Car Supplier Data Integration
Unified pipeline syncing 500+ vehicle listings daily from 3 supplier APIs.
Industry
Automotive
Timeline
2 weeks
Key Metric
500+ listings/day
Status
Live
The Challenge
A car reseller needed to aggregate vehicle data from multiple suppliers, each with different API formats and update schedules. Listings had to be enriched with market data and synced to their sales platform in near real-time.
- 3 supplier APIs with incompatible data formats
- Manual data entry causing listing errors
- No automated enrichment with market pricing data
- Sales platform inventory always out of date
The Solution
We built a comprehensive Make.com automation that normalizes data from all three supplier APIs, enriches listings with market data, and syncs everything to the Bubble.io sales platform.
Technical Approach
Make.com handles the orchestration: scheduled pulls from each supplier API, data normalization into a common format in Airtable, enrichment with third-party market data, and upload to Bubble.io via API. A PostgreSQL database serves as the canonical data store.
Results
Daily listings synced
Data sources
Inventory freshness
Key Takeaways
- Data normalization is the hardest part — each supplier has quirks that need handling
- A canonical data store prevents sync conflicts when multiple sources update the same listing
- Scheduled automation with error alerting is more reliable than real-time triggers for supplier data
Tech Stack
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