Know how long each car has been on the lot and what it's costing you.

Paste the VIN and choose “Decode VIN”. The year, make, model, trim, body style, drivetrain, transmission and fuel type fill in from NHTSA's free VIN decoder.

Check them, add what you paid, the asking price and the mileage, and save. If a VIN can't be decoded, type the details in yourself. Motorvar won't save a second car with a VIN or stock number you already have.

A car is Acquired, In recon, Front-line ready, Pending sale or Sold, and Motorvar only offers the moves that make sense from where it is. While it's in recon, you set the stage it has reached, from Intake through Mechanical, Body/Paint and Detail/Prep to Ready.

Title status shows whether the title is in hand, sent or not received yet, along with how many days it has been since you bought the car. If a car has an open deal, closing that deal is what marks it sold.

Motorvar works out floor plan interest from what you paid and your rate, and adds a flat daily cost if you set one. Each car shows its holding cost so far, what it's costing you each day, its recon spend and its projected gross at today's asking price.

A car that has sat in the same status past your stuck threshold, 30 days unless you change it, is flagged in the list and on the Command Center. Only owners and managers see these figures, on the car's record and in the inventory list. Everyone else sees the asking price and the days in stock on the car's record.

A car can have up to 24 photos. Pick a set from your phone or open the camera, and each photo is resized on the phone and shows its own progress as it uploads. Reorder them and choose the main photo. They stay private to your team until you publish the car.

Apply your readiness checklist to a car and mark each item complete or N/A. New dealerships start with “Title in hand”, “Safety inspection”, “Reconditioning complete” and “Photos taken”, and each car shows how many required items are still open.

Owners and managers edit the checklist in Settings, and you can restore the starting items whenever you like.

The window sticker shows the asking price, VIN, stock number, mileage and color, plus the car's web address once it's published.

The Buyers Guide worksheet records whether the car is sold as is, with implied warranties only or with a dealer warranty, along with the warranty details, so you can copy them onto the official FTC form. It says plainly that it isn't the form itself.

Changes to a car are saved with the person who made them and the time, and a price change shows the old and new price. Owners and managers can export a car's history.

File the car's paperwork on its record as PDFs, photos or Word documents, up to 4 MB each.

Download the template or adapt your own sheet, and import up to 5,000 cars at once. Every row is checked before anything is saved, so one bad row means nothing is imported and you get a list of what to fix.

If an import was wrong, undo it. Before you confirm, Motorvar shows how many cars it will delete, archive or leave alone. Cars nobody has touched are deleted, cars your team has already worked on are archived with their history, and cars with a deal or a wholesale stay as they are.