They do take a feed from homenet. I'm sending my data to them daily via homenet. Actually, I have a few different feeds going to DDC. An FTP, Homenet and Vauto (it's confusing I know but I had to do this way to get the results I wanted). Do this, call up tech support ( not your rep) and ask them to help you set it up. They will create a ticket and send it over to the inventory team for it to be set up. 1-888-895-2994.
What your rep's talking about doing will ad a truck load of work onto your plate.
Are far as the data conversions. I have around 1500 of them built for one roof top and about 600 a rooftop built for other rooftops. I'm very familiar with them. You can use homenet's tool for pricing and have a very aggressive pricing strategy. This is how you can do it.
The tool does the conversions from the top of the page to the bottom. So with that in mind, you would do something like this. First conversions could be X amount of discount off msrp before rebates and build one for each model, trim, etc. Dealer discount so to speak. Once you build those first, at the bottom of the page build conversions to subtract your incentives and rebates. Basically 2 conversions per model or trim.
If the top conversion is something like this
Type = new
year = 2014
make = ford
model = F150
cab contains crew
get msrp, subtract 2500 (or what ever discount before incentives), put in Inet price field(or if you want to see the discount on each car from the main page, just plug the price into a price field that isn't being used. Misc Price 1, 2 or 3 and activate that column on the main page to see it)
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This would be at the bottom of the page
Type = new
year = 2014
make = ford
model = F150
cab contains crew
get Inet price( or whatever price field you put the price in at the top of the page), subtract (Rebate / incentive) , put in Inet price field (or your selling price field)
This will be your sale price. Now all you have to edit and change monthly would be the incentives conversions at the bottom of the page if thats all you want to change. If you want to be more aggressive on your discounts, edit the conversions at the top of the page.
I'm doing this now with GM's Shop Click Drive program. That program automatically deducts incentives from the sale prices. I had to add the incentives back to the sale prices just for that program. So now all the 3rd partys are getting a discounted sale price like they should and the shop click drive program is getting their sale price before incentives. It works.
