For independent used-car dealers

VIN to live listing in about five minutes.

Scan the VIN from the windshield or door jamb. Follow the guided photo slots, review the price, and tap publish. Your listing appears on your website with a printable QR window sticker in about five minutes. AI checks photo quality, writes a sales-oriented opening, and adds a separate line of verified facts. You control every photo and every word.

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The 2-minute pitch — a real car, a real run, live on a real website.

Running a lot the old way
Lot photo service (20 cars)$300–400
Vehicle-history providerSeparate
Appraisal tool$49–65
Website rental$49–99
Several tools and loginsVariable
…and 12–21 days before a car even hits the web.
Running it on SaneLot
Guided photos + AI checksincluded
Market pricing + appraisalsincluded
Feeds + QR stickersincluded
Your website + leadsincluded
Every month$99.99 flat
…and the car is live before lunch.
The app up close

One phone runs the whole lot.

See the decoded, VIN-verified vehicle record before you create the listing.

SaneLot app showing a decoded, VIN-verified 2019 Audi Q7 spec sheet

Ready to see the result? Open the live demo lot → or request early access.

Your lot work is scattered
across too many tools.
Put the listing loop in your pocket.

SaneLot combines guided photos, market and sold-history comps, fact-checked listing copy, inventory feeds, a dealer website, and leads in one iPhone and iPad workflow for $99.99 flat. NHTSA recalls and odometer screening are included. CARFAX, accounting, and DMS functions remain in the systems you already use.

THE DIY TRAP

Doing it by hand doesn't scale

Twenty browser tabs to price one trade-in. A third-party photographer may not visit the lot for several days. Sold cars can remain on your website and keep generating calls.

On SaneLot: scan the VIN, follow the guided photos, and publish in about five minutes. The description opens with sales language and keeps the verified facts on a separate line. Mark the car sold and it leaves your site immediately.

THE SUITE TRAP

The big tools weren't built for you

Enterprise scope, sales calls, and modules that make a small lot pay for workflows it does not use.

On SaneLot: one $99.99 price published right here, month to month, with a standard CSV inventory feed.

SaneLot is not a DMS, on purpose. Your deal jackets, lender submissions, title work, CARFAX, and accounting stay where they are. SaneLot provides inventory feeds, but direct DealerCenter, Frazer, and QuickBooks sync is not shipped today.

One app. The whole loop.

Four steps from trade-in to live listing, then the app keeps working after the customer drives off.

01

Scan

Scan the VIN off the windshield or door jamb. Specs decode in seconds, check digit verified, recalls pulled from federal records.

02

Shoot

The app shows each required photo slot while you walk around the car. AI checks image quality and suggests the best slot, and you can correct it before publishing.

03

Price

See where your number sits against real market comps before you commit. You stay the appraiser.

04

Publish

Website, QR window sticker, and marketplace feed — all live from one tap, all updated the moment anything changes.

SaneBrain

Every car shows its days on lot, accumulated holding cost, and market position. Reprice in one tap — it updates everywhere. Mark it sold and it's off your site that second.

Leads on your phone

"Ask about this car," financing pre-qual (no SSN), trade-in, and vehicle-finder forms all land in the app, each with an AI-drafted reply ready to send. The 9pm lot browser becomes a 9:01pm conversation.

The scam shield

Appraising at auction? Set your max bid, and the same scan checks NHTSA recalls and runs an odometer-vs-age screen before you raise a hand. A warning is a reason to investigate, not proof of rollback or a substitute for a vehicle-history report.

Switch in an afternoon

Point SaneLot at your current website and your inventory walks over — photos moved, specs re-decoded fresh from each VIN, sold cars left behind. Descriptions are rewritten through the honesty gate, never copied. No re-keying.

The AI drafts the listing.
The facts still have to pass.

Every AI draft passes the honesty gate before you ever see it.

  • Any number that isn't in your entered facts kills its sentence — automatically, no AI judgment involved.
  • "One owner," "clean title," and "no accidents" are locked until independent title records confirm them. Your own checkbox isn't enough — because buyers deserve evidence, not hearsay.
  • A second AI's only job is doubting the first. If a fully fact-checked draft can't be produced, it refuses and tells you to write it by hand.
  • You edit every word before anything publishes. You're the editor; it's the intern who types fast.

Buyers see the proof too: every published listing carries a SaneLot Verified panel — VIN authenticated, odometer screened, recalls disclosed in plain English. Your listings carry evidence the big portals don't.

How SaneLot compares.

The honest version: the patchwork stack works if you have the patience, and the enterprise suites are excellent at 500 cars. SaneLot exists for the lot running 15–80 cars that neither was built for.

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SaneLot
The patchwork stack
Enterprise suites
Cost every month
$99.99 flat for SaneLot — published right here
Several separate photo, site, and appraisal bills
Varies by store size and modules
Commitment
Monthly through Apple
Several separate bills and logins
Confirm current contract terms
VIN to live listing
About five minutes with one app and one person
Several days when a photographer must be scheduled
Fast, but built for 500-car stores
Photos
Guided walkaround, AI checks every shot
Lot service $15–20/car, their schedule
Studio add-ons, per car
Pricing & appraisal
Market comps + max-bid appraisals, included
$49–115/mo (Carbly, Laser Appraiser)
$1,000–5,000/mo — vAuto has no small-dealer tier
Listing copy
Fact-checked by the honesty gate — or it refuses to write
You, at 9pm, in twenty tabs
Generative AI — nobody checks the claims
Recall + odometer screening
NHTSA recalls and odometer screen included
Manual checks or separate tools
Varies by module
Website + leads
Included — leads land in your app
Usually a separate service
Varies by package
Switching in
We import your old website — cars, photos, specs
Re-key everything by hand
Sales-led onboarding
Deal jackets, lender submission, accounting
Not included — keep your DMS; CSV feed available, direct sync not yet shipped
Your DMS handles this
Core suite territory

SaneLot does not include CARFAX, accounting, lender submission, or direct DMS synchronization. Competitor offerings change; confirm current scope and pricing with each vendor.

Honest breakdowns: SaneLot vs vAuto, Carbly, DealerCenter & doing it by hand →

One plan. Flat price.
Everything included.

No tiers, no quote-only games, no gag clauses, no annual contracts. Fourteen-day free trial, then one flat price with the whole app inside it.

SaneLot
$99.99/mo
  • Unlimited listings
  • VIN scan, decode, recall + odometer checks
  • AI photo checks + fact-checked writeups
  • Market pricing + SaneBrain repricing
  • Your website, leads to your phone
  • QR window stickers + marketplace feeds

14-day free trial · cancel anytime · no contract · no per-car fees

The Sane promise.

SaneLot is part of the SaneApps family — software built to serve the person using it.

🔒 Your inventory is yours — a standard CSV feed stays available
📱 Cancel from your iPhone — no call, no certified letter, no "quarterly review"
🚫 No analytics, no tracking, no reselling your leads
🛠 Direct line to the builder, not a call center