Move your records into Motorvar from spreadsheets or your current system's CSV exports.
Import your cars, customers, leads and past deals from CSV files that use our template's column names. Motorvar checks every row before it saves anything, so a mistake in the file never leaves you with half an import.
Import vehicles from CSV
5,000 rowsImport customers
5,000 rowsImport leads
5,000 rowsImport deals
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Bring your records over in this order.
Start with your cars, then customers, then leads, then past deals. A past deal is matched to a car by its VIN or stock number and to a customer by email, so those need to be in Motorvar first.
- Cars
- Customers
- Leads
- Past deals
Your cars come over with their costs and prices.
The template has 18 columns, from the VIN, stock number and mileage to what you paid, the asking price, your notes and the description shoppers see.
Motorvar catches duplicate VINs and stock numbers, and it won't import the same file twice.
18 columns, ready for your records
Customers and leads come over with their contact details and notes.
Customers import with first name, last name, email, phone and notes, and a customer export from Motorvar can be imported back as it is. If a customer's email is already in Motorvar, the import stops and lists the rows to fix.
Leads import with name, email, phone, source, stage, notes and inquiry date, and arrive unassigned. The same lead file can't be imported twice, and each import tells you which columns it ignored.
Note the following about this import:
- The "Customer ID" column was ignored.
Past deals bring your sales history with them.
Deal files carry the status, the dates and the money, including the sale price, fees, tax, trade and down payment. Motorvar shows how many rows will import and saves nothing until you confirm, and closed deals mark their car sold.
Only owners and managers can import the vehicle cost and expected gross columns, or deals that are already closed or cancelled.
Import past deals
3 rows will import. Nothing has been written yet.
You can see each inventory import and undo it later.
Motorvar lists your recent inventory imports with how many cars each one brought in and how many of those cars are still in Motorvar. If one was wrong, undo it from that list after seeing how many cars will be deleted, archived or kept.
Import vehicles from CSV
Recent imports
Oct 7, 2026
128 imported · 128 remaining
Undo this import?
96 vehicles will be permanently deleted. 31 vehicles will be archived. 1 vehicle will be kept unchanged.
Photos and paperwork go on the record they belong to.
Upload a car's photos in one batch from a phone or a computer, and file documents on a car, a customer or an item on a deal's checklist.
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Documents
- Purchase invoice.pdf
- Odometer photo.jpg
Fill in your dealership's details in Settings.
- Your business name, phone number and address
- Your time zone
- Booking hours for each day of the week, and any closed dates
- Your website and Google review link
- The reply-to address customers write back to
- Your dealer license number
- Your floor plan rate, daily holding cost and stuck threshold
- Your readiness and deal checklists
- Your lender programs
- Website lead alerts
- Then invite your team
If you ever leave, everything comes with you.
An owner can download the whole dealership from Settings. The archive holds every record as a spreadsheet, plus the original photos, documents and attachments, in ZIP files. Owners and managers can also export inventory, leads, customers, deals and the rest to CSV at any time.
How the free trial worksExport everything
Every record and file your dealership has in Motorvar, as spreadsheets and the original files, in one or more ZIP downloads. Your files come to about 126 MB, and the spreadsheets add a little to that. The archive doesn't count toward your storage limit.
It keeps building while Settings is open, and otherwise carries on once a night until it's done. We'll email you when it's ready, or if it can't finish. You then have 7 days to download it.
Anything you change while it's being built may or may not be in the archive.
No archive has been requested yet.
Large exports over a cap are refused: no file is produced, and a page explains why. Most exports stop at 5,000 rows, the messages export at 100, and the appointments export at 500. The reports export is refused when any section exceeds its separate cap, from 500 to 5,000 rows. For leads, lead activity, customers, deals and recon exports, the refusal page offers a date range to export in parts.
This dealership is using 126 MB of measured storage: 18 MB of documents and 108 MB of private vehicle photos. Public listing photo copies and backup copies are not included.
No storage limit is set for this dealership, so uploads are not capped by total size.
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