GlassNet is the new online dealer portal from Glass’s. Within GlassNet you’ll find several applications that are designed to save you time, effort and cost. We’re also giving you more than you’ve ever had from us – in terms of access to valuation data and our Editors, access to wider data sets that will allow you to send the very best quality ads to websites and access to used car pricing data specific to your business – all of which is intended to give GlassNet members a real competitive advantage.

GlassNet will initially contain the following modules:

GlassNet Advertising
This component allows you to create accurate used car listings with the minimum of effort. By entering the vehicle registration number, within seconds the system will identify the vehicle and will return the make, model, derivative, key technical data such as number of doors, transmission type and engine size along with standard fit specification. You will simply need to ‘tick’ boxes associated with cost options fitted to the vehicle, enter unlimited free text, add up to five images for each vehicle along with a retail price and the record will be ready to broadcast to all major motoring websites within the UK.

GlassNet Valuation
GlassNet Valuation builds on the content of the printed Glass’s Guide, offering almost 50% additional valuations enabling you to more accurately value used vehicle stock. Using a vehicle registration number as the starting point, GlassNet will access DVLA records and our valuation databases and within seconds deliver trade and retail values to make/model/derivative level, assuming average mileage for the year. You will be able to further adjust the valuation for mileage and non-standard cost options fitted to the vehicle, giving you a more accurate valuation than you would achieve through using the Guide alone. An additional valuation service will allow members to conduct a monthly reappraisal of the value of stock held within the system by the click of a button, cutting out the manual process undertaken by many Glass’s Guide subscribers at the beginning of each month.

GlassNet Trade
GlassNet Trade will allow members to trade vehicles amongst each other.
Dealers wishing to trade stock will simply tick a permissions flag within the vehicle record that will automatically send the chosen vehicle to the GlassNet Trade database. There will be no charge to add vehicles to the GlassNet Trade database.
Members wishing to source vehicles will be able to change their preferences each time they log-in. Preferences will be linked to the vehicles that they wish to source, including (but not limited to), make, model, derivative, doors, transmission, fuel, colour, mileage and price.

GlassNet Point of Sale
Available to subscribers of either GlassNet Advertising or GlassNet Valuation, this solution will allow members to create bespoke point-of-sale marketing material for each vehicle. Another output will be a bespoke stock list that the dealer would be able to configure based on a customer’s requirements (e.g. a customer may be interested in several vehicles, and this function would allow the dealer to print a single document that would contain all relevant vehicles).

You can pick and choose, but we intend to offer alternative fixed packages that bundle certain modules together, offering a saving over the ‘list’ price of each module when bought separately.

Yes, you can upgrade your subscription whenever you like.

Yes you can, although we’ll be contacting you soon to talk to you about moving your subscription over to GlassNet. There will be no cost-to-change.

We will be supporting Trader Desk for some time, but at some point we will withdraw it from the market. We are confident that GlassNet is a superior product and have made every effort to ensure that it functions at least as well as Trader Desk.

As far as we are aware, GlassNet is the only online system currently on the market giving its subscribers the greatest flexibility to update stock from any PC at any time. GlassNet is also the only system to pull on the extensive identification and specification database maintained by Glass’s and populated from data sourced directly from manufacturers.

The cost is dependent upon which modules or packages are bought. GlassNet Advertising, the first module to be released, will cost less than £50 per week and will broadcast your stock to Fish4Cars, Telegraph, WhatCar, Autocar, Motors Today and Desperate Seller (includes BBC TopGear and The Independent).

We are currently undertaking market research to determine the cost of other modules still in development. We will also use this research to help us bundle the right modules together ensuring that we deliver against our customers’ needs.

As soon as you receive your log-in details from us. We aim to have these sent to you within 24 hours of you signing the order form.

You need to visit the Registration Page. Once you have completed the registration form, one of our sales consultants will contact you to arrange a visit to your premises so that we can qualify your needs and demonstrate GlassNet to you. At this point you will be required to sign an order form which will be the basis of our agreement with you and the content of this order form will be emailed to our Customer Services team so that they can set you up with your log-in details.

Data is currently updated monthly, although we are looking at increasing the frequency of updates and expect to improve the speed over time.

Yes, as updates are made to the system the new data will be available to use.

No installation is required. GlassNet is an online product so you will be provided with a website address, login and password to access the application.

Training is provided on site and will last approximately 1 hour

Initial training is included in the overall pricing.

GlassNet is an online product and can be accessed from any PC. Logins and passwords are created for each user and additional logins can be requested from Glass’s Customer Services on 01932 823823 or customer@eurotaxglass.co.uk

At the moment you can upload a maximum of 5 images to each record. However, we will be improving the system over the next few months to allow you to add more than 5 images.
You can add unlimited free text to each vehicle description, allowing you the flexibility over the amount of information that is contained within online advertisements.

Technical data includes engine size and power, performance figures, measurements and weights, fuel consumption and CO2 ratings.

You can add a vehicle in three ways:

1. VRM Look-up
   This method allows you to enter the registration number to ‘qualify’ the vehicle. By accessing DVLA data and Glass’s databases, the GlassNet system will identify and describe (to a basic level) the specification of the corresponding vehicle.



2. Glass Code
   If you are a Glass’s Guide subscriber, and you don’t have the registration number of the vehicle to hand, you can enter the four digit alpha-numeric Glass Code to ‘qualify’ the vehicle. Every vehicle valued within Glass’s Guide has its own unique code identified on the page. By entering the Glass Code the system will identify and describe (to a basic level) the specification of the corresponding vehicle.



3. Search Tree
   If you have neither the registration number or the Glass Code, you can use the search tree to ‘qualify’ the vehicle. By selecting the month and year, make, model and number of doors of the vehicle, then clicking on the appropriate derivative that is returned against the search, the system will identify and describe (to a basic level) the specification of the corresponding vehicle.

Because GlassNet accesses manufacturer sourced information, the system will automatically present all of the standard specification information and cost options that were available when new. All you will need to do is scroll down the page and tick the relevant boxes to identify the non-standard cost options. You will also be able to view the standard options fitted to the vehicle by clicking a separate tab.

Yes you can. GlassNet allows you to create your own ‘options’ that can be selected for each record without the need for you to have to type them in more than once. As an example, you might wish to add 12-months warranty, 6-months Tax, Part-Exchange considered. Once you have typed and saved each option, the system will make them available within a drop-down table each time you are creating a new record. You can also add, amend and delete your options to suit your current requirements.

GlassNet will allow you to send your stock to the following websites:

Auto Trader
Autocar
Autofone
Carsource
Desperate Seller network (includes BBC Top Gear and The Independent)
eBay Motors
Exchange & Mart
Fish4Cars
Motors Today
Network Q (where relevant)
Skupe.Net
The Daily Telegraph
WhatCar?
Yahoo Cars

We have negotiated on your behalf with a number of publishers and have created a single, discounted offer to take care of your online advertising distribution. Our partners on this offer are Fish4Cars, Autocar, Desperate Seller network (includes BBC Top Gear and The Independent), The Daily Telegraph, WhatCar? Autofone, Skupe.Net and Motors Today. The cost for all of these sites is less than £50 per week.

You can also buy Exchange & Mart, Carsource and Yahoo Cars from us (for prices, please contact your local representative), and we have relationships with Auto Trader and eBay Motors that enables GlassNet customers to send stock to these websites, although you will need to buy advertising from them.