📁 The Online Manila Folder · built by a 27-year car guy

Your deal jacket is costing you money every month.

Dealership Workflow finds and stops the profit leaks hiding between your CRM and DMS — duplicated office payroll, slow funding, paper costs, and cancellation money nobody collected.

$999/month per rooftop · Unlimited users · Month to month

Contracts in Transit

Live
Money on the street · sample data — yours updates live
$247,380
Waiting at the bank
4 deals
Aging past 7 days
Avg days to fund by lender
Ally
2.4
Capital One
3.8
Westlake
6.1
Credit Union
9.3
27.5 yrs
In the car business
25,000+
Deals worked personally
Still in it
Director of Operations today
Franchise + Indy
Rooftops running on it

Four places profit leaks out.

A dealer should understand the business case before the feature list. These are the four operating expenses Dealership Workflow attacks first.

You’re already paying for the problem.
The only question is whether you keep paying for it.

Run your own numbers.

Change the assumptions — the math updates live. Carry cost from funding days, the document spend you’d eliminate, and the product refunds slipping past accounting.

Carry is computed as amount financed × rate ÷ 365, per day, per deal. A planning estimate, not an accounting statement.

Estimated monthly leak
$822
≈ $9,864 a year
Carry at your inputs: ≈ $8.22 per unit, per day
01 · Optimize Personnel
Centralize your office
$75K–$150K+
per year, for every office seat you don't duplicate
  • Your largest controllable expense is duplicated payroll.
  • Stop rebuilding the same office at every rooftop.
  • One centralized team processes deals for the whole group.
  • Controllers, office staff, and F&I work any store's deals from anywhere.
  • Add rooftops without adding office seats.
"Month-end used to mean chasing paper across two rooftops. Now I close both stores from one screen — and I can see every dollar still sitting at the bank."Sable H. · Controller
Controller ~$119K (ZipRecruiter, 2026) · Office manager ~$73K (Salary.com) · F&I manager $150K+ (Finance Manager Training study)

Seats you stop duplicating

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Controller
One per group, not per store
~$119K/yr
🗂️
Office Manager
Centralized deal processing
~$73K/yr
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F&I Manager
One desk + assistant, multiple stores
$150K+/yr
Each seat you centralizecovers DWS for the group
02 · Optimize Process
Fund faster. Pay less floorplan interest.
$800/mo
saved by funding just 2 days faster — at 50 cars a month ($1,600 at 100)
  • Every unfunded contract is still costing you floorplan interest.
  • Catch missing stips before the deal ever reaches F&I.
  • See every unfunded dollar and how long it's been sitting.
  • Spot the slow lenders and the recurring bottlenecks.
  • Industry average is 14 days sale-to-money — the stragglers are why.
Basis: floorplan interest ≈ $8/day on a $40K unit at today's rates · Auto Dealer Today funding benchmarks · Dealertrack contract error & stip data

Contracts in Transit

Live
Money on the street · oldest first
⏱️
Chen · #C1180
Westlake · $31,240
12 days
⏱️
Booker · #A3907
Credit Union · $27,815
8 days
Diaz · #B2244
Ally · $24,660
2 days
What 2 extra funding days cost
50 cars a month≈ $800/mo
100 cars a month≈ $1,600/mo
Basis: floorplan interest — roughly $8/day on a $40K unit at today’s rates
03 · Optimize Paperwork
Eliminate document and vendor costs
~$95K/yr
what paper quietly costs a 100-deal-a-month store
  • Replace paper deal jackets, physical filing, and storage.
  • Cut printer contracts, toner, folders, and copies.
  • Kill overnight shipping on contract packages.
  • Cancel separate e-signature software and its overage fees.
  • Stop paying people to hunt for lost documents.
NADA: $20 labor to file one document · PwC: $120 to find a misfiled doc, $250 to reproduce · DocuSign published plan & overage pricing (2026)

Line items this deletes

E-signature software + overages$5–15K/yr
Paper, filing & document labor~$95K/yr
Overnight contract shippingevery package
Printer contracts & inkshrunk
Lost-document reproduction$250/doc
Platform cost, all-in$999/mo
04 · Optimize Product Recovery
Recover every cancellation dollar owed
Every dollar
tracked from the chargeback until accounting has the money
  • Track every repo, total loss, and unwind from day one.
  • Confirm the cancellation was actually filed with the product provider.
  • Follow the refund until accounting has the money.
  • Chargebacks reported by F&I manager — exportable straight to accounting.
"In 24 years in the box, I've watched stores eat thousands because the cancellation lived on a spreadsheet nobody updated. One recovered cancellation covers months of the platform."— William · Founder

Cancellations

Live
All F&I managersLast 30 days⬇ Export CSV
🔁
VSC · Turner #A2901
Repo · filed with provider
Pending
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GAP · Mora #C3348
Unwind · docs uploaded
Processing
GAP · Ellis #B1076
Total loss · refund posted
Completed
🔁
VSC · Nguyen #D4410
Repo · awaiting provider
Pending
The platform

Everything between your CRM and your DMS

Your CRM sells the car. Your DMS books it. Dealership Workflow runs everything in the middle — organized around the three jobs your store does every day.

CRMLeads, follow-up, the sale
Dealership WorkflowDeal jacket · documents · signatures · checklists · funding · title · recovery
DMSBooking, accounting, reporting

Work the deal

Sold to signed, nothing missed
Digital Deal JacketsEvery deal searchable in seconds — no more "where’s the jacket?"
Mobile Scanning + AIScan from the lot; AI reads the docs so nobody retypes them
Role ChecklistsSales, finance, office — each role's list, built your way
Issue Tags"Waiting on Stips," "Trade Title Problem" — flag it, filter it

Paper the deal

Documents done digitally — by your team and your customer
Customer Uploads & Pre-SigningOne link: license, insurance, and stips uploaded — and docs signed — before they ever walk in
Get Docs SignedCustomer signs from their phone; audit certificate attached
Finance MenuBuild it, present it, text or email it — every presentation logged
PDF ToolsMerge, split, annotate, compress — right in the platform
Review RequestsAutomatic Google review ask after signing — set and forget

Watch the money

Funded, titled, recovered
Contracts in TransitEvery unfunded dollar, aging clocks, lender scorecard
Title TrackerState-aware countdowns so a 30-day rule never becomes a penalty
CancellationsChargebacks tracked until your money's actually back
Recap ReportsGross, penetration, per-manager numbers across the group
Every deal wears its status — at a glance, from anywhere
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Nguyen · #D4410
2024 Silverado LT
Deposit
Whitfield · #A3310
2023 CR-V EX
Ready for Finance
✍️
Ramirez · #B2209
2024 Equinox
Signed, Not Funded
💰
Johnson · #A4172
2023 F-150 XLT
Funded
🏢
Booker · #C1180
2022 Camry SE
Ready for Office
The last dinosaur

Your store went digital everywhere.
Except the deal jacket.

CRM, DMS, desking, credit apps — all software. But the deal itself? Still a $40,000 folder walking your showroom.

📠

The fax machine

You retired this one years ago.

📁

The manila folder

Its cousin. Still running your deals.

Dealership Workflow is the online manila folder.Same jacket, same job — except it can’t walk off, can’t get lost, and everyone who needs it has it at the same time.
From the stores

People actually use it

"I don’t walk the building looking for jackets anymore. I open my phone and I know where every deal in the store stands."

Danny W. · General Manager

"Deals hit my office clean. The stips are caught on the sales side before I ever print a contract — that alone changed my funding."

Larry V.Finance Director

"It's the first system my salespeople actually use. Scan it, tag it, done — nothing gets lost between the desk and finance."

Marissa M.Sales Manager

"I send the customer one link and their license, insurance, and stips are uploaded — even signed — before they walk in. The deal's half done from their kitchen table."

Sofia R.Sales
Security & compliance

Built for the FTC Safeguards era

The Safeguards Rule requires dealerships to protect customer data. We give you the tools auditors want to see — the ones a filing cabinet never could.

Immutable audit logs

Every action logged — who did what, when. Can't be edited or deleted.

Encrypted storage

Documents encrypted at rest and in transit. Private storage, expiring access links.

User accountability

Know exactly who touched which deal and when they touched it.

Device verification

Email codes plus device trust — unrecognized devices don't get in.

We’re not lawyers and can’t certify your compliance. But we give you the tools auditors want to see.

DW
Who built this

Built by someone who’s still in the building

"27 and a half years in the car business, 24 in finance, over 25,000 turns taken. I didn’t retire from the store to go sell software — I’m a Director of Operations today, running dealerships on this platform every day. This isn’t Silicon Valley software designed by people who’ve never worked a deal. It’s built by someone doing your job, for people doing your job."
— William, Founder27-year car guy · Director of Operations
Pricing

Simple, transparent pricing

No mystery quote. No per-user fees. No long-term contracts. One complete platform per rooftop.

Complete platform

Dealership Workflow

$999
per month, per rooftop
  • Unlimited users
  • Digital deal jackets & mobile scanning
  • Customer uploads & pre-arrival signing
  • Get Docs Signed — digital signing included
  • Contracts in Transit & Title Tracker
  • Finance Menu builder & delivery
  • Cancellations & chargeback tracking
  • Group accounts — one office, every store
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One avoided chargeback, one faster-funded deal, or a fraction of one duplicated office seat covers the month. Month to month — your data stays yours.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Four ways, stacking: a centralized office seat is $75K–$150K+/year, two extra funding days cost a 100-car store about $1,600 a month in carry, deleting paper and signing software is tens of thousands more, and recovered cancellations are pure money back. Any one of the four covers the bill.

No. Your DMS books deals and runs accounting — it stays. Dealership Workflow runs everything your DMS doesn’t: the working deal, documents, signatures, checklists, funding visibility, titlework, and cancellations.

Keep it. Your CRM manages leads and follow-up. We pick up the moment the deal is sold and the paper starts flying.

Group accounts put every rooftop in one login. Office staff switch between stores instantly, see every deal’s status live, and work the checklist from anywhere — because the jacket is digital, nobody has to be in the building where the paper is.

It was built by someone who’s managed dealership teams for over two decades — which means it assumes people are busy and skip steps. Checklists, statuses, and visibility do the enforcing so a manager doesn’t have to.

Documents are encrypted at rest and in transit in private storage with expiring access links. Every action writes to an immutable audit log, and device verification keeps unrecognized devices out.

Ask AI about us

Instant answers on pricing, features, FTC compliance, and whether we’re a fit for your store.

Run every deal — and every rooftop — from one office.

30 minutes, live with the founder — a 27-year car guy who’s worked 25,000 deals, not a sales rep reading a script. Bring your controller.

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Pick a time that works — no contract, no pressure. If the math doesn’t work for your store, I’ll tell you.
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