The SFTP Folder CDK Exports Into
CDK’s Data Export tool wants a hostname, a path, and a credential. Point it at Files.com and every scheduled export lands on a permanent endpoint with nothing for the group’s IT team to host or babysit.
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CDK exports dealership data as scheduled, PGP-encrypted files to an SFTP folder the dealer owns: vehicle, sales, service, parts, customer, and accounting. Files.com is that folder as a service: it receives, decrypts, routes to every vendor and warehouse, and keeps the record.
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How Files.com Fits With CDK Global
A dealer group runs on its DMS, and at many groups that DMS is CDK. Sales, service, parts, accounting: the transactions of the whole business pass through it. So every report, every vendor integration, and every warehouse load starts with getting data out. CDK’s export tooling does its half well: scheduled data sets, PGP-encrypted, delivered to an SFTP folder. The folder, and everything after it, is the dealer’s problem.
Files.com is the dealer-owned half of the CDK exchange. The exports land on a managed endpoint, decrypt as a folder setting, route to every vendor and warehouse that needs a slice, and leave an audit trail that says exactly what moved.
The CDK File Flows Dealer Groups Actually Run
Exports received and decrypted, warehouses fed, vendors served: all running on Files.com in production.
Decryption As A Folder Setting
CDK exports arrive PGP-encrypted. The key manager decrypts in the flow: no desktop tool, no key on a server someone maintains. What lands downstream is ready to load.
DMS Data Into The Warehouse
Every question a dealer group asks about its own performance starts with getting data out of CDK. Exports land, decrypt, and stage for Snowflake or whichever warehouse the group runs: one monitored job instead of scripts and hand loads.
The Internal Export Host, Reached Safely
Where CDK exports land on a server inside the dealership network, the outbound-only Agent reaches it with no inbound firewall rule. The exports flow out to wherever they’re needed without exposing anything.
One Export, Every Vendor
The vendors a dealer group shares data with each want their own slice. Automations split, rename, and route each CDK export to per-vendor folders and credentials. No vendor ever sees another’s files, and adding one is a folder and a rule.
The Nightly Feed That Didn’t Run
A reporting pipeline fed by a silent export failure looks fine until somebody asks where yesterday went. Delivery monitoring knows when each CDK export is due and alerts when one is late.
What The CDK Exchange Needs From Your Side
CDK’s export tooling handles the sending side. The receiving endpoint is yours to provide.
An Endpoint The Dealer Owns
CDK exports to an SFTP destination the dealer controls, never to a third-party IP. Files.com gives the group that owned endpoint as a service: permanent hostname, static IPs, scoped credentials, no server to run.
PGP Keys In One Place
The export tool encrypts with PGP. Your private key lives in the Files.com GPG Key Manager and decryption runs automatically on arrival: one key policy for every rooftop instead of a key file per store.
A Folder Per Rooftop, Or Per Data Set
Multi-store groups organize the exchange the way the business reads it: folders per dealership, per data set, or both, each with its own permissions. One audit trail covers all of it.
APIs Where Files Don’t Fit
CDK’s APIs handle on-demand extract and writeback. The scheduled flat-file exports carry the bulk. Files.com owns the file side, and its REST API and webhooks wire into whatever orchestration runs the rest.
Customers Running Files.com With CDK Global
Billion Automotive Replaced CDK-to-Snowflake Scripts and Hand Loads With One Monitored Files.com Job
The new pipeline had to reach an internal SFTP server without exposing it, decrypt CDK exports in flight, and preserve every system already in place.
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Phil Long Dealerships Uses Files.com to Retire the FTP Server Its Vendors Kept On-Premises
A single-step migration preserved the daily vendor exchanges Phil Long’s dealerships depended on while removing the last file transfer workload anchored on-premises.
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“Files.com is robust and scales to a large enterprise. We get multiple files per minute, per second — and we're a 24/7 organization, so everything has to always be up.”
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Sr. Systems Engineer, Spirit Airlines
Files.com With CDK Global FAQ
What dealer-group IT teams ask most when wiring CDK data exports.
CDK’s data export tooling delivers scheduled, PGP-encrypted exports to an SFTP folder, covering the predefined data sets: vehicle, sales, service, parts, customer, and accounting. CDK’s APIs cover on-demand extract and writeback. Files.com is the managed SFTP destination those scheduled exports deliver into.
CDK does not export to third-party IPs: the export destination is the dealer’s to provide. Sharing data with a vendor means the dealer receives the export and passes it on. Files.com is that owned endpoint as a service, with Automations doing the passing-on.
Files.com decrypts CDK’s PGP-encrypted exports automatically. The private key lives in the GPG Key Manager and decryption runs as a folder setting on arrival: no desktop PGP tool, and no plaintext key sitting on a server in the dealership.
Yes. CDK exports land on Files.com, decrypt, and stage for the warehouse in one flow. A Snowflake external stage reads Files.com directly through the S3-compatible endpoint, and other warehouses load from the storage Files.com writes to: one monitored path from DMS to dashboard.
The Files.com Agent runs inside the store network and makes only outbound connections. It picks exports up from the internal host and carries them out with no inbound firewall rule and no VPN.
Yes. Files.com Automations split and route each CDK export to per-vendor folders, with each vendor holding its own scoped credential. Every pickup is logged, so you know exactly which vendor collected what, and when.
Files.com organizes the exchange as a folder per rooftop, per data set, or both, each with its own permissions and credentials, under one audit trail. Adding an acquired store is a folder structure, not a new server.
Files.com delivery monitoring defines when each CDK export is due and alerts when one is late. IT hears about the broken feed from an alert, not from a manager whose numbers are missing.
Yes. Files.com encrypts dealership data in transit and at rest, scopes each vendor to its own credential, records every action in a complete audit log, and applies retention policies that clear delivered files on schedule. That posture is what the FTC Safeguards Rule expects of nonpublic customer information in motion.
Files.com replaces the scripts and hand loads between CDK and everything else: the internal SFTP host somebody babysits, the desktop decryption step, the per-vendor copy jobs, and the mornings lost to checking whether any of it ran.
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