Development of a Modular Microservices Platform for Automotive Retail Operations

The client faces difficulties in facilitating online vehicle reservations and sales, with an inflexible monolithic application architecture limiting scalability and maintainability. The existing system hampers quick deployment of new online features, such as vehicle reservations, full purchases, and dynamic valuation tools, affecting customer experience and operational efficiency.

A large automotive dealership network with numerous outlets, focusing on selling new and used vehicles, providing aftersales services, and offering online reservation and purchase capabilities.

• Transform the existing monolithic application into a modular, microservices-driven architecture to improve scalability and maintainability.
• Enable online vehicle reservations with real-time confirmation notifications sent via email to customers and internal notifications to staff.
• Implement full vehicle purchase functionalities, including dynamic trade-in valuation and real-time pricing adjustments.
• Integrate external APIs to enrich vehicle data, finance options, and parts exchange information.
• Ensure secure handling of financial transactions and customer data through robust payment gateway integration.
• Deploy the platform on a cloud environment to maintain high performance and scalability under increasing traffic.

• Vehicle reservation system with a 72-hour holding period, automated email notifications to customers and dealers, with cancellation capabilities.
• Vehicle purchase engine allowing full payment processing, with input fields for registration number and mileage, plus dynamic hourly adjustment of trade-in valuation percentages.
• APIs for pulling detailed vehicle data such as mileage, registration, finance options, and parts exchange information.
• Database management supporting decentralized, microservice-specific data stores using a cost-effective RDBMS.
• Secure payment processing integrated with a trusted payment gateway to handle financial transactions and protect customer data.
• An admin dashboard featuring tools for managing reservations and dynamic vehicle valuations.

• Vehicle data API for mileage, registration, and other details
• Finance and parts exchange API for trade-in valuations
• Payment gateway API (e.g., Stripe) for secure transactions
• Notification services for email alerts

• Scalability to support hundreds of concurrent users with high performance and minimal latency
• Fault isolation and fault-tolerance in microservices architecture
• Automated CI/CD pipelines for seamless deployment and updates
• Security measures to protect sensitive customer and payment data
• SEO optimization for web pages to enhance online visibility

The implementation aims to significantly enhance the client's online sales capacity, allowing customers to reserve and purchase vehicles seamlessly through a robust, scalable platform. This is expected to improve customer satisfaction, reduce manual intervention, and enable rapid feature deployment, ultimately increasing online transaction volumes and operational efficiency.