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Car Dealer/Vehicle Sales

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  • 05-07-2010 6:50pm
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    pablo21
    Registered Users Posts: 728 ✭✭✭


    Guys what cms would you recommend for Car dealer/vehicle sales web site? The usual crack, upload vehicles, multiple images etc etc. All suggestions greatly appreciated.


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    pablo21
    Registered Users Posts: 728 ✭✭✭pablo21


    Anybody? Anything?


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    Brady
    Registered Users Posts: 176 ✭✭Brady


    Hey there,

    I would say go for worldpress CMS, its free and does exactly what you are looking for.

    Just install it on the server create a new site from thier templates or buy a template for it (im sure you can find a car one)


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    pablo21
    Registered Users Posts: 728 ✭✭✭pablo21


    Cheers Brady. I'm very familiar with wordpress but does it have a vehicle sales plugin or something similar?


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    nellyshark
    Registered Users Posts: 455 ✭✭nellyshark


    I would say Magento, I came across a plugin before for it that allows for sales by vehicle type, year, value etc but I can't find it atm


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    pablo21
    Registered Users Posts: 728 ✭✭✭pablo21


    Is magento open source? if not how much (Roughly) I found an admanager plugin that works with joomla that might do the trick too..


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    Lostinspace
    Registered Users Posts: 234 ✭✭Lostinspace


    Yes Magento is Open Source. There is a steep learning curve with it but it's an excellent system


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    pablo21
    Registered Users Posts: 728 ✭✭✭pablo21


    Would it be comparable with Zen cart? I'm very competent with Zen cart.


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    Shzm
    Registered Users Posts: 947 ✭✭✭Shzm


    I'm very competent with Zen aswell, and have played around with Magento, but I honestly think because i'm used to Zen Cart way of things, it makes learning Magento 10x harder.


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    Eoin
    Registered Users Posts: 21,257 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    From a motoring point of view, rather than a technical one - if this is for a dealer rather than yet another car classifieds site, then I think you'd be better off embedding the carzone listing for a garage on your own site. They can customise the look and feel so it matches your design to some degree.


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    pablo21
    Registered Users Posts: 728 ✭✭✭pablo21


    Good idea Eoin, my only reservation would be that its for a bus dealership so I'm not sure how applicable Carzone might be.


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    pablo21
    Registered Users Posts: 728 ✭✭✭pablo21


    Shzm wrote: »
    I'm very competent with Zen aswell, and have played around with Magento, but I honestly think because i'm used to Zen Cart way of things, it makes learning Magento 10x harder.

    oh curses! Thats why I love working on the web!! ;-)


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    was.deevey
    Registered Users Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭was.deevey


    Joomla + Sobi2 will do what you're after... its fairly easy to get to grips with and give you the options of selling listings at a later date.


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    pablo21
    Registered Users Posts: 728 ✭✭✭pablo21


    Cheers for that! Never used Sobi. Will have a look into it!


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