Cars.com shoppers filter hard on price, mileage and condition, so a missing price or a wrong condition hides your vehicles from exactly the buyers looking for them. MiFeed produces a Cars.com inventory file from your DMS export with those fields filled in and checked.
A marketplace can only show what your file tells it. The most common problems we see are vehicles listed with a zero price, used cars marked as new because of a DMS code, and stock numbers that do not match the lot.
Rules instead of re-work
The Cars.com template maps VIN, stock number, year, make, model, price and inventory type. When price is blank, a formula can publish “Call for Price” or fall back to MSRP. Value maps turn condition codes into the words Cars.com expects. Everything is previewed on your real inventory before it goes live.
One source for every marketplace
Most dealers list on several marketplaces. Build Cars.com, Autotrader and CarGurus feeds from the same export and the same pricing policy, so a price change reaches all of them on the next refresh.
How it works
Live in an afternoon.
STEP 01
Connect your export
Paste the URL of the inventory file your DMS or inventory tool already publishes. MiFeed reads it server-side and re-reads it every night.
STEP 02
Start from a template
Pick the channel template, map any columns it could not match, and preview the output on your real vehicles.
STEP 03
Hand the file to Cars.com
Give your Cars.com rep or listing partner the feed URL. It always serves the current lot in CSV, TSV, JSON or XML, and every pull is logged.
FAQ
Common questions
Marketplaces set up inventory imports per dealer, often through a listing partner. MiFeed hosts your file at a stable HTTPS URL in the columns you choose; your rep points the import at it. Managed customers have us coordinate this with the channel.
Yes. Add a filter on condition, and only used vehicles are included in that feed while other feeds still carry everything.
Add it. A column can come straight from your export, be a fixed value, be built by formula, or be translated through a value map.