- Overview
- Checking your Vehicle Feed
- Checking Vehicle Import Status
- Troubleshooting Vehicle Feeds
- Checking Specific Stock Codes
- Checking for a stock code
- Files waiting for import
- Vehicle Settings
- To Check Vehicle Settings
- Enable/Disable display of sold vehicle details
- Hiding Vehicles with No Images
- How to remove vehicles from the vehicle listing
- How to Site Setting Overwrite Vehicle Type using the Current Domain
- Displaying a Single Vehicle as Page Content
- Manually Adding Vehicles into the Vehicle Listing Module
- Vehicle Type Management
- Managing Displayed Prices on Vehicle Listings
- Viewing the Vehicle Dashboard
- Editing the Vehicle Request More Info Form
- Managing Vehicle Request More Info Site Setting
- Vehicles Not Showing Up on the Website
- Selecting Which Price will be Displayed on Vehicle Listings
- Adding a Vehicle Listing on a Page
- Vehicle Listing Sort Options
Vehicle Listing Management
Overview
The Vehicle Listing Management module enables the user to manage new and used vehicles, but, it can also be configured to be used for any product. It supports automated vehicle feeds from a wide range of data suppliers and configurable listings, details and lead management.
Checking your Vehicle Feed
- Vehicle data comes from external providers.
- WebEd will display the data received.
- If a vehicle is not appearing on your site, it is most likely because we haven't received the data.
- You can review the current data using the admin module
Checking Vehicle Import Status
- As an administrator, navigate to Vehicles, Vehicle Listing
- The current status of your vehicles will be displayed
- You can see the date the system last received data
- Check each item to see the current status of the data received
Vehicle Management Dashboard | Green Tick | Red Tick |
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Number of Records in Vehicle table | - Records Exist | - No Records |
Files Awaiting for import process | - No files waiting to be processed |
- Files are waiting to be processed |
Last Date we received data |
- Data received in the last 24 hours |
- No data in last 24 hours |
Last Date we imported data | - Data imported in the last 24 hours | - No imported data in the last 24 hours |
Last Date we received images |
- Images received in the last 72 hours |
- No data in last 72 hours |
Troubleshooting Vehicle Feeds
- The quickest way to find an issue with feeds is to check the data being received
- Use the Vehicle Console and check the latest data received by your site, search for specific stock codes (shown below)
- Each time you update your Dealer Management System, your data provider (Carsales, Dealer Solutions, CDS and others) will send us a data file and images
- You can see the status of the last data received
- # of Vehicle Records we have received - the count of vehicle records sent to us by your provider
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# of Files Awaiting the import process - Any files we have received but not yet processed. The import process runs on a schedule, normally every 60 minutes
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Last Date we received Data - The date of the last data file received from your data provider
- Last Date we imported Data - The date of the last data file imported from the received data
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Last Date we received images - The date of the last data file received from your data provider
Checking Specific Stock Codes
- When the results are shown, click the display details for the vehicle
- Compare this to what you have in your internal stock system
- If the data on your site does not match the data in your DMS, please check with your data provider
Checking for a stock code
- All vehicles are displayed in the data grid below the status
- To check a specific stock code, enter all or part of the stock code into the search box and click search
- Matching stock records will be displayed
- If the vehicle exists, you can also see the images you have for the vehicle by clicking on the Manage Images icon for this record
- If the vehicle doesn't exist, please check with your data provider
- If the vehicle does exist, check there are images for the vehicle, some sites are set to not display vehicles if there are no images (see site settings below)
Files waiting for import
- If your dashboard shows files waiting to import, you can run the import process manually to save waiting for the next scheduled import
- Navigate to Vehicles, Import Vehicles
- The process will run and show the output of the import
- The import process outputs the results of the import process
Vehicle Settings
- WebEd supports several rules for vehicle display
- These can be found under your admin area
- Click Settings, Site Settings
To Check Vehicle Settings
Site Settings control many aspects of WebEd. You can see all site settings in the admin menu
- Open Site Settings
- Enter vehicle in the keyword textbox
- Click Search
- Scroll down to the vehicle settings and click edit
- Two main settings that control the listing
- Primary Make: this controls what vehicles are displayed on the site. The Primary make will display
Enable/Disable display of sold vehicle details
- The default setting is, sold vehicle details information will still display
- This can be set to yes/no by ticking(yes)/unticking(no) the setting
- Setting this to yes/ticked will not display sold vehicle details information and will just show "Vehicle Not Found Text"
- Setting this to no/unticked will display sold vehicle details information
Hiding Vehicles with No Images
- A common setting is to "Only Display Vehicles With Images"
- This can be set to yes/no
- Setting this to yes will hide vehicles that do not have images
- This will hide/display vehicles if images are not available
- Display only one brand.
- If this is set, only the requested brand of the vehicle will be displayed, all other brands are hidden
How to remove vehicles from the vehicle listing
- This is only applied to vehicles that were added manually in our admin. For the vehicles that were added to Dealer Management System (DMS), please delete the vehicles from DMS and wait 1 hour so that the update can be sent to us.
- Please go to the vehicle admin dashboard (vehicle listing)
- Select the delete icon at the vehicle that you want to remove, you will be redirected to the Details page to confirm for deletion.
How to Site Setting Overwrite Vehicle Type using the Current Domain
- This setting is to set up the Vehicle Types of Vehicle Listing using the domain.
- By default, the value is false, which means it is not overwriting the Vehicle Type.
- If the setting is True, the vehicle type of the vehicle listing will be matched using the current domain.
- Example: If the setting is True, we have a vehicle type "Testing Vehicles" and the current domain is "testingvehiclesannette.com.au", the vehicle type of the vehicle listing will be "Testing Vehicles" regardless of the set-up Vehicle Types for the vehicle listing.
Displaying a Single Vehicle as Page Content
- Go to your site and login as Administrator
- Go to page that you want to show vehicle details and click Edit
- In the editor click Curly Bracket button to open the configuration curly brackets
- Click Configure button in the popup
- Search Vehicle Details in new popup and click Vehicle Listing item in result search
- Configuration popup will be shown. Config options in the left side and review the UI in the right side
- Click Insert button to save. Click an OK button in next popup to complete.
- Click Update And Close. Then you can see the vehicle details on the page
Manually Adding Vehicles into the Vehicle Listing Module
Vehicle Listing Module Purpose
The vehicle listing module creates a fast & efficient way of recording and displaying information on vehicles on your website. It creates a database of stock for easy integration into internal stock and inventory systems and is downloadable into Excel.
How to manually add vehicles to vehicle module
- Go to your website & login
- Launch the Admin Module
- In the blue tabs on the left-hand side select:
- Vehicles – then
- Vehicles Listing
- From this index page, you can:
- Create new vehicle listings
- Edit existing listings (using the pencil icon)
- Delete listings (using the X icon)
- Upload Images (using the image icon)
You can also export the data to an excel spreadsheet using the Export to CSV button in the top right-hand corner
Adding and Uploading Images to your Vehicle Listing
- Once your details are complete, return to the index to add images to your vehicle
- Choose the image icon next to the vehicle you added
- The images listing will appear, without images
- Click upload More Images
- To load an image – click Upload More Images
- A window opens
- Drag and Drop Files from your desktop or click the Upload Vehicle Images button.
- Choose from your desktop or file images
- You can upload multiple images by selecting more than one image at a time
- The images will be uploaded and automatically deposited against your vehicle
Once vehicle details and images are complete – they will appear on the listing page of your website.
Controlling the Order
- Edit the images and set the order for each image
- The order controls the image display order on the listing
- use 10,20, and 30 when adjusting to make spaces
- Each record must have a unique order
Vehicle Type Management
What is a Vehicle Type
Manage vehicles by types for display on specific pages or listings.
- A vehicle can belong to multiple types.
- Normally the types are present and do not need to be changed.
- Generally, you will only use this feature if you are manually maintaining your vehicles
Why you would use a Vehicle Type
Manage vehicles by type should be easier to:
- The filter in the admin module,
- The filter in end-user UI
- Show vehicles with types admin want in the UI.
Vehicle Type Management in Action
Here's an actual sample
Creating a Vehicle Type
- In the left menu, select: Vehicles > Vehicle Types
- Click on Create New Vehicle Type button
- Enter the value
- Name: The name of the vehicle type
- Description: Explain or detail of vehicle type
- Disclaimer Note:
- Show Vehicle Belong To
- Primary Key: This is key for checking on the vehicle import file
- Press the "Save" button to save the new vehicle type.
- The type just created will display on the grid in-vehicle type listing page.
Edit Vehicle Type
- On the listing page, click the edit icon .
- On the edit page, modify fields then press Save or Save And Continue Edit button to save.
Vehicle Type Details
- In the listing page, click on the icon to view details:
- The details of vehicle type will be shown
- You can see the listing vehicle has this type
Delete Vehicle Type
- On the listing page, click on theicon or go to the details page and press the Delete button.
- A new small popup will be displayed. Click the OK button to delete or Cancel to ignore.
- A new popup display to inform the vehicle type has just been deleted, click the OK button to go to the listing page.
- Vehicle types were updated:
How to add a new vehicle type to the import file
- On the import file, The first row will be the property field of one vehicle.
- The field "NUD" contains the keyword of vehicle type.
- The NUD should be contained on the Primary Key field of the vehicle type.
- This is the document for the import vehicle process How To Vehicle Importing.
Refer to this video link
Managing Displayed Prices on Vehicle Listings
Why you would use Displayed Price on Vehicle Listing
- Most Vehicles have 2 prices in the supplied data.
- Drive Away Price = The selling price of the car including any transfer fee, government taxes or dealer delivery
- Base Price = The base price of the car before any additional drive-away fees are added
- As per ACC guidelines, it is recommended you always use the Drive Away price
- This setting allows you to set the price displayed based on rules to suit your business
- You can also set the text to display if there is no price available, the default is TBC (To Be Confirmed)
- At times, you may not have both prices set for a Vehicle in your Dealer Management System (DMS)
- The data displayed on your listing will be the same as the data you have entered in your DMS
What are the available settings?
- Price to Display
- Use Drive Away Price - always use the Drive Away Price. If the drive-away price is not available, then TBC (to be confirmed) will be displayed
- Use Base Price - always use the Base Price. If the drive away price is not available, then TBC (to be confirmed) will be displayed
- Use Drive Away Price if available else use Base Price - Use the Drive Away Price.
- If the drive-away price is not available, then Base Price will be displayed.
- If neither price is available, then TBC (to be confirmed) will be displayed
- Use Base Price if available else use Drive Away Price - Use the Base Price.
- If the Base price is not available, then the Drive Away Price will be displayed.
- If neither price is available, then TBC (to be confirmed) will be displayed
- No Price Text
- If the rules are set that no price can be displayed (for example, you may set Use Drive Away Price but there is no value entered in your DMS for Drive Away Price)
- The text to display instead of the price is used
- The default text is TBC but this can be changed to any value you wish
- Just be careful of the text length and test to ensure it matches the space available on your listing page
How To Edit Vehicle Listing Displayed Price Setting on Site setting
- Go to Admin Dashboard >> Site Setting >> Vehicle Listing Displayed Price Setting
- Click icon "Edit"
- The Edit page will show.
- Select Price option :
- Use Drive Away Price
- Use Base Price
- Use Drive Away Price if available else use Base Price
- Use Base Price if available else use Drive Away Price
- If a user doesn't select any, the price will get the default value "TBC"
- If a vehicle doesn't have both the price and retail price, it will show the default value "TBC".
- Click the Save button.
- The Vehicle Listing page will display the Price according to the selected Price option in Vehicle Listing Displayed Price Setting. (Selected: Use Base Price)
- The Vehicle Listing page will display the Price according to the selected Price option in Vehicle Listing Displayed Price Setting. (Selected: Use Drive Away Price)
- The Vehicle Listing page will display the Price according to the selected Price option in Vehicle Listing Displayed Price Setting. (Selected: Use Drive Away Price if available else use Base Price)
- The Vehicle Listing page will display the Price according to the selected Price option in Vehicle Listing Displayed Price Setting. (Selected: Use Base Price if available else use Drive Away Price)
- The Vehicle Listing page will display the Price according to the selected Price option in Vehicle Listing Displayed Price Setting. (None selected)
Viewing the Vehicle Dashboard
What is a vehicle dashboard?
- When the user wants to view the enquiry vehicle and vehicle tracking data
Why you would use a vehicle dashboard?
- The vehicle dashboard provides an overview about:
- Vehicle leads
- List view and details view of a vehicle
- Phone click, domain click, email click of the dealer on the vehicle details page
Vehicle Dashboard Logic
On the curly bracket
- This is the same for both vehicle listings: The Vehicle listing on the dealer site and the CentralizedVehicle Listing of Porsche approved site
- Get the vehicle based on a parameter and query search
- Make a view model for saving tracking
- The vehicles will be updated or inserted into the VehicleViewDealers table with a number listview increase
- Also sent data for tracking to the central site
On the vehicle details page
- When we go to the detail page, it will be called to the "DealerTracking" function with the stock number of this vehicle
- Make a model data for saving to table tracking based on the action on the dealer page
- The details tracking will save on the "VehicleViewDealers" table
- This data also sent to the central site
Vehicle Dashboard
This is simple for dashboard
This is the result to show the vehicle tracking also
The Leads
- This is the data when we execute the stored procedure "[usp_VehicleDashboardLeadSummary]"
- This is the data of the enquiry form submit
- This is getting data from the Contact table and ContactVehicles table
The List view
- This is the data showing for the vehicle listing was show
- This data gets when we call the stored procedure "usp_VehicleDashboardStockSummary"
- It sums up all the detailed views we have on the listing page
The WWW Clicks
- This is the result when clicking the link redirects to the website on the details page
- This result is the WwwClicks of the stored procedure "usp_VehicleDashboardStockSummary"
The Email Clicks
- This is the result when clicking the email of the dealer on the details page
- This result is the EmailClicksof the stored procedure "usp_VehicleDashboardStockSummary"
See Vehicle Dashboard in Action
Please reference this link or you can check on your dealer website by typing in http://(DEALER_NAME).com.au/Admin/Vehicles
Navigating the Vehicle Dashboard
- Go to Vehicle Dashboard
- Click on the filter button.
- Select the date range you want to get data
- Click on the Export button if you want to export to an excel file
- The excel file will be downloaded
Finding Your Vehicle Leads
Why you might need this despite leads being sent directly to your allocated email?
It is possible to create a report which shows you how many people have responded to the vehicle request and Test Drive forms on your vehicle listings pages.
- Perhaps the person who usually handles leads is away
- To get a quick overview or a longer report on who or
- Download the report on how many have responded to the forms
How to Find your Vehicle Leads
- Log in and go to the Admin dashboard
- Search for ‘Email Queues’
- In the ‘Subject’ field, write ‘Request’ and hit enter. All your requests will be shown
- If you want to print the data
Below the title - look for and select the green rectangle EXPORT - Once selected save your information to excel, where you can easily look at it and separate the data if required
Done.
Editing the Vehicle Request More Info Form
What is a Vehicle Request more info Form?
- The form "Request More Info" is displayed on the vehicle listings.
- It allows anyone interested in a vehicle to send a request to the site owner
- The data is saved in contact and tagged with the product of interest for the vehicle make, model
What does it control?
- Request More Info Success Message - The text displayed to the end user after they submit
- Request More Info Email Address - The Email Address to which the request will be sent. This should be set to sales@ or enquiries@
- You can enter multiple email addresses separated by a semi-colon (;)
- Always leave the email address porscheforms@gmail.com in the email to list so Interactive Partners support staff can troubleshoot any issues
- The Auto Response Template. This is the email the user will receive after they submit a request
- The Notify Template. This is the email sent to addresses listed in the "Request More Info Email Address"
How to Edit the Vehicle Request More Info Form
- Log in as Administrator.
- Go to the admin area
- Locate Settings on the left panel then click on Site Settings
- Or use the search box at the top of the admin menu to search "site settings"
- A list of Site Settings should appear
- Either scroll down and look for Vehicle Request More Info or type "Vehicle Request More Info" in the name text box at the top of the listing
- Once you've located it, click on the Edit icon
- After clicking on Edit, the setting for the form should appear
- Description: the description of the setting
Request More Info Success Message: This text will display after the form submit
Request More Info Email Address: List email addresses will receive form information, each email separate by comma or semicolon
- Description: the description of the setting
- Edit the email address it's coming from.
- And choose which Email Template will be sent to the client
Editing the Auto Response Template for the Vehicle Listing Enquiry form
- To Edit the Auto Response Template (or other templates shown in the drop-down)
- Look for and click on Email Templates on the left menu panel under Settings
- A list of Templates should show, Scroll to look for Auto Response Email Template (Or the template you wish to edit)
- Then click on the Edit icon
- The Template form should show - where you can edit the template body (Auto Response)
- Once the template has been finished, click on Save
Managing Vehicle Request More Info Site Setting
Vehicle Request Info Setting
After the user submits the form, the system needs to send information to the email addresses set up in this setting.
- Log in as Administrator in the admin module.
- Go to Site settings by selecting: Settings > Site Settings, then search for Vehicle Request More Info
- Click the Edit icon to edit the settings
Description: the description of the setting
Request More Info Success Message: This text will display after the form submit
Request More Info Email Address: List email addresses will receive form information, each email separate by comma or semicolon
Email Template: The template will send to a list of Email Addresses
Press Save or Save And Continue Edit to save
Configurating an Email Template
- Edit email template
- In the left menu, select Settings > Email Templates
- List email templates will list in the grid
- Find Request More Info Email Template
- Click the icon to edit the email template
- Name: Name of email template
- Subject: The subject of the email will send to list emails in Request More Info Email Address in site settings.
- From: Send From Email address
- From Name: The name to be displayed in the From field in the email
- CC, BCC: The list of the email address/es that also needs to receive the Request More Info email and separate them by comma or semicolon
- Body: Content of email template. Admin can be added more fields by clicking on Add Property button
- Create a new email template
Click Add New Email Template button to create
Choose Email Template Type is AutoResponse in the select box -
Enter other information then press Create or Create And Continue Edit button to save.
A new email template will display in the grid - Now, go back to Site Settings and then edit the Vehicle Request More Info setting.
In the Email Template dropdown will display the new email template just created from the previous step
Reference video
Vehicles Not Showing Up on the Website
The site is displaying vehicles with images only
Some vehicles may not show up on the website even if the data has been imported. This can be controlled in the admin module.
Your website is displaying only the vehicles that have images. You can check below if this is the case.
1. Checking your site settings
- Log in to your website's admin module
- Add "/Admin" to your website's URL. eg: https://launceston.interactivepartners.com.au/Admin
- Go to Settings > Site Settings
- On the Search bar, search for "Vehicle Settings"
- click "Search"
- click the "Edit" icon on the left
- Scroll down to the checkbox "Only Display Vehicles Has Images"
- Checked - this means your page is displaying ONLY the vehicles with images
- The box is checked by default as best practice.
- Unchecked - this means your page is displaying vehicles with and without images
- Checked - this means your page is displaying ONLY the vehicles with images
Please be advised
If you want to display the vehicles without images, you may continue to step 2. However, it is recommended that you do not change this setting. You may contact your data provider to push the images for us to be able to receive them during import and display them on your site, without you having to change this setting.
2. Changing the Site Settings
- Uncheck the box to display vehicles without images as well
- Click the "Save" button at the bottom of the page
- You will see the message "Site Setting updated successfully" which indicates you have successfully made your update.
- You should now be able to see the vehicles without images on your website
Previous results on your page:
After making the change:
Please be advised
The box is checked by default as best practice. If you change this setting, customers may end up getting frustrated because they can read the details of the vehicles but cannot see images, which is why it is recommended that your page only shows vehicles with images. If you want all your vehicles to have images displayed, please contact your data provider to push the images for us to be able to receive them during import and display them on your site, without you having to change this setting.
Selecting Which Price will be Displayed on Vehicle Listings
Overview
In the Vehicle Listing templates, we display the vehicle's price beside the mileage as shown below.
Vehicle Data
Most vehicles have 2 prices in the supplied data, the Drive Away price and the Base price
- Drive Away Price = The selling price of the car including any transfer fee, government taxes or dealer delivery
- Base Price = The base price of the car before any additional drive-away fees are added
As per ACC guidelines, it is recommended you always use the Drive Away price. This setting allows you to set the price displayed based on rules to suit your business which can be configured in the Admin Site Settings.
- You can also set the text to display if there is no price available, the default is TBC (To Be Confirmed)
- At times, you may not have both prices set for a Vehicle in your Dealer Management System (DMS)
- The data displayed on your listing will be the same as the data you have entered in your DMS
Drive Away vs Base Price
- Use Drive Away Price - always use the Drive Away Price. If the drive-away price is not available, then TBC (to be confirmed) will be displayed
- Use Base Price - always use the Base Price. If the drive-away price is not available, then TBC (to be confirmed) will be displayed
- Use Drive Away Price if available else use Base Price - Use the Drive Away Price.
- If the drive-away price is not available, then Base Price will be displayed.
- If neither price is available, then TBC (to be confirmed) will be displayed
- Use Base Price if available else use Drive Away Price - Use the Base Price.
- If the Base price is not available, then the Drive Away Price will be displayed.
- If neither price is available, then TBC (to be confirmed) will be displayed
- No Price Text
- If the rules are set that no price can be displayed (for example, you may set Use Drive Away Price but there is no value entered in your DMS for Drive Away Price)
- The text to display instead of the price is used
- The default text is TBC but this can be changed to any value you wish
- Just be careful of the text length and test to ensure it matches the space available on your listing page
Follow the step-by-step guide to configure your listing price.
Selecting Price for a Vehicle Listing
- Log in as an administrator
- Go to any page on your site
- Hover on the floating icons to the right of the page
- Click on the Admin Dashboard icon
- Once you're in the Admin Dashboard, click Settings from the left panel
- Select Site Settings
- You will be directed to the Site Setting Management page
- Under Search Curly Brackets, on the first field, enter "price" then click the Search button to the right
- The results will be displayed in the grid
- The site setting that controls the displayed price is the Vehicle Listing Displayed Price Setting
- Click on the Edit icon on its left
- You will be taken to the Edit page for this setting
- In the Price field, you can select the price you want to display in the listing
- Use Drive Away Price
- Use Base Price
- Use Drive Away Price if available else use Base Price
- Use Base Price if available else use Drive Away Price
- In the No Price Text field, enter the text you want to show if the vehicle has no price (allow empty)
- Once done, click Save or Save and Continue Edit
Adding a Vehicle Listing on a Page
Adding a Vehicle Listing via Edit Page
- Go to the page you want to add the vehicle listing to
- Log in as administrator > Manage your website
- Hover on the floating icons to the right of the page
- Click on the Edit floating icon
- In the content editor, choose icon "{T}" to add curly bracket
- The Select Curly Bracket window will appear
- Search for the vehicle listing curly bracket by entering "vehicle" on the search field
- Click on the Vehicle Listing curly bracket
- Configure your Vehicle Listing curly bracket
- Enable search: Check = enable , uncheck = disable
- Types: choose the vehicle type you want to show
- Show All Vehicle type filter: Check = dropdown list vehicle type have all vehicle types
- Make: input the vehicle's make you want to show (allow empty)
- Model: input the vehicle's model you want to show (allow empty)
- Stock Number: input the vehicle's stock number you want to show (allow empty)
- Total: total vehicle shown in the listing (empty means show all)
- Page Size: number of the vehicle displayed on 1 page (we recommend 10)
- Template Name: select your preferred template for display
- Exclude Make-Model in Sort Options: Check = excludes Make and Model
- Preview is displayed on the right of the configuration fields
- If you are satisfied with the configuration, scroll down to the bottom of the window and click the Insert button
- Click Save or Save and Continue Edit on your page editor as usual
Adding a Vehicle Listing on a New Page
- Go to any page on your site
- Log in as administrator > Manage your website
- Hover on the floating icons to the right of the page
- Click on the Create floating icon
- In the content editor, choose icon "{T}" to add curly bracket
- The Select Curly Bracket window will appear
- Search for the vehicle listing curly bracket by entering "vehicle" on the search field
- Click on the Vehicle Listing curly bracket
- Configure your Vehicle Listing curly bracket
- Enable search: Check = enable , uncheck = disable
- Types: choose the vehicle type you want to show
- Show All Vehicle type filter: Check = dropdown list vehicle type have all vehicle types
- Make: input the vehicle's make you want to show (allow empty)
- Model: input the vehicle's model you want to show (allow empty)
- Stock Number: input the vehicle's stock number you want to show (allow empty)
- Total: total vehicle shown in the listing (empty means show all)
- Page Size: number of the vehicle displayed on 1 page (we recommend 10)
- Template Name: select your preferred template for display
- Exclude Make-Model in Sort Options: Check = excludes Make and Model
- Preview is displayed on the right of the configuration fields
- If you are satisfied with the configuration, scroll down to the bottom of the window and click the Insert button
- Click Save or Save and Continue Edit on your page editor as usual
Vehicle Listing Sort Options
Vehicle Listing Sort Options Overview
On the front end, vehicles displayed using the VehicleListing curly bracket can be sorted by:
- Featured - highlighted vehicles are sorted by record orders in the Admin Vehicle Setting, the administrator can control this.
- Price (low to high or high to low) - vehicles are sorted based on the price data. The administrator can set it to use the Drive Away price or the Base price, learn more.
- Kms (low to high or high to low) - vehicles are sorted based on the mileage (Kms) data.
- Year Made (low to high or high to low) - vehicles are sorted based on the year-made data.
- Last Updated - vehicles are sorted based on the latest imported data.
Why you would use Featured as a vehicle sorting option
The default sorting option for vehicles in a vehicle listing is Sort by Price (low to high), but, having Featured vehicles as a sorting option is useful if the administrator wants to "feature" vehicles regardless of the price, mileage, year or last update. The administrator can add the Featured option in the site settings.
Follow the steps below to add Featured as an option on your listing.
Managing the Vehicle Listing Sort Options
- Log in as administrator then select Launch the Admin Module
- Once you're in the Admin Dashboard, from the left pane, click Settings > Site Setting
- UnderSearch Curly Brackets, on the first field, enter"vehicle setting"then click theSearchbutton to the right
- The results will be displayed in the grid
- The site setting that controls the displayed price is theVehicle Settings
- Click on theEditicon on its left
- You will be taken to the Edit page for this setting
- Once you're in the Edit Site Setting: Vehicle Settings, scroll down to the bottom
- Tick the checkbox for Enable Default Sort
- And enter "RecordOrder, Price desc" or "RecordOrder, Price asc" on the Default Sort Value field
- This means the default sort on the vehicle listing will be the record order, then the price (descending or ascending)
- Click Save or Save and Continue Edit
- Go back to the vehicle listing on the front end
- Notice that the default sort is now "Featured"
- The visitor can always change this by clicking on another sorting option