VAN builds you a buy center. Hooptie fills the one you have.
VAN is a full buy-center platform: texting automation, a dedicated coach, integrations, and a buyer you can hire through them. Hooptie is the sourcing engine for the team you already have. It finds clean-title, zero-accident, good-condition cars priced under market, every 3 minutes, 24/7, and puts them in front of your buyers with the checks already done.
15-minute demo on your own market · Solo buyers and sourcing teams · No long-term commitment
A buy-center operating system. Listings from 25+ sources, texting and calling inside each vehicle record, automated follow-ups, a dedicated acquisition coach, CRM and appraisal integrations, and an optional full-time buyer who works the leads for you.
A sourcing engine that gets you there first and does the checking for you. Every source in your market, every 3 minutes, 24/7. Branded titles, accidents and rough cars are thrown out. What's left is ranked by how far under wholesale it sits, on iOS and web, for the buyers you already have.
If you want someone to build and coach a buying department, or to staff it for you, VAN is built for that. If you are the buyer, or you run a small sourcing team, and the bottleneck is finding clean, underpriced cars first, Hooptie does that job and you're live after one short demo.
Checked before the alert, not after
A buy center gives your team tools to run the report and pull the appraisal. Hooptie runs four checks on every car in your market, every 3 minutes, 24/7, before it reaches your team. The ones that fail never show up.
Clean title
The VIN is decoded from the listing or the plate in the photos, then run against a vehicle history report. Salvage, rebuilt, flood and lemon brands are filtered out before you see the car.
Zero accidents
Every VIN is run against a vehicle history report, and reported accidents are flagged before you ever call. Nothing to send out, nothing to wait for.
Good condition
AI reads the description and photos for body damage, mechanical issues, warning lights and project cars. Sellers don't get to bury it in paragraph four.
Under priced
Every survivor is scored against wholesale and real local retail comps, and the feed ranks by spread. Price drops re-score the car and push it back to the top.
Where each one is strong, and where it's thin
VAN is the most complete buy-center platform in this space, and this page isn't going to pretend otherwise. The question is whether you need a department built, or a feed for the one you have.
VAN
Built for a dealer or group that wants private-party acquisition run as a department, with a coach on the phone every week and, if you want it, a full-time buyer on their payroll working your leads.
- Text and call sellers inside each vehicle record, with automated first-touch and follow-ups
- A dedicated Acquisition Coach on every plan, and a Managed Buyer program
- Integrations with history-report, appraisal and CRM tools; inbound leads from ICO programs
- Pipeline with assignees, tasks, appointments and PACE reporting for a team
- "25+ sources" and a customizable target area, not just a radius
- History reports and wholesale values come through third-party integrations; the listing itself doesn't arrive already checked and priced
- Onboarding is "4 days" with a structured path, and users are included per tier
- Refresh interval, contract terms and a mobile app aren't described on its site
Hooptie
Built for the people actually buying the cars, solo or as a sourcing team. Every major marketplace, plus any classifieds site or enthusiast forum you ask us to add, rescanned every 3 minutes, 24/7, across your radius or the whole country. Every car is checked for a clean title, zero accidents and good condition, then scored against wholesale and local retail, before it reaches your buyers.
- History report, wholesale value and local comps built in and already on the card when the alert lands
- Clean title, zero accidents and good condition verified before a car reaches your feed
- Every 3 minutes, 24/7, nationwide or your radius
- Live after one 15-minute demo, month-to-month, no long-term commitment
- One scored feed for the whole sourcing team, on iOS and web
- Custom integrations: we add the classifieds sites and enthusiast forums your team buys from
- No built-in texting, automated follow-ups or coach. You work leads from your phone or CRM
- No managed-buyer program. Hooptie assumes you have the buyer; it supplies the cars
What each one actually does
Grouped by the four stages of a private-party buy: find it, qualify it, work it, get started. Where VAN doesn't publish something, we say “not published” instead of guessing.
Finding the car
HooptieQualifying the car before you call
HooptieWorking the lead
HooptieGetting started
HooptieVAN details are taken from publicly available buywithvan.com pages (home, features, pricing, FAQ) as of September 2026 and may change. Vehicle Acquisition Network and VAN are trademarks of their respective owner; other product names mentioned are trademarks of their respective owners. Hooptie is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by VAN. Customer statements reflect that customer's own experience. If anything here is inaccurate or out of date, contact us and we'll correct it.
She didn't need a buy center. She needed the cars.
Meghan sources for Walnut Creek Toyota. Before Hooptie her process was one marketplace, every day, with manual VIN lookups and no record of what she'd already checked. Hooptie put every private-party listing into one feed with the VINs already decoded and a history of every car she'd worked. No new department, no new headcount. Her acquisition numbers went up.
“The VINs made a big difference. I got a lead off a channel I don't even normally use. I love it.”
What you give up, what you get
No spin. Here is the trade in one screen.
You give up
- Texting and calling sellers inside the tool, with automated follow-ups
- A dedicated acquisition coach and weekly strategy calls
- The option to have their full-time buyer work your leads
- Integrations that push listings into your CRM and appraisal tools
If you're standing up a buying department from zero and want it coached or staffed, that's a real service and VAN provides it.
You get
- Only clean-title, zero-accident, good-condition cars reach the feed, verified against a history report
- Wholesale spread and local comps already on every card, no appraisal tool to send it to
- Every source rescanned every 3 minutes, 24/7
- Search your radius, several markets, or nationwide
- Custom integrations for the classifieds sites and enthusiast forums you buy from
- One scored feed for the whole sourcing team, on iOS and web
- Live after one 15-minute demo, month-to-month, no long-term commitment
Who should pick which
- You're building a private-party buying department from scratch and want it coached, or staffed by their buyer.
- You need texting, calling and automated follow-ups living inside the tool, tied to your CRM.
- You're a multi-store group that wants pipeline reporting across locations.
- You are the buyer, or you run a small sourcing team, and the bottleneck is finding clean, underpriced cars first.
- You want title, accidents, condition and wholesale spread already on the card when the alert lands.
- You buy beyond your zip code and need nationwide coverage that never sleeps.
- You want to be live this week, month-to-month, with no long-term commitment.
One short demo, then you're live
There's nothing to migrate, no onboarding path to schedule and no contract to sign.
Book a 15-minute demo
Pick a time below. We run Hooptie live on your own market so you see the real cars, not a slide deck.
We set you up on the call
Makes, models, years, mileage, and your area: a radius, several markets, or nationwide. Your buyers get added to the same account.
Work the feed
Alerts start within minutes. Every car in the feed has already passed title, accident and condition checks and shows its wholesale spread.
Hooptie vs VAN, answered
Is Hooptie a replacement for VAN?+
For finding and qualifying cars, yes. For running a buy center, no. VAN bundles texting automation, a dedicated coach, CRM and appraisal integrations, and an optional full-time managed buyer. Hooptie is the sourcing engine: it finds clean-title, zero-accident, good-condition cars priced under market and hands them to the buyer you already have, with the checks already done.
Doesn't VAN check title and accident history too?+
VAN's site lists integrations with third-party vehicle history and appraisal tools, so a buyer can send a listing out for a report or an appraisal. In Hooptie the history report and the wholesale value are built in and already on the card when the alert arrives. Nothing to send, nothing to wait for.
Do both tools cover the same sources?+
Both cover the major private-party marketplaces; VAN's site says "25+ sources." Hooptie also builds custom integrations: if your team buys from a regional classifieds site or an enthusiast forum, we add it to your feed and run it on the same 3-minute cycle with the same title, accident and condition checks.
How fast can we be live?+
VAN's site says "Be Up and Running in 4 Days" with a structured onboarding path. Hooptie starts with a 15-minute demo on your own market; we set up your searches and your team on the call and alerts start within minutes.
Is there a long-term commitment?+
No. Hooptie is month-to-month and you can cancel anytime, with no annual contract. VAN doesn't publish its contract terms.
Does Hooptie work for a sourcing team, or just one buyer?+
Both. Solo buyers use it as their daily feed. Sourcing teams and acquisition managers run it as the shared source of truth: everyone works the same scored feed on iOS and web, sees what's already been worked, and does outreach from the CRM the team already uses.
Can I search nationwide?+
Yes. Set a radius around your store, several markets, or the entire country. Hooptie rescans every source every 3 minutes, 24/7, whatever the area.
See what's sitting on the street
in your market.
We run Hooptie live on your own market, set up your searches with you, and get your team live. No four-day onboarding, no coach required.
See What's Available in Your Market
For automotive dealers. Hooptie is built for dealerships and professional automotive acquisition teams.
Clean-title, accident-free private-party cars in your market, ranked by spread under wholesale.
The volume and mix of private-party inventory Hooptie is finding around your store right now.
Makes, models, years, mileage, price and area, including nationwide, plus any custom source you buy from.
How your team hears about a matching car within minutes of it listing, on iOS and web.
Your searches and your buyers configured live, so you leave the demo running.
How several buyers work one scored feed without stepping on each other's cars.