Press Releases

  • Inventory Presser is Free and Open Source

    Post: Today is the day Inventory Presser, a WordPress plugin for automobile dealerships, launches as a free and open-source product at the core of an ecosystem of add-on plugins. 🎉 All development will happen on Github before new versions are released in the official WordPress Plugin Repository. Manage inventory and vehicle listings in WordPress Our…

  • We’ve submitted Inventory Presser to the WordPress.org Plugin Repository

    Post: Almost five years after the dealership website went live running Inventory Presser, Friday Systems has submitted the plugin for inclusion in the official WordPress.org Plugin Repository. The review team currently has a backlog of almost 20 plugins, so a response may arrive in a few weeks rather than a few days. Until the plugin…

  • Inventory Presser’s Vehicle is ACF Compatible

    Post: Inventory Presser is fully-compatible with Advanced Custom Fields. ACF is a popular plugin used to store additional pieces of data with objects in WordPress. Vehicles in Inventory Presser are stored in a custom post type, making them easily manipulated with ACF. Here’s a screen shot that shows how to create a new field group…

  • Updating Car Dealer Inventory via the WordPress REST API

    Updating Car Dealer Inventory via the WordPress REST API

    Post: In 2018, Inventory Presser retired its vehicle importer plugin that used a combination of WP-Cron, XML files, and FTP transfers to maintain inventories on dozens dealership websites. It hasn’t been replaced with a better importer–the web servers running Inventory Presser no longer need to listen for inventory changes. One hundred percent of dealership sites…

  • Friday Systems Vehicle Importer 3.0.0 Has Launched

    Friday Systems Vehicle Importer 3.0.0 Has Launched

    Post: UPDATE: We don’t do this anymore! Read Using the REST API to Update Vehicle Listings in WordPress. We are thrilled to launch version 3 of our Vehicle Importer WordPress plugin. This plugin imports car, boat and power-sport vehicles into WordPress websites running Inventory Presser, an inventory management plugin for dealerships. While some customers in…

  • Manage Inventory at Multiple Dealerships on One Website

    Manage Inventory at Multiple Dealerships on One Website

    Post: Blending inventory from multiple dealerships into a single website is effortless on websites built with Inventory Presser and WordPress. Not only is managing multiple addresses, phone numbers and sets of hours easy, but associating vehicles with separate locations is just as simple. Customers shopping for vehicles on websites built on Inventory Presser can filter…

  • Boat Dealer Websites On WordPress

    Boat Dealer Websites On WordPress

    Post: Our plugins and themes are now more boat-friendly than ever before. In addition to the easy inventory management tools Inventory Presser delivers to any dealership, boat dealers will enjoy features like these: There is no switch to flip before these boat features are enabled. This functionality is native to the platform and will greet…

  • Our Private Beta Starts Today

    Our Private Beta Starts Today

    Post: Friday Systems is thrilled to announce the first dealership website running the Inventory Presser plugin has launched. Warwick Autopark, a dealership just a few miles from the Friday Systems office in Lititz, Pennsylvania, has always been a great supporter of the development of new software. Their new website is built on WordPress, 100% responsive,…

  • Dealership Inventory Management On WordPress

    Dealership Inventory Management On WordPress

    Post: At Friday Systems, we are building a dealership website platform on top of WordPress because we want to provide our customers with the best websites possible. Why We are ready to offer a new website platform, and we see a suite of WordPress plugins expanding our product offerings to beyond that of just a…