# Pull your vAuto inventory and pricing into your systems > Read your Vehicle Inventory list from vAuto Provision with one API call: each vehicle's list price, ProfitTime score and Adjusted Cost to Market. A workflow can check it every weekday morning and email you the Bronze units before the pricing meeting. Page: https://fous.com/automate/vauto-provision Updated: 2026-11-12 Works with your own vAuto Provision account. Fous is an independent product. ## What you can build on vAuto ### Get the Vehicle Inventory list Reads the Vehicle Inventory list: each vehicle with its list price, ProfitTime score and metal classification. - Takes: Metal classification (optional) - Returns: Year, make, model, trim, list price, ProfitTime score, metal classification ### Read a vehicle's pricing detail Opens one vehicle's workbook and reads the Pricing section: profit, Adjusted Cost to Market, the ProfitTime range and the market factors behind the score. - Takes: Vehicle (year, make, model, trim) - Returns: List price, profit, adjusted cost to market, ProfitTime range, market radius, Like Mine market days supply, local market retail volume, ProfitTime score ### Set a vehicle's list price Opens one vehicle's workbook, sets a new list price and reads back the updated profit and Adjusted Cost to Market. - Takes: Vehicle (year, make, model, trim), new list price - Returns: Vehicle, old list price, new list price, profit, adjusted cost to market ## Automate vAuto 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. ### Bronze vehicles on the lot, before the pricing meeting Starts: Every weekday at 7:30 1. Get the Vehicle Inventory list with each vehicle's ProfitTime score and metal classification. 2. Keep the vehicles classed Bronze, with scores from 1 to 3. 3. Email you the list with list price and ProfitTime score, lowest score first. ### Vehicles whose ProfitTime score changed Starts: Every Monday at 8:00 1. Get the Vehicle Inventory list with each vehicle's ProfitTime score. 2. Keep the vehicles whose score or metal classification changed since the last run. 3. Post each one, with its old and new score and list price, to your Slack or reporting 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 “Get the Vehicle Inventory list” 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": "provision.vauto.app.coxautoinc.com/get_vehicle_inventory", "input": { "metal": "Bronze" } }' ``` Example response: ``` { "status": "completed", "data": { "vehicles": [ { "year": 2021, "make": "Toyota", "model": "Tacoma", "trim": "SR5", "list_price": 36950, "profittime_score": 3, "metal": "Bronze" } ], "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. ## VAuto’s own options vAuto's public pages describe integrations rather than an API you sign up for: Provision connects with other Cox Automotive products and with listed third-party partners. Its own add-ons, such as ProfitTime GPS, run inside Provision. Everything else is the site itself, used by hand. | Option | What it covers | What it takes | | --- | --- | --- | | Cox Automotive integrations | Dealer.com, Kelley Blue Book offers in the appraisal, VinSolutions acquisition leads and Xtime service appointments, among others. | The matching Cox Automotive product at your dealership. | | Third-party integrations | Partners grouped as Merchandising, OEM, Acquisition, CRM, DMS and Search, such as Amazon Autos, CarGurus and Cars.com. | A product from a partner on vAuto's integrations list. | | vAuto by hand | The Vehicle Inventory list, each vehicle's workbook and pricing, appraisals and reports such as the Consumer Offer Report. | A vAuto account at your dealership. ProfitTime scores need the ProfitTime GPS add-on. | Read on November 12, 2026: [vAuto integrations](https://www.vauto.com/integrations/), [Provision](https://www.vauto.com/products/provision/), [vAuto Academy product tutorials](https://academy.vauto.com/product-tutorials/). ## Signing in to vAuto Cox Automotive's sign-in, which vAuto's help center uses, asks for your Bridge ID username and password. With Fous you sign in once through vAuto's own sign-in with your own account. 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 - **Scores come with ProfitTime GPS**: ProfitTime scores and metal classifications are part of ProfitTime GPS, an add-on to Provision. Without it, a method reads the inventory and prices but no scores. - **The market radius changes the score**: Scores depend on each vehicle's Competitive Criteria. The market radius there can be Auto, which is 100 miles in vAuto's tutorial, or a wider one such as 150 miles. Changing it changes the score, so record the radius with the score. - **Scores move with the market**: A score from 1 to 12 rates the investment under current conditions, not the car. Bronze is 1 to 3, Silver 4 to 6, Gold 7 to 9 and Platinum 10 to 12. - **Consumer Offer Reports expire**: Consumer Offer Reports are stored for up to 90 days, so read any you need to keep before then. ## More in Automotive: dealers - [FMCDealer](https://fous.com/automate/fmcdealer.md) - [GM GlobalConnect](https://fous.com/automate/gm-globalconnect.md) - [Honda Interactive Network](https://fous.com/automate/honda-interactive-network.md) - [Kia KDealer+](https://fous.com/automate/kia-kdealer.md) - [NNAnet](https://fous.com/automate/nnanet.md) - [Stellantis DealerCONNECT](https://fous.com/automate/stellantis-dealerconnect.md) - [Toyota Dealer Daily](https://fous.com/automate/toyota-dealer-daily.md) - [Dealertrack uniFI](https://fous.com/automate/dealertrack-unifi.md) - [RouteOne](https://fous.com/automate/routeone.md) - [VinSolutions Connect CRM](https://fous.com/automate/vinsolutions-connect-crm.md) - [Dealertrack DMS](https://fous.com/automate/dealertrack-dms.md) - [ACV Auctions](https://fous.com/automate/acv-auctions.md) - [OPENLANE](https://fous.com/automate/openlane.md) - [Ally Dash](https://fous.com/automate/ally-dash.md) - [Copart](https://fous.com/automate/copart.md) - [IAA](https://fous.com/automate/iaa.md) - [USS CIS](https://fous.com/automate/uss-cis.md) - [AutoScout24 Händlerbereich](https://fous.com/automate/autoscout24-handlerbereich.md) - [CarGurus Dealer Dashboard](https://fous.com/automate/cargurus-dealer-dashboard.md) - [mobile.de Händlerbereich](https://fous.com/automate/mobile-de-handlerbereich.md) - [Cars.com Dealer Center](https://fous.com/automate/cars-com-dealer-center.md) - [Auto Trader Portal](https://fous.com/automate/auto-trader-portal.md) - [AUTO1.com](https://fous.com/automate/auto1-com.md) - [Manheim](https://fous.com/automate/manheim.md) Other industries: [Paylocity](/automate/paylocity), [Hyphen SupplyPro](/automate/hyphen-supplypro), [JOOR](/automate/joor), [Etsy Shop Manager](/automate/etsy-shop-manager), [Benevity Causes Portal](/automate/benevity-causes-portal), [Hydro One myAccount](/automate/hydro-one-myaccount). ## Frequently asked questions ### Does vAuto Provision have an API? vAuto's public pages describe no API you can sign up for. Provision connects to other Cox Automotive products, such as Dealer.com, Kelley Blue Book, VinSolutions and Xtime, and to third-party partners on its integrations list. With Fous you build methods that read your own Provision screens and return JSON. ### What do the ProfitTime metal classifications mean? They group ProfitTime scores: Bronze is 1 to 3, Silver 4 to 6, Gold 7 to 9 and Platinum 10 to 12. vAuto says a score predicts the investment's return under current conditions, from Adjusted Cost to Market, Like Mine market days supply and local market retail volume, and is not a measure of vehicle quality. ### Why did a vehicle's ProfitTime score change? Usually because the market or the Competitive Criteria changed. The score reflects current conditions, and changing the market radius in the Competitive Criteria, for example from Auto to 150 miles, changes it. A workflow can compare each score with the last run and send you the vehicles that moved. ### Can I change a list price without opening vAuto? Yes, with a write method you build. In the vehicle workbook a new list price updates the Profit and Adjusted Cost to Market figures, and the method returns them. It does only what your own vAuto account can do. ### Is Fous affiliated with Cox Automotive? No. Fous is an independent product. You use it with your own vAuto 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 vAuto Provision (Cox Automotive). 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.