carassessments.com.au vs AutoGrab
Valuations, appraisals and market data for dealers, insurers, lenders, fleets and wholesalers. Here’s how it lines up with an app built around consignment and buying, using only what each company says on its own website.
Checked 19 October 2026. Products change: confirm details with AutoGrab before you decide.
| carassessments.com.au | AutoGrab | |
|---|---|---|
| Consignment (Form 9, seller portal) | Yes: Form 9 e-signed on the seller’s phone, agreement controls, seller portal | Not mentioned on their website |
| Trust accounting | Yes: per-seller trust ledger, no deletes, deadline timers, licensee-only withdrawals, auditor export | Not mentioned on their website |
| Buying cars outright | Yes: instant offers, max-buy calculator, PPSR gate, pre-filled QLD transfer form | Offer requests; Dealer Direct wholesaling |
| Appraisal and valuation | Yes: seller self-assessment, 11-section inspection scored out of 100, AI valuation with sources | Appraisals by VIN, rego or image recognition, with photos, damage notes, recon estimates and PDF reports; real-time valuations |
| Leads and CRM | Yes: web, Meta and Google leads, duplicates merged, AI voice/SMS follow-up, Gmail sync | Customer Recapture |
| Listings and websites | Yes: carsales feed, Facebook and Gumtree packs, website stock page | Pipeline: listings across marketplaces |
| Accounting and compliance | Xero / MYOB sync | DMS sync |
| Mobile | Installs on your phone, works offline | Yes: iOS and Android apps; appraisals work offline |
| Pricing | Public: $199, $449 or $899 a month + GST | Not public (demo request) |
Where AutoGrab fits
Dealers who want deep market data and fast appraisals that sync into the DMS they already run.
Who it’s for, in its own words: Dealerships, insurers, lenders, fleets and wholesalers.
Where carassessments.com.au fits
Dealers who sell on consignment or buy outright, or both, and want the whole job in one app on a phone: from the seller’s first enquiry, through Form 9 and the trust ledger, to the settlement statement. It’s built by TradeBeat, a licensed QLD consignment dealer.
Sources
“Not mentioned on their website” means we couldn’t find it on AutoGrab’s public pages on 19 October 2026, not that the product can’t do it. Product names belong to their owners.