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Salvage yard software for Florida yards. Every pulled part tied to the car it came off.

In Florida the yard license is the FLHSMV salvage dealer license, a derelict vehicle is held before it is dismantled, and the records are kept three years in date order. YardTerminal files nothing with the state. It lists your parts on eBay Motors and Shopify from one record, and keeps each part you pull tied to its donor VIN and its shelf.

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Florida: the Salvage Motor Vehicle Dealer (SD) license, issued by the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles.

Florida · the license

Salvage Motor Vehicle Dealer (SD)

Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles

Law
F.S. §320.27, §319.30
Separate dismantler license
None
Derelict vehicle hold
3 business days
With a lien under 3 years
10 days
Records kept
3 years, in date order
SD licenses on FLHSMV’s list
About 600 (list dated 2023)

Researched · sources below

The rules that touch your inventory. Six of them, paraphrased, each linked to its source.

Paraphrased for reading, linked to the source for relying on. This is context for choosing software, not legal advice.

  1. The salvage dealer license

    F.S. §320.27(opens the source in a new tab)

    Buying salvaged or wrecked vehicles to resell them or their parts takes a Salvage Motor Vehicle Dealer license from FLHSMV, in the SD classification. Florida has no separate dismantler license.

  2. Derelict vehicles: report, identify, hold

    F.S. §319.30(opens the source in a new tab)

    Notify NMVTIS, record the seller’s name, address and ID number, then secure the vehicle for three full business days before dismantling, or ten days with an active lien under three years old. The department is notified within 24 hours.

  3. Three years, in chronological order

    F.S. §319.30(8)(opens the source in a new tab)

    Titles, certificates of destruction, derelict vehicle certificates and the other information the section requires, kept three years after the purchase date and maintained in chronological order.

  4. Skipping a step is a felony

    F.S. §319.30(opens the source in a new tab)

    Failing to make the NMVTIS notification, failing to get the seller’s ID, or dismantling before the waiting period ends is a third-degree felony.

  5. Detached catalytic converters

    F.S. §860.142(opens the source in a new tab)

    Since July 2023, possessing or selling a detached converter without proof of ownership is a third-degree felony, unless you are a registered secondary metals recycler or a salvage motor vehicle dealer.

  6. No fake or junk-filled airbags

    F.S. §860.146(opens the source in a new tab)

    Importing, selling, installing or reinstalling a fake airbag or a junk-filled airbag compartment is a second-degree felony.

Where it helps. And where the paperwork stays yours.

Where it helps

  • Every part you pull from a donor keeps that vehicle’s VIN, so a part on the shelf traces back to the title file it belongs to
  • A converter you pull stays linked to the VIN it was cut from, which is where proof of ownership starts
  • Each part has a location down to the bin, so an inspection of the lot is a search, not a walk
  • One count across its counter, eBay and your storefront, so a part is never sold twice

What it does not do

  • It files nothing with FLHSMV or NMVTIS and does not track derelict vehicle holds
  • It is not where your titles, certificates of destruction or seller IDs are kept
  • It does not decide which parts you may sell. Converters and airbags are a question for your license and the statute
  • A part bought in or aftermarket has no donor VIN to trace, and a donor link lasts only as long as the vehicle record is kept
  • A sold part’s history is kept 90 days after the sale, long enough for eBay returns. That is not your state’s retention period. Export what the law asks you to keep longer

It is the same product in every state, and the limits are the same everywhere. Read everything it does not do

What a Florida yard asks.

No. Titles, derelict vehicle certificates, seller IDs and the NMVTIS notification stay with whatever you use today. YardTerminal is listing and inventory software: each part you pull tied to its donor VIN, its shelf and where it sold, which makes it quick to match a part on the shelf to the vehicle file it came from.

No. The hold is a rule about the vehicle before it is dismantled, and YardTerminal starts at the parts you list. Clear the hold the way you do today, then decode the donor and pull.

No, and we would rather say so than dress it up. The product is the same in every state: one record per part, listed on eBay Motors and Shopify, ended everywhere when it sells. This page exists so a Florida yard can see, in one place, which of its rules the software touches and which it leaves alone.

Sources

Researched from the 2025 Florida Statutes, re-checked against the 2026 session’s changes on 25 September 2026. Laws change, and the linked text is the authority, not this page.

Also on this site

Stop typing the same listing three times. One email when it opens. Nothing else, ever.

Used parts run on YardTerminal.