Stock from arrival to delivery
Record each car’s details, photos, checks and certificates. A prep checklist covers detailing, photos, service history and the PPSR check. Days in stock count up by themselves.
For used car dealers
Bludge for car yards
Car yard software: every car, lead and deal in one place, from the yard to delivery.
Bludge is a hosted system for running a business, set up for you by a person. For car yards, we have built a setup for an independent used car dealer in Australia. It follows each car from arriving to delivered, and each lead from first enquiry to an approved deal. Bludge answers calls too, and turns a call into a lead or a trade-in valuation.
The setup in Bludge
The work it handles
What the setup does for your team
Leads that do not go cold
Enquiries arrive from your website, listing site emails and the phone, each linked to a customer. A lead nobody touches for two days gets a follow-up task.
Test drives booked online
Customers book a car and a salesperson at a free time. The yard records the licence, the declaration, the signature and when the keys went out and came back.
Deals with the sales manager’s approval
A deposit reserves the car. The sales manager approves each deal. Accepting it marks the car sold, makes the deal summary and adds the delivery tasks.
Trade-in valuations
Customers ask “What’s my car worth?” online or by phone. Staff add the appraisal, and a delivered deal brings the trade-in into stock.
Calls answered
Bludge answers the phone with a call script for buying, selling, trading in and test drives. Each call becomes a lead or a trade-in valuation, with a call-back arranged.
Figures for the dealer principal
See stock over 60 days, leads won and sales by salesperson. Gross profit and what each car cost are for the sales manager and administrators only.
A day with the setup
How a day runs for car yards
- 8:30
A car arrives
Prep starts from the checklist, with the PPSR reminder and photos.
- 10:15
A call becomes a lead
Bludge answers, follows the buying script and books a test drive. The lead is created with a call-back.
- 13:00
Trade-in valued
The valuation is recorded against the lead and the car.
- 15:00
Deal approved
The deal records its finance, and the sales manager approves it.
- 17:30
Delivered
The car moves to Delivered, and the lead closes.
How it comes together
Set up for you, then shaped as you go
A kit is configured forms, records, rules and roles. A person sets it up with you and keeps adjusting it.
Start from the car yard setup
Forms, boards, rules, documents, saved replies and dashboards are already set up for a dealership. Your whole team works from the same records.
A person sets it up with you
We add your licence details, your state’s rules, your team and your stock, and connect your website and listing site emails. Then we adjust it as you work.
Customers and the phone
Enquiry, test drive and trade-in forms work on your website. Calls become leads too. Calls about deals always go to a person.
Quotes, invoices and payments
Quotes, invoices and payment links connect to the car, the deal and the customer. A buyer can pay a holding deposit by card, and paying never skips the sales manager’s approval.
A plan to grow
With Strategy & growth, we work through Discover, Design and Deploy with you. Agree who you sell to and how, then build a website whose enquiry form feeds your leads.
Your AI assistant works inside it
A compatible AI assistant can connect to Bludge and work inside it. It has the same access as the person using it, so a salesperson’s assistant cannot see costs or gross profit. It makes the changes that person asks for and never acts on its own. Ask for a draft when you want to review first.
Questions about Bludge for car yards
Does it work with listing sites?
Forward their lead emails to your enquiry form’s own address and each one becomes a lead. Some sites send from their own address, so staff link the right customer. Bludge does not publish your stock to listing sites.
Does it do PPSR searches or finance applications?
No. The prep checklist reminds staff to search the PPSR, and a deal records its finance. Searches and lender applications happen outside Bludge.
Who can see costs and gross profit?
Only the sales manager and administrators. Nobody else sees what a car cost or a deal’s gross, in lists, search, dashboards or documents.
Does it cover my state’s rules?
The library has a guide for each state, gathered in October 2026. Keep your state’s section and check it with your regulator. Your prescribed forms and contract of sale are still yours to give.
What does it cost?
You get a quote for your business. It covers setup, ongoing service and any usage charges, such as phone calls. There is no fee per user.
More answers on the FAQs page.
Compare with the tools you use
See how Bludge compares with the software most car yards look at first.
See it set up for your business.
Bring an example of the work you want to improve. We’ll show you how the car yards setup would handle it and agree a clear scope.