How it works

What happens to every vehicle and every part.

The full process, from the moment a vehicle arrives to the moment a part is sold and its paperwork is filed.

A worked example. Every identifier below is the shape ELVPro actually stores.

Step 1 · Intake

The vehicle is logged once.

One record holds the VIN and every detail that follows from it. A guided intake — source, identification, specification, classification, photos — captures the things you only need months later while the car is still in front of you. Purchase and transport costs go in here too, which is what makes a part’s real cost knowable at the point of sale.

Donor: VW Golf VII 2.0 TDI · 2016
VIN: WVWZZZAUZGW152431
Date received: 14 Feb 2026

Fluids and hazardous parts are recorded as they come out.

Each stage is timestamped, so the depollution log fills itself in as you work. The checklist follows the Annex I operations the Directive requires — fluids, battery, airbags and the rest — and what you tick becomes part of the vehicle’s own record instead of a note on a clipboard. The chain-of-custody timeline keeps them in the order they happened.

Fluids drained: Yes · 09:14
Battery removed: Yes · 09:21
Airbags disarmed: Yes · 09:35

Each part gets its own record.

Linked to the VIN it came from, with the OEM code and where it sits on your shelf. Every part is one physical item rather than a SKU with a quantity — the difference between a parts yard and a webshop: the alternator you list is the alternator you sell, once. A status pipeline of draft, QC, listed, reserved and sold decides what the public can see.

Part: Alternator · 140 A
OEM: 06J903023
Shelf: A · 04 · R2 · S3 · B11
Condition: Good · tested

Set a price once.

It appears in your shop automatically, at the price you set. Where an order runs through checkout, the VAT treatment is resolved line by line and frozen onto the record — the second-hand margin scheme where it applies, reverse charge for a VAT-registered buyer in another member state — so you are not deciding it by hand on each invoice. That per-line VAT engine arrives with checkout, on Business.

Customers buy from your own branded website.

On your domain, with your name on it — not a listing on a shared marketplace. ELVPro generates the whole site from your stock and settings: a homepage, parts and vehicle catalogs, individual part pages, and search that still finds the part when a buyer misspells it. Browsing and enquiries work on every plan; online card checkout comes with Business, and your own domain from Professional.

A yard’s own ELVPro storefront, on its own domain.

The sale makes an invoice. The vehicle keeps its own file.

An order and its invoice come from the part’s own record, numbered in your yard’s own sequence. The certificate of destruction and the depollution report belong to the donor vehicle and are built as its treatment is recorded — not when a part happens to sell.

Order: Issued
Invoice: From the part record
Vehicle file: Certificate + depollution report

What the first hour actually looks like

Two of these are quick because we do them. The third is the one that is worth your time.

You create the account

A few minutes, no card, no sales call. Every feature is unlocked for the trial, so nothing you try now disappears when you choose a plan.
ELVPro generates the shop

The homepage, the parts and vehicle catalogs, the individual part pages and the search are built from your settings — there is no site to design. This is the part that takes under thirty minutes.
You fill it with your yard

Your first vehicle, its depollution and its parts. This is the part that takes real time, and it is the part worth doing properly — everything the rest of the system knows, it learns here. Moving from a spreadsheet? Bulk import comes with Professional.

Questions this usually raises

Do I have to load my whole stock before I can sell anything?: No. Publish parts as you record them — a vehicle booked in this morning can have parts listed this afternoon. If you are coming off a spreadsheet, bulk import arrives with Professional.
Can I use my own domain?: From Professional, yes. On Starter your shop runs on an ELVPro subdomain and works exactly the same way — the domain is the only difference.
Does ELVPro issue the certificate of destruction?: It builds the certificate and the depollution report from the treatment you record, tied to the vehicle they belong to. It does not certify them on an authority’s behalf: you remain the authorised operator, and the record is yours to file.
What do I need in order to take card payments?: Online card checkout comes with Business, together with the per-line VAT engine that puts the right treatment on every invoice. On Starter and Professional buyers browse your shop and send enquiries, and you raise the order yourself.
I already use an accounting program. Does that still work?: Invoices can be issued through your own provider — SmartBill, Oblio or FGO — from Professional, and Romanian yards can put them on the ANAF e-Factura path.
Is the compliance side an extra?: No. Depollution logging, the chain of custody and certificates of destruction are on every plan, including the free one. Compliance is the reason the rest of the record is trustworthy, so it is not something to sell back to you.

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