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Overview
🎯 Objective
The flex listing feature is for those dealers that have a lot of the same exact year, manufacturer, make, and models available to display on their site, but they do not want to have their website users scrolling through multiple of the same RVs on a listing page. The dealers that would be interested in using this feature are larger dealers with multiple locations that carry many of the same models in stock at one time. We condense RVs that have the same year, manufacturer, make, and model into a single unit display on the listing page and include a number display on that unit display of how many of those exact RVs are available and what location that RV is located at the dealership
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Goal | Metric |
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For those dealers that have a high amount of inventory in stock and they want to condense the amount of inventory that displays on their website. Flex Listing will allow dealers to condense the amount of the same units in stock and show the variety of available inventory by not cluttering up the website with so many duplicate models. | Allows shoppers to more easily find units that the dealer has in stock without seeing the same unit multiple times on a listing page. |
⚙️ How Does it Work
On the listing pages within the dealers website, it groups units that have the same year, manufacturer, make, model, and type. When units that are the same get grouped together, there will be one main unit that gets displayed along with a multiple unit number display for how many of the same units are available and the location for each. The main unit is selected based on the lowest price of the unit, if units have both MSRP and Sale Price available, the system will pick the lowest priced unit based on the lowest price of all units that have the same year, manufacturer, make, model, and type.
On the website there is a label that says "Starting At..." above the pricing of the main unit, that means that unit is the lowest price of all available grouped units. When a user clicks anywhere within the main unit on the listing page, it will open a lightbox that will list each unit in the group, where its located, the lowest price for the unit, and CTA's for that unit.
The main unit CTA of the grouped units will work a little different than a single unit. Specifically, the GLP button display will match the typically GLP button text, but it does not work the same. On a single unit the GLP button will open up the GLP form in a lightbox. On the main unit of the grouped units, the GLP button is a graphical button that will look the same as the rest of the units, but when you click the GLP button it will open up the lightbox listing all the available units. In the lightbox there will be another GLP button that is tied to the specific unit, when that GLP button is clicked it will then open up the GLP form in a lightbox for that specific unit.
Technical Details
\uD83D\uDDD2 Requirements
Requirement | User Story | Importance | Task | Notes |
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Consolidate duplicate inventory (same mfgr/etc) on listing page to show xx units at xx locations | HIGH | |||
Applies to new/used condition |
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If no duplicated units, do not show and adjust spacing | HIGH | |||
When user clicks on the consolidated info, bring up a list of each unit/location with option to click through to detail page | HIGH | |||
Hide flex units expand button when expanded | HIGH | |||
Requires custom listing page to accommodate - custom consolidatedunitlist.js default template | HIGH | |||
Adjusts for mobile and grid views | HIGH | |||
Keep lazy loading functionality | HIGH | |||
Keep GLP functionality | HIGH | |||
Created app setting to turn off/on (flex_listing) - website level (vs. account) - domain needs to be added as the description in Taskaroo. | HIGH | |||
Select primary unit that displays based on lowest price (vs. current random). Use existing pricing "tier" controls. | HIGH | |||
Change front end to add "Starting at..." to be placed above the current price labels. Design Team said dealers will want to continue to display MSRP, Discount, Sale Price. NOTE: Payments already has "FROM". (See Figma) | HIGH | |||
Make the "Starting at..." label so that it could be styled by the design team without dev team being involved. This way if a dealer wants to change the text from "Starting at.." they can it to what they want it to say. | HIGH | |||
Need to display the lowest price of each unit in the pop up light box display of the flex listing (See Figma) | HIGH |
\uD83C\uDFA8 User interaction and design
Listing Page Display
Pop Up Display after clicking on the unit
Open Questions
Question | Answer | Date Answered |
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What pieces of this feature can be tailored for the dealer? | Currently no tailoring is offered to the client from the control of how flex listing works. Front End Developers may change what they can via CSS such as the “Starting At…” label on the listing page. | Jan 2023 |
Out of Scope
Each dealer will not be able to have their own way the tool works. Front end team can tailor the display of the feature on the listing pages, but how units get grouped, what gets displayed, and how the feature works will not be controllable by the dealers.
📝 Additional Details
↪️ Future Requests
Request Details | Suggestion Form Link | Date Requested |
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Ungrouping units at the same location as users are not able to click into all the grouped units. This is an issue with Used more than New because each Used unit should be able to be viewed by users. Can be issue if units have different prices on the same unit at the same location. | May 2023 |
Setup Guide
If Flex Listing line item is already in Taskaroo and you just need to enable Flex Listing you will follow step 1.V.1.
If you DO NOT see Flex Listing line item in Taskaroo, you will need to reach out to support@interactrv.com to request that to be added into Taskaroo.
📖 Instructions
Enabling Flex Listing Controls – Once the Flex Listing Service has been added into Taskaroo, it will enable the backend to start functioning, meaning that units will be group together even if the front end work has not been done on the dealers website.
Add Account Service In Taskaroo
Package Dealer:
Service Type: IRV-Web-Flex-Listing-pkg
Description: www.dealerdomain.com
Unit Rate: $0
Start Date: Day it needs to start
API Behavior:
To make Flex Listing feature live on the clients website, you will need to set the API to = Use Service Type API Setting
If you want to add the Service into Taskaroo but not make it live yet on the site, set the API to = Bypass Remote Service Completely.
Legacy Dealer
Service Type: Flex Listing
Description: www.dealerdomain.com
Unit Rate: $149
Start Date: Day it needs to start
API Behavior:
To make Flex Listing feature live on the clients website, you will need to set the API to = Use Service Type API Setting
If you want to add the Service into Taskaroo but not make it live yet on the site, set the API to = Bypass Remote Service Completely.
Create a task for the Design Team – This task will add the Flex Listing product on to the dealers website. If it’s not enabled first, it will not work on the dealers website.
Title: Setup Flex Listing
Account: Dealer Name
Service Type: Design/Layout
Assign To: Kayla Ingersoll
Est Hours: 1hr
Billing (aka Setup Fee): $100 fixed fee (for legacy IRV clients that did not have this included in their contract. If this was a pick option or part of a package this would not be billable)
End Date: 2 days from requested date.
Overview: Include any specific details to which pages need to have flex listing on them.
Once Flex Listing has been added to the site
Ensure that it looks correct on the site and its working as it should
Follow up with the client.
Termination Guide
📕 Instructions
Submit a Support Form to disable the Flex Listing product