How To Add Wholesale Quotes To Your Appraisal Form

How To Add Wholesale Quotes To Your Appraisal Form

To add Wholesale Quotes to your Appraisal Form click on the green 'ADD' button. 
  1. This allows users to add a text name and the wholesalers offer in $ Price.  To delete a wholesale quote you can click on the rubbish bin icon next to each quote.When a Wholesale Quote has been added to an Appraisal the option of flagging the 'Quote' has WON is now available.
  2. In addition on click of the 'Trolley' icon, this will automatically update the 'Trade In Offer' field with the value of the Wholesale Quote.
  3. Where multiple Wholesale Quotes exist only one can be flagged as WON.
  4. The 'Tool Tip' states 'Check the ‘WON’ box if you accept their quote, and the trolley icon if you wish to use this quote as your starting ‘Trade In Offer $’. 


If you have sent an SMS to an individual Wholesaler or a Wholesale Group, AutoPlayAuto.com can capture a reply SMS from the wholesaler.  When capturing a reply a notification will appear in AutoPlayAuto.com within the notifications section.  If the Wholesaler adds a dollar value with the dollar symbol $, this can be automatically captured to the 'Wholesale Quotes' section on the Appraisal Form.  The SMS will automatically include instructions to "Reply to this SMS with a $ amount to submit a wholesale quote" as highlighted below.




The Wholesalers reply quote will be captured to the 'Wholesale Quotes' section on the Appraisal Form.
  1. Where message sent to a group and replies do not include a dollar amount, it is not added to the Wholesale Quote section
  2. Where message is sent an individual with a dollar amount it is added to the quote section
  3. Where message is sent to a manually entered number with a dollar amount it is added to the quote section


Sending Wholesale Quotes via SMS Gateway will automatically work if you already send Lead SMS via the gateway.  If you do not, please contact support@autoplay.co.nz to request set up (additional costs per SMS apply).




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