LotPress documentation

Build, manage, and grow your digital lot.

Straightforward guides for LotPress Inventory and the complete LotPress Pro dealership website.

Getting started

Choose LotPress Inventory, Sync, or Pro

Compare the free inventory plugin, automated feed synchronization, and the complete LotPress Pro dealership website.

Inventory + Sync + Pro
LotPress Inventory

Install LotPress Inventory

Download, upload, and activate the free LotPress Inventory plugin in WordPress.

Inventory
LotPress Inventory

Add your first vehicle

Create a vehicle record, decode a VIN, arrange photos, and publish the listing.

Inventory + Pro
LotPress Inventory

Display and filter inventory

Use the inventory archive, shortcode, search form, or Elementor widget.

Inventory + Pro
LotPress Inventory

Arrange the vehicle detail page

Move, order, and hide vehicle-detail sections for desktop and mobile layouts.

Inventory + Pro
LotPress Inventory

Manage inventory presentation and insights

Use Grid and List views, vehicle videos, social previews, engagement totals, and optimized images.

Inventory + Pro
LotPress Sync

Install LotPress Sync

Prepare WordPress, install the licensed plugin, and open the Sync workspace.

Sync
LotPress Sync

Connect and map a vehicle feed

Configure HTTPS or SFTP access, choose a stable identity, and map feed fields.

Sync
LotPress Sync

Preview, import, and operate LotPress Sync

Run safe previews, understand reconciliation, schedule imports, and troubleshoot feed runs.

Sync
LotPress Sync

Prepare a vehicle feed

Confirm feed ownership, identity, structure, photos, and provider responsibilities before importing.

Sync
LotPress Sync

Operate and monitor LotPress Sync

Approve first imports, schedule reliable runs, monitor photos, and respond to provider changes.

Sync
LotPress Sync

Vehicle feed field reference

Map CSV headers and flattened XML paths to LotPress fields and reusable presets.

Sync
LotPress Pro

Install LotPress Pro

Use the license-gated installer to securely download and open LotPress Setup.

Pro
LotPress Pro

Complete the LotPress setup wizard

Choose an install type, add dealership details, select branding, and build the starter site.

Pro
LotPress Pro

Customize the dealership website

Update dealership identity, colors, navigation, footer, shopper tools, and starter pages.

Pro
Shopper Tools

Configure Shopper Tools

Set up inquiries, calculators, printable sheets, and their placement on vehicle pages.

Pro
Shopper Tools

Use saved, recent, and shared vehicles

Understand the My vehicles drawer, browser-local lists, and vehicle sharing links.

Pro
LotPress Pro

Configure email delivery and spam protection

Deliver LotPress inquiries through WP Mail SMTP and optionally protect forms with Cloudflare Turnstile.

Pro
LotPress Pro

Manage licenses and updates

Check the site connection, install private releases, and understand renewal behavior.

Pro
Launch and operations

Launch a LotPress dealership website

Complete the final technical, inventory, inquiry, privacy, and mobile checks before announcing the site.

Inventory + Sync + Pro
Launch and operations

Back up, migrate, and recover LotPress

Protect inventory data, move a site safely, reconnect licensed updates, and recover from a failed change.

Inventory + Sync + Pro
Launch and operations

Manage staff roles and permissions

Give dealership staff the access they need while restricting site, feed, license, and delivery settings.

Inventory + Sync + Pro
Support

Troubleshoot inventory and vehicle displays

Resolve missing vehicles, archive errors, layout overrides, filters, photos, and videos.

Inventory + Pro
Support

Troubleshoot LotPress Sync

Diagnose connections, parsing, identity, missing vehicles, schedules, locks, and photos safely.

Sync
Support

Troubleshoot forms, Turnstile, and updates

Resolve delivery, verification, license connection, and private update problems.

Pro
Support

Troubleshoot common issues

Resolve archive, image, Elementor, setup, update, and contact-form problems.

Inventory + Pro
Reference

LotPress developer reference

Integrate vehicle data, override templates, add display sections, and work with supported hooks and Sync ownership.

Developers
Reference

Privacy and data behavior

Understand local inventory data, engagement totals, VIN decoding, and uninstall behavior.

Inventory + Pro