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[2026-10-19]

Changed

Finance & Deals

  • Tax invoice downloads handle missing trade-in offer prices more reliably (#20270).
  • VIC registration form downloads when awaiting dealership e-signature (#20327).

Settings & Administration

  • Planned-launch websites with a future expected launch date are omitted from billing exceptions (#20344).
  • Xero contacts that cover every dealership location show “All locations” (#20343).
  • More reliable Google Ads account linking when OAuth credentials refresh (#20383).

[2026-10-19-2]

Added

Stock Management

  • Boat item type with manual entry and CSV import (#20145).
  • Route shared Carsales account stock by make (#20224).

Customer Communication

  • Follow-ups only mode for AI SMS bots (#20323).
  • Automatic trade-in photo SMS when New/Used leads are linked to a valuation (#20387).

Finance & Deals

  • VWFS finance enquiry and opportunity status sync via the Salesforce Opportunity API (#20199, #20380).

Marketplace & Feeds

  • MoVe dealer number release and bot-reveal handling per contract revision 3 (#20381, #20390).
  • Apply MoVe dealer updates to the matching carsguideone location (#20338).
  • Search any Autotrader account on the New Dealer Request form (#20385).

Reports & Analytics

  • Stock issues report page (#20378).
  • Campaign Performance (formerly Ad Performance) available to dealership staff (#20354).

Website & Content

  • Position overlay card text with an orientation option (#20301).

Changed

Customer Communication

  • AI SMS bot enthusiasm level uses a visual picker (#20391).
  • SMS on a Phone Call number is labelled Website SMS so the AI can reply (#20340).
  • Service Trade-In Reminder leads are only created on positive replies (#20347).

Stock Management

  • AutoGrab vehicle IDs are only saved when they match the car (#20156).
  • Photo Library search works for staff and surfaces search errors clearly (#20371).
  • Stock slide-in header updates when cycling neighbouring vehicles (#20313).

Lead Management

  • MINI AU ACS contact forms are routed by category (#20355).

Reports & Analytics

  • Ideas by person includes completed ideas; Dashboard Issues threads show a Feedback Board badge (#20384, #20386).
  • Website Projects shows ideas with DS or WOW tickets and adds an Integrations tab (#20356).

Settings & Administration

  • Shared DataTable supports client-side sorting and pagination (#20357).
  • Users with Can Manage Customers can add, edit and remove contact notes (#20388).

Website & Content

  • Dialogs include accessible descriptions (#20379).

[2026-10-19-3]

Changed

Stock Management

  • Background blur requests authenticate with an API key (#20413).

[2026-10-20]

Added

Customer Communication

  • Watch List Reminder, Still Interested?, and weekly Personalised Recommendations emails from watched cars (#20271, #20314, #20315).
  • Per-dealership default for bulk SMS message type (#20400).
  • Option to include the Daily Lead Report content in the email body (#20412).

Appointments

  • Create appointments from GWM Preferred Test Drive Date lead data (#20417).
  • [location_name] token support in loan car disclaimers (#20420).

Lead Management

  • Appointment booked completion action for lead statuses (#20435).
  • Quick +1d/+2d/+3d/+7d due date options when adding tasks (#20443).

Stock Management

  • View and edit rules under valuation rule groups (#20439).

Marketplace & Feeds

  • Configurable upload folder for FTP export accounts (#20382).
  • Import delivered MoVe tracking numbers into the estate (#20409).
  • Opening hours, description and logo updates from MoVe dealer sync (#20427).
  • Six-month advertising hold and monthly numbers-held reporting for released MoVe numbers (#20425).

Finance & Deals

  • Payment provider details on website session data, including Stripe account names (#20438).

Reports & Analytics

  • Drilldown for conversion rate and finance penetration in Team Analytics (#20434).

Settings & Administration

  • Dealership group page listing all dealership users (#20395).
  • Security banner explaining user domain restrictions on the Team page (#20433).

Changed

Lead Management

  • Ask-for-associated-car is configured on the pipeline (on by default) (#20187).
  • Customer feed Converted status changes appear on the lead timeline (#20454).
  • Ambiguous mobile follow-up ids are rejected instead of guessed (#20445).

Customer Communication

  • Mark Completed works correctly on the SMS follow-up reminder (#20428).

Stock Management

  • Shared valuation rule group rules can be edited reliably (#20342).
  • Valuation price-adjustment question form redesign (#20456).
  • Valuation endpoint provider is read-only for dealership users (#20437).

Marketplace & Feeds

  • Carsguideone stock is scoped to the dealer’s Autotrader cars (#20414).
  • Inbound SMS are sent to MoVe as SMS leads (#20421).
  • More reliable mobile tracking number purchases on Avanser and WildJar (#20451).

Website & Content

  • Videos library viewing is available to all signed-in users (#20394).

[2026-10-21]

Added

Customer Communication

  • AI bot replies to inbound Facebook Messenger messages (#20483).
  • VWFS finance enquiry emails for dealers, assignment, escalation and customers (#20450).

Lead Management

  • Tags filter on the lead Kanban board (#20471).
  • Filter lead alerts by Partnership Program (#20447).

Appointments

  • Virtual Appointment purpose option (#20464).

Stock Management

  • Smart Publisher keep-count, model grouping and inline stock filters (#20453).
  • Staff can edit photo labels, with the car watermark flag kept in sync (#20416).

Reports & Analytics

  • Monthly per-dealer MoVe call tracking report for GTG (#20449).
  • Lead views toggle on Activity Analytics Hours of Day (#20466).
  • LMS status colour on Daily Lead Report rows (#20470).
  • Last month’s open posts and carry-over completion on Dashboard Issues (#20430).

Website & Content

  • cpo_enabled setting on websites (#20487).
  • In-progress checkouts included in the phone identity garage payload (#20478).

Settings & Administration

  • New dealerships default to Sales plus Service & Parts pipelines (#20459).
  • Nest Leads analytics permissions under expandable Level 2 pages (#20467).
  • Larger plate field on staff rego lookup (#20461).
  • Pagination on customer feed run results (#20465).

Changed

Customer Communication

  • Mailing Lists renamed to Contact Lists (#20348, #20518).

Lead Management

  • Delay task generation for new templates until the new code is live (#20415).
  • Lost and Spam lead clusters are excluded from the overdue task report (#20448).
  • Marketing source backfill treats Unknown as unset (#20432).

Stock Management

  • Premium background removal params and usage logging (#20460).

Marketplace & Feeds

  • Email alert when leads are held back from MoVe (#20473).
  • Number withdrawals and client platform recorded on the event log (#20498).

Settings & Administration

  • Every location-form edit appears in the location Audit Trail (#20431).
  • Email Domains banner links to Dealership Email Addresses (#20485).

[2026-10-22] Latest

Added

Website & Content

  • Media library for scoped image storage and picking in the content editor (#20269).
  • Content Legend Enterprise index page (#20472).
  • Content Legend drafting considers existing website content (#20527).

Stock Management

  • Premium Backgrounds plugin, settings, and automatic application to new hero photos (#20477, #20558).
  • Unused stock image sets flagged on the SIS index (#18285).
  • Colour hex swatches in catalogue colour selects (#20496).
  • Price and kilometres shown in the vehicle header and stock row (#20566).
  • Warning when a certified car’s make has no CPO logo (#20488).

Reports & Analytics

  • Price-drop hygiene charts on car analytics (#20557).
  • Monthly Backend and Frontend Dashboard Issues PDF emails (#20545).

Marketplace & Feeds

  • Location description and opening hours pushed to MoVe dealer profiles (#20482).
  • Matched-by email/phone and conversion summary on customer feed runs (#20495, #20552).

Settings & Administration

  • Save Progress button on public onboarding forms (#20500).
  • Assignee avatar on the appraisals detail page (#20492).

Lead Management

  • Option to select generic cars when converting a lead (#20497).

Customer Communication

  • AI replies on Messenger with gating and attribution (#20503).

Changed

Website & Content

  • Content Legend prompts tuned for natural keywords and editorial judgement (#20476).
  • Video uploads in the image tool and Cloudinary Video in columns (#20479).
  • Revalidation covers both live and Vercel preview URLs (#20536).

Stock Management

  • Registration state validation is jurisdiction-aware (#20462).
  • Registration form downloads restored (#20490).
  • Manual number plate blur baked when auto-process is off (#20550).
  • NVIC matching no longer guesses variants that contradict Redbook (#20517).
  • Smart Publisher re-queued when a car is created (#20515).

Customer Communication

  • Phone-call category defaults from location type (#20535).
  • Dealer phone-call emails sent after AI sets the category (#20537).
  • Clearer message when a Google review reply fails because the review is gone (#20501).
  • Contact Send Deposit aligned with the payment request review dialog (#20469).
  • Customer postcode included in AMS appraisal exports (#20530, #20549).

Lead Management

  • Activity status counts kept in sync (#20560).

Settings & Administration

  • Improved top spacing on dealer plugin emails (#20554).
  • Report name shown instead of “Custom Report” in tables and emails (#20544).