It's time to make things a bit easier.

App settings

We've added a new Settings function. Before logging into the app, if you tap on your iPhone Settings icon, then scroll to the bottom of that window you'll see Dealer Cloud Mobile. Tap this. If you add your username and password here, the app will remember this and you will not have to log in and out of the app whenever restarting. Save to Photogallery turns on the setting in the phone where you can take a photo and besides uploading it to the web server, you can save it to the phone's photo gallery. Use Photogallery is where instead of taking a picture of a vehicle, you can select it from the iPhone gallery.

VIN scanning

VIN scanning and decoding uses the iPhone's camera to scan a vehicle's VIN barcode, populate the VIN, then it can be decoded. The iPhone account must be activated for this within Dealer Cloud. Once you have the VIN in the VIN box, whether through scanning or manual entry, you simply need to tap the explosion icon to the right of the barcode icon and the iPhone will decode the VIN and populate the rest of the boxes with stock data. Please keep in mind, it is stock data, so double check everything, the vehicle you might be adding may not have all the stock data listed, or it may have upgrades.

Menu items

The menu items are:

• Vehicles: Allows you to quickly add vehicle details.
• Photos: Allows you to add/edit photos with post-views.
• Videos: Allows you to add and view vehicle videos (up to 60 seconds).
• History: Shows you the latest vehicles that have been added to the dealer's inventory.

You also now add in your stock number on this screen, then you can jump to data, photos, and video without having to retype the stock number.

Vehicle photos

The most important time saver in getting vehicles online is the photos. With this app, that issue is now non-existent. The biggest update to the photo taking is that the photos upload much, much faster, and now after taking them, once they hit the server you can view the photo, adding verification that you have in fact captured the photo. If you already have photos, once you add the stock number and go to the photo screen, the current photos will show.

Vehicle videos

Video support is available in this app. It works the same way that the photos do in that you take video for specific vehicles by the stock number. When you shoot a video, it renames, resizes, and uploads to the server without you having to do anything else. This video can then be used in websites or wherever you want. The video feature is a beta feature in which we are testing its usage. But once you take a video, you can view it, retake it, save it, or delete it. This feature is limited to 60 seconds for storage reasons until we are done testing.