The Inventory tab helps dealerships manage vehicle listings, track performance, and keep inventory updated. It offers tools to organize vehicles, manage data feeds, and monitor shopper interest through VDP views.
Overview
The Inventory tab serves as a central hub for managing and monitoring your dealership's current vehicle inventory. It provides tools to help you track key metrics, organize your listings, and analyze vehicle performance. By using this tab, you can ensure that your inventory is up-to-date, well-organized, and aligned with your dealership's sales and marketing strategies, ultimately enhancing your ability to attract and convert potential buyers.
Overview Subtab
The Overview subtab provides a comprehensive snapshot of your dealership's inventory, offering tools to manage and optimize your vehicle listings.
- Inventory Dashboard: Get a high-level overview of your inventory, including key performance indicators and trends.
- All Vehicles: Access a detailed list of all vehicles in your inventory, with options to filter, sort, and manage them efficiently.
- Inventory Feeds: Manage and configure the data feeds that keep your inventory listings up to date across various platforms.
- Vehicle Sets: Group vehicles into specific sets for easier management and targeted marketing efforts.
Inventory Dashboard
The Inventory Dashboard provides an overview of your dealership’s vehicle inventory, displaying key statistics such as color, model, trim, condition, and year. The dashboard allows for easy navigation and management of the dealership's inventory feed and vehicle sets.
Account Inventory
The Account Inventory section provides a detailed summary of the vehicles currently in stock at your dealership. It displays aggregated statistics on vehicle attributes like color, model, trim, condition, and year. The section also includes inventory feed statuses, showing when the feed was created and last updated. You can manage your inventory feeds, activate or deactivate them, and access more detailed feed information. This section allows you to filter and search for specific vehicles, manage vehicle sets, and export inventory data for further use.
When you click on Manage Feeds, it will take you to the Inventory Feeds section of the Orbee Platform. To activate or deactivate your feeds, click on Details, which will direct you to a view where you can toggle the settings.
Note: Some accounts might have one feed whereas some accounts may have more. To set up your feeds, you will need to contact an Orbee representative and contact your inventory feed provider.
Vehicle Sets
Vehicle Sets allows you to view and manage groups of vehicles from your inventory. You can search for specific vehicles, filter by availability, and create or manage custom vehicle sets. The section also offers options to export data and switch between grid and list views to see detailed vehicle information, including images and pricing.
To search for a specific vehicle or description, use the search bar. You can also filter vehicles by selecting from the drop-down list labeled Vehicle Set, which displays available vehicle sets. To create or manage these lists, click on Manage Sets to access the Vehicle Sets section of the Platform.
Below the Vehicle Sets filter, you can sort vehicles by All, Not Available, or Available status.
You can export the list as a CSV file by clicking the floppy disk icon. To view vehicles with images, switch to grid mode, where you can see car images, VINs, prices, and availability, and click View VDP for more details. You can return to list view, adjust the number of rows per page, and navigate through pages using the > and < buttons.
Reports Subtab
The Reports subtab provides valuable insights into your dealership's inventory performance through detailed reporting tools.
- Vehicle VDP Views: Track how many times your Vehicle Detail Pages (VDPs) are viewed, providing insights into shopper interest and engagement.