Compliance is the floor.
Auto Plus is what's above it.
A comprehensive, customer-hosted ACES and PIES catalog management platform and full PIM solution — built for automotive aftermarket brands, retailers, and distributors who need more than a validation tool. Built on 25 years of standards expertise and a single-minded focus on the automotive aftermarket.
The standard gives everyone the same starting line.
ACES and PIES compliance means your data meets the minimum requirements to enter the supply chain. That is essential. It is also exactly what every other brand in your category is doing.
Parity is not a competitive position. When every brand submits the same required fields to the same trading partners, the product that wins is rarely the most compliant one. It is the one with richer content, more complete fitment, better structured data — the one that gives a retailer, a search engine, or an AI agent more to work with.
Auto Plus is built for brands, retailers, and distributors who understand this. Compliance is where you start. What you build above it is where you compete.
Four things that matter.
Auto Plus covers the full catalog management lifecycle — from fitment discovery and ACES validation to PIES enrichment, PIM depth, and customer-hosted data sovereignty. Each pillar is built around what brands, retailers, and distributors actually need to compete.
ACES Fitment Management
Vehicle application data management built around the full depth of the VCdb — not just validation, but discovery. Auto Plus surfaces valid fitment that other tools never find, identifies every invalid application and explains why it failed, and flags overlap conditions before they reach your trading partners.
Brands have discovered hundreds of valid, unmapped applications per part number using Auto Plus. That is not a data quality story. That is a revenue story.
ACES in depthPIES Product Data Management
Complete PIES management across every segment — descriptions, pricing, attributes, digital assets, marketing copy, and more. Every field validated against the current standard before it leaves your system.
The brands that win in ecommerce are not the most compliant ones. They are the ones with the richest, most accurate, most complete PIES content. Auto Plus gives you the tools to get there.
PIES in depthFull PIM Solution
Auto Plus goes beyond what PIES requires. As a full Product Information Management platform, it supports the product data relationships and enrichment layers that drive performance in ecommerce and position brands for agentic commerce — upsell recommendations, alternate parts, structured content hierarchies, and more.
PIES is the standard. PIM is the strategy. Auto Plus supports both in a single, customer-hosted platform.
Explore featuresCustomer-Hosted Data Control
Your catalog is your most valuable commercial asset. Auto Plus is installed in your environment — your server, AWS, Azure, RDP, or Citrix. Your MS SQL Server database is open, unencrypted, and fully accessible. No subscription leverage. No vendor in the middle of your data.
You own it. You control it. Rivers Edge builds and maintains the software. That is where our relationship ends and your ownership begins.
Why it mattersAgentic commerce is coming. Your catalog needs to be ready.
The shift from keyword search to AI-driven product discovery is already underway. As AI agents begin querying product data directly — recommending parts, processing fitment, driving purchasing decisions — the brands with structured, enriched, API-accessible catalog data will have a decisive advantage over those with the minimum required fields and nothing more.
An AI agent doesn't browse. It queries. And what it finds in your catalog — or doesn't find — determines whether your product is recommended or invisible. Having a retail website is not the same as being agentic commerce ready. Most brands have a web presence. Far fewer have the underlying infrastructure that agentic commerce actually requires: a properly structured relational database, API endpoints that expose catalog data in machine-readable form, and an MCP layer that connects those endpoints to AI agents. Without all three, a brand's catalog is visible to humans browsing a website — and invisible to the AI systems that are increasingly making the first recommendation.
Auto Plus is already positioned for this. Customer-hosted deployment, open database schema, Web API services, MCP (Model Context Protocol) support, full ACES fitment management, full PIES depth, and PIM enrichment layers that go well beyond what the standard requires. The infrastructure is there. The question is what you put into it.
Web API Services
HTTP-based data services make your catalog queryable by any platform, application, or AI system — on your infrastructure, under your control.
Structured PIM Relationships
Upsell, alternate, and related part data structured in a way that AI agents and recommendation engines can actually use — not flat fields in a spreadsheet.
Data You Own
Your catalog data is on your infrastructure, in an open database. No vendor dependency stands between your catalog and whatever commerce platform comes next.
Built for What's Next
PIES compliance gets your data into the current supply chain. Full PIM depth positions your brand for the commerce models that are still emerging.
Built for both sides of the data exchange.
Auto Plus serves the brands who build catalog data and the distributors and retailers who receive it. The platform addresses both sides of the supply chain in a single, coherent system.
Data Suppliers
You have built a catalog. The question is whether it is complete, accurate, and rich enough to win in a market where every trading partner and every consumer has more options than ever before.
- Discover fitment you didn't know you were missing
- Validate ACES applications with full VCdb depth
- Build PIES and proprietary content that rises above the standard — breaking parity with every brand sending the same fields to the same trading partners
- Manage upsell, alternate, and related part relationships
- Deliver validated, enriched data to any trading partner
- Own your catalog on your own infrastructure
Data Receivers
You onboard what arrives. The gaps and errors in a brand's catalog data become permanent fixtures in your fitment database — and your customers experience the consequences. Your job is to sell parts, not spend your time correcting catalog data that should have arrived correctly from the brand.
- Onboard ACES and PIES data with confidence
- Identify invalid and overlap applications before they go live
- Understand why applications failed — not just that they did
- Manage multi-brand catalog data at scale
- Control your data environment on your own terms
- Build your own content layer above the standard for ecommerce and agentic commerce — without rewriting the brand's data
"The brands that win on the digital shelf stopped treating PIES as a destination and started treating it as a starting point."
Bring your catalog. We'll show you what's possible.
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