8/24/20 Engineering Release: Enhanced design. Better bottom line. – Modal

Modal Checkout offers an enhanced design, handy header shortcuts, monthly pricing for F&I products, and a new way to place an Order, so you can boost your bottom line.

Check out these highlights:

NEW Skip credit: Allow users to skip filling out the credit application portion of their Checkout session, and still place an Order. This feature can be enabled upon request.
NEW Skip approval: Allow users to skip choosing an approved finance response in their Checkout session, and still place an Order.
NEW Checkout Upgrade items: show monthly F&I and accessory prices based on the currently selected deal.
IMPROVEMENT New look and feel for the Checkout landing step and header. Price overview is always accessible by clicking the shopping cart icon and ‘Save order’ has a dedicated button.
IMPROVEMENT Checkout Upgrade items: expandable item descriptions.
IMPROVEMENT Checkout Upgrade items: can include both a video link and a detail page link.

And we've made even more enhancements:

Checkout

NEW Add dealer setting to control ‘skip credit’ feature.
NEW Add database tracking for ‘skip credit’ orders.
NEW Add database tracking for ‘skip approval’ events.
NEW Update Google Analytics events and documentation for ‘skip credit.’
NEW Update Google Analytics events and documentation for ‘skip approval.’
NEW Upgrades: When the monthly price is shown, auto-append the monthly terms to the item description.
IMPROVEMENT When a dealer uses Modal price adjustments for their vehicles, show the adjustment as ‘Online adjustment’ instead of ‘Online discount’ because the adjustment is not always a discount.
IMPROVEMENT If a Vehicle has 0 or empty odometer mileage data, send 1 mile to PEN API to ensure a response.
IMPROVEMENT The net trade value will be passed in the ADF XML when the Order’s has a trade that’s a lease.
IMPROVEMENT Move the vehicle price from the welcome section to a convenient shopping cart modal which is always accessible from the header.
IMPROVEMENT Updated style for header section and progress tabs.
IMPROVEMENT Updated style for ‘Contact the store’ modal.
IMPROVEMENT Upgrades: ‘Learn more’ and ‘Play video’ links are no longer mutually exclusive. Each item can have both an info link and a video link.
BUGFIX Don’t add “0” to the end of incentive names.
BUGFIX In the order confirmation email, fix grammar to say ‘Delivery from {Dealer}’ instead of ‘Delivery from at {Dealer}’.

Dashboard (alpha version)

NEW Order/Lead details: Description for ‘Credit App’ step if user skipped it.
NEW Order/Lead details: Description for ‘Approval’ step if user skipped it.

Platform

NEW Support for AutoRevolution inventory feed exports.
NEW Start attaching the formalized ‘Customer’ data to each Order, Lead, and Trade as it’s created, in preparation for Modal dashboard features.
NEW Add helper functions to fetch transaction data for specific Customers in preparation for upcoming Modal dashboard features.
IMPROVEMENT Use a new database interface method for the code that executes when an Order is completed.
IMPROVEMENT Use a new database interface method for the code that executes when a Trade is created.