The calculators we built for our own lot first. No signup, no rate limits, no email required. Bookmark the result URLs — your numbers stay in the link.
Pick your state, paste a VIN, add the buyer and price — and watch the title/registration application fill itself. 50 states, from Texas 130-U to Florida HSMV 82040.
One car a day: three guesses at its wholesale value, three at retail, with higher/lower arrows after each miss. Then see the comps behind the answer.
Paste any 17-character VIN. Decode year, make, model, trim, engine, transmission, GVWR, safety features — instantly, from NHTSA.
What's your real take-home per car? Plug in cost, recon, holding days, sale price, and F&I — see front gross, holding cost, total gross, and margin %.
How many cars a month must your lot sell to cover overhead? Enter your fixed costs and average gross per car — get your break-even volume, the number to hit a profit target, and your profit at any volume.
How much does it really cost to open a used-car lot? Add up the license and bond, inventory, the lot, insurance, software, and the working capital most checklists forget — for your plan, not a generic average.
The car's cheap in the lane — but is it still cheap after the fee, transport, recon, and days it sits? Get your net margin, break-even resale, and the max bid that still hits your target.
Buying salvage to rebuild? Start from clean-title comps minus the brand discount, add parts, labor, inspection fees, and the months it ties up your cash, and see the profit and the most you can bid.
Pick your state and credit tier — see license fee, surety bond premium, application fees, and what Year 1 vs ongoing actually run. 10 states seeded.
What is floor planning actually costing you per car? Daily interest + origination and monthly fees, plus a cost-by-days-held curve at 30/45/60/90/120.
Before you authorize the work: does the reconditioning pay back? Enter recon cost, the retail value it adds, and shop days — get net gain, ROI, and a verdict.
Paste one car page from your website. See its mobile speed against Google's published thresholds, plus whether Google can find it and shoppers can reach you.
What is a car really costing you per day it sits? All-in holding cost — floor-plan interest + depreciation + overhead — and how fast it eats your front-end gross.
Dump an aging unit at auction now or retail it? Compare the two nets — retail after recon and holding — and see the break-even day where wholesale wins.
Enter your average stock and monthly sales to get your annual turn rate and days' supply — plus what the same inventory dollars could make at a faster turn.
Structure an in-house note: enter price, down, rate, term, and weekly / bi-weekly / monthly to get the payment, total interest, payoff, and what it collects per month.
Quote a payoff on an in-house note: enter the amount financed, rate, payment, and payments made to get the current balance, per-diem interest, and a payoff good through a date.
Size the down on an in-house note: enter your cost in the car and the down to see how much cash is still on the street, how many payments until you recover it, and whether the payment is affordable.
The real number that closes a deal: sale price + tax on the right base + doc, title and registration, minus the trade and down — plus the monthly payment if they finance.
Buyers shop the payment, not the price. Work backward from the monthly number they can hit — with rate, term, down, and trade — to the highest vehicle price you can structure.
Enter your monthly ad spend, leads, closing rate, and gross to get cost per lead, cost per car sold, your real ROI, and the units the spend must produce to break even.
Enter the deal's gross, your commission rate, the pack, and the mini to see the salesperson's commission — and what's left for the house.
Enter your units by age and get a letter grade against turn benchmarks, plus what your aged inventory is quietly costing you every month.
Yes — all four are free to use with no signup, no account and no trial. They run in the browser and you can use them as often as you like, whether or not you ever become a DealerVLO customer.
No. Nothing here is gated. They're the same calculations our dealer management software runs internally, pulled out onto the public web because every independent dealer should be able to run these numbers.
Paste any 17-character VIN and it returns the year, make, model, trim, body type, engine, transmission and other build details from the NHTSA vehicle database. It's the same lookup that auto-fills the inventory form inside DealerVLO.
Front-end gross is your selling price minus what the vehicle actually cost you — acquisition plus reconditioning plus any transport. Holding cost then eats into it for every day the unit sits. The profit margin calculator does that math, and the floor plan calculator shows what the interest adds over a given number of days.
It varies widely by state, because the surety bond requirement ranges from roughly $10,000 to $100,000 and you pay only an annual premium on it rather than the face value. The dealer license cost calculator estimates your first-year total by state, and links to our full guide for that state where one exists.
Yes. Each tool encodes its inputs in the URL, so you can copy the address bar and send a specific calculation to a partner, an accountant or another dealer and they'll see exactly what you saw.
We pulled the math out of our DMS and put it on the public web because every independent dealer should be able to run these numbers — not just paying customers. If the standalone tools are useful, the full app does it automatically for every unit and every deal.
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