# Turn Auto Trader Portal into an API > Read your stock list with each vehicle's Retail Valuation, Price Position and Price Indicator, and the deals on your vehicles, with one API call each. Or have a workflow check pricing before the forecourt opens and email you the cars to reprice. Page: https://fous.com/automate/auto-trader-portal Updated: 2026-11-12 Works with your own Auto Trader Portal account. Fous is an independent product. ## What you can build on Portal ### Get the stock list with pricing Reads your stock list in Portal: each vehicle with its advertised price, Retail Valuation, Price Position and Price Indicator, and its advert status. - Takes: Advert status (optional) - Returns: Registration, make and model, price, Retail Valuation, Price Position, Price Indicator, advert status ### Check Vehicle Insight for a vehicle Opens Vehicle Insight for one vehicle in your stock and reads its performance rating, estimated speed of sale and price against the live retail market. - Takes: Registration - Returns: Registration, performance rating, estimated speed of sale, price, Retail Valuation, Price Position ### Get deals on your adverts Reads the deals on your vehicles in Portal: each deal's status, the buyer's name, the vehicle and whether it is reserved. - Takes: Deal status (optional), started since (optional) - Returns: Deal date, status, buyer name, registration, vehicle, reserved or not, reservation fee ### Change a vehicle's advertised price Opens one vehicle in your Portal stock, sets the new advertised price and saves it. - Takes: Registration, new price - Returns: Registration, old price, new price, Price Indicator after the change ## Automate Portal with a workflow A [workflow](/product/workflows) runs your methods as one process, with nobody at the screen. A schedule or a call from your own system starts it, the steps run in order, and the result arrives in your inbox or in the systems you already use. ### Morning pricing check across the stock list Starts: Every weekday at 7:30 1. Get the stock list with pricing for vehicles that are Published. 2. Keep the vehicles whose Price Indicator is High or whose Price Position is above 100%. 3. Email you the list with price, Retail Valuation and Price Position for each. ### New deals posted to your CRM Starts: Every 15 minutes 1. Get deals on your adverts with status In Progress. 2. Keep the deals that were not there on the last run. 3. Post each one, with buyer name, registration and reservation, to your CRM webhook. ### Weekly report of slow-performing adverts Starts: Every Monday at 8:00 1. Get the stock list and, for each Published vehicle, check Vehicle Insight. 2. Keep the vehicles with a performance rating of Low or Below Average. 3. Summarize them by estimated speed of sale and email you the report. You can run a workflow by hand on every plan, Free included. Schedules and webhook triggers come with the paid plans, from $29 a month. ## Once built, one call from your code Once you have built a [method](/product/methods), it is one POST to /v1/runs from your backend, or a tool an AI agent calls over MCP. This is what “Get the stock list with pricing” would look like. Example request: ``` curl https://api.fous.com/v1/runs \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $FOUS_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "method": "portal.autotrader.co.uk/get_stock_list", "input": { "advert_status": "Published" } }' ``` Example response: ``` { "status": "completed", "data": { "vehicles": [ { "registration": "AB21 CDE", "make_model": "Ford Focus 1.0 EcoBoost Titanium", "price_gbp": 14495, "retail_valuation_gbp": 14100, "price_position_percent": 102.8, "price_indicator": "Fair", "advert_status": "Published" } ], "count": 1 } } ``` An example with invented data, not a ready-made endpoint. The method exists in your organization once you build it, and its name, inputs and fields follow your request. ## Portal’s own options Auto Trader publishes APIs on its developer portal for stock, adverts, valuations, vehicle metrics and deals, with sandbox and production environments. Access starts with an intake form and Auto Trader's Alliances Team, and Auto Trader says some APIs are charged, with terms set during onboarding. Without API access, you work in Portal by hand. | Option | What it covers | What it takes | | --- | --- | --- | | Auto Trader's APIs | Stock and adverts, Valuations, Vehicle Metrics, Deals, Messages, Calls, Part Exchange, Delivery and more. | Onboarding through Auto Trader's Alliances Team. Access is granted by capability. Some APIs are charged, discussed during onboarding. | | Stock and Deal Notifications | Real-time notifications of stock changes, and of new or updated deals, including message exchanges. | API onboarding, and the Stock Sync capability for stock notifications. | | Portal by hand | The stock list with Retail Valuation, Price Position and Price Indicator, and Vehicle Insight for each vehicle. | A Portal account for your dealership. | Read on November 12, 2026: [Auto Trader developer portal](https://developers.autotrader.co.uk/), [Auto Trader API documentation](https://developers.autotrader.co.uk/api). ## Signing in to Portal You sign in to Portal at portal.autotrader.co.uk with your dealership's own account. With Fous you do that once, through Portal's own sign-in. The login is sealed with AES-256, never returned by the API or written to logs, and code and AI agents never see it. ## Worth knowing - **Capped means you are at your advert limit**: An advert shows as Capped when the number of vehicles already advertised has reached the limit in your contract. Published and Not Published are the other usual states, and Rejected means a rule was broken. - **Price Indicator has six values**: Auto Trader's documentation lists High, Fair, Good, Great, Low and No Analysis. A stock item marked POA is listed as Rejected. - **Sold and deleted follow deals**: A vehicle moves to SOLD by itself when you complete its deal. It can be deleted only once it is no longer advertised and no deals are linked to it. - **Some buyers show as ******: When a buyer has made a Right to be Forgotten request, their details in a deal appear as ****. 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Yes. Auto Trader publishes APIs for stock, adverts, valuations, vehicle metrics and deals. Access goes through an intake form and Auto Trader's Alliances Team, and some APIs are charged on terms agreed during onboarding. Without API access, you work in Portal by hand. ### Can I change advertised prices from my own system? Yes. You can build a write method that opens a vehicle in your Portal stock, sets the new advertised price, saves it and returns the Price Indicator shown after the change. It does only what your own Portal account can. ### Can I get new deals into my CRM as they come in? Yes, either through Auto Trader's Deal Notification if you are onboarded to its APIs, or with Fous: a workflow that reads your deals every 15 minutes, keeps the ones not seen on the last run and posts them to your CRM's webhook. ### Is Fous affiliated with Auto Trader Group plc? No. Fous is an independent product. You use it with your own Portal account, and a method reads and does only what that account can. Fous is an independent product: it is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by the operator of Auto Trader Portal (Auto Trader Group plc). The name is used only to say which system this page is about. Something here wrong or out of date? Write to legal@fous.com.