Case study · Auto parts retail
In developmentMuthu Spare Parts: snap a car part, find it in the shop
We're building Muthu Spare Parts a store where customers shop by their own car — or take a photo of a part and see similar items from the shop's catalogue. A mobile app, a web store and a staff admin, on one backend.
- Client
- Muthu Spare Parts
- Industry
- Auto parts retail
- Platforms
- Mobile app, web store and staff admin
- What we did
- Design, app, web store, admin, backend
Photo search
Similar items from the shop's own catalogue
Fitment
Parts checked against the customer's car
New + used
Both in one catalogue
Staff roles
Fine-grained permissions and an audit log
The brief
Customers know their car, not the part number
Customers know their car and can point at the part they need — but rarely its name or part number. Muthu Spare Parts wanted an online store that works the way those customers already shop.
So the store starts from the customer's car, and lets them search with a photo when they don't know what to type.
What we delivered
- Customer mobile app with photo search and saved vehicles
- Web store on the same catalogue
- Staff admin with roles and an audit log
- One backend for stock, fitment, orders and payments
What Muthu Spare Parts does
Photo search
Snap a part, see matches
Customers take a photo and the app suggests similar parts from the shop's own catalogue — then checks them against their saved car.
Your vehicles
Shop by your car
Customers save their vehicles once. Every list then shows the parts that fit the car they picked.
Fitment
A warning before the wrong part ships
Each part shows whether it fits the saved car, and the cart warns before a part that doesn't fit reaches checkout. Payment runs through Razorpay.
Staff admin
An admin for the people behind the counter
Staff manage new and used stock and orders. Each role sees only what it needs, and every change is written to an audit log.
Under the hood
Built around how parts are really bought
Photo search
Photos are matched against the catalogue, so every result is a part the shop stocks.
Fitment checks
Parts are tagged by make, model and year, and checked against the saved car.
Razorpay checkout
Online payment only, so there is no cash on delivery to chase.
Roles and audit log
Fine-grained staff permissions, with every admin action logged.
Screens
A closer look at Muthu Spare Parts
Screens shown with sample data, not real customer records.
Built with
- React Native
- React
- Node.js
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