How do I link to my website?

Summary

You can link to your FindIt vehicle advertising website or Platinum O+ e-commerce website from your own website, or host it in an "iframe". To do this the most effectively the information here will be useful to you or your we developer.

More Information

Where is my website?

First of all, to find your FindIt or e-commerce website:

• Go to " Reports & Parameters Maintenance Options Platinum O and Catalyst FindIt Online Control Panel".
• To link to your website copy and paste the displayed URL into your web browser. It will be something like:

http://www.catalyst-findit.com/index.php?c=...(long number identifying your website)...

• To link directly to your FindIt vehicle listing, take the URL above and add:

&dest=search

• To link directly to your e-commerce shop, take the URL above and add:

&dest=listing

How do I change the layout?

You can adjust the layout of the screen to a certain extent to fit your main website style:

• To change the width of the page to, say, 800 pixels, take the URL above and add:

&w=800

• To show the website "navigation" panel on the right-hand side instead of the left, add:

&nav=r

• To hide the website "navigation" panel completely, add:

&nav=h

• You can hide the usual page heading images by adding:

&h=n

Can I show vehicles matching a search?

You can have links on your site that would show only certain vehicles by performing a search:

• To perform a text search for, say "yamaha r1", take the URL above and add the following (note that spaces have to be replaced with a plus (+) symbol):

&s=yamaha+r1

• To perform a search for, say, your motorcycles only, add:

&t=1

• There are lots of other search terms that can be used. You can perform any search on your FindIt page by hand, note the URL that it produces, and use that on your website.

Can I control what gets shown on my e-commerce pages?

You can customise the information displayed on your web shop in the following ways:

• To show VAT-exclusive prices by default, take the URL above and add:

&vat=ex

Note that once a customer creates an account and logs in, the site will automatically include VAT in prices, or not, depending on their registered country and business VAT details.

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