Swipe it, tap it, text it — get paid.
Accept a credit card in the truck or at the counter, or send a payment link by text. TowPay by Autura is built into our Towing Management Software, so you get paid without the extra steps.
Flat 2.9% + $0.30 · no monthly fees
Let your customers pay their way
In the truck, at the counter, or by text. Same payment, same software — and nothing to log into on the side.
Tap or swipe on the road
Tap or swipe at the counter
Text or email a payment link
Embedded Payments
TowPay is the payment engine embedded into Autura software
One payment engine, built directly into the software your team already uses. Take payment on the road, at the front desk, or from the customer's phone, and it applies straight to the open invoice.
Payment Engine
Authorizes, captures, and settles — then writes the result back to your invoice.
However the customer pays
Mobile card readerOn the road Desktop card readerAt the front deskTowPay by the numbers
These aren't projections. They're what TowPay looks like once it's actually running inside a towing business. It means less manual work, more ways for customers to pay, and a payment system that's integrated with the Towing Management Software you already use.
Less manual work
Reduce manual payment processing by up to 80% — less time matching payments to invoices, more time back on the road.
Ways to accept payment
Credit cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and more — over 100 accepted payment methods, so the customer pays however works for them.
Solution uptime
Payment processing that's live when you need it, whether that's a Tuesday afternoon or 3 a.m. on the shoulder of the highway.
Minutes to onboard
From sign-up to accepting your first payment in about 10 minutes. No
long setup, no waiting on a rep to call you back.
From first call to first payment
Request a demo
Talk to our team about your business and get a real answer on what signing up looks like.
Get verified
Complete a quick merchant application and choose your hardware — if you need it.
Start taking payments
Most businesses are up and running in about 10 minutes, from sign-up to their first payment.
What today's customers expect at the point of payment
We asked the motoring public what matters when it's time to pay for a tow.
Their answers make the case better than we can.
92%
say secure payment
processing is extremely or
very important to them.
85%
say having the fewest
possible steps to
pay matters.
45%
would use a digital wallet like
Apple Pay or Google Pay, or a
text-to-pay link, if offered.
1 in 5
wanted to pay at the time of
service but couldn't — so the
job didn't close on the spot.
Tow Payments in 2026: What Customers Expect and Why It Matters
Learn what the data says about how the motoring public wants to pay and what it costs you when you can't accept it.
Roadside Reality: What the Motoring Public Expects When It's Time to Pay
Join Autura and Stripe for a webinar exploring survey results with answers about the motoring public's expectations when it's time to pay for towing services.
The reliability of Stripe built into TowPay
TowPay is powered by Stripe — the same payment infrastructure trusted by millions of businesses worldwide. You get bank-grade security and reliability, wired directly into the Towing Management Software you are already using.
Fraud detection
Trained on billions of transactions — catching patterns a single-industry processor would miss.
Advanced security
PCI DSS Level 1 compliance and bank-grade encryption on every transaction, by default.
Built for scale
Runs on the same infrastructure that powers millions of
businesses worldwide.
New ways to pay
As Stripe adds support for new digital wallets and payment methods, TowPay gets them too.
Common questions. Quick answers.
None. All you need is Link-to-Pay. For card-present payments, TowPay supports two readers: a mobile Bluetooth reader for the truck, and a desktop WiFi reader for the office.
No long-term contract. You can start, and stop, without a
multi-year commitment.
Yes. Link-to-Pay and the mobile reader both support optional tipping, so drivers can collect a tip at the same time as the fare.
Yes. Daily payouts are the default, but you can set payouts to weekly or monthly instead — whichever fits how you manage cash flow.
Send a few recent statements from your current processor. Our team will run a real comparison, not just an estimate.
TowPay includes built-in, Stripe-backed dispute handling, so you're not managing the back-and-forth manually.
Yes. Receipts can be sent automatically by email once a payment goes through. For agencies using Aries Impound, receipts include the specific fields required for vehicle retrieval.
The mobile reader runs about $59. The desktop reader is about $249.
No. TowPay runs on a flat, 2.9% + $0.30 per-transaction rate with no setup
or monthly fees.
The mobile reader works over Bluetooth with the driver's phone or tablet. As long as the device has a data connection when the payment is submitted, the transaction goes through the same way it would from the office.
Payouts will show up as "TowPay," so they're easy to spot and reconcile.
No. TowPay runs on its own merchant account built specifically for the towing and roadside industry. This means it will need to be set up separately from any personal or existing Stripe account.
Yes. TowPay is built on Stripe's payment infrastructure, which maintains bank-grade security and PCI compliance on every transaction.
TowPay is built into Dispatch Anywhere, TOPS, and Aries. However your operation runs day to day, taking a payment works the same way, right inside the software you're already using. It's also supported in TraxeroGo for
owner-operators running motor club and cash-call jobs.
