The problem
One person's inbox was running the whole business.
Auvion is an automotive brokerage in Enschede. Private sellers bring them a car. Auvion finds the dealer who will pay the most for it. Every offer moved by phone, email, and WhatsApp. Every round of bidding was someone's job to chase, record, and remember.
No off-the-shelf product does this. Auction platforms are built for public marketplaces, not a private network of vetted dealerships in one country with one regulator. The choice was to keep doing it by hand or build the thing properly.
What we built
A platform dealers log into, and rounds that close themselves.
For dealers
- Accounts with an application and approval gate
- Timed bidding rounds that open and close automatically
- Live bid updates, so a dealer knows where they stand
- Notifications on bid, outbid, and round close
- A watchlist for vehicles they care about
For the owner
- Publish vehicles, manage photos, edit after publishing
- Control which dealers have access
- Dutch plate handling by plate generation
- A full audit trail of every action
- Built entirely in Dutch, in the register dealers use
The outcome
Not a website with a form on it.
The platform is live. Approved dealers use it. Rounds open and close on their own. Every bid is recorded and every action is logged.
This is production software running the commercial core of a real business in a regulated market, and the client owns all of it. The code, the accounts, the database, the domain. No lock-in, no monthly platform fee to us.
