> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.ekho.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# What the Transaction Engine is

> Complete online vehicle sales, including everything regulated that happens after the buyer says yes.

Anyone can put a "Buy Now" button on a website. The hard part is everything regulated that happens next.

The Transaction Engine is that part. A buyer completes the whole purchase online, in any state, and your title clerk never touches paper.

## What is included

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  <Card title="Checkout" icon="cart-shopping">
    Vehicle, accessories, identity verification, delivery or pickup, payment.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Financing" icon="percent">
    Pre-qualification, multi-lender routing across all credit tiers, stipulations collected up front.
  </Card>

  <Card title="F&I and accessories" icon="shield">
    Protection products from **your** existing providers, bundled and presented in-flow.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Titling and registration" icon="file-signature">
    All 50 states, every vehicle type, including off-road classifications.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Taxes" icon="receipt">
    Calculated, collected, remitted, and reconciled at state, county, and municipal level.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Insurance" icon="umbrella">
    Embedded carriers quote and bind in-flow, then coverage is verified before the vehicle moves.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Fraud prevention" icon="shield-halved">
    Over a thousand buyer signals scored by machine learning, with manual review above a risk threshold.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Delivery" icon="truck">
    A nationwide partner network at rates negotiated for Ekho dealers.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

Plus signature collection in all 50 states, covering e-signatures, wet signatures, notarization, and power of attorney.

## Why that list matters

Dealers have been promised "end-to-end online buying" before and watched it stop at a payment estimate. The difference here is depth after the yes:

* A buyer without insurance can get **bound inside the flow** rather than being sent away to come back later.
* Financing **stipulations are collected and pre-validated as the buyer goes**, so deals reach the desk clean instead of bouncing.
* Taxes are **remitted and reconciled**, not just calculated.
* Titling covers **every vehicle type in every state**, including things like California green stickers.

## What it means day to day

You can sell to a buyer in a state you have never sold into, at 2am, without anybody on your team being awake, and the paperwork is correct.

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  <img src="https://mintcdn.com/ekho-mtje7p526we/xBDmSkmU0JPkqQLm/images/product/checkout/contact-and-payment.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=xBDmSkmU0JPkqQLm&q=85&s=dd0fa4cca103bf580a748a4485e2c979" alt="An Ekho checkout page showing contact details and payment options including financing" width="2356" height="1398" data-path="images/product/checkout/contact-and-payment.png" />
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  <Card title="How it works" icon="diagram-project" href="/transaction-engine/overview/how-it-works">
    The four stages of a sale.
  </Card>

  <Card title="What buyers see" icon="eye" href="/transaction-engine/overview/what-buyers-see">
    Walk the buyer's flow screen by screen.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>
