The payment gateway built for towing and recovery.
Bill motor clubs and insurers, take card payments by phone for impound releases, run recurring storage charges, and pass card costs with surcharging, all from one gateway on transparent interchange-plus pricing.
Everything a tow company needs from a gateway.
Six capabilities for the payments towing runs on: releases, motor-club billing, storage, and recovery. Each one is standard on CoreGateway, not a separate module or an add-on fee. Taking payments at the scene instead? See CoreMobile tap-to-pay for towing.
Take card payments by phone
Release a vehicle without the driver present. Key in a card from any browser for impound releases, roadside calls, and after-hours payments, with no reader to buy.
Invoice motor clubs and insurers
Send branded invoices with pay links to motor clubs, insurers, and property managers, and track what is outstanding. Net-terms billing for the accounts that do not pay at the curb.
A vault for repeat accounts
Save cards for commercial accounts and property managers as secure tokens, so recurring and follow-up charges never need the card re-entered. You never touch raw card numbers.
Automatic storage billing
Storage fees add up daily. Put long-term impounds and payment plans on recurring schedules, with the Automatic Card Updater refreshing reissued cards so charges keep clearing instead of failing.
A pay-by-link for every release
Send a branded hosted payment link so a driver or their family can pay online before pickup. Card data is entered on our PCI Level 1 environment, keeping your scope at the simplest SAQ A level.
Surcharging and transparent pricing
Towing margins are thin. Pass eligible credit card costs where state rules allow, on one interchange-plus platform fee with the vault, recurring, and virtual terminal included, not billed as separate modules.
Get your towing payments live in three steps.
Apply and get approved
Submit your business details and get a merchant account with published pricing. Standard approvals happen in 1 to 2 business days, with no long-term contract.
Set up how you bill
Turn on the virtual terminal for phone payments, create branded invoices for motor clubs and insurers, and set recurring schedules for storage. Add surcharging where your state allows.
Start getting paid
Take releases over the phone, send invoice pay-links to commercial accounts, and let storage bill itself. Every charge reports in one place, and we help migrate saved cards if you are switching gateways.
One gateway, every way you take payments.
Virtual Terminal
Keyed-in payments from any browser. Phone orders, MOTO, ad-hoc charges.
Hosted Payments Page
Branded checkout pages, customizable in minutes.
Invoicing
Branded invoices with pay links. Customize with your brand name, logo, and address.
Recurring & Subscriptions
Flexible schedules, smart retries, Account Updater.
Customer Vault & Card Updater
PCI-scoped tokenization with automatic card refresh on expiration.
L2 / L3 + Surcharging
Interchange optimization on B2B/govt cards, state-rule-aware surcharging.
Towing Payments FAQ.
Last updated July 2026.
Ready to get paid faster on every tow?
Get CoreGateway, or book a 20-minute walkthrough. We will show you the virtual terminal, motor-club invoicing, recurring storage billing, and the pricing math for your operation.