: Beginner to Advanced
Partmate Basics (Parts Tab) + New Features (Vehicle Colors)
1:30pm - 2:30pm
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.
IMS: Checkmate | Skill Level: Beginner to Advanced
Part Grading
2:45pm - 3:30pm
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!
IMS: Checkmate, Pinnacle, Powerlink | Skill Level: Beginner to Advanced
Advanced Inventory Settings in Checkmate + Advanced Partmate (with Live $martList Demo)
3:45pm - 5:00pm
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.
IMS: Checkmate | Skill Level: Advanced
eBay for Beginners, with CrashLink and Car-Part Interchange Plus (CPI+)
5:15pm - 7:00pm
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.
IMS: Checkmate, Pinnacle, Powerlink | Skill Level: Beginner
Thursday
Checkmate Dashboard Gadgets
9:00am - 9:45am
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.
IMS: Checkmate | Skill Level: Intermediate
Checkmate 2025R3: Recycler-Requested Enhancements
10:00am - 11:00am
The latest version of Checkmate features numerous enhancements requested by our recycler customers. Come see what’s new!
IMS: Checkmate | Skill Level: Beginner to Advanced
Checkmate 2025R3: eBay Features + Plus a Sneak Peak of What’s Coming Soon
11:00am - 12:00pm
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!
IMS: Checkmate | Skill Level: Beginner to Advanced
Advanced eBay with Car-Part Demand Data
1:00pm - 3:15pm
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!
IMS: Checkmate, Pinnacle, Powerlink | Skill Level: Beginner to Advanced
Accelerating eBay Sales with Special Guest, Peter Strack
3:30pm - 5:00pm
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.
IMS: Checkmate, Pinnacle, Powerlink | Skill Level: Beginner to Advanced
Friday
Checkmate Accounting & Statements
9:00am - 10:00am
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
IMS: Checkmate | Skill Level: Intermediate
Checkmate Reports (Including New Reports) + Roundtable Discussion
10:15am - 11:30am
In this class, we'll show you what Checkmate Reports (including Excel reports!) can do for your business.
IMS: Checkmate | Skill Level: Intermediate to Advanced
New Features! Advanced Photomate and Ordermate
12:30pm - 2:00pm
The latest version of Photomate has new features we’re excited to share with you! Join us to learn how to make the most of Checkmate’s mobile sidekick. We’ll also demonstrate Ordermate! With this powerful tool, you can now perform work order audits.
IMS: Checkmate | Skill Level: Beginner to Advanced
New Features! Preview of Future Checkmate Enhancements
2:00pm - 4:00pm (approx.)
Major enhancements are coming to Checkmate! This is your chance for an exclusive glimpse into the future of auto-recycling software!
IMS: Checkmate | Skill Level: Beginner to Advanced

