B2B commerce built for automotive parts distribution.
One part fits forty vehicles. Every account has a different net. Half the stock sits at another branch. Nova Core is built for that reality — fitment-aware catalogues, contracted pricing, live branch stock and AI-assisted quoting in a single platform.
- 90%
- faster quoting
- 95%
- pricing accuracy
- 15 min
- to launch
Illustrative demo. Part numbers, prices and stock are sample data, not a live catalogue.
What it is
Nova Core is an AI-powered B2B commerce platform for automotive parts distributors, wholesalers and OES suppliers — catalogue, pricing, stock, quoting and orders in one system.
What it replaces
Emailed price lists, spreadsheet quotes, phone-in stock checks, PDF order forms, and the WhatsApp thread where half your orders actually live.
Who it is for
Aftermarket distributors, tyre and battery wholesalers, commercial-vehicle and fleet parts suppliers, OE/OES suppliers, and multi-brand dealer groups.
How it is built
MACH architecture — microservices, API-first, cloud-native, headless. Run the hosted storefront or plug the APIs into the site you already have.
THE CHALLENGE
Why a generic storefront fails on the parts counter
Consumer commerce assumes one price, one warehouse and a buyer who knows what they want. Automotive wholesale breaks all three assumptions before lunch.
Buyers shop by vehicle, not by keyword
A mechanic has a registration number and a job card, not a part number. Without fitment data behind the catalogue, every lookup becomes a phone call to someone who knows the range by heart.
Every account has its own net
Workshop, jobber, fleet and buying-group rates sit on different discount matrices, with contracted lines on top. Publishing one price list is not an option, and maintaining twelve is not either.
Stock is a phone call
Availability lives across branches
The part is in stock — at the other depot, in transit, or on the van. A buyer who cannot see that will call, and your counter team answers the same question forty times a day.
Supersessions break the order
The buyer orders from a three-year-old invoice. The number has been superseded twice since. Either the system resolves it or someone reconciles it by hand after the credit note.
Margin leaks after the sale
Cores, returns and warranty
Reman lines carry a deposit that has to survive the quote, the invoice and the return. When core tracking lives in a spreadsheet, the margin you quoted is not the margin you keep.
The quote is the bottleneck
Deals close in an inbox
A fleet enquiry becomes twelve emails, three revised PDFs and no record of who agreed what. The slowest part of the sale is not the pricing — it is the back-and-forth around it.
CAPABILITIES
What Nova Core does for a parts business
Six things that have to work together. They are one platform here, not six integrations you maintain.
Fitment-aware catalogue
Structure your range so buyers find parts the way they think about them — by vehicle, then by line.
- Year / make / model / engine filtering
- OE and interchange cross-references
- Supersession chains resolve to current SKU
- Import by CSV or push over the API
Customer-specific nets
Price resolves at line level from the account tier, product group, contract and volume break.
- Unlimited price lists and discount matrices
- Contracted rates for fleet accounts
- Volume breaks and campaign pricing
- Net 30 / 60 / 90 terms per account
Multi-branch inventory
Show the truth about availability so the counter stops fielding stock checks.
- Live stock by depot and warehouse
- Allocation and transfer orders
- Backorder visibility with expected dates
- Will-call and delivery routing per branch
AI-assisted quoting
Quote a 40-line fleet schedule without rebuilding it in a spreadsheet first.
- Suggested price per line with visible floor
- Live margin guardrails as you concede
- Bulk quoting from a pasted parts list
- Quote converts straight to order
Digital Sales Room
Move the negotiation out of email and into a room with a record.
- Real-time back-and-forth on the live quote
- Revision history on every line
- Buying-committee access and approvals
- One-click acceptance
Orders, cores and returns
Keep the paperwork after the sale attached to the order that caused it.
- Core deposits as their own charge line
- Returns and credits against order reference
- Order tracking and dispatch status
- Supplier purchase orders and approvals
WHO IT IS FOR
Who it is for
Aftermarket distributors
SKU-heavy ranges across many brands, sold to workshops and jobbers on tiered nets.
Tyre & battery wholesalers
Size, load index and speed rating as filters; fast-moving stock across depots.
Commercial vehicle & fleet
Contracted schedules, scheduled maintenance parts, and downtime that costs by the hour.
OE & OES suppliers
Kits and part sets quoted as catalogue products today, with full configuration coming soon.
Multi-brand dealer groups
Separate storefronts and price books per brand, one operations and reporting layer.
HOW IT WORKS
From job card to credit note
What happens between a mechanic needing a part and your ledger closing the line.
Buyer identifies the vehicle
Registration, VIN or year-make-model-engine. The catalogue narrows to what actually fits before a single part is shown.
Fitment and supersession resolve
Old numbers map to current SKUs. OE references and interchange numbers return the same result as your own part code.
Their net price appears
Tier, contract and volume break resolve at line level. No list price with a promise that the discount will be applied later.
Stock is shown by branch
On the shelf, in transit, or lead time. The buyer decides between waiting and substituting without calling anyone.
Quote goes to the sales room
Larger baskets and fleet schedules move into a live negotiation with margin guardrails visible to your side only.
Quote converts to order
Accepted quote becomes an order with the agreed lines intact, payment terms applied and dispatch triggered.
Cores and returns close out
Deposits, returns and credits are processed against the original order reference, so the final margin is the one you can audit.
DATA
How automotive data is handled
Parts data is the part of the project that decides the timeline. Here is what Nova Core does with each piece of it, stated plainly.
| Data | How it works in Nova Core | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Vehicle fitment | Modelled as structured product attributes — make, model, variant, engine, year range — and exposed as storefront filters. | Mapped |
| OE cross-references | Stored against each SKU as searchable alternate identifiers, so an OE number returns your equivalent part. | Mapped |
| Supersessions | Old part numbers remain searchable and resolve to the current SKU; chains are maintained in bulk. | Mapped |
| Customer price lists | Unlimited price lists, tier matrices and contracted rates, resolved per line at quote and order time. | Native |
| Multi-warehouse stock | Real-time quantities per location with allocation and transfer orders. | Native |
| Fixed kits & part sets | Sold as standard catalogue products with their own SKU, pricing and stock. | Native |
| Configurable assemblies | The CPQ configurator — option groups, conflict rules and dynamic pricing for built-to-order assemblies. | Coming soon |
| Registration / VIN lookup | Connected through a third-party lookup provider over the API and mapped onto your fitment attributes. | Via integration |
| Industry data feeds | ACES/PIES and TecDoc-style feeds are imported by transforming them into the catalogue and attribute model — scoped per project. | Project scope |
Works with the systems already running your depot.
API-first and headless, so Nova Core sits alongside your ERP and storefront rather than replacing everything at once.
Automotive B2B commerce, answered
What is automotive B2B commerce software?
Automotive B2B commerce software lets a parts distributor sell to trade customers online with their own contracted prices. It differs from a consumer store in four ways: parts are found by vehicle fitment rather than keyword, every customer sees a different net price, stock is held across multiple branches, and orders involve cores, returns and credit terms. Nova Core covers all four in one platform.
Can buyers search parts by vehicle instead of by part number?
Yes. Fitment is modelled as structured product attributes, so the storefront can be filtered by year, make, model and engine, or by registration and VIN through a lookup provider. Your existing fitment table is imported by CSV or pushed over the API, and OE cross-references are stored against each SKU so buyers can search either way.
How do customer-specific net prices work for workshops, jobbers and fleets?
Each trade account is assigned a price list or discount matrix. Nova Core resolves the net at line level from the customer tier, the product group, contracted rates and any volume break — so a workshop, a jobber and a fleet account see three different prices for the same SKU without anyone maintaining three catalogues.
Does the platform handle core charges on remanufactured parts?
Core deposits are carried as a separate charge line against the SKU, so the quote, the order and the invoice all show the core value apart from the part price. The returned core is then processed as a credit against the original order reference, which keeps the final margin auditable.
What happens when a part number is superseded?
Superseded numbers stay searchable and resolve to the current SKU, so a buyer ordering from an old catalogue or an old invoice still lands on the part you actually stock. The supersession chain sits on the product record and can be updated in bulk rather than one SKU at a time.
Can customers see live stock across multiple branches?
Yes. Multi-warehouse inventory shows real-time quantities per location, so a trade account can see what is on the shelf at each branch, what is in transit and what has to be ordered in. Allocation and transfer orders move stock between depots against the order that needs it.
Does it integrate with our existing ERP or WooCommerce store?
Nova Core is API-first and headless, with REST APIs for catalogue, pricing, stock and orders. There is a native WordPress and WooCommerce plugin and a Shopify connector, plus Stripe, Razorpay, PayPal, Klaviyo, Brevo, Shiprocket, GA4 and Google Ads. ERPs connect over the API, so you can keep your system of record where it is.
How does AI quoting price parts without giving away margin?
The quote engine reads volume, the customer's contracted tier and the live margin on each line, then suggests a price with a visible floor. The floor is a guardrail rather than a prediction: it shows how far a line can move before the margin target breaks, so a rep concedes knowingly instead of by feel.
Can it quote kits and configurable assemblies?
Fixed kits and multi-line part sets are quoted today as standard catalogue products with their own SKU, pricing and stock — a three-piece clutch kit or a full service pack behaves like any other line. The CPQ configurator, which handles option groups, conflict rules and dynamic pricing for built-to-order assemblies, is coming soon.
How long does implementation take for a parts distributor?
Guided onboarding takes about fifteen minutes and most teams are live within a day. For an automotive catalogue the real variable is data: how clean your fitment table, OE cross-references and customer price lists are. Distributors with those three in usable shape move fastest — a short data review before kickoff is usually worth more than any other preparation.
From job card to credit note.
Fitment-aware catalogues, contracted pricing, live branch stock and AI-assisted quoting in a single platform.
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