Your auction run lists checked overnight, with Carfax, AutoCheck and MMR on every car, and a clean watch list waiting when you reach the office.
“I walk into the office at 6 AM and the work is already done. Every auction has been gone through, the marketplaces are checked, and my watch list is sitting there with notes and max bids — I just sit down and start buying. When we started, we had 10 to 15 cars in inventory. Today we run 150 to 200 cars as a wholesaler. It changed how we run the business, and I'm happy with it every single day.” — Ricky, Major Auto Sales, New York, USA
Read the Major Auto Sales case study
You give me your buying rules. I search, filter, research and rank cars across the auctions and marketplaces you use, on your own accounts, so you can focus on buying.
I build a browser extension for your desk that scans the car automatically and shows real-time data on the same screen — an Autoniq-style panel built around your margin, from $50 to $100 a month with no setup fee.
OPENLANE, eBay Motors, Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist, GSA Auctions, GovDeals, Public Surplus, police and municipal auctions, off-lease and lease-return sales, captive, bank, repo and fleet portals.
I design software around how your business buys and sells: the accounts you already pay for connected into one dashboard, your rules built in, and your team working from the same list.
Yes — that is one of the main things I build. A custom browser extension reads the VIN straight off the auction or marketplace page, pulls Manheim MMR, Carfax, AutoCheck and book values through your own accounts, and shows them in one panel on the same screen, with your recon and margin maths ending on a max bid. No copying the VIN, no opening five tabs, no coming back to the car page. It works on Manheim, ADESA, ACV, OPENLANE and the private portals you buy on, and it costs $50 to $100 a month with no setup fee.
OPENLANE, Facebook Marketplace, eBay Motors, Craigslist and private-party listings, plus government sales like GSA Auctions, GovDeals, Public Surplus and police or municipal auctions, and the off-lease, lease-return, fleet and repo sales you have access to. Each one is checked daily against your buy box, and only new matches reach you — ranked by margin in a morning email, with instant alerts for fast-moving private-party cars.
Yes. Custom dealer software puts the subscriptions you already pay for to work together: cars from every source in one dashboard, history, MMR and book values pulled per VIN automatically, your buying rules applied, and bought cars handed to your DMS. It is built in stages at a fixed price each, and you own the code.
Because it runs overnight and it does not get tired. The run list itself is read in minutes. Your filters then remove most of the sale before anything expensive happens — on a typical five-thousand-lot sale that is around two thirds gone. Only what survives gets the per-VIN lookups, and those run through the night at a rate that does not hammer your accounts. By 6 AM the work your buyer could not finish in two hours is done.
Whatever you actually buy on, because it is configuration rather than a fixed feature list. Year bands, mileage ceilings that differ by make, a condition-grade floor, clean-title-only or specific brands you will accept, announced frame or odometer flags, accident and owner ceilings from the history report, a recon estimate ceiling at your own rates, a minimum margin against MMR, specific makes, models and trims, lane, location and transport distance. You tell me the rule in plain English and it applies from the next sale — no revision fee, no logging into anything.
Yes, one per car, in the format your desk already reads: title and owner count, what the history report said, the MMR and its range, the grade and whether frame was announced, the recon estimate, and then the maximum bid that still holds your margin. Written the same way every time, which also means that when a car turns out badly the note says what was known before the bid.
Yes, on any platform that has a watch list, using your own logged-in account. That is the version most dealers want — your buyer logs in and the cars are already flagged, rather than having a spreadsheet to work from. You get the ranked email or Google Sheet as the readable copy alongside it.
Overnight auction triage is $500 a month per auction site, covering every sale on that site Monday to Friday — three sales a day is fifteen a week, all included, with no per-car charge. The custom extension that shows MMR, Carfax and AutoCheck on the car page is $50 to $100 a month with no setup fee. A one-off pull of a single sale is $150, credited to your first month. Marketplace monitoring and custom software are quoted at a fixed price within 24 hours.
That is the normal way in. Tell me the auction and what a good car looks like to you, and I will triage one real upcoming sale and send you the watch list it produces. If the calls look wrong, we fix the rules then — before you have committed to anything. That trial run is the $150 one-off pull, credited to your first month if you go ahead.
Almost certainly, and this is the most common reason a dealer wrongly assumes this is not for them. Manheim, ADESA and ACV are the platforms that get written about, but most of the trade buys on something nobody outside their region has heard of — a closed dealer-only marketplace, a regional auction's own site, a lender's repo portal, an in-house system with a listings module bolted on. The mechanics do not change with the logo, and an obscure portal is usually easier because nobody has ever bothered to defend it. Send me the name and a screenshot or two of the screens your buyer uses and you will have a straight answer within a day — including if the answer is that it is not worth doing.
Yes. Everything runs through the accounts you already hold and are licensed to use — your auction logins, your Carfax, your AutoCheck, your Manheim access. I do not resell auction data, share credentials between clients, or create access you do not have. If you are not subscribed to something, no tool of mine or anyone else's can conjure it, and I will say so before you pay rather than after.
No, and I will not build that. Most auction platforms prohibit automated bidding outright, and the failure mode of a bug in a bidding bot is that you own a car nobody chose. The system finds, checks, annotates and ranks. Your buyer bids.
A scraping tool hands you raw rows and leaves the car decisions to you; an agency builds whatever is asked and does not know what a grade 3.1 or an announced frame means. AutoSmartCode works only for the car trade. It is not a data reseller — nothing is sold to you, everything runs on the auction and report accounts you already hold. It is not a bidding bot — it finds, checks and ranks, and your buyer bids. And it is not an agency — the developer who builds your system is the one who answers your messages and gets the alert when an auction site changes.
It will break eventually — every scraper does, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something. The difference is that you hear about it from an alert the same morning rather than from three quiet days of an empty watch list. Fixes on systems I built are covered by the monthly, not quoted as a new project.
Most triage builds are live in 3 to 7 days; extensions take 5 to 10 depending on how many portals and report sources are involved. You see output from your real buy box in the first couple of days, so any disagreement about what counts as a good car gets settled before the full build.
Me. AutoSmartCode is one developer, not an agency — the person who writes your code is the person who answers your emails, and already knows what MMR, a grade 3.1 and an announced frame mean. No account managers, no handoffs, no sales rep in between.