Friday 11 September 2015

DEMOAfrica Series: CarParts is IMDB for Auto



Carparts is an online platform that aggregates everything your car will ever need to give that smooth-sailing ride to and fro. From new and used spare parts to experts and real time service vendors and even car auctionings. Hear them in their words...
What does Carparts do?
CarPartsNigeria (CPN)‘s approach to the auto sector of the Nigerian economy was built out of necessity to correct the challenges of shopping for auto-parts in Nigeria. Also, out of the need to centralize parts inventory across the nation, a place to find difficult parts, reduce high prices and ensure trustworthy vendors can compete, while satisfied buyers can appreciate great business.
Therefore, CarPartsNigeria.com is a one-stop search engine for all auto spare parts, cars (new/used) and service vendors in Nigeria. It is an online shopping plaza, an e-market for today’s auto business. It is a market where millions of buyers meet sellers regardless of location. Also, it is a portal that links service vendors i.e. artisans like auto mechanics, rewires, panel beaters, etc. to prospective clients for their auto solutions. Summarily, CarPartsNigeria Automobile Limited is a business aggregator for auto industry in Nigeria.
 What makes you stand out?
CarPartsNigeria.com provides automobile owners with a unique auto-parts and car buying experience in Nigeria. We bring the best quality products to the consumer at their overall best affordable prices. We intend to fill the vacuum in the automobile industry in Africa by creating the portal that makes auto parts shopping fair and easy for consumers. At the same time, our purpose remains, to add value to our vendors by bringing their products closer and faster to their customers, while giving consumers access to markets that were not originally available to them.
What we hope to achieve is two-fold:
  •  To the customers, we believe we have created an environment that allows them to save time and save money by using our CPN engine aggregator to search multiple vendors inventory for parts. They can compare prices and save a lot of travel time moving from shop to shop across their states. Now you can find your needed auto spare parts across from the convenience of your home and phones. The platform also includes the registrations of all different auto service vendors (Mechanics, Panel Beater, Auto Electricians, Tow Trucks, etc). This brings the convenience of finding the best service artisan(s) in proximity to your location. We are empowering the consumers to vet, rate and review their vendors. Simultaneously we are creating an enabling environment for the sector to bring up the best and the brightest merchants to the consumers.
  • And for the vendors, we are making them highly visible online, opening up markets that they hitherto would normally not have access. We are promoting their businesses through SEO, social media platforms, etc. We are also giving them access to sell their products online on our E-market platform. Likewise, we are creating an environment that allows for better customer service to the client, which in returns should lead to a more profitable business. We are educating the not-so-computer-savvy vendors by registering an email for them and showing them the basic usage of the internet. Our goal is to revolutionarize the industry and bring it to forefront of the digital age. Moreover, we are creating an E-procurement section for our vendors to leverage the economies of scale to buy directly from manufacturers, thus giving them an advantage over their competitors.
We have also included within the platform, a car-listing offering that most of our competitors have. However, we have gone one step further by introducing a local real-time auction service offering. This is the first in Africa that allows dealers and individual sellers to place their vehicle on the platform through their portals within minutes. These enable consumers to start bidding real-time with the hope of finding the best bargain possible. We have created a channel or avenue for sellers to outsource their products, which allow consumers to have choices like they have never had before.
We use this platform to launch advertising campaigns on behalf of clients and advertisers. CPN leverages the ability to promote and advertise businesses on its platform. We can launch advertising and email campaign for any business on the platform through our banners, emails and social media platforms which can also be directed towards our registered buyers.

Team: 

  • Jide Shobande
  • Bayo Balogun
  • Feyi Olayeye
  • Lesley Lumbu

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