Get paid without the phone calls.
Send a buy-here-pay-here customer a link and they pay by card or bank account from their phone. The money goes straight to your own Stripe account, and the payment is recorded on the account for you.
- A pay link by email or text-ready copy, per account
- Card and bank (ACH) payments
- Money goes to your Stripe account, not ours
- Autopay: customers opt in and the due amount is charged on time
- Failed payments retried, then paused, with a heads-up before each charge
- Every fee shown before you turn it on
A link instead of a trip to the lot
Each account has its own secure pay link. Email it, copy it, or revoke it with one tap and make a new one. The customer picks card or bank account, pays, and the payment lands on the right account, applied to the oldest amount due first.
- Nothing to install for the customer
- Payments recorded automatically, with a receipt
- Refunds and disputes are noted on the account
Autopay for the customers who'd rather not think about it
A customer can opt in to autopay from their pay page. On each due date the amount is charged to their saved card or bank account. If one fails it's tried again, and after repeated failures autopay pauses and you're told. Customers get a heads-up three days before a charge.
- The customer can stop it any time
- You can stop it from the account page
- Fewer late payments, fewer calls
Fees in plain sight
The customer pays nothing extra. The card or bank processing fee and the Car Central fee come out of the payment, and Settings shows exactly what each costs before you connect. Founding dealers pay a lower Car Central fee during their free period.
- Car Central fee: $1.75 per payment, $1.00 for founding dealers
- The processing fee is Stripe's standard rate, shown in Settings
- Connect a new Stripe account or link one you already have
Questions
About online payments & autopay
Where does the money go?
Straight to your own Stripe account, and Stripe pays it out to your bank on its normal schedule. Car Central doesn't hold your customers' money.
Do customers pay a fee?
No. Fees come out of the payment on your side, and Settings shows them before you turn payments on.
Do I have to use it?
No. Recording cash, checks and other payments by hand works exactly as before.
Do I need a Stripe account?
Yes. You can create one from Settings in a few minutes, or link the one you already have.