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One vehicle photo standard at every rooftop.

HelloRamp.ai gives a dealer group one vehicle photo standard for every store. Head office sets the background, framing, logo position and disclaimers once. Every rooftop's captures, whether shot on a phone, by a photographer or pulled from the DMS, are published to that standard, and a trained reviewer checks each asset before it goes live.

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The problem

Why do vehicle photos look different at each rooftop?

A shopper moving between your rooftops sees a different photo standard at each one, because each store shoots its own way: different backgrounds, lighting and angles. Head office usually finds out when a listing already looks wrong, not before. The same group can look like two different businesses in the same week.

A listing photo shot dark on a store lot
Store one
A listing photo shot crooked at another store in the same group
Store two

Same group. Same week.

Central control

How do dealer groups enforce one photo standard across stores?

Head office sets one group standard in HelloRamp.ai and every rooftop publishes to it. Stores capture however suits them, on a phone, through a photographer or with a pull from the DMS, and all three produce the same output. Stores cannot change the standard, and can vary only where head office allows it.

Group standard

BackgroundStudio white
Framing3:2, front three-quarter
LogoLower right, locked
DisclaimerPer state, locked
Set at group level. Stores cannot change it, and can vary only where you allow it, by location or vehicle class.

Applied at every rooftop

Listing photo produced to the group standard at the north store
North store, phone capture
Listing photo produced to the group standard at the west store
West store, photographer
Listing photo produced to the group standard at the airport store
Airport store, DMS pull

Three rooftops, three ways in, one output.

What does a group photo standard control? Four settings, locked at group level: the background (for example, studio white), the framing (for example, 3:2 at the front three-quarter angle), the logo position and the disclaimer text for each state. Stores cannot change them. Head office can allow variation by location or vehicle class.

Per-store visibility

How can head office see which rooftop is slow?

Head office sees each rooftop’s numbers in four reports, live today and broken out by location: inventory, capture turnaround, views and sales leadership. Capture turnaround measures how long each store takes from vehicle arrival to published listing, which is the one number that shows where the delay is, without visiting the store.

Inventory report

What each rooftop has live right now.

Capture turnaround

How long each store takes from arrival to published. The one number that shows you where the delay is.

Views report

Which units are being looked at, by store.

Sales leadership reports

Activity rolled up for the people who run the group.
How groups start

How should a dealer group roll out a photo standard?

Start with one store, usually the one with the longest arrival-to-live time, because the change is easiest to see there. Agree the group standard once, measure that store’s capture turnaround against the rest of the group for a month, then add rooftops on the evidence, with the standard already defined.

01
Pick one rooftop

Usually the store with the longest arrival-to-live time, because the change is easiest to see there.

02
Set the group standard

Backgrounds, framing, overlays and disclaimers agreed once, applied to everything that store uploads.

03
Measure capture turnaround

Compare that store's arrival-to-published time against the rest of the group for a month.

04
Roll out on the numbers

Add rooftops on the evidence, with the standard already defined and nothing to renegotiate.

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Franchise stores

Does HelloRamp.ai cover new-car photos at franchise stores?

New inventory at a franchise store usually carries manufacturer-supplied imagery, so HelloRamp.ai is used for the pre-owned department. It applies to your used inventory, and the group is charged only for the used cars it uploads. New cars are not charged.

The alternative

How does a group standard compare with each store doing its own photos?

Without a group standard, each store decides its own backgrounds, framing and capture method, and head office only sees the result once it is live. With HelloRamp.ai, head office sets the standard once, every capture route produces the same output, and per-store reports show which rooftop is slow.

Each store shoots its own wayOne group standard in HelloRamp.ai
Who sets background and framingEach store, or whoever takes the photoHead office, once, at group level
Capture methodVaries by storePhone, photographer or DMS pull, one output
Store-level variationWhatever each store decidesOnly where head office allows it, by location or vehicle class
Finding the slow rooftopVisit the storeCapture turnaround report, by location
When head office sees a problemAfter the listing is liveBefore it publishes, at review

What do dealer groups ask about photo standards?

Only where head office allows it, by location or vehicle class. The group standard is set once and stores cannot change it.
Phone capture with the HelloRamp.ai Studio vehicle photography app, a photographer’s images or a pull from the DMS. All three produce the same output.
A trained reviewer checks each asset before it publishes, through HelloTrust human review.
With one store, often the one with the longest arrival-to-live time, then adding rooftops on the turnaround numbers.
No. HelloRamp.ai applies to used inventory, and the group is charged only for the used cars it uploads.
One standard, every rooftop.

Twenty minutes, one store’s inventory, and the turnaround numbers to judge it by.