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Build a 360 view
Turn a car's own outside photos, one per angle, into a 360 that shoppers drag on your website. It builds itself once all eight angles are there.
Who: Owner, Admin manager, or SalesPlan: All plans
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How the 360 is built
How to take the photos: Shoot a car for the 360. The ? next to Photos on the car's page opens the same guide.
The 360 view card under Photos turns the car's own outside photos into a 360 that shoppers drag around on your website, under the photo gallery. Nothing is made up: it uses only photos you took.
- It needs one public photo tagged Complete for each of the 8 outside angles (the four corners, the front, the rear and both sides). Until then the card says which angles are missing, like The 360 needs 2 more angles: Rear and Driver side. Check a photo's angle under Check or fix a photo's angle.
- More photos of an angle make a smoother turn; they go in the order you took them. Extra shots of a corner go in by how side-on they are, so a retake from another spot doesn't turn the car back and forth. Interior and detail photos stay in the gallery.
- It builds itself: once the eighth angle is there (after an upload, your answer to what the photos are for, Classify, or an angle you set), the 360 is built a moment later. Refresh the car's page to see it. To build it by hand instead, switch off Build the 360 on its own in your photo defaults and click Build 360. The button is always there.
- Your website shows it under the gallery, in English or Spanish with the rest of the page. Shoppers drag it (or use the arrow keys); it never turns on its own, and on a phone an up-and-down swipe still scrolls the page.
- Building it lines the frames up so the car stays the same size as it turns, even when the photos were taken from different distances. That step uses a little of your plan's monthly AI allowance per frame. When the allowance is used up, a new 360 waits for next month or a higher plan; a 360 you already built keeps showing.
- A sold car's page doesn't show its 360.
- If you delete, hide, retag, rotate or change the angle of a photo in the 360, it is taken off your website at once and the card says why. When all eight angles are still there, it builds again by itself; otherwise add the missing angle, or click Rebuild 360.
- A 360 never mixes photos styled in the studio with plain ones: style all of the car's outside photos, or none.
- Remove takes the 360 off your website, and it stays off: it won't build again by itself. Build 360 brings it back.
- You can also ask the assistant, for example "build the 360 for A100". It prepares one card; nothing changes until you approve, and Undo on the card takes the 360 off your website again.
- Your listing feeds keep the photos in listing order; the 360 is a website extra.