Free Acquisition Calculators for Car Dealerships

Days supply tells you the size of the problem. It answers whether you are carrying too much, too little, or the right amount for the pace your floor is actually selling at. Most stores track it, or a version of it, and most track it badly because they use last month instead of a trailing window.

Auction cost tells you what your default solution charges you. The hammer price is the number you remember, but it is not the number you pay. Buyer fees, transport, the extra recon an unknown unit needs, and the floorplan days while it sits in the shop all stack on top. Most stores feel this cost without ever measuring it.

Max offer tells you what you can do about it on a specific vehicle. It is the only one of the three that governs an individual transaction. Days supply is a plan, auction cost is a channel average, but the max offer is the number that decides whether this car, at this price, makes gross or eats it. It is where money is actually made or lost.

They do not value your vehicle. They do not price your market. They do not tell you which cars to stock. They are arithmetic on numbers you supply, and they stop there on purpose.

A ceiling built on an optimistic retail estimate is not a ceiling. An auction cost built on a guessed recon premium is not your real cost. Every output here is only as good as the recon figure and the turn time you entered. The tools show the working under every number so you can audit the math yourself, but the inputs are yours to get right.

We sell a trade-in acquisition tool. These calculators are not it. They exist because the dealers who think carefully about acquisition cost are the ones our product makes sense for, and because a calculator that demands your email before showing your own arithmetic back to you is not a calculator.