Create an Evaluation in Vehicle Fair Trade

An evaluation is the unit you are about to wholesale, with the whole record in one place. Building one is mostly VFT filling in the routine parts and you adding what only you can see.

Decode the VIN, confirm the details, add a value and photos, note the condition, and you have an evaluation ready to send to your wholesalers. Most of it pre-fills. The part that matters is your accurate read of the vehicle.

Step 1: Decode the VIN

Open a New Evaluation and start with the VIN. Decoding it with pulls the make, model, year, trim, and engine automatically, so you are not entering the spec sheet by hand.

Step 2: Confirm the build and the value

The OEM window sticker confirms the exact factory options, and the Canadian Black Book value gives you a starting number, both matched to the VIN. Review them against the vehicle in front of you.

Step 3: Add photos and the real condition

Now the part only you can do: the photos, the odometer, the damage, and any notes. This is what turns a generic spec sheet into the actual unit a wholesaler is bidding on.

Step 4: Send it, or save it for later

When it is ready, send it to your wholesalers in one send, or save it and send it later. Either way, the evaluation is the record the offers attach to.

Build it once

The principle is that you build the evaluation once and everything else runs off it: the send, the offers, the history. If you are new to how the pieces fit together, the what-is-an-evaluation overview explains it.

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