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Documentation: Forecourt

Changelog

1.0.0

First release. Requires Joomla! 6.1 or later.

  • Vehicle management in the administrator with a tabbed edit form: general, specifications, price and history, description, and photos and options.
  • Vehicle and lead lists with the standard Joomla search tools: filters, sorting, search by ID and a column selector. Vehicles also have a featured toggle and drag and drop ordering.
  • Fields for machinery: operating hours, category and condition, next to the regular car specifications.
  • Price types (asking price, fixed price, on request) and VAT handling: including VAT, excluding VAT and margin scheme.
  • Photo upload with drag and drop ordering, the first photo as the main photo, and automatic resizing to a maximum width.
  • Options and accessories per vehicle, grouped by category, with suggestions from the options you already used on other vehicles.
  • Vehicle overview with grid and list layout and a layout switcher that remembers the visitor's choice.
  • Vehicle detail page with photo lightbox, specification table, MOT status badge and structured data for search engines.
  • Contact form that stores leads, with an optional redirect URL and WhatsApp and call buttons.
  • An email for every new lead, to the site email address or to your own list of recipients.
  • Spam protection for the contact form: a captcha, a maximum number of enquiries per time window and a hidden field that catches bots.
  • Leads overview with status handling: new, handled and archived.
  • Vehicle filter module for make, category, fuel type, body type, transmission, options and accessories, price, year and mileage, plus sorting.
  • Filter module layout: vertical or horizontal, checkboxes or a multi-select per filter, collapsible groups, and an option to hide the module on detail pages.
  • The filter module only offers options that have vehicles in stock. With dynamic options switched on, a filter narrows to what is left in the current selection. It can also show the number of vehicles behind each option.
  • Licence plate lookup through the Dutch RDW and through RegCheck for other countries.
  • Stock import from Hexon (webhook) and from MachineTrack (scheduled task, including photos and options). MachineTrack ads that leave the feed are moved to the trash.
  • Google Vehicle Ads feed for Google Merchant Center.
  • YOOtheme Pro dynamic content sources for vehicles.
  • One installation package.
  • Languages: English, Dutch, French, German, Spanish and Italian.