Taking great vehicle photos or printing a professional dealer window sticker is only part of running a dealership merchandising business. As you add dealer clients, you also need a repeatable way to manage rooftops, vehicle inventory, dealer-specific services, field work, printing, publishing, and billing. WalkTheLot has been refined around those real-world workflows for more than 25 years, with independent lot-service companies as our primary clientele.
Whether you are preparing to service your first dealership or already operate an established vehicle photography and merchandising company, WalkTheLot gives you a connected platform for running the work. Support vehicle photography, prebook photos, live video, exterior and interior 360s, dealer window stickers, FTC Buyers Guides, inventory updates, services provided, invoicing, and publishing without building a separate process for every dealer account.
At the administrative level, WebLot lets you manage multiple dealerships, inventory, employee users, dealer-specific settings, services and pricing, window sticker and Buyers Guide designs, inventory feeds, publishing, and other account configuration from one web-based system. This gives the office control over how each dealer is serviced while allowing the field workflow to remain familiar as your company adds rooftops.
At the dealership, MobileLot gives field staff the tools they need while standing at the vehicle. They can work from inventory already supplied by an upstream provider, or scan a VIN and create a vehicle when WalkTheLot is serving as the primary inventory source. From there they can capture vehicle photos and other merchandising media, print dealer window stickers and Buyers Guides, review Dealer Notes, record billable services, and complete the work required for that dealer.
If your photographers prefer a DSLR or other dedicated digital camera, WebLot Photo Match provides a Windows-based workflow for matching the camera images back to the correct vehicles. MobileLot records the time window when each vehicle is photographed, and Photo Match uses the image timestamps to associate and upload the photographs to the appropriate inventory records.
WalkTheLot can also fit into the inventory flow your dealer clients already use. When vehicle data arrives from an upstream Tier 1 provider, your staff can merchandise those existing records and WalkTheLot can return completed photos and media upstream. When WalkTheLot is the primary inventory source, vehicle data and media can instead be distributed to configured dealer website and classified destinations. You do not need to force every dealership into the same operating model.
Start with the dealer accounts you have today and build from there. The goal is not to give you a giant software platform full of unrelated features. It is to give an independent dealership merchandising company the operational foundation to service dealers consistently, bill for the work performed, and add rooftops without rebuilding the business process each time.
