How a dealer's measurement becomes a shop's next job.
A dealer measures a car and records its paint. When the buyer wants protection work and agrees to the hand-off, the lead goes to a nearby PPF or detail shop. The shop pays a fixed lead fee only on referrals it accepts, the dealer earns most of it, and Autoentic keeps a flat 18%.
A referral program that connects dealers and shops.
A referral program is a relationship between two businesses, and this one is no different. On one side is the dealer whose measurement starts the record. On the other is the PPF or detail shop that does the protection work the buyer wants. The dealer refers and earns; the shop accepts and pays. Each side does something the other needs, which is what makes the hand-off worth paying for.
The buyer makes it happen. A referral is created only when the vehicle's owner wants protection work and agrees to be connected to a shop. The dealer's measurement is what makes that connection valuable: the shop isn't handed a cold name, it's introduced to an owner who just learned their paint is on record and wants to protect it.
One referral, start to finish.
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The dealer measures the car
Every panel is measured and saved to the VIN. The car's Paint Passport starts here.
- 2
The buyer wants the paint protected
The buyer has just seen the paint documented and decides to protect it.
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The buyer consents to the hand-off
Nothing moves without the buyer agreeing to be connected with a shop.
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The lead routes to a nearby shop
It goes to the nearest participating shop with capacity.
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The shop accepts and pays the lead fee
One fixed fee, set by the vehicle's value bracket. Referrals the shop passes on cost nothing.
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The dealer earns, Autoentic keeps 18%
Most of the fee goes to the dealer whose measurement generated the referral. The rate never changes.
The lead fee is fixed per referral, in four vehicle-value brackets.
A shop pays the fee only on the referrals it accepts. The bracket is set automatically from the vehicle's VIN, and bills as Standard when the VIN can't be decoded.
How referrals are routed
Four things decide which shop a referral goes to: proximity, the shop's current capacity, its response time, and its territory. Autoentic connects the dealer's lead with a shop and runs the measurement and certificate platform; the referral is then the shop's to run.
Once the paint is on record, the owner decides what's next.
For the vehicle owner, this feels less like a referral than a natural next step. They have just seen their paint measured and documented, and now they can act on it: protect it with film, add a coating, or have the bumpers and other panels the dealer's tools don't reach measured too. The dealer offers to connect them with a shop only once that interest is there.
So the hand-off is something the owner opts into, not something done to them. Their contact details and the car's record are shared only when they choose to move forward, and only with the shop that will do the work. It's a connection they asked for, never a list being sold.
Two roles in every referral. Start with yours.
Dealerships
Earn on every referral your measurements generate.
PPF & detail shops
Get warm referrals and pay only on the ones you accept.