AVA ID fee waiver targets Canadian franchise auto dealers

Autocorp.ai is using an AVA ID fee waiver to lower the cost of adoption for selected Canadian franchise auto dealers, cutting the product’s $399 monthly platform charge and setup fee while keeping a $1.99 per-verification cost. The move is an enterprise SaaS go-to-market play aimed at dealerships under pressure from identity-fraud losses and lender scrutiny.

The waiver applies to qualifying franchise rooftops from Kia, Hyundai, Nissan, Honda, General Motors, Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz and Genesis. Autocorp.ai did not say how many stores will qualify, how long the limited-time offer will run, or what criteria it will use to approve dealers.

AVA ID sits in a category that has become more relevant as auto retail has shifted more of the finance process online and as fraudsters use synthetic identities to obtain vehicles and loans. Identity verification software in this market is less about a generic login check than about connecting a real customer, a financing file and an auditable dealer workflow before a contract reaches a lender.

How does AVA ID verify auto buyers?

AVA ID checks a customer’s government-issued identification, matches it against a live biometric selfie and runs more than 30 fraud and OFAC or sanctions checks. The system returns a pass-or-fail report with an audit trail in about 60 seconds, according to Autocorp.ai.

Dealers can use the product in-store through a QR code or remotely through SMS, with the customer completing the process on their phone. The company says the workflow does not require hardware, a consumer app or a systems integration, and results appear inside existing CRM, DMS and F&I tools through the AVA Co-Driver browser extension.

The credit-bureau link is the more dealer-specific part of the pitch. AVA ID is part of Autocorp.ai’s broader AVA platform, which combines identity checks with dual-bureau soft-pull credit qualification, trade-in valuation and marketing tools. That means a dealership can connect verified identity to a credit profile earlier in the sales process, before a deal is structured and sent for lender funding.

Point Predictive’s 2026 report put auto lending fraud exposure at $10.4 billion, the highest level it has measured. The report also said roughly 1 in 114 loan applications now involves a synthetic identity. In dealer surveys cited by Autocorp.ai, 77% of dealers reported increased fraud activity over the past 24 months, while 48% said they had lost four or more vehicles to identity fraud over the past two years.

Andrew Lemoine, Autocorp.ai’s CEO, framed the waiver as a way to remove a monthly-fee objection for dealers that need to screen customers earlier. He also said the company’s product connects identity verification to full credit bureaus through soft-pulls, a claim central to how Autocorp.ai is positioning AVA ID against more general identity-verification tools.

For dealers, the operational argument is funding speed as much as fraud prevention. Cleaner deal jackets can reduce stipulations, rework and delays in lender disbursement, though Autocorp.ai did not provide customer-level funding-time data or loss-reduction benchmarks. The waiver gives the company a lower-friction path into franchise accounts where a broader AVA software package could be sold later.

Dealers that start with AVA ID for Canadian franchise dealers can expand into Autocorp.ai’s Starter, Growth or Complete packages, which extend beyond ID checks into credit qualification and other dealership workflows. That expansion path is the commercial logic behind waiving the platform fee: make the first product easier to adopt, then attach more of the finance workflow over time.