# Turn AUTO1.com into an API for your buying desk > Search 24h Auction and Instant Purchase stock, read a car's vehicle description and check My upcoming purchases with one API call each. Or a workflow searches the 24h Auction for each model on your buying list every weekday and emails you the new cars. Page: https://fous.com/automate/auto1-com Updated: 2026-11-12 Works with your own AUTO1.com account. Fous is an independent product. ## What you can build on AUTO1.com ### Search stock in a sales channel Searches the advertisements in Instant Purchase, 24h Auction, Customer Auction or Dealer Auction with the filters you give and reads each result. - Takes: Sales channel, make, model, first registration from, maximum mileage, country (optional) - Returns: Make, model, first registration, mileage, fuel, gearbox, location, current price, end of bidding, link ### Read a car's vehicle description Opens one advertisement and reads its vehicle description: the VIN data, the listed damage, Accident damage repaired and the Test Drive Information. - Takes: Advertisement link or stock number - Returns: VIN, vehicle data by VIN, listed damage, accident damage repaired, test drive notes, location, price ### Get my upcoming purchases Reads every car listed under My upcoming purchases, with its purchase price, purchase date and status. - Takes: Nothing - Returns: Car, VIN, stock number, purchase price, purchase date, status, location ### Order transport for a bought car Selects transport in your profile for a car you bought, so AUTO1.com delivers it to the delivery address you give. - Takes: Stock number, delivery address - Returns: Stock number, delivery address, transport price, order status ## Automate AUTO1.com 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. ### New 24h Auction cars on your buying list Starts: Every weekday at 7:00 1. For each model on your buying list, search the 24h Auction with its make, model, first registration and mileage limits. 2. Keep the cars that were not there on the last run. 3. Email you the list, with mileage, location, current price and end of bidding. ### Damage summary for new Instant Purchase cars Starts: Every weekday at 9:00 1. Search Instant Purchase with your filters and keep the cars not there on the last run. 2. For each one, read the vehicle description with its listed damage and Test Drive Information. 3. Summarize each car's damage in two lines and email you the list with price and location. ### Changes in My upcoming purchases, posted to your stock system Starts: Every weekday at 8:00 and 14:00 1. Get every car in My upcoming purchases. 2. Keep the cars that are new or changed since the last run. 3. Post VIN, stock number, purchase price, status and location to your stock system's webhook. 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 “Search stock in a sales channel” 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": "www.auto1.com/search_stock", "input": { "sales_channel": "24h Auction", "make": "Volkswagen", "model": "Golf", "first_registration_from": 2021, "max_mileage_km": 80000 } }' ``` Example response: ``` { "status": "completed", "data": { "sales_channel": "24h Auction", "cars": [ { "make": "Volkswagen", "model": "Golf 1.5 TSI Life", "first_registration": "2022-03", "mileage_km": 46210, "fuel": "Petrol", "gearbox": "Manual", "location": "Berlin, DE", "current_price": 14350, "currency": "EUR", "bidding_ends": "2026-11-13T14:00:00+01:00", "link": "https://www.auto1.com/car/AB12345" } ], "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. ## AUTO1.com’s own options AUTO1.com publishes no API or data feed for dealers who buy. It offers the platform itself, on the website and in its app, with filters, a watchlist, search requests that notify you when a new car matches, and a bid agent on the live bidding dashboard. | Option | What it covers | What it takes | | --- | --- | --- | | Search requests and watchlist | Notify you when a new car matches a saved search, and keep the cars you follow in one list. | A verified AUTO1.com dealer account. | | Bid agent and live bidding dashboard | Let the bid agent place your bids and follow your auctions on the live bidding dashboard. | A verified AUTO1.com dealer account. | | AUTO1.com app | Buying, bidding and Instant Purchase on a phone. | The app and your dealer account. | | AUTO1.com by hand | Stock search, bids, purchases, transport orders and complaints, on the website. No monthly membership fee; the auction fee is part of each bid. | A dealer account, verified from your business registration. | Read on November 12, 2026: [Buy cars on AUTO1.com](https://www.auto1.com/en/home/buy), [Terms and conditions of sale](https://content.auto1.com/static/car_images/ENGLISH_T%26Cs-of-Sale_auto1.com_0326.pdf), [Price list for buying cars](https://content.auto1.com/static/car_images/price_list_en_2026-04-08.pdf). ## Signing in to AUTO1.com AUTO1.com signs you in with your access data: a username and a password. An account is opened for a car dealer after AUTO1.com has checked its business registration. With Fous you sign in once through AUTO1.com's own sign-in with your own account: the login is sealed with AES-256, code and AI agents never see it, and an expired session is signed back in. ## Worth knowing - **A bid binds you for 7 days, or 30**: A bid is a binding offer until 7 days after the bidding period ends. When the car shows in My upcoming purchases because its documents are still missing, that period extends to 30 days. - **Pay within 3 working days**: The purchase confirmation arrives by email and you pay by bank transfer. After three working days you are in default, and a payment in arrears costs a one-off 5% of the price. - **Collection has its own deadlines**: Register for collection at least 24 hours ahead and within three working days of the purchase, then collect within three working days of the earliest date. Late collection costs EUR 15.00 net per day and vehicle. - **Complaints within one working day**: Defects must be reported within one working day of taking possession, through the Complaints Tool on the platform. 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No public API or data feed for dealers who buy is published. AUTO1.com offers its website and app, with search requests that notify you of matching cars, a watchlist, a bid agent and the live bidding dashboard. With Fous you can build methods on your own account that return stock and purchases as JSON. ### Which fees are already in my AUTO1.com bid? The net auction fee, which ranges from EUR 0 to EUR 1,950 and is always included in your bid. The price list also names car handling and document handling fees, for example EUR 299 and EUR 119 for a domestic purchase in Germany. ### Can AUTO1.com deliver the car instead of me collecting it? Yes. You order transport through a selection in your profile. Cars travel on trucks carrying up to eight vehicles, and if the truck cannot unload at your address the car goes to the nearest AUTO1 branch for you to collect. ### Can I watch several sales channels for the same model at once? Yes, with a workflow. It can loop over Instant Purchase, 24h Auction and Dealer Auction, run the same search method in each, keep the cars not there on the last run and email you one list. ### Is Fous affiliated with AUTO1 Group? No. Fous is an independent product. You use it with your own AUTO1.com dealer 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 AUTO1.com (AUTO1 Group). 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.