High-quality photos enhance the visual appeal of the vehicles, making them more attractive to potential buyers. Potential buyers appreciate the convenience of browsing and narrowing down their choices from the comfort of their homes. Photos allow customers to virtually explore the available inventory before deciding to visit the dealership in person.
The Photos tab allows you to upload photos for this vehicle or manage photos you have already uploaded.
This article will be broken up into the following sections:
Accessing Vehicle Photos
To access the Photos tab for a vehicle, open your Inventory List.
Click the Year Make and Model of the vehicle, then click the Photos tab.
Uploading Photos
All WebManager subscribers are able to upload up to 100 photos with a resolution of 800×600. Dealers selecting the Large Photos add-on are able to upload photos up to 1280×960. Dealers who choose the HD Photos add-on are able to upload photos up to 1920×1440.
WebManager Lite users are able to upload up to 100 photos with a resolution of 800×600, however only the first three photos will be displayed on the website.
For best results, photos should be taken at the same aspect ratio, as close to the maximum resolution your WebManager plan allows as possible.
Photos must be at least 640x480. The maximum file size for photos is 10 MB.
To add photos, click on the Upload Photos button.
To upload your photos, you may drag your photos into the Drop Files Here section. If you have a folder filled with photos for this vehicle, you may drag the folder instead.
If you’d prefer, you may also click the Add Files button, navigate to your vehicle photos, and upload them.
The Upload Photos pane will display all the photos you have selected to upload.
You can rearrange the photos prior to uploading them or wait to rearrange them after uploading.
You can also rotate or add descriptions to your photos by hovering over them.
Any descriptions you enter will be saved as captions for the photos.
When you have selected all the photos you want to upload and have finished making any changes, click on Upload.
The Image Upload utility will resize the photos before uploading them to reduce the file size and upload them faster.
As mentioned earlier you can select up to 100 photos to upload at one time.
If you have already uploaded 100 photos, you will need to delete existing photos to make room for new ones.
Managing Photos
Once you have uploaded photos, you can add captions to them, rearrange them, and delete them.
Click either Rotate button to rotate your photo either counterclockwise or clockwise.
Click on a photo to view it at full size.
To add a caption for a photo, click on the Caption link below the photo.
This will display a dialog where you can use the full WYSIWYG editor to enter HTML-enabled text for the caption.
Click Save to save the caption and return to the photo list.
To rearrange photos, click and hold on the photo that you want to move and drag it to its new position.
To delete photos, click on the Delete link above the photo, and this will hide the photo from the list, but the photo is not actually deleted until you click Save Changes.
You will need to upload deleted photos again if you decide you want to restore them.
Updating Watermarks & Overlays
If WebManager has original copies of all the photos for this vehicle, then directly below the Upload Photos button there will be a link to Update all photos with current watermark and overlay settings.
This will apply your current watermark and overlay settings to all the photos.
If you don’t have watermarks or overlays enabled, then they will be removed from your photos.
If you only have overlays enabled for the first photo, rearranging the first photo will also remove the overlay from the old first photo and apply it to the new one.
For more information on your photo and watermark settings, see our help article here: WebManager Vehicle Photo Settings
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