MotorPedia Dealer App: B2B Car Dealer & Auction Platform

MotorPedia Dealer App is a B2B platform for used-car dealerships, multi-brand showrooms and auto brokers. It brings vehicle procurement, inventory, live auctions, RTO compliance checks, customer leads and social media marketing into one mobile app for iOS and Android. I built it with React Native and TypeScript.

Car dealers run their day across phone calls, WhatsApp, paper files and several government websites. They need to check a vehicle's papers and challans before buying, bid against other dealers in real time, keep track of stock and leads, and market cars online, and they need it all to be reliable on mobile.

• Vehicle verification

  look up a registration number to fetch chassis and engine details, fitness validity and hypothecation status, check pending and disposed e-challans, and view service history and inspection scorecards with damage markers.

• RTO tracking

  follow NOC issuance, ownership transfer and hypothecation termination.

• Live auctions

  dealers bid against each other with a real-time bid feed, active bidder count and a countdown that extends by 30 to 60 seconds if a bid arrives in the last seconds.

• Photo shoots and reels

  camera overlays guide the dealer through standard angles, and the app turns photos, branding, price overlays and music into vertical reels ready for Instagram and YouTube Shorts.

• Dealer management

  multi-lot inventory, ageing stock alerts, procurement price calculators and per-car profit and loss, plus a lead pipeline for enquiries from WhatsApp, calls and walk-ins with follow-up reminders.

• A typed Axios service layer with retry handling talks to the REST services, and Socket.io carries live auction events. Redux Toolkit with normalised entity adapters keeps fast-moving auction updates separate from catalogue and inventory state.
• Firebase provides push notifications, analytics and crash reporting. Dealer workflows were prototyped in Figma before they were built.
• Photos are downsampled before upload and cached to keep memory use down, and reel composition is handled by native media pipelines rather than JavaScript.

• 1

  Auction state drift

  bid events carry sequence numbers so out-of-order messages can be detected, and the app reconciles with the server over REST if the connection drops for more than about three seconds. Bids are acknowledged by the server before they count.

• 2

  Video rendering on mid-range phones

  limiting image passes and using native media pipelines keeps reel creation workable on mid-tier Android devices.

• 3

  Slow external data sources

  registration, challan and service history lookups run in parallel and show skeleton placeholders, so dealers see partial results at once instead of waiting for the slowest source.

Used by 1,000+ dealers daily with 99% uptime. Redux reduced state-related bugs by 30%, Firebase integration reduced data latency by 50%, and Figma-designed workflows improved navigation efficiency by 20%.