CA-Spare — Automotive Spare Parts & OEM Catalog on OpenCart
Engineered a scalable automotive spare parts online store with automated multi-vendor catalog imports, VIN/OEM search integration, and live warehouse inventory synchronization.
Client and business
CA-Spare specializes in OEM and aftermarket spare parts, service components, oils, and consumables for European and Asian passenger cars and commercial vehicles. Their inventory spans over 45,000 active SKUs across dozens of parts manufacturers.
Starting point and brief
Operating an automotive parts store requires handling enormous catalogs, frequent price fluctuations from distributors, and complex compatibility requirements. The client faced massive stock desynchronization and sluggish search performance on legacy systems, resulting in abandoned shopping carts and excessive manual phone orders.
OCStudio solution
OCStudio developed a robust OpenCart e-commerce infrastructure tailored to the automotive sector: optimized database schema with composite indexes on article numbers (SKU) and OEM codes for sub-50ms search responses, automated background ingestion daemon processing daily CSV/XML pricing and stock feeds from 8 major auto part distributors, and intelligent cross-reference compatibility modules.
Project overview
Work delivered
- Built turnkey OpenCart store configured for ultra-fast catalog navigation across 45,000+ SKUs.
- Engineered automated multi-supplier stock and price synchronizer with supplier markup rules.
- Implemented instant live search filtering by part number, OEM code, brand, and vehicle application.
- Configured Redis query caching and MySQL buffer tuning for peak traffic resilience.
- Integrated online payment acquiring and Nova Poshta automated shipping label generation.
What the business gained
Stock updating transitioned from 4 hours of daily manual spreadsheet editing to a fully hands-off 15-minute background cron job. Search latency dropped from 3.2 seconds to 120ms, increasing catalog browsing depth by 54% and lifting online order conversion by 31%.
Business context: CA-Spare. Delivery details supplied by the project team.
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