Odometric is car showroom management software for used-car dealerships in Karachi and across Pakistan. It records the documents an imported car arrives with, part payments against a sale, and per-vehicle investor capital, all under the registration number.
Transferring without the seller
Sindh Excise introduced a procedure in December 2025 for completing a transfer of ownership without the seller's biometric. Rather than producing the original owner, the buyer submits an application with proof of purchase, publishes a newspaper advertisement, provides an indemnity bond, and completes NADRA verification, with a waiting period of around fifteen days before the transfer proceeds.
Procedures and fee schedules are revised periodically. Confirm the current requirements with Sindh Excise before relying on this route for a specific file, and treat any figure here as indicative rather than quotable.
For a showroom this is a genuinely different operating position from Punjab, and it cuts both ways. The good news is that a stale open letter is no longer a dead end: there is a documented path to closing a file even when the original owner has vanished, which in Lahore would simply leave the car stuck. The less good news is that the path is a paperwork trail, and every element of it has to exist and be findable.
An indemnity bond and a newspaper advertisement are not documents a showroom produces casually. They are dated, they belong to one specific registration number, and if a dispute arrives two years later the ability to produce them is the entire defence. A shoebox does not survive that. Neither does a WhatsApp thread.
Imported stock and the file it arrives with
Karachi is where imported vehicles land, which means a meaningful share of the floor arrives carrying documents no locally-purchased car has: the auction sheet, the bill of lading, the clearing agent's invoice, the duty paid. Those are costs, and they are the ones most often left out when somebody works out what a car actually made.
The pattern is familiar to anyone who has done it. The purchase price goes into the book. The duty, the clearing agent, the port charges, the transport to the showroom and the workshop bill do not, because they arrive separately, over weeks, from different people. The car then sells for a number that looks like a healthy margin against the purchase price and a thin one against what it actually cost.
This is not a Karachi-only failure, but imported stock makes it worse because there are simply more line items arriving late. The costs that vanish from a car's file covers the general version; the import case is the same problem with a longer list.
What Sindh charges
Sindh's transfer fees are set by engine capacity, as in Punjab, but the schedule differs and so does the accompanying process. The practical consequence for a showroom is not the amount but the quoting: if you operate across both provinces, or you buy in one and sell in the other, the same car costs a different amount to transfer depending on where it lands, and an out-the-door price built on the wrong schedule comes out of your margin.
What Odometric tracks for a Karachi showroom
Odometric indexes everything by registration number, and holds the document set against it: excise book, transfer papers, CNIC copies, and for imported stock the auction sheet, clearing invoice and duty receipts. When a transfer needs an indemnity bond and a published advertisement, those attach to the same file rather than living in a separate folder that only one person knows about.
Every cost booked against a car counts toward what that car made, whether it was the purchase price or a clearing agent's invoice that arrived three weeks later. That is the difference between a margin figure you can act on and one that flatters you. Working out what a car actually made goes through it in detail.
Deferred payments and investor-funded stock work the same way here as anywhere: instalment tracking for money arriving over months, and investor profit splits for a floor funded by partners.
Common questions
Does the Sindh route mean open letters stop being a problem?
It means they stop being permanent. There is a documented way to close a file without the original owner, which Punjab does not offer in the same form. It still costs time, money and a paper trail, so the sensible position is unchanged: complete transfers early, and know which ones are outstanding.
Do you handle import documents specifically?
They attach to the car's file like any other document, and any cost recorded against the car counts toward its profit. There is no separate import module and no customs integration.
We buy in Karachi and sell in Punjab. Does that work?
Yes, and it is worth recording which province a file is being processed in, because the transfer requirements and fees are not the same. The registration number stays the anchor either way. See the Lahore page for the Punjab process.