Auto-lead Data Format (ADF)

[desiondarun]

Is this format an industry standard? Can someone recommend a good website to access the sample files and spec documents? Thank You.

 

[Alexander Lau]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-lead_Data_Format

Auto-lead Data Format (ADF) is an open XML-based standard specifically for communicating consumer purchase requests to automotive dealerships. Thirteen leading automotive-related Internet companies developed the ADF standard, and now many vendors of Customer Retention Management systems serving the automotive industry support ADF.

 

[Ryan Everson]

Attached is a document that will provide you a ton more info than the one on Wikipedia. Hope this helps!

 

[Jeff Kershner]

Thanks everyone for helping out the noob.

 

[Alexander Lau]

Attached is a document that will provide you a ton more info than the one on Wikipedia. Hope this helps!

^ Definitely, a much better example. Just pointing him to the basics.

I showed an example here: ADF / XML (Auto-lead Data Format) Example

 

[craigh]

I would like to see the whole industry move away from ADF and towards STAR.
http://www.starstandard.org/index.php/star-standards/star-xml-bods/latest-xml-release

STAR lets us send far more useful data to populate consumer information.
We've integrated with a few CRMs that support it and it's dreamy.

 

[Chris Leslie]

Is there something you are trying to ?

 

[Rick Buffkin]

can we please just go back to faxing leads??? My machine is ready and waiting!! Ol ya, it uses STAR also! As an added bonus, it uses QWERTY to!!

 

[craigh]

Is there something you are trying to ?

Are you asking me something?

 

[Chris Leslie]

Haha, I didnt think I hit post on that.. my bad. I was wondering what the person was trying to do. or if they were just inquiring.