Today, I would like to explaine you, how to create website for selling/buying cars. Online Car dealer business it's a great opportunity to earn money, but to creat a good website, you have to use service, that will give you a lot of different features and possibilities. In this case, Yclas it's a perfect solution for you!
To create your own website, you have to make few very simple steps. Let's get started!
Registration: Most of you probably already have an account on Yclas, but if you don’t have one, you have to register at Yclas first. Go to https://yclas.com. Fill in the box with your email address and domain name for your new website, and click on “create website” (You can integrate your usual domain name later). You will then be redirected to our different Plans. If you already know which plan suits you best, great! choose it! But at the moment, we will create our website with the free plan.
Confirmation of the account: After this first step, Yclas will send you a confirmation email. Check your email account that you have chosen in the registration form, and confirm your registration by clicking on the button you will find in the email. (this step is very important. If you don’t confirm your email address, you will not be able to use Yclas).
My website: The next step will be the confirmation of your Yclas Account. On the page where you landed after confirming your email address, https://yclas.com/panel/site, you will see 3 more buttons: 6 button/links: 1.- Link to the free domain that you have created, 2.-”Details” (what you have to click on next), 3.- “Panel”: to enter you administrator panel, 4.- “Upgrade plan”: for choosing/changing your plan, 5.- “Forum”: to access our users Forum, 6.- “Testimonials”: to share your feedback and experience on Yclas.
Details: Click on “details”. Here you have to set the main configurations of your site: language, categories of your website,Location etc. To continue, please, go to “Administrate your site” (it’s the second link on this page.)
Administrate site: This is your panel, where you can control everything related to your website, from creating categories to changing the color scheme of the website. To start personalizing your website, we have to do two more things:
1. To change theme or template: The template is like your Business card; it needs to introduce your Website in a short and efficient way. For Car Dealer, I prefer Splash, Pinclass and Basecamp templates. To choose one of these, go to Appearance -> Themes. You can now view and choose the theme that fits best to the look and feel you want to give your website.
Once you have chosen the theme, you can preview your website by clicking on its name on the top left of your admin panel.
2. Customized fields: This is another very important step to create a Car Dealer website. Through the customized fields, we differentiate a website of cars , General etc and you allow your users to search accurately for their properties. It’s actually just one of many great features Yclas has! To access the customized fields, go to Classifieds -> Customized fields on the admin panel. There you can find two buttons: “Templates” or “New”. The “Templates” are predefined customized fields, and “New” are custom fields you can make from scratch. You can also create the fields from templates and delete the functions, which in your case, don’t fit and/or replace them by new ones. For our website, we will click on Template and choose “Cars” under ‘type’ and without indicating any ‘categories’. You now have fields created specifically for a Car dealer website: type of fuel, Model, Color, etc. You can now change the titles of these custom fields, or add new fields. Now, when someone wants to post their car, they will add the specific information about it. On the side, users who are searching for a property, can set their search goals based on these criteria as well, which makes selling and buying more accurate and efficient for everyone!
Now that you have created a basic structure for your website, let’s look at some other things you can do:
Template configuration: We have already chosen a template in the previous step, but without personalizing it to your company’s mood and identity. To change this part, go to Appearance -> Template Configuration. Here you can add your logo, favicon, change the style and fonts of the texts, colors of the template, number of ads, and everything that appears in the homepage.
Personalization: It’s time to create categories and locations. For a good car dealer website, you have to create big categorie: “Sell”; as well as the following subcategories: Sell: New, Used, For Parts. Depending on the type of the webpage you want to create, Yclas gives you different possibilities of personalization. To create categories, please, go to Classifieds -> Categories.
Locations: You can either create locations one by one or give the permission for geo-localization. In our case, we will create locations manually. For this, go to Classifieds -> Locations. There you can see different buttons. To start, click on ‘New location’, fill in the details and save. This way, you can set all the locations that you want. You can set countries, continents, cities, districts, villages …etc
Throughout this process of personalization, you can view your changes instantly to make sure everything is how you want it to look like.
Before you launch: the trust and legal basics a car listings site needs in 2026
A car is the most expensive thing most people will ever buy from a stranger online. So the details your listings ask for, and the rules your sellers follow, matter more than your theme. Here are the points to settle before your first dealer posts an ad, with official US sources. Rules differ by country, so check your local equivalents.
1. Know which sellers fall under the FTC Used Car Rule
According to the FTC's Dealer's Guide to the Used Car Rule (edited January 2025), any dealer that sells or offers for sale more than five used vehicles in a 12-month period must comply. The rule applies everywhere in the US except Maine and Wisconsin. Each used car offered for sale must carry a Buyers Guide, which says whether the car is sold "as is" or with a warranty and what share of repair costs the dealer will pay. The FTC says violations can cost up to $53,088 per violation. If your marketplace hosts dealers, ask them to state the warranty status in every listing. If you also accept private sellers, tell the two groups apart clearly.
2. Online buyers get the same protections
The FTC's consumer advice Buying a Used Car From a Dealer (April 2024) says buyers are also entitled to a Buyers Guide when they buy a used car online. It tells shoppers to get out-the-door prices in writing before they visit, and to make sure spoken promises are written on the Buyers Guide. A good listings site makes this easy: show the full price clearly, and give buyers a messaging channel so the seller's answers are kept in writing.
3. Point buyers to history and title checks
The US government's National Motor Vehicle Title Information System (NMVTIS) sells reports that show a vehicle's current title and brand history, its latest odometer readings, whether an insurer declared it salvage, and whether it was sent to a junk or salvage yard. The FTC adds that a history report "is not a substitute for an independent vehicle inspection", because it usually won't show mechanical problems. A short "Before you buy" page that links to both is one of the cheapest ways to cut scams and disputes on your site.
4. Turn the rules into listing fields
The Cars custom-field template described above already creates fields for For sale by (Owner / Dealer), ad type, year, make, model, kilometers, body type, transmission, drivetrain, color and fuel type. Add a few of your own under Manage → Listings → Custom Fields so every ad answers what buyers ask most:
- VIN (text): lets buyers run their own history and title checks.
- Warranty (select: As is / Dealer warranty / Manufacturer warranty): matches the Buyers Guide wording.
- Title status (select: Clean / Salvage / Rebuilt): the facts NMVTIS reports on.
- Inspection available (yes/no): signals sellers who accept an independent mechanic.
Make the fields searchable and buyers can filter out salvage titles or as-is sales in one click. That kind of filter gives a niche car site an edge over a general classifieds board.
Creating an Ad: Whether it’s you or your users who enter the content, to understand how Yclas works, we will create 2-3 ads. This way, we can also understand what users are required to do every time they want to create an ad, and be able to improve the User experience of our website.
To create an Ad, go to your website, and click on “Publish New”.
Now, we can just look at other possibilities suggested and play with all the options to make our website clear for our users and clients.
With these steps, you now know how to use the functionalities of Yclas and can build on that to make your website perfect!
Below you will find a Tutorial video with these same steps to help you visualize them better. We hope this tutorial will help you create your amazing website, and kickoff your Business right! If you have any questions or would like to see more videos and tutorials lie this, let us know!
