A caravan show is a few hundred stands, a coffee in one hand and a brochure in the other. Somewhere in there is the van for you, a figure that was quietly different from the plate, and a promise nobody wrote down. VanVerdict keeps all three on your phone while you keep walking, and checks each van against the car that has to tow it.
Free for three vans. Works offline in the show hall. Nothing to install.
Fair enough
Most people buy a caravan once, maybe twice, in a lifetime. They walk in on Saturday with a notebook, a phone full of brochure photos and a fair idea of what they want. They are not careless. They are outnumbered.
Every stand has a salesperson who does this every weekend. Every brochure was written by the manufacturer. Every figure you are given is true somewhere, on some version of the van in front of you. By the fourth van the figures have started swapping places. By the drive home, the one with the 48 volt system and the one with the island bed have become the same van.
That is usually the week the deposit gets paid.
The promise
Said at the stand, in front of you both. The quote arrives three weeks later without it, and on the phone nobody quite remembers saying it. You remember. You just cannot show them.
The figure
Same van, two tares. You find out which one is real at the weighbridge with the car already hitched, or on the highway with the back end starting to wander.
The van your car cannot legally tow
The island bed, the full shower, the outside kitchen. Then someone adds the ball weight to the loaded car, checks it against the GCM, and the van you have already told your friends about is over the line. The deposit went down the Sunday before.
None of this is bad luck. It is what happens when a weekend of figures is kept in a head that also has to drive home. Writing it down at the stand takes seconds, but only if writing it down is easy enough to do with a coffee in your hand. That is the whole reason VanVerdict exists.
How VanVerdict works
One app on your phone that goes with you through the whole purchase, and keeps working with no signal in the middle of an exhibition hall.
Before you go
Enter your tow car's real limits once, towball, GVM and payload included, and what the van must have. For the shows we cover, plan your day from the exhibitor list so you walk in with a route, not a guess.
At the stand
Scan a QR code or add the van, photograph the compliance plate and the brochure, and dictate what the salesperson just said while you walk to the next stand. The AI reads the brochure photo and fills in the specs for you.
Every evening
The evening review reads back what you captured today and lists what still needs checking. Two figures for one spec stay a flagged conflict, and any van your car cannot tow within its limits is marked not suitable.
When you decide
Your shortlist ranked by Fit Score, every quote broken down like for like, every promise in the salesperson's own words. Then a Buyer Report with your whole case in one document.
The real thing, not a mockup
Under three minutes, start to finish, recorded on the live app with a demo account. Then the screens, one by one. Swipe along.
Demo data shown. Van names and manufacturers in the screenshots are fictional.
The same weekend, written down
Instead of "I think he said..."
Three weeks later the quote is missing the annex. You open the van, read the line back with the date and the name of the person who said it, and the annex goes back on.
Instead of guessing which figure is right
Brochure, salesperson, compliance plate or your own tape. Two tares for one van do not get averaged. They stay a flagged conflict until you know which one is real.
Instead of the weighbridge telling you
Enter the car's limits once. Every van you capture is checked against them on the spot, ball weight included, and a weighbridge ticket overrides the paper figures the moment you have one.
Instead of comparing apples with annexes
Every dealer bundles differently. VanVerdict splits each quote into base price, options, discount and delivery, so the free delivery and the thrown in annex stop hiding the price.
Instead of two people, two memories
The Buyer Pass includes a partner login. You both capture into the same list, and a reconciliation view shows where the two of you noticed different things.
Instead of starting from a blank page
Almost 600 caravan models are already in the catalogue, and it grows every week. Pick the van and start capturing, no typing out the basics.
Before the show
The shared catalogue now filters by the things that actually decide it: budget, length, ATM against your tow vehicle, battery and solar, fresh and grey water, hot water and gas, bed and frame. Set your limits once and the list shrinks to the vans worth walking to.
Where a maker has not published a figure, the catalogue says so. It shows as not stated, never hidden and never quietly guessed. A blank is a question to ask at the stand, not a reason the van disappeared from your list.
Free account. Filters run over the same catalogue of about 100 brands and almost 600 models.
Counts come from the same catalogue the app searches. Bigger name, more models on file. Can't find yours yet? Add it from the app and it joins the count.
What you walk away with
When you decide, VanVerdict puts the whole search into a PDF. The cover gives the verdict at a glance: the van that won, its Fit Score, and the ones it beat. Behind it, one page per van with a tow match panel that sets your car's limits beside the van's figures, and an evidence trail under every number: where it came from, when, and which conflicting figure lost. Keep it, forward it, or put it on the dealer's desk.
Sample made from a demo account. Van names and manufacturers are fictional.
Feature by feature
Exhibition halls have terrible reception. VanVerdict keeps working with no signal and syncs everything when you are back in range. No app store, nothing to install.
Snap the van, the plate and the brochure, or shoot a quick walkaround. Dictate what the salesperson just said while you walk to the next stand, and the transcript lands on the right van.
Photograph a brochure and the spec sheet fills itself in, each value tagged as brochure evidence. The AI is never the source. The brochure or the salesperson is.
Built from the questions experienced buyers ask. Tick, cross or not applicable, add a note, and watch the Evidence Confidence score climb, so you know what is still unchecked.
Set your requirements once, tow limit, battery, solar, water and payload, each weighted from must have to nice to have. Every van is scored against them and the shortlist ranks itself.
Pick up day is not the day to rely on memory either. A dedicated handover checklist makes sure what was promised at the point of sale is what actually leaves the yard.
When your pass ends the account becomes a free read only archive. Everything you captured stays viewable and exportable. Your evidence is never held hostage.
Your inspections are yours. No listings, no advertising to dealers, no selling your shortlist to the industry you are negotiating with.
Do the maths
On a $60,000 van, a Buyer Pass is about a tenth of one percent of the price. The annex alone is worth more than that. So is a van ruled out before the deposit, or a tare caught before the weighbridge.
Show Pass
$24.95 once, 30 days
Unlimited vans for a show weekend or a run of yard visits, with side by side compare and AI brochure reads.
See what's includedBuyer Pass, most popular
$69.95 once, 6 months
Everything, for six months of looking: Buyer Report, quote tracking and a partner account.
See what's includedAustralian dollars, GST included where GST applies. No subscription and nothing renews. When a pass ends, everything you captured stays readable and exportable, free.
Fair questions
Then you already know the second Sunday. Three vans are free and nothing is asked for beyond an email. Capture the next van you look at and decide afterwards whether you would rather have had it in your head.
Yes. VanVerdict is a web app that keeps working offline in the show hall and syncs everything when you are back in range. Nothing to install from an app store.
No. Your inspections are yours. No listings, no advertising to dealers, no selling your shortlist to the industry you are negotiating with.
No. A pass is a single payment that simply expires. There is nothing to cancel because nothing renews. An extension adds 90 days for $24.95 if you are still looking.
They stay yours. The account becomes a free read only archive, and everything you captured can still be viewed and exported. You only pay again to capture new vans.
No, payments are final, which is why the first three vans are free. Try it at a yard or a show first. Your rights under the Australian Consumer Law are not affected. See the Refund Policy.
Walk in with your car's limits in your pocket and every van on its own page, so the fourth one stays itself instead of blurring into the third. Three vans free, no card.