A Car Dealer Mobile App Built to Move Cars Faster

How We Worked Together

We started with a series of in-person meetings with Nathan to understand exactly how Ace Autos operates day-to-day. What came out of those conversations was more than a feature list, it was a clear picture of where time was being lost, where customers were dropping off, and what a better experience could look like for both sides of the sale.

From the outset, design was treated as a priority. We built the app using Apple’s Liquid Glass design language, the same visual framework that underpins Apple’s own latest software. This wasn’t a style choice for the sake of it. Liquid Glass ensures the app feels native, modern, and familiar on any iPhone or iPad, and critically, it means the design will not date. In three years, the app will still look like it belongs on the device.

The app connects directly to live inventory from both CarsIreland and CarZone, Ireland’s two leading car listing platforms. We achieved this by working directly with Motion, the software company behind both APIs, to gain official access. The result is that every car listed on Ace Autos appears inside the app in real time, the same data, the same photos, the same prices, with no manual updates required from the team.

We built the entire application using Expo, a cross-platform development framework that allowed us to build once and deploy to both iPhone, iPad, and Android devices simultaneously. iOS and iPad were the primary focus, the experience there is polished and pixel perfect, with Android fully functional and actively supported as a secondary platform.

The standout feature of the app is the reservation flow. When a customer taps Reserve on a car, the app automatically compiles all the relevant vehicle details, generates a receipt, and sends everything in a single email to both the customer and the dealership manage, ready for the next steps in the import process. The car is then immediately marked as reserved across the platform. No back and forth, no manual admin. One tap and the job is done.

Customers can also save favourite cars and store custom searches, so they are automatically notified when a new car matching their criteria comes in. This keeps buyers engaged and coming back to the app without any additional effort from the Ace Autos team.

After launch, we delivered three rounds of updates, each one live within a day, thanks to Expo’s streamlined deployment process. Every update sharpened the experience further, based on real feedback from Nathan’s team and their customers.