Welcome to My Dealer Jacket
My Dealer Jacket is where a used-car dealership runs its paperwork: the sale, the customer, the temporary tag, the title work, the money owed and the money collected. This guide explains how each part works and what to do when something will not go through.
If you already know what you are looking for, the menu on the left is grouped the way the work happens. If you are new, the order below is the one most dealerships follow.
Setting up
Section titled “Setting up”Two things gate almost everything else, so they come first.
- Get your dealership verified. Florida will not accept a filing from an unverified dealership, and several parts of the app stay closed until this is done. Start with Verifying Dealer License and Business Information.
- Complete your own profile. Filing with the state is done in your name as well as the dealership’s, so keep your own details current. See Managing your profile.
Then, when you are ready to work with other people: Adding or removing users.
Selling a car
Section titled “Selling a car”A deal jacket is the record of one sale, and it is where most of the day happens — the vehicle, the buyer, the pricing, the paperwork. Start with What a deal jacket is, then Creating a deal jacket.
Registering the car
Section titled “Registering the car”Temporary tags are issued through Florida’s Electronic Temporary Registration system. You will need temporary tag paper on hand before the first one: Obtaining temporary tag paper, then Creating a temporary tag registration.
Temporary tags also carry recordkeeping duties that outlast the sale — see Temporary Tag System Compliance.
Handing the title work to us
Section titled “Handing the title work to us”If you would rather not deal with the tag agency yourself, our Tag & Title service does the filing for you. See What the Tag & Title service does.
Checking a vehicle
Section titled “Checking a vehicle”Before you buy a car at auction or take one in trade, you can pull its history: Running a vehicle history report.
Getting paid
Section titled “Getting paid”Payment links and card readers cover the money coming in. If you carry the note yourself, the payments run for months or years after the sale, and that lives in collections.
What things cost
Section titled “What things cost”Most of the app costs nothing to use. What you pay for is the work that produces something: the paperwork on a deal jacket, sending it out for signature, asking the state a question, issuing a registration, buying a vehicle history report, ordering supplies. That runs on prepaid credits, and every one of those actions shows you the price before it spends anything: How billing and credits work.
When something will not go through
Section titled “When something will not go through”Most refusals in this app name the reason and link to the screen that fixes it, so read the message before assuming something is broken. If it is not clear, the articles under Help and Support cover signing-in problems and printing problems, and Contacting customer support gets you to a person.