Gazprombank Avtolizing (IT outsourcing projects)

2023: Creating an online auction

Gazprom Bank Leasing approached KOTELOV to create an online auction.

It was necessary to develop an auction for the sale of a huge warehouse of the company's cars, which lose value every day in anticipation of sales by managers at ad sites.

Build a unified system of valuing cars for sale so as not to lose money or time from selling at a reduced or inflated price.

Through auction mechanics, engage users to sell at the maximum market price.

KOTELOV developed a scalable design system. They made a microservice architecture for easy scaling. The system is designed for simultaneous use of 1000 users.

We have integrated an auto-valuation system: now you can get the market price for a car in 1 second using 1 request. There is a single evaluation logic for all cars in the system. Added VIN number decryption to fill in car data and get an assessment. The updated catalog is made: it is impossible to be mistaken in characteristics of the car.

Also, KOTELOV made an auction for all users: they integrated the registration service by SMS messages and customized the display cases of lots with filters across all fields. Added real-time bidding and SSR for indexing. I.e. individuals can also participate in the auction.

There is transparency in the development while maintaining security: you can see the bets of other users, but the names are encrypted.

Initially, KOTELOV made a browser version adapted for mobile devices for client pages.

Then the customer received a request to make PWA (a progressive web application is a technology in web development that visually and functionally transforms the site into an application). In fact, this remains a site, but looks like an application. The development of a mobile application would cost tens of times more.

A significant plus of the fact that this is an adapted online page - it cannot be blocked in the App Store, which means there will be no such problem as with applications of large banks.

The auction consists of an administrator panel and a public page. The administrative block implemented the analytics module.

On the dashboard, you can see the performance indicators of the Auto Auction for any selected period: from 1 day to infinity - at the moment, data on 16 + metrics are collected and updated every 10 minutes. Also, downloading all metrics in detail is available.

From 0, the components of graphs, charts, calendar were developed.

Total User and Company Benefits As it used to be:

• Huge warehouse of cars dusting in anticipation of sale
• Slow sales by managers using announcement platforms through calls and screenings
• 20 hours to sell each car by managers
• Each car was sold differently - without a single standard
• Subjective price set by managers without general algorithm

As it became:

• 1000 lots published
• 250 cars sold in a month of operation
• each manager was unloaded by 3 hours: car sales take 4 times less time

For employees. A convenient platform has appeared with which you can quickly and uniformly publish cars for sale. With the help of "Auto-valuation," the client knows the current market prices of the sold cars and can correctly assign initial and blitz trading prices. The system allows you to control the course of trading and easily contact the winners.

For end users. A new channel for buying cars has appeared: with easy registration by phone number, fast trading in real time and transparent prices and the course of trading.

Awards:
2 place Runet rating 2023 - Best application "Trade and services"