Hosted reports and sharing

Every report renders as a shareable web page. How the links work, how long they last, and what a read-only copy is for.

Hosted reports and sharing

Every report writes a web page as well as returning data. The page is the thing you send to a customer, an insurer, or a colleague, and it needs no account to open.

How the links work

A hosted report lives at:

https://ai.marketcheck.com/r/<token>

The token is long and random. Anyone holding the link can open the page, and there is no sign-in. That is the point: it has to work when you paste it into an email to a customer who has never heard of us.

Treat it accordingly. It is a share link, not access control. Do not put one somewhere public if the report contains something you would not publish.

Hosted reports do not expire. Links you sent last year still resolve.

Working pages and read-only copies

Some reports, particularly the appraisal and total-loss worksheets, are working documents. You pick the comparables, correct prices against the dealer's own page, add your own additions and deductions, and the figures follow your choices. Your edits save automatically and survive a reload.

When the file is finished, generate a read-only copy. It freezes everything to your certified selections and produces a separate link for the other side to read. The controls disappear, the numbers cannot move, and it carries a banner saying so.

The distinction matters in a settlement: the working page is yours, the read-only copy is the document you hand over.

Excel and evidence

Worksheet reports also produce an Excel workbook holding the same figures, the selected comparables, and links to the evidence. It drops straight into an appraisal book or a DMS.

Where a comparable's price was verified on the selling dealer's own page, a full-page timestamped screenshot of that page is cached and linked from the report. That is what makes the file defensible months later, when the listing is long gone.

Window stickers

A window sticker returns a PDF URL. Fetch it with Accept: application/pdf, or add ?format=pdf, to get the bytes. Open it in a browser and it renders in a viewer with download and print controls.

The QR code printed on the sticker has a shelf life. It points at a live valuation page where a shopper enters their mileage and ZIP and gets a current market value. That link is good for 180 days from generation, and is capped at 50 scans a day per sticker.

Two practical consequences. A sticker printed and left on a car for six months will have a dead QR by the end, so regenerate for long-term inventory. And the daily cap is generous for a rooftop but is a cap: a sticker going viral is not a use case this supports.

Branding

Set your dealership name, logo, address, phone and primary colour at account/brand.

Once set, window stickers and hosted reports carry your branding. Without it they fall back to neutral MarketCheck branding, which is fine internally and wrong on anything you hand a customer. If you send reports out, set this before you send the first one.

Printing

Hosted reports carry a print layout. Interactive controls, edit buttons and evidence viewers are hidden on paper, and sections are kept from splitting across page breaks. Print to PDF from the browser and you get a clean document.