Dealer Entity

The dealer entity contains information about a single dealer in the DealerRater system, including basic metadata (name, address, etc) and information about overall ratings (by category, by visit reason, etc).

Sample Dealer XML


<Dealer>
  <Id>290</Id>
  <Name>Bazarian Motors</Name>
  <Address>656 Main St</Address>
  <City>Watertown</City>
  <State>MA</State>
  <PostalCode>02472</PostalCode>
  <ReviewPageUrl>http://www.dealerrater.com/dealer/Bazarian-Motors-review-290/</ReviewPageUrl>
  <Country>US</Country>
  <Certified>false</Certified>
  <BasicListing>true</BasicListing>
  <Latitude>42.373596</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-71.204799</Longitude>
  <SalesPhone>6179269239</SalesPhone>
  <WebAddress/>
  <ReviewSummary>
    <TotalReviews>1</TotalReviews>
    <TotalServiceReviews>1</TotalServiceReviews>
    <Ratings>
	    <Rating>
		    <Name>AverageRating</Name>
		    <Value>3.1</Value>
	    </Rating>
	    <Rating>
		    <Name>AverageServiceRating</Name>
		    <Value>4.5</Value>
	    </Rating>
	    <Rating>
		    <Name>CustomerService</Name>
		    <Value>3.6</Value>
	    </Rating>
	    <Rating>
		    <Name>BuyingProcess</Name>
		    <Value>4.6</Value>
	    </Rating>
	    <Rating>
		    <Name>QualityOfWork</Name>
		    <Value>4.2</Value>
	    </Rating>
	    <Rating>
		    <Name>Facilities</Name>
		    <Value>4.8</Value>
	    </Rating>
    </Ratings>
  </ReviewSummary>
</Dealer>

Dealer Attributes

Attribute	Type	Description
Id	int	The dealers's primary key. Used to uniquely identify a dealer in the system.
Name	string	The name of the dealer.
Address	string	The main address for the dealer.
City	string	The city the dealer resides in.
State	string	The state the dealer resides in.
PostalCode	string	The postal code for the dealer.
ReviewPageUrl	URI	Fully qualified URI that can be used to access the dealer's review page.
Country	string	The country the dealer resides in.
SalesPhone	string	The primary phone number for the sales department.
ServicePhone	string	The primary phone number for the service department.
PartsPhone	string	The primary phone number for the parts department.
WebAddress	string	The dealership's website.
Certified	boolean	True if the dealership is certified with DealerRater.
BasicListing	boolean	True if the dealership is a BasicListing dealership.
Latitude	double	Geo-positioning coordinates for the dealer.
Longitude	double	Geo-positioning coordinates for the dealer.
AboutUs	string	A brief biography about the dealer.
ReviewSummary/TotalLifetimeReviews¹	int	The total number of lifetime reviews the dealer has received.
ReviewSummary/TotalServiceReviews¹	int	The total number of service reviews the dealer has received in the last 24 month period.
ReviewSummary/Ratings	xml element	The XML element that contains one or more dynamic rating collection
ReviewSummary/Ratings/Rating	xml element	The XML element that stores the rating type name rating type value for a rating. These ratings may be included or excluded depending on whether they are available for the dealer or not.
ReviewSummary/Ratings/Rating/Name	string	The name of the rating type whose value will be in the adjacent Value element.
ReviewSummary/Ratings/Rating/Value¹	double	The rating value for the rating type in the adjacent element. 0 for this value means it is not rated for this type.
ReviewSummary/TotalReviews	int	DEPRECATED. This value is no longer being computed nor provided and is now hardcoded to zero.
ReviewSummary/TotalNewSalesReviews	int	DEPRECATED. This value is no longer being computed nor provided and is now hardcoded to zero.
ReviewSummary/TotalUsedSalesReviews	int	DEPRECATED. This value is no longer being computed nor provided and is now hardcoded to zero.
ReviewSummary/AverageRating	double	DEPRECATED. This value is no longer being computed nor provided and is now hardcoded to zero.
ReviewSummary/AverageServiceRating	double	DEPRECATED. This value is no longer being computed nor provided and is now hardcoded to zero.
ReviewSummary/AverageNewSalesRating	double	DEPRECATED. This value is no longer being computed nor provided and is now hardcoded to zero.
ReviewSummary/AverageUsedSalesRating	double	DEPRECATED. This value is no longer being computed nor provided and is now hardcoded to zero.
ReviewSummary/AverageCustomerServiceRating	double	DEPRECATED. This value is no longer being computed nor provided and is now hardcoded to zero.
ReviewSummary/AverageFriendlinessRating	double	DEPRECATED. This value is no longer being computed nor provided and is now hardcoded to zero.
ReviewSummary/AverageQualityOfWorkRating	double	DEPRECATED. This value is no longer being computed nor provided and is now hardcoded to zero.
ReviewSummary/AveragePriceRating	double	DEPRECATED. This value is no longer being computed nor provided and is now hardcoded to zero.
ReviewSummary/AveragePriceTransparencyRating	double	DEPRECATED. This value is no longer being computed nor provided and is now hardcoded to zero.
ReviewSummary/AveragePurchaseTimeRating	double	DEPRECATED. This value is no longer being computed nor provided and is now hardcoded to zero.
ReviewSummary/AverageServiceTimeRating	double	DEPRECATED. This value is no longer being computed nor provided and is now hardcoded to zero.
ReviewSummary/AverageTradeExperienceRating	double	DEPRECATED. This value is no longer being computed nor provided and is now hardcoded to zero.
ReviewSummary/AverageFinanceExperienceRating	double	DEPRECATED. This value is no longer being computed nor provided and is now hardcoded to zero.
ReviewSummary/AverageWorkmanshipRating	double	DEPRECATED. This value is no longer being computed nor provided and is now hardcoded to zero.
ReviewSummary/AverageCommunicationRating	double	DEPRECATED. This value is no longer being computed nor provided and is now hardcoded to zero.
¹: A value of zero or an empty element indicates that this dealer has no reviews in that category.