One stock record, several places: managing stock across your website and marketplaces

Keeping your stock up to date across several advertising sites is one of the duller jobs in a dealership. Copying the same details, uploading the same photos and changing a price in three or four places by hand takes time you could spend selling.

Why one record matters

Each marketplace wants the same vehicle described in its own way. Keeping several in step by hand means the same details typed several times — and, sooner or later, a sold vehicle still being advertised somewhere.

What one record should do for you

• One place to enter it — Add a vehicle to your stock system once, and publish it to your website and marketplaces from there.
• Prices that follow through — When you change a price, the change should reach your adverts automatically.
• Sold means gone — Marking a vehicle as sold should take it off every channel, so you stop taking calls about stock you no longer have.

How MotoVend handles it

With MotoVend a vehicle is entered once. It appears on your own website, and you choose per vehicle whether it is also published to AutoTrader and eBay Motors Pro. Record the sale and it comes off your website and the marketplaces you publish to from MotoVend. It is all part of one plan: £69 a month for your first 20 vehicles, then £1 for each extra one, plus VAT. More on stock management.