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DevelopmentFor Auto Dealers

Web Development for Auto Dealers.

Fast websites that turn traffic into pipeline. Designed and shipped for auto dealers, not generic templates with auto dealers swapped in.

Why this matters

Why auto dealers need Web Development built around their unit economics.

Most auto dealers are operating on sites or software stacks built three to five years ago for a different version of the buyer. Inventory volatility from OEM allocations and supply timing makes promised-price ads risky. The infrastructure decisions that compound are the ones made with the operator in the room, not the ones made in a vacuum.

Inparlor's Web Development engagement for auto dealers reflects that. Custom marketing sites built on Next.js and deployed on Vercel or Hetzner. The deliverables below are scoped against the unit economics, your AOV and retention, lead-to-sold close rate of 10-25%.

Where most agencies treat auto dealers as another vertical to learn on, we treat the vertical as the starting point. In-market shopper windows are 60-90 days, most dealers do not run nurture and lose to the dealer that does. We will tell you on the first call which of those constraints is binding and which is solvable inside the engagement.

What we deliver

Scope built for auto dealers.

  • Design system in Figma plus a coded component library
  • Up to 18 unique page templates
  • Responsive layouts at 360, 768, 1024, 1280, and 1536 breakpoints
  • Sanity, Contentful, or MDX content layer
  • Form handling with Resend + spam protection
  • GA4, Plausible, or PostHog analytics setup
  • Sitemap, robots.txt, and OG image generation
  • Lighthouse mobile score of 95+ at launch
Auto Dealers benchmarks

Real numbers from the vertical.

$120-$400

Cost per lead (new)

$60-$200

Cost per lead (used)

10-25%

Lead-to-sold close rate

$1,800-$4,500

Front + back gross per sale

$18,000, fixed

Web Development engagement starts at

Our Auto Dealers-specific approach

How Web Development runs in auto dealers, operationally.

  • Redirect map on day one

    Even brand-new sites have legacy URLs to honor, orphaned PDFs, archived blog posts, vendor microsites. Missing a 301 is how organic traffic dies on launch day, so the redirect map is week-one work, not a launch-day checklist.

  • Performance budget held through deploy

    Largest Contentful Paint under 2 seconds on a 4G mobile connection. Cumulative Layout Shift under 0.05. We hit it on every preview deploy, not just at launch, and we keep hitting it for 90 days after.

  • Editorial workflow, not a CMS dump

    We default to Sanity, Contentful, or MDX-on-GitHub depending on team size. Editors get a workflow they will actually use, preview environments, scheduled publishes, and roll-back if anything breaks.

  • Measurement wired before the homepage is approved

    GA4 events tied to revenue, not pageviews. Meta CAPI on day one for any site that will run paid traffic. The dashboard tells the truth before the brand approves the design.

FAQ

Auto Dealers buyers ask us this most.

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