Inter Cars S.A.

Inter Cars company was established in 1990 (it is interesting that it is still owned by its founders). With more than 500 branches in 16 European countries, it is one of the largest distributors of spare parts for cars and trucks in Europe.

Target

In time, when Inter Cars has set a goal to prepare a new e-commerce solution for all European regions, which are actually servicing (see client´s introduction), it has set a deadline for “MVP” creation for several of them. They have to prove solution viability (proof of concept). Because each region has its own specifications, e.g. in terms of payment, and customers there are used on local solutions, it was necessary at 1st phase to implement a payment system combining several payment gateway providers with many payment possibilities.

Solution

So Eluvia has become at 1st half of 2019 one of key partners for Inter Cars S.A. for its new realized international B2C project. The 1st task was a complex development and implementation of payment solution and a development of individual components according to managers' requirements of each country, where the project was implemented. There were also components for managing discount campaigns,  user management (logins, the user database itself, etc.), a basket and its items, feed components to external aggregation services / servers, product availability calculations and much more. We also partly covered the frontend development.

And the fact that we have given everything not only to development, but also to communication with the client and user experience with software development in general, the following reference suggests.

Technologies

• Java (backend)
• Micronaut (backend framework)
• Maven (backend build system)
• TypeScript (frontend)
• React.JS (frontend framework)

Testimonials

„In Inter Cars, our goal was to build an MVP e-shop on a microservice architecture for the CZ, SK countries and subsequently another 13 EU countries in a short time. That's why we also contacted developers from Eluvia (formerly SparkTECH) to help us with that. Their main contribution at the beginning of the project was in the development and implementation of a global payment gateway and assistance in creating a back office interface for our call center. Based on their good work and compliance with the agreed obligations, we have over time entrusted them with the complete development of all Java microservices. Thanks to them, we managed to launch an eshop in record time and start selling to a new segment of customers. The cooperation with them was excellent and I can only recommend trying them.“

Martin Duda
Senior project manager at Inter Cars South International Group
Inter Cars S.A.