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Set up your homepage and featured vehicles

Arrange your homepage sections and choose how the Featured grid picks vehicles using the visual builder.

Who: Owner or ManagerPlan: All plans

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 them on or off, and choose how the Featured grid picks cars — all from the visual builder.

Open the visual builder

  1. In the left nav, click Website.
  2. On the Visual builder card, click Open visual builder.
  3. The builder opens full-screen with a live preview of your homepage. The hint up top reads "Click any highlighted section to edit."

Nothing you change goes live until you click Publish. Edits show in the preview as you make them and stay a private draft. The status chip in the top bar reads Unpublished changes while you have edits waiting, and All changes published once everything is live.

Reorder and show/hide homepage sections

The homepage has four built-in sections. You can drag them into any order and switch each one on or off.

  1. In the preview, click the hero banner at the top. The edit panel opens on the right.
  2. Scroll to the section list. You'll see Hero banner, About, Contact & hours, and Featured inventory.
  3. Drag a row by its handle to reorder it.
  4. Use the switch on each row to show or hide that section.
  5. Click Publish in the top bar when you're happy.

A section can be on and still show nothing if it has no content. The About section hides when your About text is blank, and the Featured inventory grid shows nothing when you have no vehicles published to your website.

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 choose the order and how many to show.

  1. In the preview, click the Featured inventory grid. The edit panel opens on the right.
  2. Under Order by, choose how cars are picked:
    • Newest first — your most recently added vehicles.
    • Price: low to high
    • Price: high to low
  3. Under How many, choose 3, 6, 9, or 12 vehicles.
  4. Click Publish.

The default is 6 vehicles, newest first. With either price sort, any car without an asking price is pushed to the end of the list.

Only vehicles published to your website appear in the Featured grid (and anywhere on your public site). A car is visible when it's published and either marked available or wearing a listing badge (like Coming Soon, Sale Pending, or Sold). A vehicle that isn't published won't show up. Publish it from the Inventory page first.

Edit the other homepage sections

Click any highlighted area in the preview to edit it. Each opens its own panel on the right.

  • Hero banner — upload a hero image and edit the headline and sub-headline. (This panel also holds the section reorder/show-hide list.)
  • About section — your About text (it hides on the homepage when blank).
  • 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.

  1. In the top toolbar, click the layout button (it shows your current layout's name).
  2. Pick a layout: Classic, Showcase, Split, Luxury, Storefront, or Velocity.
  3. The preview reloads into the new structure so you can try it.
  4. Click Publish to make it live.

Picking a new layout also switches your colors to that layout's matching palette and clears any custom color overrides you'd set. You can recolor afterward with the Palette control — it's all still a draft until you Publish, so use Discard if you don't like it.

Preview, undo, and publish

  • Device preview — toggle Desktop, Tablet, or Mobile in the toolbar to see how each looks.
  • Undo / Redo — use the arrows in the toolbar, or Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Shift+Z.
  • 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.

Your draft is saved in your browser as you work, so closing the tab or refreshing won't lose unpublished edits — when you reopen the builder you'll be offered to pick up where you left off. The draft is per-browser; it only reaches your live site when you Publish.

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. About hides when your About text is blank; Featured inventory shows nothing when there are no qualifying published vehicles. Add the content and it appears.

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.