Adesokan Akintunde is the owner of Akintunde Autos Limited, an automobile importing business based in Lagos, Nigeria. His company sources vehicles from major auction platforms like Copart and IAAI and delivers them to buyers across the country.

The sourcing, the bidding, the shipping, the clearing – importers handle all of it so their customers don’t have to.

But behind the scenes, there’s a part of the business most people never think about. It’s the payments, and it’s one of the biggest headaches for individuals figuring out how to pay Copart and IAAI from Nigeria quickly and reliably.

Getting money from Nigeria to an auction platform in the United States isn’t as simple as clicking a button, and for years, Adesokan navigated a process that was slow, unpredictable, and quietly expensive.

Adesokan’s payment process looked like most Nigerian importers’. He’d either send money through third-party agents based in the USA or use a domiciliary account to pay auction sites directly.

It worked technically. But working and working well are two very different things.

The biggest issue was speed. Payments took days to credit. And in the auction business, time isn’t just money; it’s fees.

In his words: “Slow crediting and sometimes my storage accumulates, which leads to loss for me.“

Here’s what most people don’t realize about auctions: when you win a vehicle, it doesn’t just wait around for free. Every day that the car sits on the lot unpaid, storage fees accumulate. A payment that takes four to five days to clear can easily cost an extra $50, $100, or more in fees per vehicle.

For an importer moving multiple cars every month, those small fees add up fast. What looks like a profitable deal becomes a lot less profitable by the time the car actually moves.

And that’s before factoring in exchange rates. Akintunde knew he wasn’t getting a fair deal. Rates fluctuated, and charges varied. He suspected he was overpaying, but without a better alternative, he kept moving forward.

It was the cost of doing business. Or so he thought.

When he started using Clea, he didn’t have to wait long for payments to be sent.

“It was faster than any other means that I know of.”

The payment landed almost immediately. The vehicle cleared. No storage fees and no calls to agents asking for updates.

Just a completed transaction, faster than anything he’d experienced in years of importing.

Each transaction confirmed what the first one had shown him: the delays he’d accepted as normal weren’t normal at all. They were just the old way of doing things.

Since switching to Clea, the difference has been clear:

• Payments arrive in minutes, not days
• Storage fees have dropped to nearly zero
• Exchange rates are competitive and transparent
• Every transaction works the same way

It’s not just about the money saved, though. It’s about how the business runs now.

“Clea has made it better.”

Better could mean a lot of things. For Akintunde, it means less stress, less uncertainty, less time spent chasing payments, and more time focused on finding good vehicles and serving his customers.

For him, Clea isn’t complicated. It just works. “It is reliable and consistently fast.”

Akintunde found Clea because a trusted friend recommended it. Now, he’s doing the same for others.

Today, his storage fees are gone, and his margins are healthier. The part of his business that caused the most friction is now the smoothest part of his operation.

Clea didn’t just change how payments work. It changed what’s possible for importers who need a faster way to pay Copart and IAAI from Nigeria. If you’d like to enjoy faster, more reliable payments for your importing business, visit tryclea.com