Just a small one this, but we can now set the “from” address in emails sent as part of the Email Me This Quote functionality so that rather than always coming from “noreply” at Codeweavers, we can use your reply email address.

As someone once said to me “The devil is in the detail”.

We have just added our product explanation and “Why use Dealer Finance” video’s to Payment Search.  All our customers using Codeweavers hosted version of Payment Search will automatically see the video’s on their version of Payment Search.

You can see the videos live on Yeomans payment search.

The video’s shown on the site are available to all our customers free of charge, with the option for a small fee to upgrade the video to reflect your own words or branding.  We can also provide bespoke video content if required.

Give your account manager a call for more information, or email sales@codeweavers.net.

Payment search on the Yeomans web site

Payment Search finally went live today on the Yeomans website, provided by GForces. 

This is a big day for Codeweavers as the technical challenge has been significant.

So what makes Payment search so different?

1. “Real time” results

Each time “Search” is clicked, we calculate using up to the minute stock information. As Yeomans update their stock throughout the day, the results are near instantly reflected on Payment Search. So if a cash price of a vehicle is changed, they can be sure, that the payments displayed reflect this.

2. It’s fast

It really is fast. On Yeomans we can calculate 1200+ HP & PCP quotes on 600+ vehicles in around 0.5 of a second. Not bad when you think about what the service has to do for each one of those 600 vehicles.

• Look up the dealer’s rates and terms
• Look-up and extrapolate the correct residual value for the age/mileage/lender combination
• Calculate the payments, and the rest of the figures required for compliant quotes
• Check the dealer’s required sell-out rate for the vehicle (each one can be different)
• Produce an APR for each quote
• Calculate the Representative Example information
• Validate product parameters such as deposit, term and commission caps
• Validate the vehicle’s eligibility for the each finance product in terms of age and mileage
• Order the results and send back the correct page of results
• Store the quotes for reporting and to facilitate “Email-me this Quotation“

3. It’s simple to implement

In order to get Payment Search all is needed is a link or form to be added to the main web site.
A little bit of branding and Bob’s your Uncle.

4. It’s FREE to our existing customers

Well that’s it, LIVE ready to go.  If you are an existing Codeweavers customer contact us to discuss getting Payment Search on your site.  If you are not a Codeweavers customer today don’t worry! Payment Search can be yours for less than you would think.

Happy searching…

We have added another new feature to our ‘E-Mail me this Quotation’ tool.

We have added this feature in response to an issue that some customers may have with the e-mail quotation not being displayed properly in their chosen e-mail application, or for those customers who only view e-mails as ‘plain text’ only.

From now on, whenever a customer asks for a finance quotation to be e-mailed to them, there is a unique link at the top of the e-mail that allows the customer to view a complete version of the e-mail in their web browser. Viewing it in their browser will allow all images, links and information to be displayed as intended.

A nice additional benefit is that this feature is great for smartphone users – where traditionally e-mails have always looked better when viewed through a browser.

To find out more about this feature, call us on 0800 021 0888 or e-mail us at supportteam@codeweavers.net

The importance of quality video content on your website is universally acknowledged.

Here is some of the evidence:

• You are 53% more likely to appear on the first page of Google if you have video content on your site  (source – Vimeo)
• Websites with video show 20-40% increase in clicks for more information, meaning visitors stay on your website longer  (source – Vimeo)
•  Video is predicted to account for 90% of all online traffic by 2013  (source – New Media Age)