Know the number before the hammer drops.
Line-by-line recon at your province's rates, engine codes read straight from the car, one suggested max bid.
Line-by-line recon at your province's rates, engine codes read straight from the car, one suggested max bid.
It looks clean on the block. Every truck does.
Each item is priced at your rates, in-house or send to shop.
The scanner reads the engine codes and checks whether someone cleared them on the way in.
Every part priced. One suggested max bid, before the hammer drops.
The BidSmarter scanner pairs to your phone over Bluetooth and reads stored, pending and permanent codes in one tap. Then it checks the odometer since the last reset, the warm-up cycles and the readiness monitors, and tells you when a seller has wiped the light.
Works with Chrome on Android, Windows and Mac. Any ELM327 Bluetooth LE adapter.
Start appraisingScan the OBD port, photograph the VIN, or type it. Year, make, model and engine fill themselves in.
Check off damage, paste the condition report, or drop in photos. Engine codes come with ranked causes and a price for each.
One suggested max bid, ready before the lot rolls through. Share it with the owner or save it to close out later.
Margin target What every deal needs to make | $X,XXX |
In-house labour Your tech, your time | $XXX / hr |
Send-to-shop labour The outside shop you actually use | $XXX / hr |
Auction fees Buy fee and transport, by house | Set per house |
Risk appetite How hard the buffers bite | Balanced |
| Cleared-code buffer | On |
Set your margin target, your labour rates, your auction fees and your risk appetite once. Every appraisal is worked from your settings, so the number holds up when the owner asks where it came from.
Rates are seeded from your province and tighten as your closed deals come back.
Not yet. Web Bluetooth is not available in Safari, so the scanner needs Chrome on Android, Windows or Mac. Everything else in BidSmarter works on iPhone.
All of them. Labour rates and parts pricing are seeded from your province when you sign up, and you can override any rate in Settings.
A Canadian recon database of parts and labour hours, priced at your shop rate or your in-house rate. As your closed deals come back with real costs, your estimates calibrate to your lot.
The scanner reads the permanent codes the ECU keeps even after a reset, the distance driven since the codes were cleared, the warm-up cycles and the readiness monitors. A fresh reset leaves a fingerprint. We show you the fingerprint and say plainly that a battery swap looks the same.
Any time, from the billing page. Packs are one-time purchases and the credits never expire.