WP All Import & Ninja Form – Integration Questions

1. Can the admin import listings on behalf of listing owner? I would like to allow my clients to upload a CSV file to their website and I just periodically import it to my website and update listing status, price and other details.

Yes, that is possible with the normal GD import too.

2. I understand I can import a listing and update listings but during the importing of the CSV file mentioned in Item #1, I want to confirm that I will not overwrite or affect any previous listing inquiries (Ninja Form integration) while importing. Are the previous inquiries safe for that listing after an import?

Imports never touch anything to do with inquiries for a listing.

3. Assume my site is for vehicle listings and I want to keep all listings so someone can search by VIN and find all the listings for that vehicle on our site. Think a simple way to create a type of Car Facts or MLS History.
For WP All Import, I presume I would use a Unique Key of VIN-ListingOwnerID-ExpirationDate. This would prevent listing conflicts between vehicles, WordPress accounts, and between listings if one dealer/owner acquires the same car back in their inventory at a future date. Also, when dumped to excel would allow me to quickly determine what car, who owns it, when the ad should be done. and A and allow me to store all data related to a vehicles entire history except if they updated the details within the same ad. Normally a random number generated would be okay but I need to use something listing specific that the dealer would know about and that I suppose would be when their ad should end. It would also let me quickly change status on any where the expiration date is passed. This would also then catalogue all old listings. From my understanding, the unique ID will not be a searchable field, so I can use clean values.

I am not sure I understand completely, but a custom field called VIN seems to be a lot simpler. Searching for a VIN will return all listings that have used that VIN.

4. For NinjaForm inquiries, is there a management interface for all inquiries from a specific listing owner or is that only available to the admin and therefore listing owner must click on each listing to review the inquiries?
I would like a listing owner to look at all inquiries even for expired listings (a new car may match someones preferences from a couple weeks ago and the dealer can do a look back).

Only admin has access to saved enquiries. Ninja may have other options, maybe you could ask them.

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I did not know that you could load listings using GD import from remote (on clients website, not mine) CSV/XML files. That is awesome!

Not really what I meant, but you can download the CSV file from your users’ website and then you can upload as admin.

Topics do not get removed. I cannot find any topic with the keyword ZEROBS either.

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We can assist with GD problems, so if we need to have a look as to why your system is not sending inquiries to your users if they are submitted from their listing, then post your URL and WP admin in a private reply and we will have a look.

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