Typing in the technical details of every vehicle takes time. With a licence plate lookup Forecourt fills them in for you. There are two plugins: Forecourt - RDW for Dutch licence plates and Forecourt - RegCheck for plates from other European countries.

How it works

Enter the licence plate on the General tab of a vehicle and click Fetch from RDW or Fetch via RegCheck. The found data is put into the form, so you can check it before saving.

When the plugin is enabled, it also looks up the licence plate when you save a vehicle and fills in fields that are still empty. Fields you filled in yourself are kept, unless you switch on Overwrite existing values.

RDW (Netherlands)

The RDW plugin uses the open data of the Dutch vehicle authority. It is free and needs no account.

It fills in, where the RDW has the data: make, model, version, vehicle type, body type, year, fuel type, power, engine capacity, cylinders, doors, seats, weight, towing capacity, colour, energy label, emission class, fuel consumption, list price, MOT expiry date, the odometer judgement (NAP) and open recalls.

RegCheck (other countries)

RegCheck is a paid lookup service that covers many European countries. Create an account at regcheck.org.uk first. The data that comes back differs per country.

You can enable both plugins. Dutch dealers usually only need the RDW plugin.