Case study: Logistic Auto, European vehicle transport marketplace

Project Summary

Project Information

Client: Logistic Auto — Lukyan Ivan

Industry: Transport and logistics in Europe

Type: Multilingual marketplace with three user roles

Technologies: PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, Bootstrap

Status: Online and operational

A marketplace putting whoever needs a vehicle moved in touch with verified carriers. The customer posts the request, the network receives it, the administrator assigns the job and the system prepares the paperwork.

Three separate panels — customer, carrier, administrator — and eight languages across the interface, the emails and the documents. Everyone works in their own language without anyone translating by hand.

Three roles

Customer, carrier, administrator

Eight languages

Interface, emails and documents

Paperwork automated

Authorisations and invoices generated by the system

All of Europe

Transport between EU countries

Visit the website

How the system works

Whoever needs a car moved and whoever moves it, in one place

One request, and the whole carrier network gets it

The customer describes the job in three steps: from where to where, which vehicle, what they are willing to pay. The listing goes out to every verified carrier in their own language. Whoever accepts receives the authorisation and the invoice already filled in by the system.

What the users see

A request in three steps

Pick-up and drop-off addresses with map suggestions, vehicle details with photos, budget and preferences. Distance and timing are worked out by the system.

A panel for each role

The customer follows their requests, the carrier sees the available jobs and accepts them, the administrator coordinates everything from a single screen.

Map and route

Addresses complete themselves as you type, distance and estimated time appear straight away and the route is shown on the map.

An email at every stage

New order, approval, carrier assigned, status change, delivery: every step sends an email in the language of whoever receives it.

Authorisations and invoices

On confirmation the system creates the transport authorisation and the invoice as PDFs and sends them to both parties. No form to fill in by hand.

Eight languages, picked up on their own

The language is set from the user's country. Texts, emails, notifications and documents all exist in all eight.

What the team manages

The full order record

Listing, vehicles, customer, carrier, drivers, invoices, authorisations, documents and history: all in one record split into sections.

Assigning the carrier

The customer price and the carrier price are handled separately, with an express option and a choice of driver and vehicle from the carrier's fleet.

Money in and invoices

Totals, amounts still to collect and payments received on one screen. For every order the invoice, the payment status and the history.

Document archive

Authorisations and invoices generated by the system, plus every document received and sent, sorted by user, role and order.

Sent to the whole network

Every new listing goes out automatically to all carriers. Every message leaves a trace.

Users and translations

Verification and activation of customers and carriers, permissions, site pages and interface translations in all eight languages.

Project results

Transport coordination without phone calls and spreadsheets

Every job used to be a chain of calls, messages and forms filled in by hand in different languages. Now the request goes out by itself to the whole network and the paperwork comes out ready.