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Vendor payments per car sold?

There are vendors who charge a monthly fee based on size of dealership, users, licenses, etc. What are your thoughts basing the monthly fee on cars sold? If you are selling under 50 cars a month, one price, 50-80 another, 80-120, etc. Would you feel better if you got a better deal because you were a smaller store but that if you sold more cars your price would go up? Just thinking aloud.
 
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Thanks Joe! Our software allows dealerships to get more appointments from the organic leads that are arriving to their website by using high-touch interaction. Great suggestion for charging for appointments that show- maybe even put a time limit on how soon after they interact in order to solve the responsibility question (ie if the lead shows up within 2 weeks of a dealership using our system to interact with them then its our appointment).

How do you see the dynamic playing out with such pricing?
 

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# Summary A new vendor proposes charging dealers per car sold rather than per lead generated, but experienced forum members unanimously advise against it, arguing that vendors cannot control sales outcomes and should only be responsible for generating qualified leads or appointments. The consensus is that dealers' sales teams, inventory decisions, and management skills are the true drivers of conversions, making pay-per-sale models unrealistic and risky for vendors regardless of their ability to track lead attribution.

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