A Third-Party Inspection (TPI) System in which wholesale sellers of items, like automobiles for example, can order third party inspections of their vehicles online, automatically track the status of the inspections and have the inspections loaded to an online wholesale marketplace for sale. The TPI system allows dealers to manage the entire process, from inspection ordering to wholesale sale, through a single interface, by integrating inspection ordering, status tracking and receipt into an online system and an online wholesale marketplace.