TyreSpot
A two-sided tyre marketplace connecting motorists with nearby garages for tyre discovery, fitting availability, booking and payment, with an operational platform for the garages.
Overview
TyreSpot connects motorists who need tyres and fitting with independent garages that can do the work.
It is not a garage directory. Tyre identification, stock, location, availability, booking, payment and garage operations are combined into a single marketplace, so the transaction completes inside the product rather than ending in a phone call.
The problem
Buying tyres is fragmented in a way that suits nobody. A driver has to identify the correct tyre, work out compatibility, search several garages, ring round for availability, compare options, arrange a fitting time, pay, and then keep track of the booking.
The other side of the transaction is no better. Independent garages are managing stock, customers, bookings, fitting availability, communication, payments, payouts and team access, frequently across a diary and a phone.
TyreSpot was built to connect both sides of that process rather than digitising one half of it.
The product
The customer application takes a driver from identifying what they need to a confirmed, paid fitting appointment: vehicle and tyre identification, compatible tyre discovery, nearby garage search on a map, real stock and fitting availability, slot selection, booking, payment, messaging and reviews.
The garage platform is an operational product: onboarding, business profile, tyre inventory, availability, bookings, customers, messages, earnings, payouts, team members and account settings.
A platform administration surface handles marketplace oversight, approvals and support.
Key capabilities
Vehicle and tyre identification
Vehicle lookup and tyre identification, including image-based recognition, so a driver can work from the car in front of them rather than from a specification sheet they do not have.
Compatible tyre discovery
Vehicle data and tyre data are used together to narrow results to tyres that actually fit, which is the step most likely to go wrong when it is done by hand.
Garage discovery and maps
Location-aware search and mapping, so results are fitting locations near the driver rather than national chains with no relationship to where the car is.
Stock and fitting availability
Garage inventory and fitting slots are surfaced together. A tyre in stock at a garage with no fitting availability this week is not a usable answer.
Booking and payment
Slot selection, booking and marketplace payment across web and mobile, with payment methods appropriate to the platform in use.
Garage operations
Inventory, availability, bookings, customers, messaging, earnings, payouts and team access — the product a garage actually works in, not a merchant profile page.
Messaging and reviews
Direct communication between customer and garage, and reviews attached to completed work rather than to unverified visits.
Marketplace administration
Oversight, approvals and support tooling for the platform itself, separate from both customer and garage experiences.
Engineering
Three surfaces — customer application, garage platform and administration — share central backend logic and a single data model rather than operating as three products that happen to use the same brand.
The commercial system separates customer payment, platform fee, garage earnings and payout, so booking, payment and fulfilment behave as one transaction lifecycle instead of three systems that have to be reconciled afterwards.
Access control is enforced at the data layer rather than only in the interface, which matters when three different classes of user query the same tables.
Vehicle-data integration appropriate to the United Kingdom market reduces the manual entry that makes tyre search error-prone, and image-based tyre recognition supports it as one input among several rather than as the product itself.
Product experience
Image recognition is a supporting capability, not the proposition. A driver who cannot photograph a sidewall clearly still needs to be able to buy tyres, so every identification route has a manual equivalent.
The garage side was designed as operational software: dense, quick, and built for someone with a queue in front of them rather than for a browsing consumer.
Outcome
- TyreSpot is live at tyre-spot.com, with customer, garage and administration experiences on a shared platform.
- A process that traditionally runs on phone calls between drivers and garages completes as a structured digital transaction.
Our role
- Product strategy
- UX and interface design
- Customer application development
- Garage platform development
- Marketplace and backend architecture
- Maps and location integration
- Vehicle data integration
- Payments, fees and payout architecture
- Administration tooling
- Production delivery
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