Every vehicle on your lot, accounted for.
Aries Impound by Autura handles your entire workflow — intake, storage, holds, liens, fees, and payments — in one compliant system built for government agencies.
The same lot. Two very different days.
The same impound workflow, step for step, run the old way and run in Aries Impound. The paper way leaks time and accountability at every hand-off. With Aries Impound, you never re-type a thing.
Storage Lookup — Solved.
Log, track, and search every vehicle
Full custody history in seconds
No phone calls to find a car
Fees and Holds — Automated.
Regulated fees and invoicing
Holds added or released manually
Payments processed in same system
Liens and Auctions — Managed.
Lien letters generated and auto-sent
Deadlines tracked — never whiteboarded
Unclaimed vehicles move to auction
Built for every person that touches the lot.
Impound and Lot Managers
Law Enforcement and Agency Administrators
Records Clerks and Finance Teams
Contracted Tow Providers
Intake starts at the vehicle, not the terminal.
Impound Express is the mobile companion app to Aries Impound. Scan the VIN, capture timestamped condition photos, and check the vehicle in from a phone — the record lands in your impound system in real time.
The database at the center of your whole towing program.
Every vehicle gets one record in Aries Impound — entered once at intake. Dispatch, PPI, Impound Express, TowPay, and Autura Marketplace all connect to it, so data moves through the entire lifecycle without re-entry.
Proven results. Expert insights. Real success stories.
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Faster tow response times
Department hours saved
Accidents prevented
The impound lot is just one stage of a longer vehicle lifecycle.
The Aries suite connects each towing stage so a vehicle's record follows it from the roadside to the impound lot —
and your team isn't re-keying the same data into disconnected systems.
Aries Dispatch
Digital tow requests, automatic rotation assignment, and live status updates and ETAs from the roadside.
Aries Impound
Centralized vehicle storage, fee processing, and compliant lien and notification workflows from a single system.
Aries PPI
Digital tow notifications, faster vehicle clearance, and self-serve vehicle lookup — without the phone calls.
AWS GovCloud (US)
Aries runs exclusively on AWS GovCloud (US), the cloud infrastructure built to meet the compliance requirements of U.S. government agencies. Because so many infrastructure-level security validations are already handled through AWS authorizations, agencies can move through procurement faster and carry less of the compliance burden themselves. Aries Impound is also available through AWS Marketplace, which can further simplify purchasing.
Common questions. Quick answers.
Aries Impound by Autura is the impound management system built for government agencies. It captures and organizes vehicle data, solves storage lookup, and runs the full workflow through holds, liens, notifications, fees, and payments in one system. It's built for agencies managing police-impounded and city-lot vehicles.
The two are built to work together. When a vehicle comes off an Aries Dispatch tow, it arrives at the lot with its record already started — no re-typing required. The system already has the record, and the handoff from tow provider to city lot happens digitally, not on paper. Each product can be purchased individually, but together they manage the full vehicle lifecycle in a single, centralized system.
Impound Express is the mobile companion to Aries Impound. Lot operators check in arrivals, scan VIN barcodes, pull up records with a QR or barcode scan, and capture timestamped condition photos from a phone or tablet, the moment a vehicle rolls in. Data lands in your impound system in real time — no re-keying details at a terminal later. Impound Express is available on iOS and Android, and included with Aries Impound for no additional purchase.
When a vehicle goes unclaimed and clears the lien process, Aries Impound moves it natively into Autura Marketplace, the country's largest unclaimed vehicle auction platform. There's no separate listing tool or re-entering data. The vehicle you already have a full record on is shared to a network of more than 20,000 verified bidders, with no seller fees. This is how agencies reclaim lot space and recover cost.
Paper intake, manual fee math, and storage lookups by phone call cost staff time, create billing disputes, and let lien deadlines and unclaimed-vehicle revenue slip. Aries Impound replaces that with one system. Intake happens at the vehicle, records are searchable in seconds, and fees and liens run automatically. Our team will walk through your actual workflow in a demo so you can see the difference against how your lot runs today.
Yes. When a Computer-Aided Dispatch (CAD) integration is in place, tow requests generate automatically and the vehicle's data flows into Aries Impound for fast check-in, with no manual re-entry. Aries also connects with agency Records Management Systems (RMS), court and citation systems, and state DMV lookups where applicable.
Yes. Aries Dispatch, Aries Impound, and Aries Private Property Impound can each be purchased separately. You buy what solves your problem today. Agencies that run the entire Aries suite see the most value because data flows between each step automatically, but nothing requires you to start with more than one piece of this technology suite.
TowPay is built directly into Aries Impound. Send a secure payment request by text or email, and the citizen pays by credit or debit card on their own device. The payment applies to the vehicle's account in real time with a full audit trail, so there's no separate payment system and no manual reconciliation. Every transaction is PCI DSS Level 1 compliant.
Regulated fees, invoicing, and hold steps run on system rules, so records stay accurate without manual math. Lien deadlines are tracked automatically, lien letters generate and send on schedule, and every vehicle carries a complete audit trail on fees, holds, and payments. Auto-calculated invoices and system-generated reports are built to hold up to audit.
Request a demo. We'll walk your team through your specific impound workflow, from intake to auction. We'll show how Aries Impound fits the way your agency already operates and discuss what it would take to get running.
