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New features and changes in Motorvar, newest first.

October 2026

Reports

Download your whole dealership

From Settings, an owner can download every record as a spreadsheet, plus the original photos, documents and attachments. Motorvar builds the archive in the background and emails the owner when it's ready.

Deals

Buyers can send documents from their phone

Buyers upload each requested item separately and can send the rest later from the same link. Large phone photos are resized before they upload.

Inventory

Undo an inventory import

If an import went wrong, undo it. Motorvar shows how many cars it will delete, archive or keep before you confirm.

Inventory

Wholesale a car from its record

Record who bought it, the price and any fees, and undo it if it was entered by mistake. Wholesale gross shows in the Sales report beside retail.

Inventory

Archive a car instead of deleting it

Keep a car's record when you remove it from active inventory.

Team

Sign-ins show the device

Recent sign-ins in Settings and on your profile now name the device, such as Chrome on Windows, with times in your dealership's time zone.

Listings

Take a car offline right away

When you unpublish a car, its page comes down at once and its public photos are removed shortly after.

Deals

Split a deal between two salespeople

Add a second salesperson to a deal, and each gets half the unit and half the gross in Reports.

Deals

Your dealer license number on the buyer's order

Add your license number in Settings and it prints on every buyer's order.

Listings

In-app alerts for website leads

Choose whether your team hears about every new website lead in the app, or only when a lead's email couldn't be sent.

Listings

Search and filter your storefront

Shoppers can search your cars and filter them by make, model, body style, price, year and mileage.

Listings

One contact panel on every car page

Asking a question, booking a test drive and sending a message now share one panel, and the page shows your town.

Listings

Write your own description for each car

Add up to 2,000 characters of plain text, and it appears on the car's page under “From the dealer”.

Inventory

File documents on a car or a customer

Keep PDFs, photos and Word documents on the record they belong to.

Team

Add Motorvar to your phone's home screen

Motorvar has its own app icon and opens on the Command Center when you launch it from your home screen.

Inventory

Upload a whole set of photos at once

Choose many photos or take them with the camera, and each one is resized on the phone and uploaded in turn.

Reports

Exports follow your filters

The leads, lead activity, customers, deals and recon exports use the filters on screen and take a date range.

Team

New dealerships start with checklists and a time zone

Each new dealership gets starter readiness and deal checklists to edit, and its own time zone for reports and test-drive booking.

Leads

Assign leads and tap to call

Owners and managers assign and reassign leads, salespeople can claim unassigned ones, and phone numbers are tap-to-call.

Inventory

Price changes in each car's history

A car's history records each price change, and recon spend now comes off its projected gross.

Listings

Emails for test-drive bookings and changes

The dealership gets an email when a shopper books a test drive, and so does the shopper if they left an email address. Customers also hear when it's moved or cancelled.

Deals

Know when requested documents arrive

Whoever asked a buyer for documents gets an email once they've all arrived.

Listings

Car page photos load faster on phones

Motorvar now makes smaller WebP copies and thumbnails of each published photo.

September 2026

Team

Managers can see the team's tasks

Owners and managers can switch My day to a teammate or to everyone, and activity log entries about a car, lead, customer or deal now link to it.

Deals

Each deal shows its own history

Every deal page lists its changes, from status and numbers to checklist items and documents, with who made each one and when.

Leads

The same lead file can't be imported twice

If a lead spreadsheet was already imported, Motorvar says when and imports nothing.

Deals

Only owners and managers can close a deal

Only an owner or manager can close or cancel a deal, and closing it is what marks the car sold.

Listings

Close single dates for online booking

Mark a holiday or any day you're closed in Settings, and shoppers can't book a test drive on it.

Leads

Browse appointments by date range

Pick the dates you want to see on the appointments page and in its export.

Leads

Mark a person do-not-contact

Stop automatic emails to anyone who asks, from their lead or customer record.

Team

A new design for every screen in the app

We redesigned the whole app, and lists now rearrange to fit a phone screen.

August 2026

Leads

Reply from the inbox

Answer a message straight from the inbox without opening the lead.

Leads

Leads labeled by where they came from

Leads from Facebook, Instagram and Google links are labeled automatically, with the campaign details kept on the lead.

Deals

Work a deal backward from a payment

Find the amount you can finance, or the sale price and gross, that reach a target monthly payment.

Listings

Shoppers can send a message from a car page

A short message form on each car page creates a lead on that car.

Team

Switch between rooftops

Anyone who works at more than one rooftop can switch between them from the sidebar.

Reports

See which review requests were clicked

Reports shows how many review requests went out and how many buyers clicked through.

Listings

Booking hours for each day of the week

Set different online booking hours for each weekday, or close a day entirely.

Leads

A first email for new leads

If nobody has contacted a new lead after a day or two, Motorvar sends them a short note.

Leads

A check-in 90 days after a sale

Buyers with an email address on file who haven't opted out get an email from your dealership asking if they'd like to hear what's on your lot now.

Leads

Emails after a test drive and before delivery

Customers get a note after a test drive and a reminder of what to bring on delivery day.

Inventory

Print a window sticker

Print a sticker with the asking price, VIN, stock number, mileage and color, plus the car's web address once it's published.

Listings

Book a test drive from a car's page

Shoppers pick an open time, and the booking lands on your appointments list.

Deals

Ask buyers for documents with an upload link

Send a private link that lists what you need, and the files come back to the deal.

Inventory

Track title status

Mark each title as in hand, sent or not received, and see which cars have waited too long for theirs.

Reports

See which lead sources become sales

See how many leads from each source became sales, and the gross they brought in.

Team

Choose which notifications you get

Each person picks which notifications appear in their bell.

Leads

Automatic follow-ups for leads nobody has contacted

Leads that hear nothing from your team get up to three follow-up emails over about two weeks.

Leads

Re-booking email after a missed appointment

When someone misses an appointment, Motorvar offers them a chance to re-book.

Leads

Appointment reminder emails

Customers get a reminder email before their appointment.

Deals

Google review requests after a sale

Add your Google review link, and buyers with an email address on file who haven't opted out get a review request when their deal closes.

Leads

Import leads from a spreadsheet

Bring in up to 5,000 leads at once, with their source, stage and inquiry date.

Leads

Email snippets with the car's details

Start an email from a snippet that fills in the name, the car, its price and a link to its page.

Leads

Appointments that can't double-book

Book and reschedule appointments, and Motorvar won't put the same car or salesperson in two places at once.

Leads

Import customers from a spreadsheet

Bring in up to 5,000 customers at once, with duplicate emails caught before anything is saved.

Reports

Response time for each salesperson

See how quickly each salesperson answers new leads.

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