Nobody puts a deposit on “a Land Cruiser”
They put it on the white one with 12 kilometres on it. That specificity is the whole point of a reservation, and it is why a hold is the strongest evidence in the product short of a sale.
One live hold per car, enforced
A car promised to two customers is not an ordinary case, so it is the one thing in this domain the database refuses outright rather than warns about.

Releasing raises nothing, deliberately
A lapsed hold is very often ours — the car was damaged in transit, the finance took a week. Turning every release into evidence about the customer would punish them for our logistics.

Worth knowing The decisions behind it.
- 01
Reserving moves the enquiry forward. Releasing moves it back not at all — a designed asymmetry, not an oversight.
- 02
The hold is what makes the shortlist honest: a car under deposit stops being offered to the next customer without anybody remembering to remove it.
The rest of the sale.
See it on your own showroom floor
Set up your dealership in a few minutes, put a real enquiry through it, and judge it on that.