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Pull your CarGurus leads and deal ratings into your systems

Read your Lead Reports, VDP Activity and Pricing Tool deal ratings from the CarGurus Dealer Dashboard with one API call each. Or have a workflow check each morning's new leads and each week's deal ratings, and post them to your CRM or your inbox.

Works with your own CarGurus Dealer Dashboard account. Fous is an independent product.

What you can build on the Dealer Dashboard

  • Get leads from Lead Reports

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    Reads Lead Reports in the Dealer Dashboard for a time period, filtered by vehicle type, with Standard Email and Digital Deal leads told apart.

    Takes
    Start date, end date, vehicle type (optional)
    Returns
    Received date, lead type, vehicle, vehicle type, stock number, listed price
  • Get VDP Activity per vehicle

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    Reads the VDP Activity page for a time period and an optional vehicle type, listing by listing.

    Takes
    Start date, end date, vehicle type (optional)
    Returns
    Vehicle, vehicle type, stock number, VDP views, connections, days on CarGurus
  • Read deal ratings from the Pricing Tool

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    Reads the Pricing Tool for your listed vehicles: each one's price, its current deal rating and the price that moves it into the next deal rating bracket.

    Takes
    Vehicle type (optional)
    Returns
    Vehicle, stock number, price, deal rating, price for the next deal rating
  • Re-send leads to your CRM

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    Opens Lead Reports, selects the time period you give and clicks Re-send leads, so CarGurus email leads go to your CRM again.

    Takes
    Start date, end date
    Returns
    Time period, confirmation shown, leads in the period

Automate the Dealer Dashboard with a workflow

A workflow 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.

  • Yesterday's CarGurus leads, Digital Deal first

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    Starts
    Every day at 7:30
    Step 1
    Get yesterday's leads from Lead Reports.
    Step 2
    Stop when there are none; otherwise put Digital Deal leads first.
    Step 3
    Post each lead with its date, lead type, vehicle and stock number to your CRM webhook.
  • Deal ratings that changed this week

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    Starts
    Every Monday at 7:00
    Step 1
    Read every vehicle's price and deal rating from the Pricing Tool.
    Step 2
    Keep the vehicles whose deal rating changed since the last run.
    Step 3
    Email you the list with the price for the next deal rating.
  • Weekly VDP Activity summary for the sales desk

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    Starts
    Every Monday at 8:00
    Step 1
    Get last week's VDP Activity for used vehicles.
    Step 2
    Summarize which vehicles drew the most and the fewest VDP views and connections.
    Step 3
    Email you the summary with the full list below it.

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, it is one POST to /v1/runs from your backend, or a tool an AI agent calls over MCP. This is what “Get leads from Lead Reports” 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": "cargurus.com/get_lead_report",
    "input": {
      "start_date": "2026-11-10",
      "end_date": "2026-11-11",
      "vehicle_type": "Used"
    }
  }'
Example response
{
  "status": "completed",
  "data": {
    "dealer": "Northwind Motors",
    "period": {
      "start": "2026-11-10",
      "end": "2026-11-11"
    },
    "leads": [
      {
        "received_at": "2026-11-11T09:42:00-05:00",
        "lead_type": "Digital Deal",
        "vehicle": "2022 Honda CR-V EX AWD",
        "vehicle_type": "Used",
        "stock_number": "N4471",
        "listed_price": 26890
      }
    ],
    "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.

The Dealer Dashboard’s own options

CarGurus's dealer materials describe no API for the Dealer Dashboard. Listings come from your inventory feed, email leads go to the addresses in Settings and to your CRM, and the Leads, VDP Activity and Removed Listings pages download as CSV. Scheduled Reports email up to 4 data reports, some only on higher listings packages.

OptionWhat it coversWhat it takes
Inventory feedYour vehicles, prices and details reach your CarGurus listings from your inventory feed and IMS.An inventory feed or IMS that sends your vehicles to CarGurus. Vehicles are updated in the Dealer Dashboard and your IMS.
Email leads and Re-send leadsLead notifications go to the emails in the Settings tab and to your CRM. Lead Reports re-sends a time period's email leads.A CarGurus subscription. Re-send leads is available to all subscribing dealers.
Scheduled Reports and CSV downloadsUp to 4 emailed reports: Merchandising Health, Maximize Margin, Acquisition Insights, Next Best Deal Rating. CSVs of Leads, VDP Activity, Removed Listings.Maximize Margin and Acquisition Insights need Featured+ or Featured Priority+; the other two need Enhanced or higher.
The Dealer Dashboard by handHomepage Connection Summary, Lead Reports, VDP Activity, Pricing Tool, Market Analysis, Reviews, Highlight, Settings and Billing.A Dashboard login activated by your CarGurus Account Manager.

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Signing in to the Dealer Dashboard

The Dealer Dashboard uses CarGurus's shared sign-in page: an email address with Keep me signed in, or Google, Facebook or Apple. Your Account Manager activates the Dashboard login. With Fous you sign in once through that page with your own account. The login is sealed with AES-256, and code and AI agents never see it.

Worth knowing

Two kinds of email lead
Digital Deal email leads are counted apart from Standard Email leads on the Connection Summary, in Lead reports and on the SRP/VDP activity tabs, so a method can return the lead type as a field.
Filter by New, Used or Certified Pre-Owned
Leads, VDP Activity and Removed Listings filter by vehicle type, and their downloadable CSVs carry a Type column that matches the filter you chose.
What you see depends on your package
Maximize Margin and Acquisition Insights are for Featured+ and Featured Priority+ dealers, Highlight is an add-on for those packages, and dealer groups get group-level Scheduled reports.
Prices come from your feed
Your listings come from your inventory feed, so keep vehicle details and prices right in the feed and your IMS. Toyota dealers, for example, put the TSRP in the feed's MSRP field.

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Frequently asked questions

Not one that CarGurus describes in its dealer materials. Listings arrive from your inventory feed, email leads go to your CRM and the addresses in Settings, the Leads, VDP Activity and Removed Listings pages download as CSV, and Scheduled Reports arrive by email.

Yes. In Lead Reports, select a time period and click Re-send leads, and the CarGurus email leads from that period go to your CRM again. CarGurus says this is available to all subscribing dealers.

Up to 4, set up in the Scheduled Reports tab and sent by email: Merchandising Health, Maximize Margin, Acquisition Insights and Next Best Deal Rating. Each one is available on certain listings packages.

Use the Pricing Tool in the Dealer Dashboard. It shows how far you can raise a price without changing the deal rating, and how far to lower it to reach the next deal rating bracket.

No. Fous is an independent product. You use it with your own Dealer Dashboard account, and a method reads and does only what that account can.

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