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A car dealer website: stock, listings and enquiries

Someone buying a car visits the website twenty times before setting foot in the showroom. What they are looking for is always the same: what you have, what it costs, how many kilometres, and who they talk to.

The stock is the product

One page per unit, with filters by make, model, year, kilometres, price and gearbox. Sold units marked as sold rather than deleted, because those pages already have visits. And an update that happens daily, from a panel or from the system you already use.

A catalogue that is three weeks out of date costs more than having no catalogue: the buyer comes in for a car that is gone and leaves without trusting the rest.

The listing: everything people ask by phone

  • Version, year, kilometres, gearbox, fuel, colour.
  • Owners, service history, whether the paperwork is up to date.
  • Photos from every angle, plus the interior, the dashboard with the odometer and the boot.
  • A short walk-around video: it answers what twenty photos do not.
  • Whether it takes a trade-in, and whether it is under warranty.
The test drive starts on the listing: photos, kilometres and price.
The test drive starts on the listing: photos, kilometres and price.

Financing and prices, in numbers

Cash price, minimum deposit, an estimated instalment and what the rate depends on. Nobody expects a binding quote on a web page, but everybody wants to know whether the car is within reach before they write.

The enquiry, per unit

A form on the listing with the reference code filled in, WhatsApp with the model already written, and a phone number that dials. Answer the same day: in cars, the second call is usually the one that sells.

The showroom gets visited after the website, not before.
The showroom gets visited after the website, not before.

What brings people from Google

A page per model with the city in the title, an indexable catalogue, structured data for each vehicle and its offer, and a page explaining how you take trade-ins and what the paperwork involves.

We built exactly this for a machinery catalogue in Terrasol: filters, one page per item and an inventory system behind it, so the team updates stock and prices without touching code.

Trade-ins and after-sales sell too

Two pages almost nobody builds, and both bring enquiries: how you take a trade-in (what you check, how long the valuation takes, which papers you need) and what your after-sales covers (warranty, servicing, parts). Somebody about to change car looks for those two things before they look at the model.

  • Trade-in: the documents you ask for and how long the valuation takes.
  • Warranty: what it covers, for how long and where the servicing happens.
  • Paperwork: transfer, costs and timings, explained in plain language.

Frequent questions

Portal or own website?

Both. The portal brings the traffic; your site is where the buyer checks that the dealership is real, sees the units nobody else lists and finds the salesperson. And it is the only one you do not pay per lead.

Should I publish the price?

Yes. A listing without a price gets filtered out by the buyer before you ever see the enquiry, and it is the first thing the competition publishes.

How often should the stock be updated?

Daily, and it should take a minute per unit. If updating is slow, nobody does it, and the site goes back to being a brochure.

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