Decent E-Commerce Parts Store

[Mitch Gallant]

I'm very curious to hear what solutions are available for a paypal integrated, graphically pleasing e-commerce store for parts and accessories - it could be purposed for anything but this is what i have in mind for it's use. We publish a monthly service & parts flyer to be had at the doorways of our stores and I'd like to see much better integration with our website.

 

[Alex Snyder]

Subscribing! Because I don't think it exists....if it does, sign me up RIGHT NOW!!!

 

[Driving Revenue]

You could build your own pretty easily through something like Go Daddy's quick shopping cart. I havn't used that feature myself but Go Daddy's other design tools are pretty simple and the price seems right, only $50 a month for listing unlimited products. They offer paypal, credit cards, and even integration with shipping.


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[Alex Snyder]

Yes, you can build your own with any eCommerce device out there, but if you don't have a Parts person who is dedicated to that it is too much to ask.

So, we need to add another criteria - either have an OEM catalog ready or we'll need some sort of meshing with the DMS.

 

[Driving Revenue]

Have you tried trademotion? I know they provide free parts catalogs but I'm not sure if they use paypal or just credit cards? Could be worth looking into if you havn't already.

 

[Alex Snyder]

Already looked. Not modern enough. Thanks for the suggestion though

 

[Brian Tucker]

@Alex
This site looks to be a trademotion site and I can see what you mean but maybe they have updated since this went live?
Parts.com - For every part of your life

 

[Jeff Kershner]

I'm eating popcorn with Alex on this one. There are absolutely NO decent options. Trademotion is closest you will find for a solutions for selling OEM parts online but their customer facing product is about as bad as it gets. NO SEO!!

Plus..they own and run Parts.com - For every part of your life . Basically they resell an inferior platform to dealers while also competing on the same field. It's not good.

 

[Driving Revenue]

I find it very interesting there isn't a solution out there for this. Out of curiousity, can a DMS (in general) push the parts data out as XML? Somebody mentioned building a CRM from scratch on another thread - that seems like a big job - but this one seems a little more attainable...

 

[mattwatson81]

I find it very interesting there isn't a solution out there for this. Out of curiousity, can a DMS (in general) push the parts data out as XML? Somebody mentioned building a CRM from scratch on another thread - that seems like a big job - but this one seems a little more attainable...

Does DMS integration matter for parts inventory? They can sell parts they don't have in stock and order them. So I would think the big challenge is getting data sources for the parts libraries. Plus I would think they want to sell all sorts of aftermarket parts.