Marketplace · ScoutRV → HomeNet → Cox destinations
ScoutRV and HomeNet
HomeNet is the front door to the Cox Automotive network rather than a destination shoppers see. Scout writes inventory to it on the Autotrader specification and HomeNet distributes onward, so a dealer who lists through Cox is fed from the same source of truth as every other marketplace.
How it works
- The file is built to the Cox Automotive single-dealer specification — the same layout rules, formatting and per-dealer naming as a direct Autotrader file, because that is what HomeNet ingests.
- Delivery is FTP on the schedule you set, per rooftop. A group with several stores gets a file per store rather than one blended file, so a unit never appears under the wrong location.
- Pricing follows the same rules as every other rule-aware feed: condition overrides, base-price sources and any per-model adjustment are resolved before the file is written, not after.
- The staleness monitor covers it like any other feed — a delivery that stops is caught by the dead-man check rather than discovered when a listing goes cold.
- Photos go with it in the order the dealer set on the unit page, so what a shopper sees on Cox destinations matches the order on your own site.
Other integrations
Lightspeed → ScoutRV
Lightspeed DMS
Automatic inventory sync from Lightspeed, including multi-store feeds.
IDS → ScoutRV
IDS DMS
Automatic inventory sync from IDS, the most common DMS in RV retail.
Motility → ScoutRV
Motility
Inventory sync from Motility, in either its XML or CSV export.
Questions
HomeNet questions
Is this different from the Autotrader feed?+
It is the same specification with a different delivery address. A dealer whose Cox account is provisioned through HomeNet receives the file there; one set up for direct delivery receives it directly. Which of those you are on is a Cox-side arrangement rather than a Scout setting, and we build to whichever you have.
What do we have to do to switch it on?+
Give us the HomeNet FTP details Cox issued you and the rooftops it covers. The mapping, the schedule and the monitoring are ours from that point, and nothing about your Cox account changes on our account.
What happens if HomeNet stops accepting the file?+
The freshness check notices a delivery that has not landed and raises it rather than waiting for somebody to spot stale listings. Feed problems are usually silent, which is exactly why they are worth monitoring rather than trusting.