Welcome to the
Vitu Developer Portal.

Start building with Vitu APIs today!

The Developer Portal offers powerful APIs for title, registration, identity and vehicle data workflows. Vitu’s APIs are secure, scalable and production-ready.

Introduction

Welcome to the new Vitu API developer website. You may visit our previous website if required.

Review our Migration Guides if you are currently integrated with Vitu APIs and are ready to migrate.

The Vitu API Platform provides programmatic access to Vitu’s industry‑leading technologies for vehicle title, registration, compliance, and digital workflows.

These APIs allow you to securely integrate Vitu capabilities directly into your own applications and customer experiences. Vitu APIs are:

  • RESTful and accessed over HTTPS
  • JSON-based for requests and responses
  • OAuth 2.0 secured for authentication and authorization

Vitu API Suite

Depending on your subscription and use case, you can integrate with our APIs such as:

  • Title & Registration
    • EVR (In-State)
    • Interstate
  • Salvage Titling
  • Nationwide Title Exchange (NTX)
  • Title Management (TMS)
  • Digital Signatures
  • Forms & Fees
  • Inquiries & Lookups
    • NMVTIS
    • MVR
    • DLDV
  • Loan Payoff Services
    • Accelerated Title
    • Payoff Quote
Want to explore our entire suite of APIs?
View Full Catalog

Use Cases

Vitu APIs support a wide range of automotive and lender workflows, including:

Setup & Maintain Account

Start here - common prerequisites for most Vitu API integrations.

  • Authentication
  • Account administration
  • Set up web-hooks & notifications
  • Access reporting & invoicing
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Title & Register Vehicles

End-to-end titling and registration - in-state, cross-state, and salvage.

  • Estimate titling & registration fees
  • Title & register in-state
  • Title & register across state borders
  • Multi-jurisdiction title and registration processing
  • Generate salvage titles & certificates
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Manage Title Lifecycle

Track, transfer, and digitize titles from origination through release.

  • Track title status & events
  • Issue digital titles in my organization’s name
  • Monitor VIN & vehicle activity
  • Refinance a vehicle
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Run Checks & Verifications

Pre-transaction due diligence - history, identity, VIN, and address.

  • Get vehicle history during acquisition & trade-in
  • Decode & validate VINs
  • Run identity and address verification
  • Collect digital signatures
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Quick Start

This guide walks you through the high‑level steps to start using Vitu APIs, end to end.

Create a Developer Account

Start by creating an account in the Vitu Developer Portal. You'll get a Personal Account with sandbox access right away — no business approval required to start exploring.

Already have an account? Sign In

Building on behalf of a company? You can request a Business Account once you're ready (see Step 6).

Get your Client Credentials

Navigate to Key Management and click Generate Credentials to securely retrieve your provisioned:

  • Client ID
  • Client Secret

These credentials are required to authenticate with Vitu APIs. Sandbox credentials for Personal Accounts automatically expire 30 days after they're issued — if yours expire, just generate a new set from the same page.

Create an Application

An application represents the software or service making API calls. Create an application in the Developer Portal by:

  • Linking your Client ID
  • Selecting the supported authentication strategy
  • Naming your application for easy identification
  • (Optional) If you're on a Business Account, mark it as a team-owned application and add team members to collaborate under the same account on a shared application.

NOTE: Each application is limited to a single environment. Create separate applications for Sandbox, Stage, and Production as needed.

Subscribe to API Products

Once your application is created, select the Vitu API product(s) you want to use and register them to your application.

Make Your First API Call

With credentials and subscriptions in place, you can interact with Vitu APIs directly within the Portal. Use the sandbox environment to:

  • Generate an access token
  • Call a sample endpoint
  • Review responses and errors in a risk‑free setting
Request a Business Account

If you're building on behalf of a company — or want to collaborate with teammates, share credentials and applications, or move beyond the sandbox — request a Business Account from the Credentials page in Key Management:

  • Choose New Company if this is your organization's first account with Vitu; we'll review your request
  • Choose Existing Company if colleagues from your organization already have a Vitu Business Account; your request routes directly to your company's Admin for approval

Either way, your Personal Account and sandbox credentials keep working while your request is reviewed.

Go Live!

Stage and Production access require an active Business Account (see Step 6). Once your Business Account is active, request stage or production credentials and base URLs to begin processing real transactions.

Next Steps

Once you’re familiar with the basics:

Explore

Explore the API Catalog / Documentation to dig into endpoint-level details

Catalog

Try it out

Use the Sandbox to test out complete workflows.

Sandbox Credentials