Case study 07
Scrap car buying
Nour Autos
Scrapping a car means ringing round yards for numbers nobody will explain, where the offer moves depending on who picks up the phone.
The actual website
Try it for yourself.
Explore the actual website. Scroll and click inside the frame.
Open full website01 The project
What we
built.
A scrap-buying site built around a single input. The seller types in their registration; the site looks the vehicle up with the DVLA, takes its weight, prices it against current scrap metal rates, and returns the offer before anyone has spoken to anyone.
02 In practice
Inside the product.
Follow the experience from first step to outcome. These interactive illustrations use example data.
A registration.
A vehicle found.
The live site uses a registration lookup to get the vehicle information.
weight
The input to the calculation
Find the vehicle
The registration and collection postcode start the quote. A DVLA lookup provides vehicle information, including the weight used in the valuation.
03 Design & engineering
Behind the build.
The decisions, the working parts and what connects them.
The price of a scrap car is not really a negotiation. It is the weight of the metal times what metal is worth that day, and the rest is the yard deciding how much of it to pass on. Making that sum visible is the entire product.
So the quote flow asks for two things — the registration and a postcode for collection — and does the rest itself. The seller has a number in the first minute rather than a callback, and it is the same number whoever they speak to afterwards.
The rest of the site exists to answer the objections that stop somebody finishing that form: any condition including non-runners and write-offs, free collection with same-day where it is available, bank transfer before the car leaves the driveway, and the V5C completed with them.
It is the quote-builder pattern we build for service businesses, with scrap rates where a trade would have square metres: work out what the price actually depends on, let the site do that sum, and a browser becomes a qualified enquiry.
The working parts.
How the build is organised.
Client
- Quote flow
Server
- Next.js valuation
Services
- DVLA lookup
- Vercel
Built with
- Next.js
- DVLA lookup
- Vercel
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The decisions
that matter.
Ask for the inputs that determine the offer. Vehicle registration and collection postcode begin the journey; vehicle lookup and the pricing rules handle the next step. The surrounding copy answers collection and payment questions before the seller has to make a call.
The site is live with a working valuation journey. A calculator is useful when a business has defined pricing inputs and rules; it should not manufacture certainty where a survey is required. This approach can inform other service websites, with the calculation and exclusions agreed for that trade.
By Alwan Technologies · Updated
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