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Been out of the loop for a while and missed this thread.@Kcar, thanks!One of the things that I would like to point out with our system. Even though we have a complete Vehicle Hosting tool that we have built in house and a WordPress plugin that displays that data, our strongest asset is our software stack and API. Our Vehicle hosting tool is built on a current Open Source stack that allows us to be very "agile". Even though we have built a WordPress plugin, and I am a huge WordPress fan, it could be Joomla or Drupal or any other CMS that a developer wants to use. We built an API so that dealers, marketing companies and developers can also innovate with inventory. Years ago I saw several dealers try to build their websites with local website vendors and they all failed because of inventory. This is why we set out in the direction we did with our hosting tool.By the way, as robust as WordPress is there isn't a way to create an inventory plugin that can truly manage inventory. Things like data scrubbing, photo management, data merging, DMS polling, etc., etc. are all things that need to be handled in ways that wouldn't make sense to put into WordPress. Even the Gorilla Themes car dealer site that Joe mentions only really works for smaller dealers that manually upload vehicles and then turn around and manually mark them as sold.As a side note:It would be great to see the industry start to adopt data "standards" so that true innovation can begin. Instead of banging our heads against the wall just getting the simplest functions to work.
Been out of the loop for a while and missed this thread.
@Kcar, thanks!
One of the things that I would like to point out with our system. Even though we have a complete Vehicle Hosting tool that we have built in house and a WordPress plugin that displays that data, our strongest asset is our software stack and API. Our Vehicle hosting tool is built on a current Open Source stack that allows us to be very "agile". Even though we have built a WordPress plugin, and I am a huge WordPress fan, it could be Joomla or Drupal or any other CMS that a developer wants to use. We built an API so that dealers, marketing companies and developers can also innovate with inventory. Years ago I saw several dealers try to build their websites with local website vendors and they all failed because of inventory. This is why we set out in the direction we did with our hosting tool.
By the way, as robust as WordPress is there isn't a way to create an inventory plugin that can truly manage inventory. Things like data scrubbing, photo management, data merging, DMS polling, etc., etc. are all things that need to be handled in ways that wouldn't make sense to put into WordPress. Even the Gorilla Themes car dealer site that Joe mentions only really works for smaller dealers that manually upload vehicles and then turn around and manually mark them as sold.
As a side note:
It would be great to see the industry start to adopt data "standards" so that true innovation can begin. Instead of banging our heads against the wall just getting the simplest functions to work.
