Set up your homepage and featured vehicles

Your storefront homepage is built from a few sections: a hero banner, your About text, contact info, and a Featured vehicles grid. You arrange them, turn each on or off, and choose how the Featured grid picks cars, all from the visual builder.

Open the visual builder

Reorder and show/hide homepage sections

Every section of your homepage is listed in the builder: the hero banner, About, Contact & hours, Featured inventory, Browse by make, Why buy from us, How it works, Reviews, the buy-or-sell prompt and the closing call to action. Drag any of them into a new order and switch each one on or off. The hero always stays at the top and the closing call to action always stays at the bottom.

Add, duplicate or remove a section

Below the section list, Add section offers every section your homepage does not have yet, each with a small drawing of what it looks like, plus a Text block you can add as many times as you like: a small line, a heading and a few paragraphs of your own words, with a choice of alignment and band colour. Any section you add shows in the preview right away.

• Edit any section by clicking its row in the panel (or the section in the preview): the panel shows everything about that section in one place, with All sections to go back. What you can change depends on the section: the heading and the small line above it (Featured inventory, Browse by make, Browse by type, Text block), cars per row (Featured inventory: 2, 3 or 4), alignment (centered or left), the band behind the section (Light, Soft or Dark), and for the closing call to action its heading and the line under it. The closing call to action keeps its place at the bottom, and its words are still yours to change. The preview follows as you type; a small line left empty simply disappears. A heading cannot be left empty: the row tells you, and Publish waits until it has one. The hero banner's words and photo are edited in their own panels, so it has no arrow.
• Make "Why buy from us" and "How it works" yours. Both open with a small line, a heading and a list of cards (or steps). Each one has an icon you pick from a list, a title and a line of text. Use the arrows to move a card up or down, the bin to remove it, and Add card for another: two to six in all, and the row of cards rearranges itself so none is left alone on a second line. A card needs a title before you can publish. Until you change them, these sections show the same words they always have.
• The buy-or-sell prompt opens with the heading, the text and the button label for each of its two panels. The buttons always lead to your inventory and to your trade-in page.
• Questions and answers. Add it once: a small line, a heading and one to ten questions, each with your answer. Shoppers tap a question to open it. It starts with three questions that are true of any dealership (whether a car is still available, scheduling a test drive, what to bring); change them to the ones you really hear. Every question needs an answer before you can publish.
• Special offer. Add as many as you like: a small line, a heading, the offer in your words, an optional button, and an optional last day. The offer shows through the end of that day in your dealership's timezone and then stops showing on its own, so an expired special is never left on your home page. The builder keeps showing it, and tells you it has ended, so you can pick a later day or remove it.
• Inventory strip. Add section offers Inventory strip, as many times as you like: a row of your cars chosen by a rule. Pick a make and a type from the ones you actually have in stock, a price ("Up to $20,000"), the order (newest, lowest price or highest price first), how many cars (3, 4, 6 or 8) and how many sit in a row. Give it its own heading, for example "SUVs under $20,000" or "Just arrived". Or pick the cars yourself, up to eight: they show in the order you picked them and the rule is ignored. The makes, types and cars you can pick are the ones for sale: a sold car whose page you keep up (marked Sold) is left out, and so is a make or type only it has, because a strip never shows it. When a picked car sells it drops out on its own, and the builder lists it as No longer for sale on your site so you can remove it; if every picked car has sold the strip goes back to following the rule, so it never sits empty because of a sale. A make or type you chose that no car for sale has any more shows as (none in stock). A strip that no car matches does not show on your site at all. "View all" leads to that make's or that type's page when that is the whole rule, otherwise to your inventory. The preview shows the matching cars as you change the rule.
• Image and text. Add section also offers Image and text, as many times as you like: a photo beside a small line, a heading, your words and an optional button. Upload a picture (up to 10 MB) or Choose from your pictures to reuse one you uploaded before; every picture you upload for your website is kept in that list. Describe the picture in a few words for people who cannot see it. Pick which side the picture sits on (on a phone it always comes first). For the button, type its label and where it goes: a page on your site such as /inventory, or a full https:// address, which opens in a new tab. With no picture the section shows your words on their own, so you can add it now and the photo later. It appears in the preview the moment you add it.
• Meet the team. Add section offers Meet the team once: a small line, a heading, an optional line under it, and your people, up to twelve. Each person has a photo (upload one or choose from your pictures), a name, what they do, and an optional phone and email that become tap-to-call and tap-to-email links. Until a photo is added the card shows the person's initials. A photo needs Describe the photo filled in before you can publish, the same rule as Image and text. The section is not on your site until you add at least one person; the preview shows a sample so you can see the shape.
• Edit a text block with the same arrow: a blank line in the text starts a new paragraph, and a text block needs a heading before you can publish.
• Duplicate a text block with the copy button; the copy lands right under the original with the same words.
• Remove any section with the bin button. The hero and the closing call to action cannot be removed, only switched off. A removed built-in section can be added back from the menu later.
• Clicking a section in the preview, away from its words, opens its panel, the same one its row opens. Featured inventory's panel holds both which cars it shows and its heading and look. Clicking its words lets you type in them right there (next section).
• Work on the page itself. Point at a section in the preview and a small bar appears at its top right: edit it, move it up or down, duplicate it (the sections you can have more than once), hide it or remove it. Add a section here, on the section's bottom edge, adds a new section right under it and opens its panel. The same rules as the list apply: the hero stays at the top and the closing call to action at the bottom. A move goes past the next section you can see, so a section with nothing to show yet (Reviews before you have reviews) is stepped over. Undo brings back a section you removed; a hidden one comes back with its switch in the list.

Change the words right on the page

Headings and short lines can be changed where they are, in the preview:

You can type in the hero's headline and the line under it, your About text, the announcement bar, and each section's heading, small line, line under the heading and button words (for example "Are you looking for a car?" and Browse inventory). The cards of Why buy from us and the steps of How it works can be typed in too, each card's heading and its text. A text block's paragraphs, a special offer's text, the words beside a picture and the questions and answers are changed in the panel, where a blank line starts a new paragraph (and where you add, remove or reorder cards). In the About text, Enter starts a new line instead of finishing.

Typing on the page is the same as typing in the panel. The panel's box follows as you type, the same length limits apply (a small line stops at 60 characters), pasted words arrive as plain text, Undo takes your typing back, and nothing goes live until you Publish. A small line left empty disappears once you click away, and a headline typed down to nothing shows your dealership's name, as your live site does. On a tablet or a small window, clicking words lets you type in them without the panel covering the page; click the section somewhere else to open its panel.

Set up your Featured vehicles grid

The Featured section pulls cars straight from the vehicles you've published to your website. You don't pick cars one by one; you set the order and how many to show.

Edit the other homepage sections

Click any highlighted area in the preview to edit it. Each opens its own panel in the editing panel on the left. Headlines and short lines can also be typed in right on the page (see Change the words right on the page above).

• Hero banner: upload a hero image and edit the headline and sub-headline. Under them, shoppers get a search. On a computer or a tablet it asks for the make, the model and the years. On a phone it asks for the kind of car and a budget, in two boxes that fit the first screen; the budgets offered come from your own prices, so every choice finds a car, and More ways to search opens every filter on your inventory page.
• About section: your About text (when it is blank, the homepage shows a short default welcome line instead).
• Contact & hours: your business hours (a weekly schedule plus an "Additional notes" line). The phone, email, and address come from your primary location (edit those under Settings → Locations, not here).
• Announcement bar: the single-line banner across the very top of every public page; it only shows when it's turned on and has a message.
• Header & logo: upload your logo. Navigation links (Inventory, Contact, and your custom pages) are added automatically.
• Footer & social: your social media links.

Change the whole homepage layout

The layout controls how all your sections are arranged, not just the order but the whole structure. Some layouts add extra blocks like browse-by-make, browse-by-type, a welcome-and-stats band, or reviews.

Preview, undo, and publish

• Page: the Page menu in the toolbar shows another page of your site in the preview (Inventory, a vehicle page, About, Contact, Financing, Trade-in, Reviews and your own pages) with your unpublished colours, fonts, menu and language, so you can check them everywhere before you publish. Clicking a link inside the preview takes you to that page, still in the preview. Layout changes and home page sections show on the home page; the other pages keep your published layout until you publish.
• Device preview: toggle Desktop, Tablet, or Mobile in the toolbar to see how each looks. When the space beside the editing panel is narrower than the page (Desktop on a laptop), the preview shows the whole page slightly smaller, with the percentage in its corner.
• Undo / Redo: use the arrows in the toolbar, or Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Shift+Z (Ctrl+Y redoes too). The keys work after you click in the preview as well; while you are typing in a box or in words on the page, they undo your typing in that box.
• Publish pushes your draft live. The chip changes to All changes published and you'll see a "Your changes are live" confirmation.
• Discard throws away your unpublished changes and snaps back to what's live.
• Live site opens your real storefront in a new tab.
• Exit leaves the builder and returns to the Website page.

FAQ

How do I choose exactly which cars are featured?

You can't hand-pick individual cars for the Featured grid. It auto-selects from the vehicles you've published to your website, ordered by the Order by and How many settings. To influence what shows, publish (or unpublish) vehicles, set their asking prices, and use a price sort.

My Featured grid is empty. Why?

You have no vehicles published to your website that qualify. Go to Inventory, publish the cars you want public, and make sure each is either available or has a listing badge. Vehicles that aren't published never appear on the storefront.

I turned a section on but it's not showing.

Some sections self-hide when they have no content: Featured inventory shows nothing when there are no qualifying published vehicles, and Reviews and Browse by make wait until you have reviews or makes in stock. Add the content and it appears. (About always shows: with no About text it carries a short default welcome line.)

Where do the phone, email, and address come from?

From your primary location under Settings → Locations, not the builder. Edit them there and they update across your public site.

I changed something but my live site looks the same.

You haven't published yet. Edits stay a draft until you click Publish. Check the status chip in the top bar: if it says Unpublished changes, click Publish.

Who can edit the homepage?

Publishing is restricted to Owner and Admin / Manager users; they're the ones who can push builder changes live. Salespeople can't publish changes to your website settings.