Dealer Banners
Dealer banners on your car photos — three clicks, and it never covers the car
Finance terms, vehicle highlights or your dealership details, laid over any Motuva image at a fixed, tested position. Five themes, ten typefaces, your own highlight colour. Included free on every plan, including Free.
What it does
Three kinds of banner, and you place none of them.
Pick a category, fill the fields, and the banner lands where it was designed to land. Finance carries a figure and a term. Highlights carry the things a buyer scans for. Dealership carries your name, strapline, phone and location. You choose what it says; the layout is already solved.
- FinanceA monthly figure and its term, for the listings where price per month is what sells the car.
- HighlightsPick from a catalogue of the things buyers look for — full service history, one owner, low mileage — rather than typing them each time.
- DealershipYour name, strapline, phone number and where you are, so a photo that travels to a third-party site still points home.
Why it matters to a dealer
The alternative is Canva, per car, by hand.
Putting the price on the photo is not a new idea — print advertising did it for decades. What stopped dealers doing it online is that every banner meant opening an editor, matching a font, guessing a position, exporting, re-uploading. Per car. Every time stock changed. It is exactly the step that gets dropped on a busy week, which is why most listing photos carry no information at all.
How it is built
The banner is drawn when the file leaves, never into the photo.
Your processed image is never touched. The banner is composed at the moment you download or share, onto a copy — so changing the wording, switching the theme or removing the banner entirely gives you back the original exactly, because the original was never altered. The preview you approve is rendered by the same code that renders the file you get, so the two cannot disagree.
- Three styles, placed for youCorner sets a panel into a top corner. Bar runs a solid band across the foot. Fade dissolves that band up into the photo. Position is a property of the style, not a control you have to get right.
- Five themes, one colour that is yoursCharcoal, champagne, navy, ivory and mono, each with a single editable highlight colour and a choice of ten typefaces. Enough to match a brand; not enough to build something that looks wrong.
- Never over the carEvery placement is a fixed proportion of the image, tested so the banner sits clear of the vehicle rather than across it.
- No Motuva mark, on any planNo watermark, no badge, no attribution. The banner carries your brand or nobody's.
What it costs
Nothing. On every plan, including Free.
There is no tier gate, no per-banner charge and no separate allowance. Applying a banner does not consume an image from your monthly allowance, because it does not process an image — it lays type over one you already have. Dealers on the Free plan get the same three categories, the same five themes and the same ten typefaces as everyone else.
How it works
How dealer banners works.
Set your look once
Theme, highlight colour and typeface, saved to your account as the default for every banner after.
Pick an image
Any processed Motuva image, on the web app or your phone.
Choose a category and fill it in
Finance, Highlights or Dealership. Type the figures, or pick highlights from the catalogue.
Download or share
The banner is drawn onto a copy as the file leaves. Your original stays exactly as it was.
From the blog
Related reading.
Most dealer listing photos have no on-image text. A banner overlay showing price or mileage on your hero shot drives more qualified clicks.
Most dealer listings look identical. Five practical changes that make buyers click yours — consistent AI backgrounds, banner overlays, and batch editing.
Manual logo placement is slow and inconsistent. How to apply your dealership's branding automatically to every listing photo.