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 by location, and even if they choose not to, each vehicle page will inform shoppers where the vehicle they are looking at is located.

Often, the make-or-break feature of managing multiple locations is lead delivery. Websites built on Inventory Presser can absolutely deliver lead notifications to different sales representatives based on the dealership to which a vehicle belongs. A location taxonomy is built-in to the core of the Inventory Presser plugin, and serves as the basis for filtering, segmented lead delivery, and guiding shoppers to the right dealership.

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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:

• Display HIN instead of VIN
• Odometer units are hours instead of miles
• Built-in boat types list
• Manage boat-specific fields like length, beam, propulsion type, etc.

There is no switch to flip before these boat features are enabled. This functionality is native to the platform and will greet you anytime a boat is added or edited while using Inventory Presser. If you are also using one of our WordPress dealership themes, this boat-specific data will be displayed without any additional effort.

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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, and updated automatically by Friday Systems’ dealer management software, Lot Wizard.

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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 service provider. We were willing to find an existing WordPress product and build on top. What we found were several systems that were built by people who were either not already in the business of automotive inventory management or not well-versed in WordPress development. Our value proposition is that we are great at both of these things.

Friday Systems has been managing dealership inventory since the late 1980s–that means our company’s first software pre-dated Microsoft Windows. Today, we transmit thousands of cars to and from hundreds of companies before we even unlock the door in the morning. To say that our systems are battle-tested is a understatement.

Our customers demand and deserve the best websites on earth, and our passion for WordPress only grows as we continue using it to build websites. Our two lead developers on this project, Corey Salzano and John Norton, both have experience building solutions on WordPress. The inherent challenges of automotive inventory management are not automatically mitigated by WordPress like so many others, and that is why our expertise allows us to build products that are better than the alternatives.

The plan

• Build a minimum-viable product and start a private beta (Update March 2016: Our Private Beta Starts Today)
• Migrate as many customers as we can while maintaining a rigorous pace of development
• Package the system for power users and other web developers
• Build a community that will help our customers and promote product growth

Here we go!

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