Two questions come up on every commercial lot: is this unit priced right for how fast its kind sells, and did anyone actually check the batteries on the back row? This update answers both from the record.
How many like it, and how fast they sell
Every vehicle on the ground or on order now carries a market check. It counts the look-alikes you already hold, the units in stock or on order with the same spec, and labels the result Unique, Common or Crowded. The spec includes trim, so an XL and an XLT of the same build are counted apart. Vans are matched by their Ford model code, so a high-roof cargo van is never weighed against a passenger van that happens to share a wheelbase. And body upfits such as service, mechanics and dump bodies are compared with matching bodies, not plain pickups or bare chassis.
Beside the count sits the typical days to sell: the median of at least five of your own stock sales of that kind of vehicle, measured from the same date the vehicle's age counts from. With too few exact sales it steps out to a broader group and names it. If a unit has already been in stock longer than typical, the chip says by how much. +45D means 45 days past typical, not 45 days old.
In demand, balanced or slow
A look-alike count tells you how many you hold, not whether they move. Six of something that sells twice a week is healthy; six of something that sold twice all summer is not.
Days' supply puts the two together: the units like this one that are available, leaving out any on hold, divided by how fast that kind of unit has been going, from your stock sales and customer orders on the same spec over the last 90 days, or since your sales history began. Under 30 days of supply reads In demand, 30 to 90 Balanced, and over 90 Slow. The color of the market chip carries the answer, green for in demand, amber for slow, and red when a slow unit is also past its typical days to sell. With too few sales to judge, it says Not enough sales yet, unless even three sales would leave more than 90 days of supply.
The pace comes from your own sales, not a regional average.
Price Review: a short list, not a spreadsheet
Price Review lists the vehicles on the ground past an age you choose with no price change or review in a set number of days, oldest first. Change the price, or keep it and give a reason: unique spec, upfit backlog, customer interest, scarce chassis, already discounted, or other. A keep can carry a quiet period of 30, 60 or 90 days so the unit stays off the list until then, unless its price changes first.
Each row carries the market tag and its demand word, typical days to sell, estimated carrying cost, margin and flooring days left. Sort by days' supply to put the in-demand units first, or filter to just the slow ones. Price Review and the market check open for owners, GMs and sales managers.
What each unit costs to hold
Enter your floor plan rate once in Users & Dealership and every floored vehicle shows its estimated carrying cost to date. The flooring term for each order type is treated as interest-free time, so the cost starts the day after that term ends, charged on the full factory invoice. It is labeled est. because curtailment payments are not modeled, and upfits are left out because they are not floored.
Battery rounds a lot tech can prove
Set how often every unit on the ground should get a battery check, and the app turns that into a daily list for each lot tech: never-checked units first, then the most overdue, each vehicle staying with the same tech, ordered for walking the lot, with a Map button on any unit whose position is known.
A check is recorded by scanning the vehicle's VIN and tapping Started, Jumped or Replaced, so every entry is tied to the vehicle the camera actually read. The check also records where the vehicle was when it was saved, with the app open, and nothing between scans. If the phone falls back to a Wi-Fi position that puts every vehicle on the same spot, the app notices and warns. A battery jumped on two checks in a row is flagged for attention, so a failing battery gets looked at before a customer finds it.
The battery log is your dealership's own maintenance record. It does not replace the test records Ford requires for a 12-volt battery warranty claim. The FAQ covers that and the location questions.
Smaller things you will notice
Transit builds now print on the vehicle card, for example HR Cargo · T350 HD, with Roof and Van type filters when the list has vans in it. Each vehicle's record carries a market chip and a battery chip beside its status and location. And recording a sale takes the actual sold price as an optional field.
Everything above is live in the app today. See the full feature list, or book a walkthrough on your own inventory.