CITStip

Your deals are sold.
Get them funded.

CITStip is a funding-desk service for independent and small-group auto dealers. We read every deal's lender conditions, flag exactly which stip is missing, chase the customer and F&I until it lands, and hand your office a clean, lender-ready packet — so contracts-in-transit stop aging and floorplan interest stops ticking.

Free audit: send your current unfunded deals list — get a deal-by-deal blocker map back in 48 hours. No contract, no obligation.

Blocker Map — Unfunded Deals Sample
Deal #1042 — Midsize SUVLender condition sheet: 6 items
11days in CIT
Blocking: proof of income — customer chased, day 3
Deal #1047 — Pickup truckLender condition sheet: 4 items
6days in CIT
Blocking: signature page 2 — sent to F&I
Deal #1051 — SedanLender condition sheet: 5 items
4days in CIT
Blocking: proof of residence — utility bill requested
Deal #1055 — Compact SUVLender condition sheet: 4 items
1day in CIT
Packet complete — QC passed, ready for lender
Every unfunded deal, one screen: what's missing, who owes it, and how long it's been costing you.

Sold isn't paid. Funded is paid.

A deal doesn't make the store a dollar until the lender funds it. Between the signature and the funding wire sits the stip chase — and that's where deals quietly bleed.

Stips take 2–14 days

Proof of income, proof of residence, ID, signatures, lender conditions — each one verified on its own timeline, often only after the lender kicks the packet back.

Floorplan interest ticks daily

Every day a contract sits in transit, interest accrues on a car you've already sold. A lot full of aging CIT is a lot full of quiet losses.

Profit isn't booked

Until funding lands, the deal is paperwork — not revenue. F&I and the office chase documents between every other job they have, and follow-up falls through the cracks.

What is CIT aging costing your store?

Run your own numbers. This estimates the floorplan interest carried by deals sitting unfunded — using your figures, right in your browser.

$402 in floorplan interest carried per funding cycle at your current pace — before recontracting risk, unwind risk, and staff hours spent chasing paper.

How CITStip works

No new software for your team to learn. You send the list; we run the chase.

01

Send your unfunded list

Email or text us your current contracts-in-transit — deal numbers, buyers, lenders. That's the whole onboarding for the free audit.

Takes minutes
02

Blocker map in 48 hours

We read each deal against its lender's conditions and map exactly what's blocking funding — which stip, whose court it's in, and how long it's been sitting.

Free audit deliverable
03

We chase. You get paid.

Templated follow-up sequences work the customer and F&I until each stip lands. Every packet is QC'd against the lender's conditions before it goes back — complete, in order, fundable.

Ongoing service

What we handle

The unglamorous work between "sold" and "funded," owned end to end.

Stip checklist per deal

  • Proof of income — pay stubs, bank statements, award letters
  • Proof of residence — utility bills, lease, bank mail
  • ID and insurance verification
  • Missing signatures and initials, page by page

Lender condition tracking

  • Every condition on the lender's sheet, tracked per deal
  • New conditions from funding callbacks added same day
  • Nothing resubmitted until the condition is actually cleared

Packet QC before it ships

  • Full packet reviewed against the lender's condition sheet
  • Documents in the order the funder wants them
  • Fewer kickbacks, fewer second and third resubmissions

CIT aging dashboard

  • Every unfunded deal ranked by days in transit
  • Blocker and owner shown for each deal — no guessing
  • Weekly aging summary for the office and the owner

Built for stores that feel every unfunded day

Independent dealers

You are the desk, the office, and the chase. CITStip gives you a funding department without hiring one — every stip worked daily until the deal funds.

Small dealer groups

Multiple rooftops, one aging report. See which store, which lender, and which stip type is slowing funding across the group.

F&I managers

You sold the deal — you shouldn't spend your day calling customers for pay stubs. We work the stip list; you work the next deal.

Office managers

Packets arrive at your desk complete and QC'd against the lender's conditions, with a clear list of anything still outstanding and who owes it.

Founding pilot pricing

We're onboarding a small first group of stores. Start with the free audit — the pilot decision comes after you've seen your own blocker map.

Per-Deal Option
$49/deal
for your first 10 deals — no monthly commitment
  • Same stip chasing and packet QC, priced per deal
  • Good for a first test on your toughest CIT
  • Convert to the monthly pilot any time
Text to Start — 619-627-8466

One deal funded a week sooner can cover the month. The free CIT audit comes first either way — if your blocker map doesn't show real money sitting unfunded, don't hire us.

Questions dealers ask

How does the free CIT audit work?

Send us your current list of unfunded deals — deal numbers, lenders, and what's already been collected. Within 48 hours you get a blocker map: for every deal, exactly which stip or lender condition is outstanding, whose court it's in, and how long it's been aging.

No contract and no obligation. If the map shows money worth chasing, we'll talk about the pilot. If it doesn't, keep the map.

What exactly is a "stip"?

Short for "stipulation" — the documents and conditions a lender requires before funding: proof of income, proof of residence, ID, insurance, signatures, and deal-specific conditions. Stips traditionally take anywhere from 2 to 14 days to collect and verify, and the deal doesn't fund until every one is cleared.

How do you chase customers without annoying them?

Short, polite, templated sequences — a text or call that names the one document needed, why the lender needs it, and the easiest way to send it (a photo of the document works for most stips). We stop the moment the document lands, and your store's name is on every message, not ours.

How is our customers' information handled?

Deal jackets contain sensitive personal information, and we treat them that way. We work on a minimum-necessary basis: the free audit needs only your unfunded-deals list — deal numbers, lender, and what's outstanding. We don't need your customers' ID or income documents to build the blocker map.

Once you're a client, documents move through a secure portal only — never personal email or text threads — access is limited to the people working your deals, and your store's data is never shared, sold, or used for anything except funding your deals. Full details, including how our Bland AI calling and texting handles data, are in our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.

Does this replace our F&I or office staff?

No — it unloads them. Your team still sells, contracts, and owns the customer relationship. We take the repetitive follow-up: tracking conditions, requesting documents, assembling and QC'ing the packet, and keeping the aging list current.

Which lenders do you work with?

Whoever is on your deals. We work from each lender's own condition sheet for that deal — no integration or lender approval needed to start. If a lender adds conditions after a callback, they go on that deal's tracker the same day.

What does the pilot cost, and can we cancel?

The founding pilot is $299/month per store, month to month — or $49 per deal for your first 10 deals if you'd rather test it deal by deal. No long-term contract during the pilot. If we're not getting you funded faster, walk away.

Get your blocker map in 48 hours.

Send your unfunded deals list and see — deal by deal — what's actually standing between your store and its money.

CITStip · San Diego, CA · Run by Jay Kirby · [email protected]

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