ReactJS – Laravel – AWS Car auction platform for Japanese Car exporter

The Japanese car export market is a highly competitive and large-scale industry, where globally acclaimed Japanese cars reach destinations worldwide. Notable auto auctions, including AucNet Group in Tokyo and JAA (Japan Auto Auctions) across cities like Tokyo, Osaka, and Fukuoka, stand out as leading platforms potentially served by our client.

How a car dealer and exporter from Japan ended up needed a new sales platform

The world of auto auction sales to the world from Japan is a fast paced and dynamic industry. Names such as Toyota, Mitsibishi, Honda, Isuzu and other JDM cars from have been recognized world over for their efficiency, reliability, design and performance. Given the large number of competing business who export vehicles from Japan for individuals and whole sale dealers, our customer needed a secure, fast, responsive, SEO optimized, agile platform. We were truly thrilled to take on this challenge as it serves a global market including customers from the UK, Germany and the rest of Europe, Australia, South Africa, USA, Canada and other regions.

Special features of ReactJS we loved to use in the auction site

Our ReactJS application employs cutting-edge frontend components alongside state management libraries like Redux, ensuring a seamless experience for both public users and backend staff.

Key features encompass vehicle details, user and customer management, auto stock, vehicle order, dynamic page content management, blog management with vehicle tagging, and a customer portal with PayPal advance payments.

Additional offerings include site migration, SEO optimization, security header optimizations, and content format enhancements. PNGs are converted to more SEO-friendly, faster Webp images through our Laravel backend.

Technologies employed in developing the car deal/ costing management system:

• ReactJS for leading frontend capabilities, offering fine-grain control and cleaner coding paradigms.
• Laravel for oAuth 2.0 enabled API, providing fast, secure, ORM-supported access to the PostgresSQL database.
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk-powered CI/CD pipeline, CodeBuild, GitHub, Amazon S3 frontend hosting, Blue-Green architecture, and Amazon RDS database management.

Some of the process we as Agile software consultants used in developing the ReactJS –  Laravel API application

We had the pleasure of working with the following tools and approaches in developing the ReactJS/ Laravel Api application.

1. Agile methodology with SCRUM based development spritns
2. Figma prototyping
3. Content Development with AI assistants such as ChatGPT
4. Image conversion using Laravel content plugins from PNG to Webp for better compression
5. Blog development with SEO optimization
6. Stock management module development
7. User management module development
8. Sales and order processing module development
9. Customer management module development
10. Customer portal
11. PayPal payment integration
12. Currency converter setup

Other Car Auctions we can link the Vehicle Auction site to

Our customer could also serve USS (Used Car System Solutions), BH Auction (Tokyo, specializing in luxury and classic cars), TAA (Toyota Auto Auctions across Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, and Fukuoka), CAA (Chubu Auto Auction in Nagoya, one of Japan’s largest), HAA Kobe (Hyogo Auto Auction, a leading house in the Kansai region), IAA Tokyo (International Auction Association, Tokyo-based with an international focus), ZIP Osaka (auction house in Osaka), and SAA (Sapporo Auto Auction, serving Hokkaido). These are potential platforms for users of our system via their auction platforms.

Japanese car traders, wholesalers, and exporters seeking a reliable and secure all-in-one platform stand to benefit significantly from our comprehensive system.