Sell your cars through Mobility1

Registered Kenyan dealers list their cars on Mobility1 for free. You stay the seller and set the asking price. Mobility1 inspects the car at your yard, puts it online at your asking price, where anyone can see it and checked business buyers can reserve it, and, where offers are open, answers their offers for you. Commission is due only when a car sells, and the buyer pays it as part of the price.

Why list with Mobility1

• Free to list. No listing fee: commission only when a car sells.
• Checked buyers. Every buyer is a registered business. We check its KRA PIN and registration before its first offer or reservation. Other dealers buy here too.
• Your car, shown properly. Buyers see our inspector's report, the grade and the photos before they reserve or make an offer.
• Offers answered for you. Where offers are open, your lowest price stays private: we answer offers as your agent within 24 hours, and never accept or counter below your lowest price.
• Paid straight to you. The buyer, or the buyer's lender, pays your part into your own business account. Mobility1 never holds it.

How it works

1. Apply. Send your company details with your registration certificate and KRA PIN certificate. Two different people at Mobility1 check your application against KRA iTax and the business registry, and we e-mail you when you can sell.
2. Give your payout account. A business bank account or M-Pesa paybill in your company's name, never a personal number. Our staff check it against a bank letter or Safaricom's paybill confirmation, then Mobility1's owner switches it on: two different people. A changed account is checked again from the start.
3. List a car. Enter the car as it is, your asking price, your lowest price, how many days the car is with Mobility1 only (7 to 30), and a day for the inspection. For now we list cars from 2020 or later.
4. Inspection at your yard. Our inspector checks the documents, every panel, the tyres and the mechanics, drives the car at least 10 km and takes the photos. A failed document keeps the car off the site.
5. The owner's yes. Our team checks the report and the photos, and Mobility1's owner gives the final yes. The car then goes online at your asking price, shown to every buyer.
6. Offers answered for you. Where offers are open, Mobility1 answers each offer for you, one at a time and within 24 hours: we accept an offer at or above your lowest price, decline it, or make one counter-offer that is never below it. You do not see offers.
7. Reserved. A buyer reserves at the asking price or at an accepted offer. We e-mail you the price, and My desk shows the buyer's contact.
8. Paid and handed over. The buyer pays Mobility1's part, which is your commission, to Mobility1, and your part straight into your checked account, from their own money or through a lender. When we tell you Mobility1's part is in, hand over the car, start the NTSA transfer on eCitizen, and confirm your part and the transfer reference in My desk.

What it costs

Listing is free. When a car sells, Mobility1's commission is 2.5% of the final price, at least KES 150,000 and at most KES 500,000, plus 16% VAT. You instruct the buyer to pay it, less the 5% withholding tax you owe KRA on it, to Alf Holdings East Africa Limited (Mobility1) as part of the price. That payment counts as the buyer's payment to you and settles the commission.

Example: a car sold at KES 6,900,000.

Up to a price of KES 6,000,000 the commission is the minimum of KES 150,000; from KES 20,000,000 it is the maximum of KES 500,000. You pay the withholding tax to KRA on iTax within 5 working days after the buyer pays Mobility1's part (we tell you when it is in), and send us the certificate. We issue our eTIMS invoice to you when Mobility1's part arrives.

What you need

• Your company's registration certificate and KRA PIN certificate: PDF, JPG or PNG, up to 10 MB each.
• Your business registration number, the company's KRA PIN, a director or contact person, your town, a mobile number and an e-mail address.
• A business bank account or M-Pesa paybill in the company's name, and a bank letter or Safaricom's paybill confirmation for our check.
• The car at your yard on the inspection day. Any bank or lender on the logbook must be cleared first, and the import duty must be paid.

What you agree to

• For the days you choose, 7 to 30, you do not sell the car elsewhere.
• The asking price does not change while an offer is open. A new price goes to Mobility1 for review first.
• You never ask buyers to compete for a car, on or off the site.
• If a buyer pays you the full price instead, you pay the commission within 5 working days.

The full text is in the dealer terms, which you accept when you apply and for every car you list.