e-Commerce – PARts Australia

PARts B2 Online “Trade” e-Commerce Web Store

Published November 8, 2013

ACME Auto Parts (not their real name) KEY ELEMENTS Create a secure, scalable and cost effective B2B or “trade” e-commerce solution, fully integrated with the local accounting package. Be able to offer over 50,000 “stocked” or available inventory lines with access to a further 500,000 catalogued lines Use the suppliers data, images and fitment information while still being able to add our own. Multiple payment options allowing fast new customer sign-up and sales Job system for quotes, estimates, service data...

How MotoParts Went Online Profitably with PARts

Published May 19, 2015

MotoParts has been a long time wholesale B2B supplier of automotive parts and car accessories in Australia, being one of Australia’s leading auto parts distributor, when they decided to go online to further grow their business. This decision was prompted by the rapid growth of the Australian online automotive parts sales industry (estimated to be worth $380.3 million in 2014-2015 and growing annually at a compounded rate of 17%) centred on New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland –...

MTQ Engine Systems powering online with PARts B2

Published February 19, 2017

‘...with the help of the team at PARts Australia we now have an industry leading internal catalogue and B2B online solution. Every challenge we faced the team came up with a solution“ Australia’s largest and best known diesel & turbo aftermarket sales and service provider is powering online using PARts technology. According to Ian Kennedy, MTQ’s E-Commerce Manager – “Every challenge we faced, the PARts team came up with a solution. I am extremely happy with our...

Fulcrum Suspensions new website goes live

Published November 8, 2017

Fulcrum Suspensions has gone live with its new web site offering a range of suspension and service solutions for 4×4, performance and daily drivers including steering and suspension alignment and service. Now celebrating over 40 years of innovation, the company was originally founded in 1976 by Graham Scudamore-Smith. Fulcrum has grown from its humble beginnings as a wheel alignment workshop in the Brisbane suburb of Moorooka to a global organisation that offers a diverse range of suspension solutions for...

Peach and PARts

Published March 16, 2015

Automotive data gates open With the historic signing of a Heads of Agreement for the full and safer sharing of automotive data for servicing and repair by the Australian automotive stakeholders on December 15, the door has been opened for more players in the automotive service and repair business.Thanks to the AAAA and this agreement, critical data for automotive repair, maintenance, and customisation, is made fully available, even to small automotive businesses that were not privy to this information before. Windfall...

eBay and PARts DB work together to improve auto parts data

Published August 9, 2017

eBay Australia is continuing their push to further improve the buyer and seller experience within auto parts with better cataloguing. PARts DB and TecDoc will be powering an auto parts catalogue which includes product fitment. These changes are due late 2017 and are good news for parts sellers and automotive brands. At a listings level changes include rich item specifics and fitment links. Data is directly supplied by local agents and manufactures via PARts and TecDoc, validated and auto...

New Auto Parts Manufacturer-to-Workshop Vertical

Published June 16, 2017

Auto parts manufacturer direct to workshop? Looks like one leading investment group thinks this sort of strategy has legs as they look to accumulate 1000’s of service workshops. Last week’s Icahn Automotive Group acquisition of 250 locations of Precision Auto Care service and repair business capped billionaire investor Carl Icahn’s recent buying spree that is set to position the Icahn Group as a serious contender in the U.S. auto-parts market. Icahn Automotive bought Precision Auto Care for a reputed US$35...

Affordable e-commerce outsourcing for auto parts sellers

Published August 30, 2016

Enform introduces an affordable solution for outsourcing e-commerce data work specialising in auto parts. The PARts e-cosystem includes a number of service providers specialising in online and e-commerce including well known channel listing tools like Channel Advisor, CommerceConnect and Neto. These tools are critical for sales success on market places like Amazon, Ebay and Partsales but must also include a lot of detail data work to bring together inventory and product data to put the best possible face on the...

PARts introduces the power of kitting and bundling for auto parts sellers

Published July 5, 2016

Introducing the most powerful tool in the online auto parts market – PARts Kitting and Bundling. PARts now lets auto parts sellers build any type of product kit or bundle across different brands and product types. A world first, the Kitting and Bundling service uses the database grunt behind PARts Online and Console to build anything from simple product pairs like rotors or shocks to full service kits. Want to offer a service kit including an oil filter, oil and...

eBay Promoted Listings: Get your Auto PARts Noticed

Published June 8, 2016

PARtsDB partners who also sell car motor parts on eBay can make their listing more visible by availing of eBay’s Promoted Listings advertising service. This works by having your listings show up prominently not only in eBay searches but in other parts of eBay as well. Here are some of the car motor parts and accessories categories that can avail of eBay’s Promoted Listings: Category Sub Category Sub Category Parts & Accessories Car Electronics All Parts & Accessories Car...