Post Cars to Facebook Marketplace From Your CRM

Open the car in the CRM, press Post to Facebook, and the Marketplace listing fills itself with that car's details, photos and description. The rep reads it over and publishes. One inventory, one price, and every listing tracked on the car it belongs to.

Facebook Marketplace is where a lot of local car shoppers start, and every dealer knows it. The hard part was never deciding to list there. It's the typing. Every car is a vehicle type, a year, a make, a model, a mileage, a price, a body style, a stack of photos and a description, entered by hand on a phone by a salesperson who would rather be selling. Multiply that by forty units and a price change every week, and the store's Marketplace presence fades by the second month.

LeadLocate moves the typing to the system that already knows the car. Your inventory comes into the CRM through Inventory Link, from your feed or imported from your website, with the photos, the price and the details attached. Open a car in the CRM, press Post to Facebook, and the Chrome extension fills the Marketplace listing form in the rep's own browser from that record: the details, the photos and a written description. The rep reads it over, changes anything they like, and presses Publish. The listing goes up on the Facebook account the rep is already signed in to, as their own post.

Facebook Marketplace for car dealers works best when the listing matches the lot. Because every listing starts from the same inventory record, the price on Marketplace begins as the price in your system, the photos are the ones on the car, and the mileage and trim come from the car's data rather than a rep's memory. The status of each listing then lives on the car itself, so the whole team sees what is posted, by whom, and what needs attention, without opening Facebook to find out.

It's Tuesday morning and six units came in off auction yesterday. By the time the first rep clocks in, the cars are already in the CRM's Inventory with photos, because Inventory Link brought them in from the store's website. The used car manager asks the team to get the new arrivals listed. Each rep takes two. They open the car, press Post to Facebook, check the filled listing, and publish. Six cars are on Marketplace before the first walk in, and nobody typed a VIN into a phone.

At lunch the manager opens Your listings, the view of the cars the team has posted and where. A silver crossover that dropped in price yesterday shows a new price, so the rep who posted it updates the Marketplace price before a shopper asks why the numbers differ. A sedan that sold Saturday is still live, so its rep takes the listing down and the panel records it as taken down. When another rep opens a pickup to post it and sees a colleague already listed it this morning, they move to the next car instead of posting a duplicate.

In the afternoon a shopper messages one of the reps about the crossover. The rep adds her as a lead from the phone app, texts her the crossover and two similar units with photos and prices, and sends a booking link. She picks Thursday at 5. By closing time the store has posted cars to Facebook Marketplace from one inventory, at one price, with every listing tracked on the car it belongs to and the first Marketplace shopper of the day already on the calendar.

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Everything starts in Inventory on the CRM's main menu, the view of the cars Inventory Link holds for your store. Open a car and the Post this car panel shows one row per site with that car's status: live since a date, a new price waiting to be updated, a listing started but not finished, taken down, or already posted by a colleague. Each row has one button, so a rep never wonders what to press next. Your listings brings every posted car together in one place.

The first time a rep presses Post to Facebook, the panel shows a short install card instead: Add to Chrome, pin the extension to the toolbar, then press I added it. The extension comes from the Chrome Web Store, connects to the rep's own LeadLocate login once, and from then on the panel goes straight to the post rows. Reps can also manage their listings from the extension's toolbar icon.

On the phone, the LeadLocate mobile app keeps a ready to paste listing kit on every car in its Inventory screen, since browser extensions belong to desktop Chrome. A rep standing on the lot can copy the wording and save the photos straight into the Facebook Marketplace app, then get back to the customer in front of them.

Dealer Facebook Marketplace posting works best as a habit the whole floor shares, not a project one person owns. Each rep posts the units they want to sell under their own profile, which is how Marketplace is meant to work: a real person, a real car, a real answer when a shopper messages. Because the status lives on the car, the manager can split the lot without a spreadsheet. New arrivals get posted the day they land, aged units get a fresh listing and a fresh price, and sold units come down the same day so the store never looks careless.

A short weekly routine keeps it clean. Open Your listings on Monday, update anything showing a new price, take down what sold, and hand unposted cars to whoever has room. The panel shows who posted each car, so a shopper's question about the gray truck goes to the rep who listed it. The broader case for running inventory inside the CRM, from posting to texting units to customers, is on the automotive CRM with inventory integration page.

Most stores post to Marketplace one of three ways. A salesperson types each car into the Facebook app on a personal phone, which lasts until the third busy weekend. Someone is paid to do it, which moves the typing without removing it and leaves nobody responsible for price changes. Or the store buys a separate posting tool, usually its own monthly subscription with its own login and its own copy of the inventory, and that copy drifts from the real one the first time a price changes.

Built into the CRM, the listing comes from the same record the rep texts from and desks from. The photos are the ones on the car, the price is the price in inventory, and the status sits on the car where the team already works. Nobody keeps a list of who posted what. The extension is included for every active store with no separate posting subscription, and your plan, which covers the CRM and Inventory Link, is on the pricing page.

Marketplace wants a real person behind every listing, and the workflow is built around exactly that. The extension fills the form, and the rep reviews every field and presses Publish on their own account. Every listing has a person who looked at it before it went live, and it goes up under the rep who will answer the shopper, so the person who posted the car is the person who knows it. The extension asks for the rep's LeadLocate login once and works inside the Facebook account they already use, so reps post inventory the way Marketplace intends.

Advertised price accuracy matters just as much. Because the listing starts from the inventory record, the price on Marketplace starts as the price in your system, and the new price status tells the rep when a listing needs updating after a price change. The description comes from the car's data rather than a rep's memory, so the mileage and the trim match what is on the lot. When a shopper who saw the listing becomes a lead and the conversation moves to text, the DNC Blacklist with its live do not call lookup protects every message from the first one.

Three things, and the first two are probably done. Your inventory needs to be in the CRM, which it is once Inventory Link has your feed or has imported the cars from your website; a store with no feed and no DMS access gets there through the website import. Each rep needs Chrome on the desk computer. Then each rep opens any car, presses Post to Facebook, follows the three step install card, and posts. Setup is a few minutes per rep, once.

Cars without good pictures get help from promo photos and stock imagery, since a listing without a photo gets scrolled past. On the phone there is nothing to install: the ready to paste kit is on every car in the LeadLocate app. Another listing site your store relies on is available on request, and our team puts it in production for your dealership.

A Marketplace listing starts a conversation, and the CRM is where that conversation turns into an appointment. When a shopper messages about the car, the rep adds them as a lead and moves the conversation to the two way texting inbox, where the vehicle button in the composer sends cars by text with photos and price, and three similar units go out as one text each, in order. Every reply lands on the same thread in front of the rep who owns the lead.

Add a booking link so the shopper picks a time to see the car, and an apply link so the finance conversation starts on the shopper's phone. The strategy side, which cars to list, how to write a description that gets messages and how fast to answer, is on the Facebook Marketplace strategy for dealers page, and reaching Facebook shoppers with paid campaigns is covered on the Facebook inventory ads alternative page. Every tool in the platform is on the all features page.

Does the extension publish to Facebook Marketplace by itself?

The rep publishes. The extension fills the Marketplace vehicle listing with the car's details, photos and description from the CRM, and the rep reviews every field and presses Publish on the Facebook account they are signed in to.

Can every salesperson post cars to Facebook Marketplace from their own account?

Yes. Each rep adds the extension to Chrome, connects it to their own LeadLocate login, and posts from their own Facebook account. The Post this car panel shows when a colleague has already listed a car, so two reps don't list the same unit by accident.

Will the price on Marketplace match the price in our inventory?

It starts that way. The listing is built from the inventory record, so the Marketplace price begins as your price. When the price changes in inventory, the Post this car panel shows a new price on that listing, and the rep who posted it updates Marketplace.

What happens when a car sells or the price changes?

The Post this car panel and Your listings show each listing's status, including new price and taken down. The rep who posted the car updates the price or takes the listing down on Facebook, and the status on the car shows the team it is handled.

Can reps post from their phones?

Yes. The LeadLocate app keeps a ready to paste kit on every car in its Inventory screen, with the wording and the photos to copy into the Facebook Marketplace app. The Chrome extension that fills the Marketplace form runs on the desktop.

Do I need an inventory feed to post cars?

A feed and DMS access are not required. Inventory Link imports inventory from your own dealership website with your permission, and Add a Vehicle in the Inventory Link portal covers the fresh trade or consignment unit that lives nowhere else.

Watch the pre-recorded demo to see reps post cars to Facebook Marketplace from the CRM, or talk to our team about turning it on for every salesperson. Month to month, no long term contract.

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