Nearly every “best dealer website provider” article online is written by one of the providers — including this one. So here are the prices, taken from each company’s own pricing page and dated, along with the parts where we are not the cheapest.
Entry price is each provider’s cheapest advertised monthly plan. “At 15 cars” is the plan a 15-car dealer would actually need. Checked 27 August 2026 — providers change prices, so verify before you buy.
| Provider | Entry price | At 15 cars | Vehicle limit | Own marketplace | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CarDealerCMS | £79/mo | £79 | Unlimited | Included | Listing on our own marketplace, Local Car Sales, included free |
| Vehiso | £0/mo (5 cars) | £49 | 5 / 20 / 50 / 100 / 200 | None | Free forever tier for 5 vehicles; £49 up to 20, £79 up to 50 |
| TraderWay | £39/mo | £39 | Not stated | None | 6 months free with full Business access; £59 adds Auto Trader sync |
| Car Dealer 5 | £44 +VAT | £44 +VAT | Not stated | None | £60.50 / £77 / £110 +VAT tiers; DMS on the higher packages |
| DealerSoftware | £99/mo | £99 | 10 on entry plan | None | £199 plan covers 20 vehicles |
| MotorDesk | Quote | Quote | Tiered | None | No public price list |
| Click Dealer | Quote | Quote | n/a | None | Aimed at larger dealers and groups |
| Dragon2000 | Quote | Quote | n/a | None | Long-established DMS + websites |
| Spidersnet | Quote | Quote | n/a | None | Dealer websites and DMS |
| DealerWebs | Quote | Quote | n/a | None | Website-led provider |
| AutoWeb Design | Quote | Quote | n/a | None | Design-led, works alongside a DMS |
Prices exclude VAT where the provider states it. “Own marketplace” means the provider runs its own car-buying site and puts your stock on it as part of the fee — not a feed to a marketplace you pay for separately. Quote-only providers do not publish prices publicly.
Worth saying plainly, because you will find it out anyway.
TraderWay starts at £39 a month and currently offers six months free with full Business access. If the lowest monthly figure is what matters most, that beats us.
Vehiso has a free tier for up to 5 vehicles and £49 a month up to 20. For a very small forecourt watching every pound, that is cheaper than £79.
Car Dealer 5 starts at £44 + VAT, and its higher packages carry a fuller dealer management system than ours.
MotorDesk, Click Dealer and Dragon2000 are stronger if you want to run the whole dealership — finance, sales process, customer records — from one system. We are a dealer website and stock platform with sales invoicing, buy-in receipts and a margin-scheme stock book built in — not a full DMS with finance and workshop modules.
And Local Car Sales is not Auto Trader. It carries 86,800+ cars from 3,224 independent dealers and it is growing, but Auto Trader is far bigger. Treat our marketplace as free extra exposure, not a replacement for a paid portal on day one.
It is the reason a dealer would pay us more than £39.
Every other platform on that table sells you plumbing — feeds that push your stock to Auto Trader, CarGurus, Cazoo and the rest. Useful, but a feed is worth nothing until you are already paying that marketplace. Feed a portal you do not subscribe to and precisely nothing happens.
We own a marketplace. Your stock goes onto Local Car Sales automatically as part of the £79 — no commission, no per-car fee, no separate subscription — and CarDealerCMS dealers rank at the top of its results, above dealers paying separately for placement. Buyers click straight through to you.
You also get the feed URL for Cazoo, AutoVillage, CarSite and MotorVillage, and an eBay feed if you use eBay. So you get the plumbing and somewhere for it to go.
Local Car Sales membership is sold on its own at £19 a month. It is a real product with its own page, its own subscribers and its own billing — not a bundled extra invented for a comparison table.
CarDealerCMS includes it. So when you line our £79 up against a rival at £77 or £79, you are not comparing like with like: the website part of CarDealerCMS is effectively £60 a month, and the marketplace placement is the other £19.
| What you pay | Where your cars rank on Local Car Sales | Where your cars sit for Facebook posting |
|---|---|---|
| CarDealerCMS — £79/mo website + everything below |
Top of results, plus Featured cards pinned above the listings | First pick every run |
| Local Car Sales member — £19/mo listing only, no website |
Above every unverified dealer, verified badge, no listing cap | Second pick, after CarDealerCMS dealers |
| Claimed listing — free | Above scraped listings | Eligible |
| Unclaimed — free we found your stock and indexed it |
Listed, bottom of results | Eligible |
Facebook placement is priority, not a guarantee — one car per page per day, and the car needs a usable photo. Being higher up the ladder means your stock is picked first, not that every car is posted.
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