Guided quote request
The driver describes what they need; the app suggests the right service and detects their area from their location.
Case study · Dpixel × Mecanic24 Live
We rebuilt from scratch the platform that connects drivers with car repair shops across Romania: quote requests, chat, verified reviews, mobile notifications and paid promotion with automatic invoicing.
At a glance
- Client
- Mecanic24.ro, a car services marketplace in Romania
- What we did
- Product strategy, UX/UI, web development, SEO, data migration, payments and invoicing
- Technology
- Laravel, Filament, Livewire, Tailwind CSS
- Live
- mecanic24.ro ↗
Shop by shop. No reason to come back.
The challenge
The old Mecanic24 was a WordPress site that was hard to maintain, and the experience wasn’t designed for both sides of the market. Drivers had no simple path from “something’s wrong with my car” to a concrete quote. Repair shops had no notifications and no reason to come back.
The goal: an app that is easy to use for drivers and shops alike, free for everyone, visible in Google, and built without losing any data from the old site.
How it works The shops
The shops
come to you.
Drivers no longer search shop by shop. They request quotes, and the nearby shops that offer that service compete for the job.
mecanic24 Your request
Front brake pads
Car service · Cluj
Repair shop A
★ 4.8 · Tomorrow, 09:00
Repair shop B
★ 4.9 · Today, 16:30
Contact unlocked Chat →
Repair shop C
★ 4.6 · Thursday
Illustration
- 01
Posts a request
Driver · Service and area
- 02
Get notified
Shops · Email and push
- 03
Send quotes
Shops · Price and details
- 04
Picks a quote
Driver · Compares prices
- 05
Direct chat
Both · Contact revealed
Contact details stay hidden until the driver picks a quote, so shops compete on price and quality. Only a customer who actually worked with a shop can review it, so every review comes from a real job.
Key
features
Drivers · Shops · Admin Quotes and chat
Quotes are compared side by side. Once one is accepted, driver and shop talk directly by chat or phone.
Verified reviews
One review per job, only from the customer who chose the shop. Shops can reply.
Repair shop dashboard
Profile with photos and services, nearby requests, sent quotes, messages and activity stats.
Mobile notifications
The site installs like an app. New requests, quotes and messages arrive by push and email.
Boosted listings
The platform is free. Shops can buy boosts by card to appear first in their area, and the invoice is issued and sent automatically.
Data-driven SEO
We started from what people actually search for.
74,000
“vulcanizare” (tyre service)
searches a month in Romania
40,500
“service auto” (car service)
searches a month in Romania
Every service has dedicated pages by county and city
mecanic24.ro/servicii/vulcanizare/cluj
- 01 Clean pages per service and city, for example /servicii/vulcanizare/cluj.
- 02 Guides and FAQs for every service, with structured data for Google.
- 03 An automatically updated blog, with articles linking to the service pages.
- 04 Old URLs redirect to the new ones, so no rankings are lost.
Built with
- Laravel
- Filament
- Livewire
- Tailwind CSS
- Marketplace
- Web app
- UX/UI
- SEO
- Online payments
- PWA
Have a platform idea, or a website that can’t keep up anymore? Let’s talk.
mecanic24.ro ↗