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Get up to speed with what your customers want. Offer Afterpay.
Not all purchases are urgent. Some car repairs are.
That’s why smart dealerships offer Afterpay, which enables customers to purchase what they want straightaway and pay for them over time. That way, they can get back on the road quickly and safely.
What is Afterpay?
Afterpay is Australia and New Zealand’s most preferred Buy Now Pay Later platform1, with more than 4.4 million2 customers across Australia and New Zealand.
Afterpay lets customers purchase goods and services when they want them, while paying for them over time, in four instalments. Meanwhile, merchants get paid upfront by Afterpay.
Pentana Solutions is proud to partner with Afterpay to support our commitment in helping our automotive partners succeed. Promoting the innovative benefits Afterpay delivers to both customers and businesses is an important element of our strategy to success.
How Afterpay helps customers
Car repairs and parts can be a significant – and often unexpected – expense3.
Offering Afterpay can help customers to deal with urgent repairs quickly. In fact, half of Afterpay customers say that using Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) services reduces the stress of large expenses.
BNPL platforms like Afterpay are increasingly popular with customers of all ages, especially among younger consumers, Surveys show that more Millennials and Gen Z-ers are moving away from credit cards, and embracing more flexible and transparent forms of payment such as Afterpay4.
Within the automotive sector, BNPL services are becoming more common, with four in five Afterpay customers saying they would like to use Afterpay to pay at automotive businesses5.
And if your dealership doesn’t offer services like BNPL, you could be missing out on sales. More than half of Australians would abandon a purchase if their preferred method of payment wasn’t available6.
How Afterpay helps auto businesses
For dealerships and automotive businesses, Afterpay offers plenty of benefits too. Two-thirds of businesses that partner with Afterpay report exposure to new customers7, while 37% report an increase in basket size8.
Partnering with Afterpay also provides auto businesses the opportunity to align with the next generation of automotive customers – 64% of Afterpay’s customer base are Millennial and Gen Z consumers9 whose spending power is increasing and will make up 48% of consumer spending by 2030 10.
How does it work?
Offering Afterpay to your customers is straightforward. Simply take payments from your existing point-of-sale, with no additional hardware required.
When a customer purchases an item from your dealership using Afterpay, you receive the full amount upfront (minus the Afterpay merchant fees). You can keep track of all Afterpay orders in the Afterpay Business Hub, and receive regular settlements and reconciliation reports to help you verify payments.
Want to get started?
Launching Afterpay in your dealership is simple and requires no point-of-sale integration. Sign up today and we can have you up and running within days.
Click on the form below to be automatically directed to Pentana Solutions’ dedicated account manager at Afterpay to find out more or get set up now.
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1 Afterpay internal data, June 2024
2 Afterpay internal data March 2025
3 Afterpay’s economic impact in Asutralia report
4 Why Credit Cards Give Gen Z the Ick, Morning COnsult, 2025
5 Afterpay internal data March 2025
6 Why Credit Cards Give Gen Z the Ick report
7 Afterpay’s economic impact in Australia report
8 Afterpay’s economic impact in Australia report
9 Brand Health Wave 9, Afterpay, June 2024
10 AlphaBeta report commissioned by Afterpay. Next Gen Index Forecasts based on the ABS Household Expenditure Survey 2015-2016, HILDA Waves 6-18
