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For dealers, brokers & exporters at US auto auctions

Every bid. Every fee. Every client. One key. 

Auction Key runs your whole auction operation — VIN intelligence, a real ERP, controlled access to Copart, IAA & Manheim for your buyers, and an app your clients open instead of calling you. Ten dollars a car — the ERP and the Access app included.

Get your keyFollow a car through ↓

$10 flat per carUnlimited users & clientsSession recording & replay

The problem

You're not running a business. You're chasing one.

Buy enough cars and the chaos compounds: an Excel sheet for inventory, a WhatsApp group per client, one Copart login on a sticky note that eleven people share. Then a storage fee slips past. A client swears he never approved a bid. Nobody remembers whose deposit covered lot 41377.

The margin doesn't vanish at the auction — it leaks on the way home.

There's a better way to hold the keys.

How it works

Follow one car through Auction Key.

This is lot 58214093 — a 2019 Camry SE with front-end damage, rolling across the block in Dallas. Here’s everything that happens between “interesting VIN” and “paid invoice” when Auction Key does the paperwork.

VIN 4T1B11HK5KU212345 · LOT 58214093 · 2019 CAMRY SE

01

Research

Know the car before you raise a hand.

Paste a VIN into the desktop app and get the car’s whole life story in seconds — title history, damage records, past auction runs, repair math and a suggested max bid. No more twelve tabs and a prayer. You walk into the auction already knowing your ceiling.

Auction Key — VIN Intelligencedesktop app
4T1B11HK5KU212345

2019 Toyota Camry SE

2.5L I4 · FWD · 41,203 mi (last reported)

Runs & drivesFront-end damageAirbags intact

Title history

  • 2019 Clean title issued — TX
  • 2025 Accident reported — front impact
  • 2026 Salvage certificate — FL

Auction history

DateYardLotResultHigh bid
07/18/26Dallas, TX58214093● On sale—
03/02/26Ft. Worth, TX51102387No sale$8,100

02

The bid

Your buyers bid. You see everything.

Your team opens Auction Key Access — a managed browser for the real Copart, IAA and Manheim, live, not an hour-old copy. Every buyer gets their own login and their own limit. Amir can spend $15,000; the new guy can’t bid a dollar without approval. Every search, click and bid is recorded. Nobody shares a password ever again.

Buyers bid from their phone, too — Access is live on the App Store ↗

Auction Key — Accessaccess.auctionkey.app/copartREC
CopartIAAManheim+live auction site — not a mirror

2019 Toyota Camry SE

Lot 58214093 · Dallas, TX · Lane A — Item 42

● Sale live

Current bid

$9,150

Closing in

00:43

Your max

$9,400

03

The books

Won at 9:41. In your books at 9:41.

The moment the gavel drops, the car exists in your ERP — buyer fee, gate fee, virtual bid fee itemized, towing and ocean freight estimated, photos attached, and the client already linked, because Auction Key knows who asked for this car. Your real margin is on screen before the Camry leaves the lot.

Auction Key — ERPapp.auctionkey.app

Cars / Lot 58214093

2019 Toyota Camry SE

At yard — DallasClient: Al Noor Motors

Landed cost

$11,859

Client price

$13,500

Projected margin

+$1,641

Days in pipeline

6

Cost breakdown — auto-captured

Winning bid$9,400
Buyer fee$745
Gate fee$95
Virtual bid fee$119
Tow — Dallas → Houston$350
Ocean — HOU → Jebel Ali$1,150
Total landed$11,859

Client ledger

Al Noor Motors · Dubai, AE

Owes you$8,859
✓ Jul 14 Deposit received — $3,000

Cars bought — last 12 months

31

04

The client

Your client stops calling. He starts watching.

Your client opens Auction Key Access — the same app your buyers bid from — and sees his Camry: photos from the yard, the itemized invoice, the balance, the shipping timeline. He pays, the ledger updates itself, and you spend the afternoon buying cars instead of answering “any update?”

AUCTION KEY

client account · Al Noor Motors

Marhaba, Khalid — 3 cars in motion

2019 Camry SE

LOT 58214093
  1. Won
  2. At yard
  3. Loading
  4. Sailed

Balance due

$8,859

2020 Accord Sport

Paid ✓

Sailed — ETA Jebel Ali · Aug 02

That was one car. Zero spreadsheets.

Now multiply by every car you’ll buy this year — everything after the VIN check cost you ten dollars flat, for car number one and for car number four hundred.

The toolkit

Three apps. One operation. Two flat prices.

Other platforms sell you a bid tracker and call it a day. Auction Key runs the whole brokerage — research, bidding, books and clients. The operation is ten dollars a car; the research app, a flat fifty a month.

01 — Desktop app · $50/mo

VIN Intelligence

The full biography of any car, before you bid on it.

  • Title, damage & odometer history
  • Past auction runs with high bids
  • Repair math + suggested max bid

02 — Web app

The ERP

Cars, fees, clients, money — one ledger that never forgets.

  • Every car with its full landed-cost stack
  • Client ledgers — who owes you, what you owe
  • Invoices, receipts & payment tracking
  • Titles, documents & photos attached to the car

03 — Managed browser · iOS

Auction Key Access

Your auction accounts, handed out as keys — not passwords.

  • The real Copart, IAA & Manheim — live, not a mirror
  • A personal login per buyer, on your accounts
  • Bid limits and approval flows per user
  • Full session recording & replay
  • Your clients follow their cars & pay in the same app
  • Revoke anyone in one click
Live on the App Store ↗

Accountability

Every click, on the record.

The scariest sentence in this business is “I never bid on that car.” On Auction Key it isn’t an argument — it’s a timestamp. Read the log, press play on the session, settle it in a minute.

And because access is a key you grant, not a password you share, the day someone leaves you revoke their key — and nothing else changes.

  • 100%of actions logged
  • Replayany session, any user
  • 1 clickto revoke access
Session replay — amir@alnoor · Jul 18LIVE LOG
12:38

10:02:14amir@alnoorsearched “corolla 2021 clean title”

10:02:41amir@alnooropened lot 44120993

10:03:05amir@alnoorset max bid $11,250 — within $15,000 limit ✓

10:03:22sara@alnoorbid $12,900 BLOCKED — over limit, approval requested

10:03:29youapproved sara’s bid — $12,900 ✓

10:04:02yourevoked access — rami@field (left the company)

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Pricing

Ten dollars a car, one add-on. That’s the whole pricing page.

No seats, no setup fee, no “premium module”. Buy a car, pay ten dollars, run the whole operation. Don’t buy cars this month? The plan costs nothing this month.

Per car you win

$10flat

  • Full ERP — cars, fees, clients, billing
  • Auction Key Access with session recording
  • Clients follow their cars & pay in the same app
  • Unlimited users, clients & auction accounts
  • Migration done for you, support that answers
Get your key

Buying 50+ cars a month? Ask about volume rates.

The one add-on

VIN Intelligence — $50/month flat. The research desktop app: full history, past auction runs, repair math and a suggested max bid. First ten reports on us.

“One caught storage fee pays for the car.
One blocked rogue bid pays for your year.”

30 cars/mo × $10 = $300 — less than one late-fee surprise

Auction KeyTypical bid platformsSpreadsheets + WhatsApp
Price$10 per car, flatUp to $15 per car — or “contact sales”Free, until one missed fee isn’t
ERP for cars, fees & clientsIncludedAn invoice generator, if thatYou are the ERP
Client mobile appAuction Key Access — cars, invoices & paymentsA bid tracker with someone else’s nameYou, texting photos at midnight
Buyer access to auctionsReal live sites, recorded sessionsMirror apps refreshed hourly, access codesOne password, eleven people
VIN history reports$50/mo add-on — never per reportBring your own, pay per reportPray
Getting startedThis week — we migrate youBook a demo call and waitAlready suffering

Based on public pricing and docs of leading bid-management platforms, July 2026. Bring us any competitor quote — we’ll walk through the math with you.

Questions

Asked by every broker we talk to.

Straight answers. If yours isn’t here, message us — a human replies, usually within the hour.

How does auction access actually work?

You connect your own licensed Copart, IAA and Manheim accounts — the relationships stay yours. Auction Key wraps them in access control: each buyer gets a personal login to a managed browser showing the real, live auction site. You set bid limits and approval rules per user, every action is recorded, and you can revoke any key instantly. No shared passwords, ever.

Is $10 per car really everything?

Almost — ten dollars covers the whole operation: the ERP, Auction Key Access — your buyers bid with it, your clients follow their cars and pay in it — session recording, unlimited users and clients, migration and support. The one exception is VIN Intelligence: the research app is a separate flat $50 a month, because you run reports on plenty of cars you never buy. You still pay the $10 only when you win a car — nothing in months you don’t buy.

Which auctions are supported?

Copart and IAA fully, Manheim included, and we add auction platforms on request — if your business runs through a lane we don’t cover yet, tell us and we’ll build the connector.

My clients aren’t technical. Will they use the app?

The client app does three things: shows their cars with photos, shows what they owe, and lets them pay. If they can use WhatsApp, they can use this — it’s the same Auction Key Access app your buyers bid from, so there’s one app to install and nothing extra to explain.

I already run on spreadsheets or another platform. How painful is switching?

We do the migration for you — cars, clients, balances, history. Most operations are fully moved in a day or two, and you can export everything back out at any time. Your data is yours; that’s a promise, not a setting.

What happens when a client disputes a bid?

You open the session replay. Every search, click and bid is timestamped against a named user with the limit that applied at that moment. Disputes that used to take a week of screenshots end in one minute of playback.

Is this compatible with the auctions’ rules?

You bid through your own licensed accounts — Auction Key adds oversight the auctions don’t provide: named users, limits, approvals and audit logs. We’re independent software, not affiliated with any auction house, and we’re glad to walk your compliance questions through in detail before you commit.

Get your key.

Tell us your monthly volume and we’ll have you running this week — data migrated, buyers onboarded, your first ten VIN reports on us.

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