Case study · Website work

Silverado Parts

Online parts store — silveradoparts.com

Silverado Parts sells tested used parts for Chevy and GMC trucks, on its own site and through an eBay store. The site ran on WordPress and WooCommerce. It needed a store that knows which truck a part fits, a quick way to list new parts, and one stock count shared with eBay, so a one-of-a-kind part can't sell in both places.

What we built

• A parts shop searchable by category, year and model fitment, and price, with a page for every part. The catalog was imported from the old WooCommerce store, and old product addresses redirect to the new part pages. A sold part keeps its page and offers similar parts.
• PayPal checkout. Stock is reserved when a buyer checks out and released after 30 minutes if the order isn't paid.
• Order handling in the admin: a to-ship list, a pick list with shelf bins, marking an order shipped with a tracking email, cancelling, and returning a part to stock.
• A phone-first New Part form. Photos are resized on the phone, a part number can be looked up, the donor truck's VIN is decoded or its barcode scanned, fitment is picked from chips, and price hints, shelf bins and an automatic title fill in the rest. Drafts save themselves.
• Fast photos. Each photo gets smaller WebP copies, and pages load the size the screen needs instead of the multi-megabyte original.
• One inventory with eBay. The site's database is the master and eBay mirrors it. Until eBay's API is connected, an Active listings report from Seller Hub is reconciled in the admin, and a watcher that takes a part out of stock when eBay emails a sale is built and waiting on its last setup step.

How it's built

Plain PHP pages and a SQLite parts database. There are no plugins, no theme licences and no Composer packages; it needs only the PHP that GoDaddy cPanel already provides. Secrets and data sit outside the public web folder. The store went live on 6 October 2026, and every change to the code deploys itself. It uses the same setup as velocitydata.com.

Outcome

Off WordPress and WooCommerce. The site and the eBay store sell from one inventory, so a one-of-a-kind part can never sell twice.