Car History Widget by Marketcheck Cars, Inc.

Rohit Shisode
Marketcheck APIs
Published in
2 min readFeb 8, 2021
Car history widget showing historical records of a car’s online presence
Car history widget showing historical records of a car’s online presence

What are Marketcheck Widgets?

Marketcheck Widgets are web widgets for automotive websites powered by Marketcheck APIs. Marketcheck widgets allow you to enrich your auto website using data from Marketcheck APIs. The portal playground allows you to modify the look and feel of your widgets and provides ready to use code snippets that you could simply copy-paste to embed the widget in your existing website or create a car search portal from scratch.

Car History Widget

This widget shows the historical records of a car’s online presence. You just need to provide a VIN and a few other parameters and the widget shall connect to Marketcheck’s VIN History API and render the output in a chronological order to show how the car was traded in the past.

As you could see from the title image of this article, the widget lists down:

  • all periods when the car was online
  • which dealer was trading the car
  • at what price
  • what was the mileage at that time
  • highlights the ups and downs in price and miles

You could customise the Car History widget’s number of columns, rows and over all look and feel using Marketcheck’s Widgets Playground. You can refer to this article on how to customise and embed widgets on your website.

Conclusion

This widget shall add one important dimension of transparency to your car’s details page as you would be proactively showing past trends on the car which your users would appreciate. The reference links to various dealers on the widget could serve as a lead generator.

For suggestions or queries, you can reach us at widgets@marketcheck.com

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