Industries · Automotive
Dealer groups, service networks, parts suppliers and mobility startups come to us for inventory pages that load fast, booking that fills bays, and one platform head office can control across every rooftop.
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Illustrative product interface — not client data.
OlDevs is a development, AI and marketing studio in Vancouver, British Columbia that builds digital products for the automotive sector.We work with dealer groups, service networks, parts suppliers and mobility startups on inventory and vehicle detail pages, online service booking, multi-rooftop platforms with head office control, and lead handling that lands cleanly in the CRM. Every build is accessible to WCAG 2.2 AA, measured against real sales and service outcomes, and owned outright by the client, code, designs and accounts included. Request a quote.
Key facts
Automotive
The problems we are asked to solve most often — and how.
Vehicles sell, arrive and reprice through the day. A site that caches too hard shows sold stock, and one that caches too little crawls. We build feed pipelines that update vehicle detail pages fast and fail quietly when the DMS does.
A lead can pass through a form, a chat widget, a marketplace and a phone tracker before it reaches a salesperson. Duplicates, missing source data and silent failures cost real deals, so we make routing traceable end to end.
Head office needs consistent templates, compliance text and pricing rules. Each store needs its own hours, staff, offers and voice. We build one platform with central control and store level editing, so neither side has to fight the other.
Online booking only helps if it matches technician capacity, bay time, parts availability and advisor workload. We model the real shop rather than a generic calendar, so bookings arrive as work the service drive can actually absorb.
Every rooftop competes in its own market while sharing a brand and often the same stock. Thin duplicate location pages get filtered out, so we build store pages with real differences and structured data that search engines and AI assistants can read.
Advertised offers, finance disclosure and privacy notices differ by province and by lender. We build templates that carry the required text with the offer rather than bolting it on later, and we treat customer data under PIPEDA and Quebec Law 25 as a design constraint. This is engineering practice, not legal advice.
Process
Discovery
We map rooftops, systems, feeds and the sales and service processes behind them, then agree what success looks like before any design work starts.
Architecture and design
Inventory model, template system, permission rules and booking logic are designed together, with accessible interface patterns proven on the slowest devices your customers use.
Build in weekly demos
One accountable team ships a working demo every week. You see inventory, booking and lead flow behaving on real data rather than reading status reports.
Launch rooftop by rooftop
We go live with a pilot store, watch traffic, leads and bookings closely, fix what the real world exposes, then roll the same system out across the group.
Measure and extend
Analytics tie sessions to leads, appointments and outcomes. From there we prioritise the next round of work, whether that is merchandising, marketing or automation.
How we work
Before wireframes we talk to sales managers, service advisors and the people who actually key the deals. The friction they describe is what the build has to remove.
Inventory, pricing and availability data get sorted first. Once vehicles flow reliably into one model, the vehicle detail page, search, merchandising and ad feeds all follow cheaply.
Shared components, brand rules and compliance blocks live centrally. Stores get controlled editing for hours, staff, offers and local copy so pages stay distinct without drifting off brand.
We map services to real durations, skills and bays, then expose only what the shop can take. Reminders, rescheduling and status updates reduce no shows and phone traffic.
Every enquiry is logged with source, store and vehicle, delivered to the CRM, retried on failure and alerted on silence. When a source stops producing, you find out the same day.
Local campaigns, feeds and landing pages are driven by live inventory and store information, so paid and organic work stop advertising cars that sold last week.
Recommended
100%
Client owns code, designs and accounts
WCAG 2.2 AA
Accessibility standard on every template
1 business day
Reply to every enquiry
FAQ
In most cases yes. We build against whatever feed your DMS or inventory provider exposes, whether that is a scheduled file, an API or a middleware layer. Where the feed is thin we normalise it into our own inventory model, so vehicle detail pages, search and marketing all read from one source of truth.
Not always. Some groups keep their existing platform and ask us to build the parts it handles badly, such as booking, trade tools or a dealer network layer. Others move off it entirely. We look at what your current platform actually costs you in speed, control and data before recommending either path.
With one codebase and a permission model. Head office controls templates, brand rules, compliance text and shared components. Store managers edit hours, staff, offers and local content within those limits. New rooftops launch from the same system, so adding a store is a configuration job rather than a new website project.
Yes, if the booking engine knows the shop. We model bay time, technician skills, service durations and advisor load, then only offer slots the drive can absorb. Customers see accurate availability, and service managers get bookings that fit the day instead of a queue they unpick every morning.
Through a routing layer you can audit. Every enquiry, whether it comes from a vehicle detail page, a chat widget, a marketplace or a phone call, is captured with its source, store and vehicle, then delivered to the CRM with retries and alerts when a handoff fails. Nothing disappears quietly.
Yes. We build bilingual EN/FR sites and applications, including French vehicle descriptions, booking flows and disclosure text. Translation sits inside the content model rather than in a plugin bolted on afterwards, so both languages stay in step when templates, offers or inventory rules change.
Tell us the group, the rooftops involved and the systems already in place. We reply to every enquiry within one business day, run a short discovery call in your time zone, then come back with scope, sequence and a plan for the first working demo. Request a quote and we will take it from there.
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