ST. LOUIS – January 19, 2026 – DriveCentric, the modern CRM and engagement platform built for automotive dealerships, today announced a strategic partnership with Dealer Pay, a dealership-specific payments platform built for automotive dealers, to enable compliant payment collection within DriveCentric.
The partnership is designed to bring payment capability into the natural flow of customer engagement inside the CRM, allowing dealerships to complete the workflow from conversation to revenue without introducing disconnected systems or manual handoffs. Importantly, DriveCentric is not entering the payments business; Dealer Pay provides the compliant payments platform powering the capability.
“CRMs were built to manage activity, but dealers now expect systems to deliver outcomes,” said Matt Leone, CEO of DriveCentric. “By enabling payments within DriveCentric, powered by Dealer Pay, we’re extending the CRM through the moment revenue is collected, without losing focus on what we do best: engagement.”
For dealerships, payment collection is no longer just a back-office function. It impacts customer experience, operational efficiency, compliance, and brand trust. By partnering with Dealer Pay, DriveCentric ensures payments are handled by a platform purpose-built for dealership operations, regulations, and accounting realities.
“This partnership exists because engagement alone isn’t enough anymore,” said Julie Douglas, Founder and CEO of Dealer Pay. “Dealers expect systems to deliver outcomes. By partnering with DriveCentric, we bring payments expertise, compliance, and dealership controls into the CRM experience — completing the lifecycle so engagement doesn’t stop short of revenue.”
The announcement reflects DriveCentric’s broader platform strategy to complete dealership workflows through partnership rather than building infrastructure outside its core focus. Additional details about availability and rollout will be shared as the integration progresses.
DriveCentric and Dealer Pay will discuss the partnership and its implications for dealership operations during a special keynote-style session at the DriveCentric booth at NADA 2026.
About DriveCentric
DriveCentric is a modern automotive CRM and engagement platform designed to help dealerships manage conversations, automate follow-up, and operate with real-time visibility across the customer lifecycle. Built for adoption and execution, DriveCentric helps dealerships turn engagement into results.
About Dealer Pay
Dealer Pay, driven by Vehlo, is the only connected payments platform built specifically for automotive dealerships. Dealer Pay unifies how money moves in and out of the dealership—across sales, service, parts, accounting, and payables—eliminating disconnected systems and the inefficiencies they create.
Purpose-built for automotive, Dealer Pay automates payments, reduces errors, keeps dealerships compliant, removes hidden fees, and accelerates every transaction—so dealers make more money without adding more work. The result is a smoother customer experience, simpler workflows for teams, and stronger profitability across every department. For more information, visit dealer-pay.com/drivecentric.