APA Engineering & BigCommerce
APA is a BigCommerce partner specializing in eCommerce sites for automotive parts and accessories. Unlike other categories, automotive requires a unique understanding of application fitment, product attributes and standards such as ACES® PIES™.
For the last 21 years, APA Engineering has been recognized as an expert in the automotive parts and accessories category offering a wide range of solutions in data management, cataloging, PIM, eCommerce, compliance, sourcing and engineering services.
The BigCommerce Advantage
BigCommerce is one of the most preferred technology platforms today for building B2B and B2C eCommerce stores. The BigCommerce platform offers some unique & outstanding capabilities for store owners to accelerate their online sales.
- Fully customized, responsive online store for B2B and B2C.
- Secure shopping cart with fast checkout.
- Best-in-class infrastructure that delivers high up time, fast page load and tight site security.
- Choice of payment gateways and fraud protection systems.
- Sales reports with rich analytics.
About the App
YMME Parts Search can be used in online stores for parts of all vehicle types such as motor bikes, cars, vans, trucks (small, medium, and heavy duty), golf carts and off-road vehicles. Our customizable and scalable search yields only accurate and relevant results leading to better sales conversion, and significantly reduces abandoned cart rates.
The app helps your customers search for automotive parts using Year, Make, Model, Engine and Interchange information to quickly find the most relevant parts and accessories in your store thereby improving experience and accelerating sales.
Our BigCommerce Solutions
Custom YMME Parts Search
YMME (Year Make Model Engine) Search is one of the most essential searches for an auto parts eCommerce site. APA Engineering now offers a powerfulYMME Parts Search app for BigCommerce. You can customize this app to set your own set and sequence of application filters as you deem necessary for your store.
Predictive Text Search
Help your customer’s find the rights auto parts and accessories quickly with APA Engineering’s predictive text search engine. The search engine indexes millions of rows of fitments, descriptions, attributes and interchanges to deliver accurate results to your customers. The engine also provides rich analytics on search terms that provides useful insights to the product / catalog teams.
Advanced Attribute Filters
Narrow down your search for the right parts and accessories for your bikes, cars and trucks with APA Engineering’s advanced attribute filters for BigCommerce. Create custom filtering logic using a combination of parts and application attributes only with APA Engineering’s attribute search filters.
Data Mapping
If you have input data in multiple documents and formats (xl, xml, pdf, websites, image formats etc.), APA Engineering’s large team of auto parts data specialists will clean up, consolidate all the data and map it to BigCommerce friendly formats very quickly.
Image & Video Enhancements
APA Engineering’s team of eCommerce imaging specialists are highly skilled in image enhancements, image collages, renaming, recoloring, watermarking, resizing, video editing etc. They are adept at using sophisticated softwares from Adobe, CorelDraw and others for such tasks. Bulk editing of images is also possible with APA Engineering’s automated image management solutions.
Application / Fitment Management
Correct fitment is a pre-requisite for any auto parts seller. Incorrect or missing fitment information translates to lost sales dollars and loss of customer confidence. APA Engineering provides fitment data management including mapping with AutoCare® ACES® PIES™ standards, identifying holes and invalids and fitment research.
Store Migration
APA Engineering will help you make a smooth and fast switch from your existing eCommerce platform to BigCommerce without compromising your data and website security.
Store Development
APA Engineering helps you develop your store with code customization, custom theme developments, custom API development and integrations as per your requirements quickly and at a very low cost. Integrations include ERP, inventory management, pricing management, CRM etc.
Support & Maintenance
From regular updates to ad hoc support, our BigCommerce solutions are backed by a dedicated support team that can be reached anytime via phone or mail.
Pricing Plans
| Feature | Basic | Standard | Pro | Premium | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Programming Required | |||||
| Design Tool | |||||
| Dynamic Filters | |||||
| Dynamic Pricing based on PriceList | |||||
| Embedded Widget | |||||
| Product Card Result | |||||
| Your Branding | |||||
| Reload Search Criteria | |||||
| No "Powered By APA" | |||||
| Bulk Import Part Mappings | |||||
| Export Part Mappings | |||||
| Insights | Basic | Advanced | Advanced | Advanced | Advanced |
| Fitment Match (Ribbon in PDP) | |||||
| Automated Part Mappings Backup | |||||
| Multi Currency Support | |||||
| Fitment Compatibility Chart in PDP | |||||
| Category Drill Down in Search Results Page | |||||
| Bookmark Search | |||||
| VIN Search | |||||
| Universal Products Support | |||||
| Garrage Functionality | |||||
| Login for Pricing | |||||
| Mobile Responsive | |||||
| Part Mappings | 500,000 | Upto 1 Million | Upto 2 Million | Upto 3 Million | > 3 Million |
| Store Products | 100,000 | 500,000 | Upto 1 Million | Upto 2 Million | > 3 Million |
| Fields | 16 | 16 | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Monthly Searches | 5,000 | 10,000 | 20,000 | 30,000 | >30,000 |
Our Happy Customers
Why APA?
Our pledge is to build your business with our techniques and assist in every stream within our expertise. We, at APA are unrelentingly keen in marking our clients' needs with satisfaction throughout the needed times.