Car buying software for dealers who buy from private sellers, trades and auctions
carassessments.com.au is car buying software for dealers who source stock from private sellers, trade-ins and auctions. It brings sellers in from your website, prices the offer back from retail, tracks every car through a buy pipeline and pays the seller out with the financier handled first.
Offer calculatorcar
| Target retail | $28,400 |
| Less recon estimate | −$840 |
| Less holding cost, 21 days | −$390 |
| Less fees and transport | −$180 |
| Less target margin | −$2,500 |
| Most you should pay | $24,490 |
In the app
Offer
Most you should pay
| Exit price, retail | $28,400 |
| Recon, from the inspection | −$840 |
| Transport | −$180 |
| Holding cost, 21 days | −$390 |
| Your margin | −$2,500 |
| Max buy | $24,490 |
What the seller sees
Buying and offers in the app. Sample data.
Buying is where the profit is made, and it’s the least organised part of the yard
Private seller enquiries come in through the website, Facebook and the phone, and half of them are never followed up. Offers are made on gut feel, and nobody can say later why a car was lost.
Then the paperwork: checking the seller owns it, clearing finance, paying the right people in the right order. Get the PPSR step wrong once and the profit on a dozen cars is gone.
How it works
- 1
Bring sellers in
A “sell or consign your car” page and form on your website, plus sourcing alerts for target stock across marketplaces, feed the buy pipeline.
- 2
Offer the right number
Appraise, then let the offer calculator work back from target retail. Send the offer by SMS or email with e-sign acceptance and an expiry.
- 3
Pay out cleanly
PPSR is checked, the financier is paid first, the balance goes to the seller, and the car moves into stock with its cost recorded.
More private sellers, from your own website
The public “sell or consign your car” page embeds on your website. Sellers enter a rego, answer condition questions and upload photos, and the lead arrives with make, model and series already filled in.
- Embeddable on Webflow, WordPress or any site
- Rego or VIN lookup via Redbook or AutoGrab
- Sourcing alerts: saved searches for target stock across marketplaces
A buy pipeline that tells you why you lost
Every car moves across the board: new, appraised, offered, accepted, purchased, or lost with a reason. Side-by-side offers show the seller their net if you buy outright or consign, so you can win cars that would have gone to a trade-in.
- Offer by SMS or email, e-signed, with an expiry
- Buy outright vs consign on one offer
- Trade-ins handled inside sales deals with the same appraisal flow
Auction and wholesale buys with the fees counted
Enter cars bought at Manheim or Pickles with the buy fees captured, so the true cost of the car is right from day one and the profit figure at the end is real.
- Auction and wholesale buy entry
- Buy fees captured per car
- Profit by source: bought vs consigned vs trade-in vs auction
Payouts with the finance cleared first
The purchase contract and seller statement are e-signed, ID is matched to the registered owner, and PPSR is checked before payment and again on payment day. When there’s finance owing, the financier is paid first and the balance goes to the seller.
- PPSR gate before payment, re-run on payment day
- Payout split: lender, seller equity, negative equity, bank name check
- Pre-filled QLD transfer form (F3520) and remittance advice