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The latest updates, improvements, and new features

May 2026

May 2026

May 8, 2026

AutoDealer schema expanded on VDP’s

Schema improvements give search engines a more complete picture of your dealership across every vehicle detail page. Shoppers can now sort and filter inventory by whether vehicles are in stock or in transit.


Stronger structured data on every vehicle detail page

Three schema improvements give search engines a more complete picture of your dealership. Vehicle detail pages now include your dealer entity in the seller field, so search engines can attribute inventory directly to your store in structured results. AutoDealer schema now includes your dealership's coordinates pulled from your dealer record, and your Google Business Profile URL is mapped to the schema's ID field, connecting your verified Google listing to your site's structured data.

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Prioritize in-stock inventory

A new Prioritize In-Stock Inventory setting in Admin lets dealers automatically surface in-stock vehicles ahead of in-transit units in consumer search results. When enabled, shoppers browsing inventory see available vehicles first without any manual sorting required.


Improvements

  • Consumer pages load faster after reducing JavaScript bundle size, which improves initial load time for shoppers on slower connections.
  • Feed prices are now editable directly in the V2 pricing panel without leaving the pricing editor.
  • Pages now have a dedicated Iframe component in the page builder, available under the Integrations menu. Previously, embedding an iframe required inserting raw HTML through the HTML component. The new component includes settings for URL, width, height, fullscreen, and lazy-load behavior, and validates that the URL is a valid HTTPS address.

Fixes

  • Selecting a Model filter after a Year filter was already applied was clearing or breaking the results. Both filters now work together correctly.
  • Lead stage mapping was displaying "VOI" instead of "Trade-in" for trade-in leads in some CRM integrations. The label now maps correctly.
  • Disclaimer buttons and interactive elements on image cards were not reachable via keyboard navigation. These are now keyboard accessible.
  • Inventory pages filtered by condition were reporting all vehicles as new in the analytics data layer from the general SRP, regardless of actual condition, causing ASC data quality issues for dealers running condition-based tracking. Filtered pages now report the correct condition for each vehicle including new, used and CPO.

April 2026

April 2026

April 24, 2026

OEM compliance scans & site speed improvements.

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Suggestions can now automatically check your site against OEM-specific compliance rules and flag issues before they become problems. Two changes this week improve Core Web Vitals scores on consumer pages. Several fixes cover inventory feed photo imports, mobile trade-in modal behavior, and EV range data accuracy.


OEM compliance scanning in Suggestions

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Suggestions can now identify OEM compliance issues on your site and surface them directly in the Admin panel. This is available now for Lexus, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz dealers. If your OEM has content or structural requirements, Suggestions checks your pages against those rules and tells you specifically what needs attention. This gives dealers a clear view of compliance gaps without waiting for an OEM audit to find them. Support for additional OEM types will expand as rules are added.

What this includes:

  • Automatic compliance checks for Lexus, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz
  • Specific flags for pages or content that do not meet OEM requirements

Site speed

We are actively working to improve Core Web Vitals scores across all dealer sites. Faster pages rank better in search and keep shoppers engaged through to inventory.

  • Consumer site pages now deliver a leaner data payload to the browser, improving load times across the board.
  • AI chat icons now use the WebP format, a smaller and faster image format that reduces load time on any page where the chat widget appears.

Improvements

  • Page migration now imports CTAs grouped on one row, renders bullet points as lists rather than accordions, and preserves embedded links so migrated pages need fewer manual corrections after import.
  • Incentive display on vehicle detail pages now shows all available offers more clearly so shoppers can see applicable savings on the page.
  • Dealers can now link directly to the payment calculator on any vehicle page by adding ?open=estimate to the URL, so shoppers who arrive from campaigns or emails land straight in the financing tool.
  • Suggestions in Admin loads faster so dealers spend less time waiting before acting on recommendations.
  • Admin loads only the brands your dealership carries, reducing load time in brand-related settings.
  • Admin responds faster across multiple views with backend performance improvements applied throughout.

Fixes

  • The page editor in Admin now reflects AI component changes live, so dealers can see exactly what was updated without refreshing the page.
  • INVENtrue inventory feeds now bring in the full set of vehicle photos available in the feed, so dealer sites display complete image galleries.
  • Vehicle descriptions now support ** separators and line breaks from inventory feed data, rendering as properly structured feature lists on consumer pages.
  • Mobile shoppers can now exit the trade-in modal at any point, including when a vehicle has insufficient transaction data.
  • Shoppers browsing electric vehicles now see precise range figures drawn from DataOne's primary EV range source.
  • Group site contact forms with a location selector now route to the right destination based on each child dealer's lead address, with no group-level configuration required.
  • Inventory XML exports now include YouTube video links, so platforms receiving the feed get complete vehicle media data.

April 10, 2026

Pricing is now fully customizable.

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Our new pricing tool gives dealers a structured way to build and control the pricing display on their site. Build a stack of line items in Admin - each with a custom label, icon, color, and a mapped price field - then set exactly which rows appear on search results, vehicle pages, or the pricing drawer. A single config can show a clean summary on SRP and a full breakdown on the VDP, without building two separate setups.


Pricing

Dealers can now work with their Motive partners to build a custom pricing display from scratch in Admin. Each line item in a config gets its own label, icon, brand color, and price field mapping. Each row can be assigned to show on the SRP card, the vehicle detail page, the pricing drawer, or any combination of those surfaces. The SRP preview in Admin shows only the rows set for SRP, and the VDP preview shows only the rows set for VDP, so what you configure is exactly what shoppers see.

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What this includes:

  • Line items with configurable labels, icons, brand colors, and price field mappings
  • Per-element surface assignment: SRP, VDP, drawer, or any combination
  • Fallback behavior per element when a value is unavailable: hide the row, show $0, or show "Call for Price"
  • Admin preview that matches real SRP and VDP rendering before publishing
  • Pricing display on the consumer site that reflects the config exactly, across all four surfaces: SRP card, VDP, mobile sticky bar, and the pricing drawer

Admin AI now manages your site and remembers your dealership

Admin AI can now take action on your behalf across three areas: site operations, dealer settings, and memory across sessions.

Nav and redirects

Admin AI can add, update, and remove navigation links and sections, and create or delete redirects, all through chat. Tell it where a new page should live in the nav, ask it to rename a section, or give it a source and destination URL and it handles the update as well as confirms what changed. If you have a large list of redirects to create at once, upload a CSV and the AI processes the whole batch. The admin panel reflects every change right away so you can verify before moving on.

Dealer settings

Admin AI now reads and updates dealer settings. Ask it to change a setting by name, check what a value is currently set to, or make an adjustment and it returns a before-and-after summary so you can confirm the change at a glance without navigating away from the conversation.

Memory across conversations

The AI retains details from past conversations and applies them to future sessions. Preferences you have shared, work you have done, and context about your site carry forward automatically, so the AI can offer more relevant suggestions without asking you to repeat yourself. Memory stays tied to your dealership and builds over time as you use it.


Improvements

  • Stock photo placeholders can now be set separately for new and used inventory, so dealers control what shoppers see when a vehicle has no photos uploaded.
  • The home page now refreshes after slideshow changes are published, so updates appear on the live site without a manual cache clear.

Fixes

  • Dealer logos in the footer now size correctly. Previously, adding the ADA compliance logo caused logos on several sites to render too small.

March 2026

March 2026

March 27, 2026

Admin AI edits pages in place.

Dealers can now use the Admin AI assistant to add and remove page sections, create custom HTML components, and update images without leaving the page editor. Custom forms can also now be connected to lead walls, giving dealers more control over how they collect shopper information.

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In-page AI editing: add, remove, and build

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The AI assistant in the page editor can now add and remove entire page sections on request. Ask it to add a section, describe what you want, and it places the component in the page. Ask it to remove a section and it handles the deletion without the dealer leaving the editor. The AI can also write custom HTML components from scratch when built-in component types do not cover what a dealer needs, and images are now part of the editing loop: when a requested change involves swapping or updating an image, the AI handles it and previews the result before saving.

What this includes:

  • Add new page sections by describing what you want
  • Delete sections from a page with a single request
  • Generate custom HTML components via natural language
  • Update images within sections as part of any edit

Custom forms on lead walls

Dealers can now attach custom lead forms to lead walls instead of using the default contact form. This option is available through the lead wall settings in Admin and applies at the dealer level, so each rooftop can route leads through the form that fits their process.

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Improvements

  • Prop 65 compliance copy now displays on group websites for California dealers, not just individual rooftops
  • Credit score in the pre-qualification flow now shows as a tier range instead of an exact FICO number
  • Staff card contact display on /about is now configurable per dealer: choose between icons only or full contact details (phone and email visible)
  • The age filter chip no longer appears in the search results filter bar

Fixes

  • Department hours on /contact now display all configured departments, not just sales. Previously, only the sales department hours appeared regardless of what was configured in Admin.
  • CMS combo elements no longer share image references when duplicated. Previously, removing an image from a duplicated element also removed it from the original.
  • Custom iFrame dimensions now save correctly in the CMS. Previously, height and width settings reset to the 260px default after saving.
  • Collection pages no longer render multiple H1 tags. Previously, multiple H1s were generated on collection pages, affecting how search engines read the page hierarchy.
  • Icon colors on consumer pages now render correctly. Previously, some icon elements displayed in incorrect colors due to a style inheritance issue.

March 20, 2026

SEO & AI ranking signals, yours to set. EV charging map on any page.

SEO and GEO controls now extend to all page types, giving dealers direct control over canonical URLs, noindex settings, and custom schema on blogs, collections, and default pages. Custom schema is the structural layer behind GEO visibility, setting up your pages to be discovered and cited by AI systems alongside traditional search. Dealers can also add an EV charging station map to any page on their site, pulling nearby charging locations from Google Places.

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Schema, canonical URL, & noindex controls

When a shopper asks AI which dealer to visit or searches Google for a service appointment, the pages that show up are the ones search engines and AI systems can accurately read. Schema markup gives them that context: without it, search engines guess at what a page is about and AI systems skip it when generating answers.

Canonical URLs prevent duplicate content from splitting your rankings across URLs, and noindex keeps thin pages out of search indexes so they don't pull down your site's overall quality signal. All three are now available on every page type, including blogs, collections, and default pages; previously schema was applied automatically across your site, but now you set each signal per page.


EV charging station map

Dealers can now add an EV charging station map to any page on their site. The map uses the dealer's address to find nearby charging stations via Google Places, and you can set the search radius and add custom address pins directly in the page editor. It comes in two size variants and drops into the page like any other CMS element, so there is no need for third-party embeds to meet EV content requirements.

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Improvements

  • A search bar is now available as a standalone CMS element, letting you place inventory search on any page outside of the standard hero layout.
  • Suggestions scans and Admin AI image generation during content creation now run faster.
  • Collections now support copy and transfer in Admin, so you can reuse a collection configuration across sites without rebuilding it.

Fixes

  • The /contact page now shows hours for all departments, not just sales.
  • The "preparing images" status message no longer appears twice during content generation in Admin AI. Previously, it was being sent from two places simultaneously.

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