Connect a custom domain
Point your own domain at your AutoDealer.io storefront with DNS verification.
Your storefront comes with a free your-slug subdomain, but you can serve it on your own domain instead.
Connect the domain
- Go to Website → Domain and enter the domain you want to use.
- Choose the canonical form — apex (
example.com) orwww(www.example.com). Visitors to the other form get redirected to your choice. - Add the DNS records shown to you at your registrar: a verification TXT record at the apex, plus the CNAME/A records for the domain.
- Back in the app, click Verify. Once DNS propagates and verification passes, your storefront is live on the domain.
DNS changes can take anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours to propagate. If verification fails right after adding the records, wait and retry — the records may not be visible yet.
Logging into the dashboard on your domain
Once connected, your dealer dashboard also works on the custom domain — you'll sign in there once (the session cookie is scoped to that domain).
FAQ
Apex or www — which should I pick?
Either works. Pick the one you'll advertise; the other automatically redirects to it. www is slightly easier at some registrars because it uses a CNAME.
I connected the domain but the dashboard asks me to log in again.
That's expected the first time on a separate domain — the apex session cookie doesn't travel to a different registered domain. Log in once on the custom domain and you're set.